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...time and the $250,000 production cost, had been taken in by self-promoting Murray the K. "Uncle Sam done flipped his wig," said the New York Herald Tribune. Republican Congressmen were indignant -in fact, "almost incandescent in their fulminations," reported Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen following a G.O.P. policy-committee luncheon. Colorado's Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Allott phoned CBS President Frank Stanton and announced, "I am about to throw...
...Adding to the less than festive atmosphere was a blast by U.S. Republicans on the eve of Johnson's departure, accusing him of having backed down in the U.S. fight to force Russia and other delinquent nations to ante up their assessments for U.N. peace-keeping operations. Everett Dirksen charged that the Administration's earlier vow had been "exposed as a bluff"; the backdown, he said, was a "staggering blow to the structure of the United Nations...
Landon of Kansas, turned down an in vitation); Congressional Leaders Ev Dirksen and Tom Kuchel from the Sen ate, Gerry Ford and Les Arends from the House; Governors George Romney of Michigan and Bill Scranton of Penn sylvania, both top prospects for the 1968 presidential nomination; G.O.P...
...Senate Republican Leader Dirksen, upon first hearing the news, was derisive. "Are you kidding?" he asked. When told that Illinois' Representative Paul Findley, leader of the delegation, had surmised that NATO's problems might be the result of some sort of misunderstanding, Dirksen chortled: "That's cute." Next day Dirksen had a second thought, issued a statement saying: "It is regrettable that this jovial exchange with the press was reported." By that time, the Coordinating Committee's meeting was over, and Politician Emeritus Eisenhower had already had dinner at the White House and exchanged glowing toasts...
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D. Statesman, scholar, and orator without peer...