Word: dirksenism
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...convalescence, Lyndon Johnson remained serenely aloof from partisan politics. When he returned to the ring last week, the President showed that he had lost none of his old élan for upstaging the opposition. Waiting until only a few hours before the G.O.P.'s Ev Dirksen and Gerry Ford were to take to TV with their "little State of the Union" message, Johnson summoned the White House press to witness a series of top-of-the-bill turns deftly calculated to steal front-page space from the Republicans...
...stepped-up war in Viet Nam. Even before the new session began, Republicans and Democrats alike were having second thoughts about where the money would come from to finance both war and welfare. "We've got a war on our hands," said Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who celebrated his 70th birthday last week, "and I think some of these domestic programs can be scaled down." Warned Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee: "We are going to have to retrench and hold down new programs until the budget is under better control...
...empaneling juries in Southern trials), but the leftovers from the first session are controversial enough to keep the drama high. The Administration has promised labor to continue its fight to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to pass laws banning union shops; Ev Dirksen, who held off the Administration's attempts in the first session, still opposes repeal and will filibuster to prevent its passage. Bills to increase and extend the minimum wage and to standardize unemployment compensation are also bound to cause debate. Other potentially mettlesome issues: Electoral College reform, home rule...
...Robert Taft of Ohio, Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan...
...clear that something is wildly, hilariously out of whack. Are the voices real? The answer is yes. Were the speakers recorded accurately? Again, yes. The catch is that Swayze's questions and Dirksen's responses were spliced together, out of context, from two separate tapes. The result is a new comedy album, Welcome to the L.B.J. Ranch, created by Gag Writer Earle Doud, that in two weeks has sold some 500,000 copies and bids fair to rival Doud's earlier spoof, The First Family (with Vaughn Meader as J.F.K...