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High Society. Actually, there can be no solution without a measure of political risk. In a joint press conference last week, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and House Republican Leader Gerald Ford predicted that the economy would rank "right up at the top" as an election issue, went on to declare that "the Great Society has become the High Society," with "high taxes, high prices, high spending, high deficits." It was an all-purpose statement-putting Johnson on the spot, whether he raises taxes to dampen inflation or risks higher prices by failing...
...power loses strength in midterm elections. Now, with all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 35 governorships at stake, they are talking gloomily of losing at least 30 seats in the House, a couple in the Senate and at least two statehouses. Even so, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen figures that the Democrats are being too optimistic. To make his point, he has offered to wager $100, even money, that the G.O.P. will pick up 50 or more seats in the House...
Ladies Present. An official statement by the executive council blamed Senator Everett Dirksen, Republican minority leader, for the defeat on the 14(b) issue. As for the dispute over guidelines, Meany said that the "arithmetic smacks of trickery" on the part of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
...temporary suspension of the 7% tax credit for new investment; that apparently would be a quick way of relieving the capital-spending boom without offending too many people. Treasury Secretary Fowler, however, would prefer a general increase in corporate and personal taxes if necessary. Said Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen last week: "The Ad ministration is talking in terms of another 5% income tax increase and an added 2% corporate tax later this year...
...Washington the editors will show Bliss letters praising their October issue, which they received from Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen (III.) and former Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy...