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...eyes. In 1962 Chuck testified on reciprocal trade before a House committee in Washington. While he was in town, he stopped off at the White House to chat with President John Kennedy. Kennedy was considerably impressed by Percy. Later, in an informal conversation with Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, the President asked, "What does Percy want...
...Said Dirksen: "He wants to sit in that very seat that you're sitting...
Illinois' Everett Dirksen knelt in an aisle of the U.S. Senate chamber last week, flung out his arms and pealed: "It's like getting down on your knees and saying 'Please, Mr. Court.'" He got back up on his feet and roared, "I will...
...saying again that he is profoundly opposed to a June 15 Supreme Court decision ordering states to reapportion their entire legislatures on the basis of population-the "one man, one vote" principle. To Dirksen, arguments about that issue are "hogwash" and the only question is "whether the Federal Government-in this case the judicial branch-under the Constitution has the right and the authority to dictate the composition of state legislatures." Dirksen called on his colleagues to back the "Dirksen breather"-a rider attached to the $3.3 billion foreign aid bill that would delay states' compliance with the court...
Some Senate liberals, mostly Democrats but with the backing of a handful of Republicans, were filibustering against the Dirksen rider. When Dirksen tried to invoke cloture, he failed. The filibustering liberals were joined in their nay votes by Southern Democrats who, although for the rider, defend filibusters as a matter of principle. Therefore the cloture motion lost, 63 to 30. The vote plainly did not reflect Senate sentiment about the Dirksen breather, as such, and on a subsequent motion to kill Dirksen's rider for good by tabling it, 49 Senators voted to keep it alive, with 38 against...