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...Senator, do you think the Republican Party will stage a comeback in 1968?" The question came from Veteran News Commentator John Cameron Swayze, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen fielded it suavely: "I know no reason why it should...
...Dirksen intoned mellifluously...
Citing the failure of Senator Dirksen's amendment to win Congressional approval this year, Cox said that the decisions have obtained wide-spread acceptance and legislative response...
...Even Dirksen accepted the thrust of the decision by arguing that one body of a state legislature be based strictly on population," he said...
...hang from the same tree and wear the grower's label. If, on the contrary, the odd offshoot insists on permanent identification as a new species, it invites pruning. "Break Through!" Thus, in recent months, a host of top Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society. G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss read the Birchites out of the party again last week during the biennial Western...