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...siphoning funds from the blighted cities, to profit-minded merchants, who saw it increasing pressure for a tax increase. All at once, too many Americans found it too much to bear-or at least began to wonder whether it was worth it. Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen worried: "There's fatigue in the country...
Getting Iffy. One Republican who did not waver in his support of the President's Viet Nam policy was Everett Dirksen. The scramble among his fellow Republicans to dissociate themselves from Johnson's war policy prompted him to shake his head. "They're all getting iffy. I don't know what the hell's wrong with them," he complained last week. "The fellows in uniform over there aren't going to appreciate it one damn...
...House. Already in limited operation, the program subsidizes part of the rent of poor families (they must pay 25% of their income) in private projects and represents an imaginative approach toward meeting the acute shortage of low-rent housing. Business support persuaded several Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, to vote for the program, and may change a few votes in the House when the measure is returned from a Senate-House conference committee...
...other hand, by breaking with the President without offering a closely reasoned alternative, said Dirksen, "you only strengthen Ho Chi Minh's determination to hang on. That's been the trouble right along...
...said Johnson, "has done more to help us work with our economy" than Leslie T. Hope, 64, a wealthy, California-based cosmopolite whose unpaid avocation is promoting U.S. Government bonds. In a curiously disjointed response, the salesman touched on Shirley Temple Black's campaign for Congress ("Ev Dirksen is the only one who complains that one set of curls in Congress is enough"), gave informal confirmation to suspicions that he is a White House intimate. "Lynda looked just marvelous," said Hope, nicknamed Bob, "and I'm sure she and General Robb will be happy...