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...Perhaps he could carry on the party policies-the policies of Nixon and Benson and Dirksen and Goldwater. But this nation cannot afford such a luxury. Perhaps we could afford a Coolidge following Harding. And perhaps we could afford a Pierce following Fillmore. But after Buchanan this nation needed Lincoln; after Taft we needed a Wilson; and after Hoover we needed Franklin Roosevelt." Without saying where this put him, Kennedy riffled back again through history for Nixon's benefit. "The Republican nominee, of course, is a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party...
...also a city full of important people. For breakfast one day, 125 Representatives appeared on the Hill to meet Billy, while 56 Senators turned up for a lunch given by Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirksen, Frank Carlson and George Smathers. Pat and Dick Nixon attended one of Billy's regular meetings. Said Billy's campaign director, the Rev. Walter Smith: "We religiously-if I may use the term-stay out of politics...
Along with a flurry of visits to local Civil Defense offices by worried citizens, the swift collapse of the summit meeting brought an outbreak of name calling and blame hurling by worked-up politicians. Illinois' rumpled Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen charged that Adlai Stevenson had "torpedoed" the summit by advocating U.S. concessions in a pre-summit interview with a French reporter (see PRESS). Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott followed up by accusing Stevenson and Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy of "gross suspicion of appeasement...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, the Republican minority leader rose in partisan wrath. "Well-placed, well-timed torpedo!" cried Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, hotly declaring that Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson had helped Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wreck the summit conference by presenting Khrushchev with the thought that he could ignore Ike and deal better with the next U.S. President...
Next day the House passed the bill that Halleck had called "baloneyola": an "emergency" housing measure authorizing federal purchases of $1 billion in mortgages on new houses costing $13,500 or less. But Dirksen, Halleck & Co. still had reason to be confident, if not complacent...