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When this issue was thrust into the center of the stage last week, the President got some support from the three Democratic Senators on the Mundt committee, none at all from the four members of his own party. Illinois' Dirksen, who was making mellifluous pro-Eisenhower noises a few months ago, is now revealed as McCarthy's staunch supporter on the committee: Idaho's Dworshak, who was publicly insulted by McCarthy a few weeks ago, has masticated his pride and does what Dirksen suggests; Michigan's Freshman Senator Potter seems adrift; Chairman Mundt, trying painfully...
North Dakotan Langer seemed to be dragging his feet on other proposals, among them Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen's 25% limitation on income-tax rates and Vermont Republican Ralph Flanders' measure to make the Constitution acknowledge "the authority and law of Jesus Christ...
...third charge that Adams suffered the heaviest damage. In the midst of his crossexamination, a remarkable transformation took place: three of the men who were sitting as judges in the hearings-Republican Committee Members Dirksen, Mundt and Potter-suddenly became witnesses...
Bureaucratic Blackmail? Fluttering his eyelashes at the television cameras, Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen was placed under oath and told how John Adams and White House Aide Gerald Morgan came to his office last Jan. 22 to urge against the subcommittee's calling Army loyalty panelists. It was then, Dirksen said, that he heard for the first time of the Cohn-Schine matter. Although he could not say that Adams actually tried to use the Cohn-Schine report as a club, Dirksen said that he had a "vague" recollection of "hints" in that direction, all of which caused...
Because of this, Adams said, when he went to visit Senators Mundt and Dirksen, the matters of the loyalty board and of the Cohn-Schine case were so linked in his mind that he believed the one was the direct result of, and reprisal for, the other...