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...that convened in 1937. If Lyndon Johnson has anything to say about it, it will also be one of the hardest-working sessions in memory, for he means to use it as his springboard to the Great Society. Contemplating the President's legislative program, Senator Everett Dirksen remarked wearily that "there would easily be enough to engross the time and the attention not of one but of a number of Congresses...
While Morse was not alone in calling for an end to U.S. involvement in South Viet Nam's affairs, he certainly was in a minority. Among those taking the opposite view were former U.S. Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and Senate Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois. Lodge called such a course "the most dangerous and imprudent" the U.S. could take and equated it with "getting out of West Berlin." Dirksen foresaw that "the rank of the United States in the Orient would plummet" if the U.S. pulled...
...Republican Party we find three, not two, kinds of politicians competing for leadership and control. There are the Gubernatorial Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Scranton (men like Senator Kuchel and Congressman Lindsay also belong in this group). Then there are the Congressional and legislative leaders like Everett Dirksen, Charlie Halleck, and Robert Taft Jr. and Sr. Finally there is the Goldwater group, including Barry himself, Senator Tower and a host of cold-eyed ideologues who do not hold public office...
Partisanship, of course, was involved in these maneuverings. The election was approaching and the Republicans were emphasizing that Baker had been Lyndon Johnson's protege. But when Senator Dirksen proposed a 17-man committee to investigate ethics in the federal government, he precluded any close study of the misuse of privileges and prerogative, Democrats and Republicans closed ranks. The Senate finally established an ineffectual six-man bipartisan committee to study "allegations of improper conduct" by Senators. This committee, however, has yet to be set up by the Senate Democratic leadership...
...lacking imagination. Moreover, liberal fears to the contrary, the Minnesota Senator will probably exert considerable influence on new policy. Himself only months removed from the Vice-Presidency, Johnson is not about to take a man of unquestioned talent and energy and relegate him, in the words of Everett Dirksen, to "shuffle around the world eating camels' eyes at potentates' tables...