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...home town of Pekin, Ill., Everett McKinley Dirksen once wrote and directed Chinese Love, a riceball melodrama about the unrequited passion of one Sing Loo for the beauteous Pan Toy. The Washington house of Hugh Doggett Scott Jr., who took over as leader of the Senate Republican minority after Dirksen's death, is chockablock with chinoiserle, mainly from the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). That slight Oriental connection is one of the few similarities between the two men. Where Dirksen was a conciliator, expert in sub rosa dealings with Democrats, Scott is an acerbic infighter who means...
Unanswered Mail. In his September showdown over the Republican leader's chair with Howard Baker of Tennessee, Dirksen's son-in-law, most of Scott's strength came from a coalition of moderates and liberals; but, he says, his reputation as an aggressive activist "got me the two crucial votes I needed." Dirksen had antagonized some Republicans by his celebrated coziness with Lyndon Johnson and by the highly personalized manner of his leadership. Scott deliberately follows the reverse course. He is committed to making no under-the-table deals with the opposition, and -partly out of personal...
...Dirksen was doing it all," complains one Senate Republican. Now Gordon Allott of Colorado runs the Republican policy committee, reports to the weekly luncheon of Republican Senators on White House sessions with G.O.P. legislative leaders, and holds the Tuesday afternoon Senate-press-gallery news conference that was once Dirksen's private preserve. Maine's Margaret Chase Smith heads the Senate Republican caucus and will speak for it when it meets. Assistant Leader Bob Griffin of Michigan steps in for Scott when the minority leader is off the floor, and also takes the party headcounts; that...
...York State during one year as Senator. He supported Lindsay for re-election before the Mayor lost the primary, and has campaigned for him since then. Before he got to the point of criticizing the President on the war, he launched an attack on Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. He voted against the ABM. (He once approved a statement his staff wrote condemning the ABM by phone from the President's Air Force...
Both are skilled political operators -which partly accounts for their success last week. Most of the Senate's conservative G.O.P. was aligned behind Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard Baker of Tennessee. Working against the 43-year-old Baker, however-even among such conservatives as Idaho's Leonard Jordan, Utah's Wallace Bennett and North Dakota's Milton Young-was the senatorial tradition of seniority...