Word: dirksenism
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...Republican troopers felt the wounds. House G.O.P. Leader Gerald Ford immediately retorted: "The Great Society of Lyndon Johnson has become a runaway locomotive with a wild-eyed engineer at the throttle." Johnson's speech was so widely acknowledged as blatantly partisan that Ford and Senate Leader Everett Dirksen had no trouble getting half an hour of rebuttal time three nights later on all three major networks...
...sleepy, somewhat supercilious dialogue, Ev and Jerry spent most of their time defending the Democratic-controlled 90th Congress, berating the Administration for inflationary policies, and bragging that because of added Republican strength, the 90th is able to stand up to the President where the 89th had not. Dirksen rightly observed that while many Democrats backbit the President on Viet Nam, "the wooden soldiers have not only been sustaining the Commander in Chief, but have been sustaining the live soldiers in Viet...
...when he said that cutting Government spending was a better way to fight inflation than raising taxes, as Johnson proposes, but the fact is that Congress failed either to raise taxes or make an appreciable dent in spending. The Republicans tried, to be sure, but the only specific saving Dirksen would gloat over was foreign aid, the program with no broad lobby in this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present Congress, while producing some good legislation...
...Governors also ran into stubborn resistance from the congressional wing of the party over the 1968 G.O.P. platform. They demanded that a moderate from their ranks be made co-chairman of the platform committee, serving on a par with the almost certain congressional spokesman, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference and the conservative who chaired the 1964 platform committee, rejected the Governors' overtures, leaving unsettled what the tone of the 1968 G.O.P. platform will be and the kind of candidate who will be chosen...
...gifts, including a $6,770 silver tea and coffee service from the Washington diplomatic corps, a nest of teak tables from Chiang Kaishek, a color sketch of Eeyore by Winnie-the-Pooh Illustrator Ernest Shepard (Lynda is a Pooh buff), and-from Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Mc-Kinley Dirksen, of course-a small silver elephant...