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Reaction to the speech was immediate. From all shades of political outlook, from people who had voted for Kennedy in November and people who had voted against him, came a surge of praise and congratulation. Even so partisan a Republican as Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen described it as "inspiring'' and as "a very compact message of hope." Members of Washington's foreign diplomatic corps were unanimously impressed. And even the criticism seemed mild. Commented the Los Angeles Times: "He is wrong in implying the beginning comes with him, but he is right in suggesting that...
...Fall. Reliable sources indicate that the President is considering appointing a group of Assistant Deans and letting them choose their own boss.... On June 10, in time for Commencement, the MTA starts running again.... The University grants honorary degrees to Casey Stengel, Brendan Behan, Francoise Sagan, Everett McKinley Dirksen and Al Capp ... Muscat declares war on Oman. The State Department says it would "view very seriously" any Soviet intervention. Soviet ambassador Menshikov replies, "Who's intervening? Who even cares?" "Provocation," says Castro...
...plenty of visitors. President Eisenhower came, proclaimed that Nixon "looks fine.'' Staffers showed up to work over campaign schedules and speeches. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen came in together, and Johnson afterward joked that he had asked for tips on how to run for Vice President from a man with a lot of experience at it. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller showed up sporting a big "I'm for Nixon" button on one lapel and an elephant-shaped "Nixon" pin on the other, told newsmen that he was planning...
...Freely Confess." Republicans got in the first telling thrust. After huddling with Nixon, Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen proposed a bill to restore what Ike's message had called the "two major deletions" in the civil rights bill that Congress passed last April: extra federal money for states, localities and school districts working toward desegregation, and a permanent commission to combat discrimination in hiring by Government contractors. When Democrats accusingly pointed out that Dirksen had voted against both proposals last spring, he oracularly confided: "I freely confess my sins of omission and commission...
Lyndon Johnson rumbled against Dirksen's "sneak play"-and pulled off one of his own. He got Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, ardent champion of civil rights, to offer a motion to "table" the bill-a congressional euphemism for kill. Cried Clark: "I believe I can recognize the hand of politics ... I do not believe civil rights ought to stand in the way of the prompt enactment of proposed legislation which is on the calendar and ready for action." The vote was strictly party-line, and the Democratic majority tabled civil rights by a lopsided...