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...hours the Senators permitted Perez to prattle on. Finally their patience wore thin. When Perez declared that "there is a Communist plan" behind the bill, Illinois Republican Everett M. Dirksen, one of its chief architects, made him eat his words. "That," snapped Senator Dirksen, "is about as stupid a statement as has ever been uttered in this committee room." Cowed, Perez asked that his comment be stricken from the record...
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen heads a pathetically small congressional minority, but that doesn't stop Dirksen from rising to his favorite role -that of leaving his personal imprint on Democratic-sponsored legislation. Last week Ev was at it again...
...principal collaborator in drawing up President Johnson's civil rights bill last year, Dirksen now has his sharp-eyed legal staff (known as "Dirksen's Bombers" for their accuracy in pinpointing loopholes in proposed legislation) scrutinizing the Administration's new voting-rights bill line by line. Reason for the close look: a growing feeling that the proposed law, for all its tough language, contains holes that could permit continued disenfranchisement of Negroes in the South...
Aimed at the Barricades. As Selma's angry impatience exploded, Lyndon Johnson realized that the time was ripe to go after the widest possible support for his bill. Key figures in the bipartisan drafting were Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted...
Judge Will asked Dirksen whether he had ever spent campaign contributions for clothing for himself. "I came very close to it on one occasion, your honor, and it might have been a sizable sum," replied Dirksen gravely, settling into his chair for a good anecdote. As a freshman Congressman in 1933, the witness said, he arrived in Washington for Roosevelt's inauguration without a dress suit and was described in the newspapers as "the man who attended the inauguration in a rented suit." Recalled Dirksen: "It was a frightful embarrassment, and it resulted promptly in the raising...