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...PUBLIC WORKS. The rich aroma of pork converts even the most ardent budget cutters into big spenders. "Sometimes you have to put that feeling of economy behind you," said Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pleading for a $400,000 appropriation to start a dam at Decatur Ill. Dirksen got what he wanted, as did the others from both parties who approved the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968. Among its many nonessentials is the Delaware River-Tocks Island park; projected costs for it have grown from $90 million to $198 million. Well over $1 billion in similar public...
...style as the real Lyndon Johnson, the President of the U.S. stood up again last week at a Washington dinner, where Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen was presented with the William J. Donovan Medal by veterans of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. "I heard that many members of Congress would be here tonight," Lyndon deadpanned, "and I thought I would honor an old OSS tradition by dropping in behind the enemy lines. The man you honor tonight is often accused of being my fifth column on the Hill. I want all of you to know that Everett Dirksen...
...Senate side, talk of turning the Viet Nam question over to the United Nations rumbled on, with Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen both supporting such a move. The Foreign Relations Committee also heard U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg clarify for the first time in public the Administration's willingness to allow the Viet Cong to participate in Security Council peace talks...
...political machine." He is an energetic handshaker and baby-kisser who is not above pumping a dog's paw at a shopping-center rally. To support his argument that the election has great national implications, Nunn has imported such Republican luminaries as Ronald Reagan, George Murphy and Everett Dirksen to point out that a Nunn victory would be a Johnson defeat...
Buckley's enemies bring out the best in him. He is less interesting when he starts singing the praises of his friends such as Barry Goldwater, Senator John Tower, Everett Dirksen ("moving through the crowd like the eye of a hurricane, an oasis of calmness"), Walter Judd ("Is there anywhere a more impressive American?"). Of all of Buckley's hang-ups, two of the worst have been Moise Tshombe, whom Buckley thought the U.S. sold out, and Senator Thomas Dodd, whom Buckley thought the Senate sold short. "I, for one, announce," he inaccurately predicted, "the beginning...