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...Republican whose cooperation will be crucial for a truly effective attack on the President is having none of it-at least for the time being. He is Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, who, significantly, is scheduled to head the Republican Platform Committee at the 1968 presidential convention in Miami, and thus may have a good deal to say about the party's Viet Nam policy, before and during the campaign. Shrugging off the efforts of House Republican leaders to dissociate themselves from the President's Viet Nam policy, Dirksen declared gruffly: "They offer no alternative...
GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Attorney F. Lee Bailey takes a swing into Virginia for a chat with Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R., Ill.) and his wife, Louella, on their farm in Sterling...
...miscellaneous category, ABC has dusted off Person to Person, titled it Good Company, and put Trial Lawyer F. Lee Bailey in Edward R. Murrow's easy chair. First witness, Actor Tony Curtis, acquitted himself better than his inquisitor, but the jury should await forthcoming interviews with Everett Dirksen and Hugh Hefner before giving...
...President's anti-crime bill before sending it on to the Senate. (Other changes would give the states nearly total control over how federal anti-crime grants would be spent, sharply curtailing the supervisory role of the Attorney General.) In the upper chamber, predicted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, the measure, which gives $75 million to local police in the first year, will be combined with the House-passed antiriot bill, which makes it a crime to cross state lines to foment riots. The result, promised Dirksen, "will be a humdinger...
...such trade roughly in half. It voted to limit arms trade by the U.S. Export-Import Bank with underdeveloped countries to 7½% of the bank's lending capacity, thus slashing by 50% next year's planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which the United...