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...three Republicans on the censure committee, he was doing nothing whatever to support their recommendations. Instead, he was helping those Senators who wanted to soften the censure resolution. This group included most of the other Republicans who hold official leadership positions in the Senate. Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was the chief strategist in the move to soften censure, and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, president pro tempore, stood shoulder to shoulder with Dirksen; Michigan's Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Policy Committee, and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, whip, were...
...action until the Democratic 84th Congress takes over. Oregon's Wayne Morse told how he had made nine speeches in 1951 with his broken jaw still wired. New York's Lehman told how he had campaigned with a fractured leg. Finally, however, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen spoke...
Slush & Slime. All week long pro-McCarthy Senators, e.g., Illinois' Everett Dirksen and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...
Thin of face, frame, voice and manner, Watkins is cautious, precise and meticulous. Despite his quiet manner, he has a stubborn quality, has refused to be blown down by such formidable wind channels as Texas' former Democratic Senator Tom Connally and Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. Last week in Utah, the Senator's father was asked if he thought Joe McCarthy could bulldoze his son. Replied old (89) Arthur Watkins: "Nobody ever...
Adams. The only dissent would come from Illinois' Everett Dirksen, who would drop tut-tutting footnotes in defense of his friend McCarthy...