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...asked himself, or press on? Keep going, he decided. Turn on to Pennsylvania Avenue. Lovely morning. Remembering back to the Inauguration Day of Jan. 20, 1969. As an aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded at rush hour. Too slow for a biker. Buses fuming. Too much pollution. But then Jones began to listen to the sounds of people going to work. Quite a drama, he decided...
Standing in the marbled corridor outside Room 2227 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building during a break in his confirmation hearing last Wednesday morning, Hale Champion was at ease. Surrounded by a half dozen Washington correspondents for newspapers like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, the former Harvard financial vice president answered questions he must have heard five or six times before, always retaining his easy good humor and calm assurance. As an ex-reporter, he seemed to understand why they had to keep asking the same questions, but as a newly nominated government official...
...with his long forelock that seems forever (and designedly) askew, his cherubic face, well-upholstered 6 ft. 4 in. frame and congenital inability to resist controversy-he can be counted upon to enliven the Senate with rhetorical flourishes worthy of such famous orators as Daniel Webster or even Everett Dirksen...
...after Everett Dirksen's death opened a Senate seat, the two made peace and their relationship is now polite, above-board and very business-like. Stevenson needs Daley to get re-slated by the Democrats for the Senate and carry Chicago; Daley needs Stevenson to lead the state ticket and sweep in other Democratic candidates on his coattails...
...person who picks politics for a career is one who is not comfortable with one-on-one relationships. He prefers, all too often, the roar of the crowd." Among the results of such pressures: Joy Baker, after living most of her life for two Senators−father, Everett Dirksen and husband, Howard Baker−says sadly, "Politics has nullified my personality." Sharon Percy Rockefeller reports that her three-year-old son struck angrily at the TV set when his father, Jay Rockefeller, was interviewed because the child saw him more on the tube than in person. Joan Kennedy offers...