Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time with feet dangling over the grave that beckons to the human civilization which is our common heritage. Against that immense void of darkness, this treaty is a feeble candle. It is a flicker of light where there has been no light." When he finished, Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois walked across the aisle and shook Mansfield's hand. Dirksen told reporters that his long-held doubts about the treaty were diminishing. Said he: "My inclinations now are in the direction of backing the treaty...
...would not come today, tomorrow, next month or next year. This was made starkly clear as the leaders of civil rights organizations paid morning calls on Capitol Hill's most powerful citizens-Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker John McCormack, Senate and House Republican Leaders Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck. It was made just as starkly clear after the march, when the civil rights leaders went to the White House to see President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
Bent on clearing a road for the treaty in the Senate, Kennedy tried to get two influential Midwestern Republicans, Iowa's Hickenlooper and Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, to join the U.S. delegation to Moscow. But both Dirksen and Hickenlooper decided to. stay home. The Republican Senators Kennedy tapped instead were two fellow New Englanders, Aiken and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who are high-ranking members of important Senate committees but who wield little influence among Midwestern Republicans. To make Dirksen's absence seem less conspicuous, Kennedy decided to leave behind the Democratic opposite number, Majority Leader...
Headline writers, inevitably, called it THE GREAT GRAIN ROBBERY. It was "really big stuff," said Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen. The G.O.P. Senate Policy Committee demanded a special Senate investigation, and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield agreed that the demand deserved "speedy consideration...
...clique" that uses Washington "as the seat of a conspiracy to continue human slavery under another name. Let there be no uncertainty. There will be a massive march on Washington as a living petition for a redress of old, old grievances." As for Senate Republicans and their leader Everett Dirksen: "The Dirksen leadership can bring on moral disaster for the Republican Party . . . We intend to work for the defeat in the next election of those lawmakers who fail to support and vote for strong civil rights legislation. We shall remember them." And the next day the N.A.A.C.P. adopted by acclamation...