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During the debate on his amendment, Dirksen orated before a packed and entranced gallery. He warned that the time could come "when the only people interested in state boundaries will be Rand McNally." He cried out that the Prohibition Amendment had disastrously deprived states of freedom to make their own laws and that "in 1932 my party was overwhelmingly voted out of office, and not the least of the issues were bread and booze." He insisted that "the whole burden of my argument has been: go back to the people." He intimated that the Supreme Court had taken on powers...
...What Do You Do?" The argument against Dirksen was mostly good-natured-except for a sarcastic performance by Dirksen's Illinois colleague, Democrat Paul Douglas...
...spontaneous irrelevance which is so charming a characteristic of my junior colleague. Nor can I perform his acts of sorcery and necromancy which, in soaring far beyond logic, disguise an assault upon our political system as a mere amendment to an act to encourage junior league baseball." Douglas charged Dirksen with "deception," with introducing "an awesome and abominable proposal," with trying to give "the rotten-borough legislatures now in operation the power of self-perpetuation," with "sounding the false alarm that the Supreme Court had created chaos in the states," plotting to allow "private utilities" and "big financial interests...
...final vote, the Dirksen amendment was favored 57-39, seven short of the required two-thirds. But beaten though he was, Dirksen vowed to continue his crusade. "What do you do," he asked, "when you believe in something and are heartsick and you think the Republic is at stake...
...Gerald Ford has worked hard as the House Republican leader ever since he upset Indiana's garrulous Charlie Halleck for the job in January. But Ford has been edged out of the headlines consistently by such veteran press performers as his own Senate G.O.P. counterpart, Everett Dirksen, and the master of them all, Lyndon Johnson. Last week Ford got some notable newsprint at last-thanks, ironically, to the President himself...