Word: dirksenism
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...would have poisoned the atmosphere in Washington and reflected unfavorably on the entire Government. More practically, it would also have monopolized the time of both houses of Congress for weeks and even months. Nixon cautioned Republicans in Congress against hasty action, and G.O.P. Congressional Leaders Gerald Ford and Everett Dirksen passed the word...
...Dirksen was instrumental in getting Nixon to shy away from appointing Dr. Franklin Long, a Cornell chemist, as director of the National Science Foundation. He would not abide Long's opposition to anti-ballistic-missile systems and said so to Nixon's advisers. The President acknowledged publicly that he was shelving the Long appointment because of the ABM issue. Last week, however, Nixon reversed himself, admitting that he had been wrong (by that time Long was no longer interested in the job). Nixon's statement seemed to be a rebuke to Dirksen...
...resisting these appointments, as well as in opposing the Administration's effort to take postmasterships out of politics, Dirksen is in part mirroring Republican displeasure with the offhand manner in which the White House has been handling patronage-which is all-important to the politicians on the Hill. The pols are angry because in many cases they have not been consulted or even informed of the Administration's decisions. Still, Dirksen is far more vehement than his confreres...
...Count on Dirksen. Obviously there is more to it than Ev's honeyed words convey. Under the Nixon Administration, Dirksen has lost some of his former power and luster. Nixon, 56, is a generation apart from Dirksen, 73, and the President favors younger congressional leaders. Nor does Nixon deal with individual legislative barons in the same intensely personal manner that Johnson did. What is he going to do about Dirksen? If the Senator keeps embarrassing him, he could be forced into a direct showdown. A President does not easily lose arguments with his own party. On the other hand...
...Washington, the Goldwater team will join Capitol Hill's other family acts, including Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington and his guitar-strumming Congressman son James and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and his son-in-law, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. Goldwater and Son promises to be the most cohesive of the family firms in politics. "We sound alike, and basically we think alike," said the new Congressman. "Maybe we shouldn't be so much alike. But we just...