Word: dirksenism
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...Adds another: "Heaven help you if you are unprepared. He has a very sharp temper, and he uses it very effectively." The questioning continued as Kennedy and two aides rode in a Secret Service black limousine (driven by an agent) on the 20-min. trip to the Dirksen Office Building...
...Kennedy merely cast his vote, for emergency financial aid to help the poor and elderly pay their energy bills. He then returned to his office for more work on pending legislation, until it was time to go home, at 7:30 p.m. As usual, he did not leave the Dirksen building for lunch. His fare: soup and a salad with low-calorie dressing, in keeping with the diet that holds his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 205 Ibs., 20 Ibs. lower than last February. Dieting does not come easily. Kennedy has been known to search his staffers' desks...
...carries in his political make-up bag. He inherited the power to attract followers from his father, who served six terms in Congress and his mother, who took the seat for awhile after the elder Baker's death. And when Howard Baker decided to get married he selected Joy Dirksen, a blonde midwesterner and daughter of the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Besides his political connections, Baker is a Republican, and eastern Tennessee is almost all Republican. And Presbyterian--just like Baker...
There is something bright and burning about this Republican camera nut and son-in-law of the late Dirksen. It is Baker's season. In six months he has come up ten to twelve points in the opinion polls. In the Kentucky hills and along the clear streams of Utah, when they take time to think about politics, there are unusual numbers of queries now about Howard Baker...
Therein is the legacy of Dirksen, who used to reside in Baker's Capitol office, doing Baker's leadership job. "I saw it close up," says Baker. "Right here Dirksen and Lyndon Johnson worked out their differences for the good of the country. They were adversaries but not enemies...