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...listen to Everett Dirksen, 1984 is just around the corner. "If the effects of this decision are not remedied," declaimed the Senate minority leader last week, the result may be "a centralized, all-powerful, leviathan Federal Government, clothed with power to convert citizens into subjects, and gradually shear away the freedoms they once knew...
From the doomsday tone of Dirksen's Senate speech, it was not easy to deduce that he was talking about reapportionment. For the fact is that since 1962, when the Supreme Court issued the first of a series of "one-man, one-vote" rulings designed to redraw state legislatures and congressional districts, the effects have been surprisingly salutary...
Different Tack. Nonetheless, Dirksen is determined to enact a constitutional amendment that would overrule at least part of the one-man, one-vote doctrine by permitting the states to select one house of their legislatures on a basis other than population. Twice, his efforts to push such amendments through the Senate were defeated by seven votes. Now the Illinois Senator is off on a different tack...
Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, chairman of the committee, said that he had released the report without reading it because he was worried that it might be leaked piecemeal and distorted. But G.O.P. leaders were aghast. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, recuperating from pneumonia, left Walter Reed General Hospital and hurried to Capitol Hill with a statement: "We reiterate our wholehearted support of the Commander in Chief of our armed forces." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford seconded Dirksen, declaring that an "overwhelming majority" of G.O.P. Congressmen agreed that "we're not going to throw Viet Nam into...
...White House. "The President called me in one day and said: 'Bill, when you took over as press secretary, the polls were 60-40 for me. Now they're 40-60 against me. In those days the credibility gap was just a line in one of Everett Dirksen's sonnets. Now it's a national issue. What do you think?' When I said I thought I'd better call Harry Guggenheim, you know what the President did? He gave me a dime...