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...enough to run full-page ads in the New York Times. You have to run double-page spreads." In fact, petitions are apt to be most successful on local issues. Nationally, a notable failure involved the school prayer amendment, which again died in Congress, even though Sponsor Everett Dirksen could point to petitions signed by some 500,000 people. While Dirksen professes to take the "wagonloads" of such documents seriously, most Washington legislators are wary of them, suspect that many people do not know what they are signing...
...time Republicans -- Everett Dirksen, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford -- have offered to campaign for Reagan, but he has righteously declared that out-of-staters should not become involved in a California election...
Such big-name Republicans as Dick Nixon, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen have all offered to come in and campaign for Reagan, but the candidate has demurred on grounds that a state campaign should concentrate on state issues and state figures. Of course, any invitations to outsiders would almost have to include one to Barry Goldwater. Reagan quite pointedly avoids mentioning Barry's name in public or even during private interviews, and he considers a campaign visit by Goldwater a certain way to reopen old wounds within the party...
Nobody had to. Dirksen got expected support from most Republicans and Southern Democrats, but he ran into a formidable obstacle in the form of North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, whose concern for the Constitution rivals Dirksen's passion for prayer. "For God's sake," bellowed Ervin, "and for freedom's sake, let us not vest arbitrary permission power in school boards." When the vote came, Dirksen never really had a prayer. Though he won a 49-to-37 majority, he fell nine short of the two-thirds margin required to amend the Constitution...
...Even so, Dirksen refused to give up on the Amen Amendment. "I will not let it die," he said, adding that a national organization is already being formed by such Protestant leaders as Daniel Poling and Billy Graham to carry on the fight in the 90th Congress...