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Murphy: I know, for instance, Senator Dirksen quite well . . . J. Edgar Hoover, and all the rest...
...term Democrat Albert Gore, 57, is favored over Memphis Businessman Dan H. Kuykendall, 40. But Representative Ross Bass, 46, running to fill the last two years of the late Estes Kefauver's term, may have rougher sledding against Knoxville Attorney Howard Baker Jr., 39, who is Everett Dirksen's son-in-law. Still, the pro-Democratic Negro vote and displeasure over Goldwater's stand on TVA are expected to send two Democrats to the Senate again...
...Dirksen rider [Sept. 18] is a more arrogant attack on the right of the court to interpret the Constitution than Roosevelt's court-packing plan. It defies the separation of powers. It does not attempt to steal a few thousand votes but to dilute millions of votes forever...
...Senate, up for a vote came a toothless, Johnson-backed compromise designed to end a five-week filibuster, mainly by Democratic liberals, against Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's attempt to delay enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling that both branches of every state legislature must be apportioned on a one-man, one-vote basis. Johnson does not really care how that matter is resolved-just so long as it goes away and frees Democratic Congressmen to get out and campaign for the national ticket. But the compromise, sponsored by Minnesota Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy...
That meant that some action had to be taken on Ev's motion before Congress adjourns this year, and Dirksen, who is not up for reelection, seemed to be in no great hurry. "I can stay here until Christmas," he said. "This issue will have to be resolved...