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...died in 1953, as the behind-the-scenes leader of Senate Republicans. As usual he refused (for health reasons, he again explained) to consider a move from his powerful position on the Appropriations Committee to take on the minority leader title. He preferred instead to back Illinois' Everett Dirksen for the job. To crown Dirksen, Bridges had first to put down a stubborn revolt of Vermont's George Aiken and six other Senate liberals (TIME. Jan. 12) lined up behind Kentucky's courtly John Sherman Cooper...
...Kentucky's middle-roading Senator Thruston Morton, who had been an Eisenhower State Department appointee and remains thoroughly responsive to the President's wishes, announced that he would vote for the Old Guard candidate for Senate leader, Illinois Everett Dirksen. Exception: he would support his Kentucky colleague, John Sherman Cooper, sponsored by Connecticut's Prescott Bush, for Republican leader if Cooper got into the running. But later Cooper withdrew...
...Dirksen came to the White House, theoretically escorting a Boys' Clubs of America prizewinner, sashayed forth to announce, again from the White House steps, that he had the leader...
...Bridges' Policy Committee in the whole party's name. Example of what the liberals want no more of: last June the President backed an amendment to the foreign aid bill providing for aid to independent-trending Communist satellites; G.O.P. liberals supported him; G.O.P. Big Three Knowland, Dirksen...
Above the Battle. Worrisome to G.O.P. liberals is the fact that the President even now is not only preserving his official hands-off-Congress position but is saying and doing nothing to create a favorable climate for G.O.P. liberalism. The White House word after Aiken spoke out: 1) Dirksen is pretty sure to get the minority leadership, and the White House has no objection; 2) the President does not regard himself as a liberal, especially on domestic issues in a deficit year...