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...parade followed Senator Lucas to the Havana high-school gymnasium where everybody but the four horses crowded in to hear the home-town boy open his campaign. Actually, Lucas was getting a late start: his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, had been running for months. Dirksen, onetime isolationist, had seemingly abandoned his position during his term in the House, but this winter he was talking isolation again and his stand had re-won him the favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick. Launching his campaign last fall; Dirksen pitched his battle on the field of foreign...
...Havana gym, Scott Lucas accepted Dirksen's challenge-and managed to make foreign aid sound like a local assistance program. "The next time a smooth gentleman tells you we are pouring money down a rathole," he said, "ask him whether he means the money which has gone to Illinois factories or farms." Argued Lucas: the Marshall Plan brought Moline, Peoria and Chicago nearly $50 million in orders in the first nine months of the plan alone...
...Gentle Little Shove." Responsible Congressmen from both sides of the aisle protested in vain. Some of the reductions were made by extending the spending period for ECA and China aid from twelve to 15 months. Hoping to restore the twelve-month spending period, Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen warned: "If we fail in this first year we shall fail for good . . . This cut may be the gentle little shove that may throw the government of France into the ashcan." Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, his bald head glistening under the hot House lights, pleaded: "Let us not do too little...
Shouting their approval, the House bowled over the Dirksen amendment 148 to 113. Then, without even the formality of a record vote, it confirmed John Taber's cuts to the last dollar...
Appropriations Committeemen considered the President's budget, which had "staggered" Chairman John Taber of New York. Illinois' Everett Dirksen lectured his colleagues: "You will get no credit either in your constituency or in heaven for having wasted money...