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...white paper, described it as "a work of scholarship" rather than a political document. He was right: it stated the history of the war dispassionately-if selectively-but as a vote getter or reputation smircher it was a dud. Ike declined to support the Republican paper, as did Everett Dirksen, who, like Eisenhower, has backed L.B.J. all the way on Viet...
...last year's anti-poverty program to give 480 needy teen-agers from Gary, Ind., a preview of potential occupations ranging, according to a Government handout, "from trucking to choreography and from graphic arts to oil refining." Still pirouetting as he addressed an imaginary teen-age audience, Dirksen cried: "You may be allergic to ballet dancing, or driving a truck, or operating a filling station, but have a look anyway. Be fascinated just to look at work." Even the pas de Dirksen failed to enlist support against the Administration bill requesting $1.5 billion to extend the war on poverty...
Senate pages rubbed ,their eyes in disbelief. In the galleries, tourists gaped. There on the floor of the U.S. Senate was Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, twirling around on tiptoe in an impromptu ballet solo. "Boys and girls, sit down," Dirksen ordered in mid-sashay. "We are going to show you how to operate a trucking enterprise. Get yourself a good look. We will show you choreography. Get yourself a good look...
Pungent Prose. Almost as startling as Dirksen's solo was a speech by Majority Whip Russell Long, who rose to attack another amendment that would have granted Governors the right to veto community-action programs only. Giving the South's segregationist Governors such lopsided veto power over anti-poverty programs, said Louisiana's Long, would expose them to unbearable pressures from "the Ku Klux Klan on one side" and "the Negro crowd" on the other. Long also charged that Northern Republican Governors such as Michigan's George Romney, New York...
...vote of 57 to 33, opposition was predominantly Republican. The bill's aim, to coordinate 115-odd federal housing and urban development programs within a single department, seemed worthy enough. But for many critics it portended yet another Parkinsonian encroachment on community affairs. Objected Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen: "I never yet saw, when you set up a department that it didn't grow and proliferate. If we're ever going to put an end to this gargantuan growth of government, it will have to be done at this end of Pennsylvania Avenue, not the other...