Word: dirksenism
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...grandmother was a county sheriff, and both his father and stepmother served in Congress.* Baker's father sent his son the Congressional Record to read and, more important, introduced him to friends he made in Washington. Among them was the flamboyant Republican leader of the Senate, Everett Dirksen of Illinois; Baker married Dirksen's only child...
Then there are such historical detritus as F.D.R.'s lap robe; Nazi pilots' socks; a banner from a John L. Sullivan fight; Everett Dirksen's horn-rimmed glasses; a stuffed lion that was the flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount...
Last week too came the announcement that TIME Washington Correspondent Neil MacNeil will receive the first Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress. MacNeil has covered the Capitol for TIME since 1958. Says he: "The job is a reward itself. Which, of course, makes being honored for doing it doubly pleasant...
...Spending. As he pledged, Reagan proposed reductions in an extraordinarily broad range of federal activities (see following story). In percentage terms some of the cuts would be very deep, and in dollar amounts they recall the celebrated witticism of the late Everett McKinley Dirksen: "A billion here, a couple of billion there-first thing you know it adds up to be real money." Many of the reductions would indeed be in the $1 billion-to-$2 billion range next fiscal year, and they add up to very real money: an estimated $41.4 billion in fiscal 1982, $123.8 billion by fiscal...
...huggable by, well, a Mama Bear. No doubt he was chosen less for his physique than for his professional credentials: in the years since he got his 1962 B.S. in communications and political science at the University of Illinois, Brady has worked for the late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the OMB, the Pentagon, Delaware Senator William Roth and, most recently, Texas' John Connally...