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...Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's bill to make a sixth-grade education the only required proof of a voter's literacy, now backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen as well, faced its first legislative test-and failed. The backers of the bill hoped to avoid sending their measure to the Judiciary Committee, which, under Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, has been a graveyard for civil rights legislation. They hoped instead to have it referred to Mansfield's Senate Rules Committee. But Vice President Lyndon Johnson, advised by the Senate parliamentarian, ruled that...
...sooner had Republican National Committee Chairman William Miller proposed that the G.O.P. issue a policy statement to rebut President Kennedy's State of the Union message than the party's congressional floor leaders. Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen and Indiana Representative Charles Halleck, vetoed the idea. That left Dirksen and Halleck, who appear on television weekly in what has come to be known as "The Ev and Charlie Show," as the most visible, audible enunciators of Republican policy in Washington...
...March issue of Advance, entitled "Revise and Dissent," attacks the Republican leadership in Congress for conducting "a holding operation." It is particularly critical of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) and Rep. Charles Halleck...
...predictable party-line statements resounded across Capitol Hill as soon as the President had finished talking. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to see in John F. Kennedy's State of the Union message "the authentic earmark of greatness." To Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen it was "like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue with the old prices marked up." Indiana's G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart described it as "more inconsistent than any message I have listened to in my eighteen years in the U.S. Senate." And new House Ma jority Leader Carl Albert called it "the finest State...
...people like him." Says Kentucky's Democratic Representative Frank Stubblefield: "I have the feeling they're aware he wakes up every morning with the weight of the world on his shoulders, and that he's doing the best he can." Even G.O.P. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen reports that Kennedy's "personal popularity remains reasonably high. This stems from an appreciation of his sincerity and his desire to keep the country moving...