Word: dirksens
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...necessary, he said, he would even cut short his June visit to Russia to return to Washington and fight for his budget. After posing for press pictures with his breakfast guests on the north portico of the White House, the President turned to Illinois' Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, wagged a finger, and publicly laid down a challenge to congressional Democrats. "Remember." said Ike, "one-third and one - that's the watchword." Translation: to defeat Democratic spending programs, the President did not need majorities in Congress; all he needed was one-third of the votes plus one vote...
Republicans got in a few volleys, too. Said Illinois' Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, when asked to comment on Lyndon Johnson's "panic" remark: "I am so far from panicky that it's not even funny. Never was I more complacent. Never was I more confident - strike out that word 'complacent.' " House Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck denounced the House's $251 million depressed-areas bill as "political payola," and its housing bill as "a billion dollars' worth of baloneyola." Neither bill "can become law," said Halleck, "because...
Next day the House passed the bill that Halleck had called "baloneyola": an "emergency" housing measure authorizing federal purchases of $1 billion in mortgages on new houses costing $13,500 or less. But Dirksen, Halleck & Co. still had reason to be confident, if not complacent...
...Southern minority of 18 included the chairmen of nine powerful Senate committees). The Senate galleries were virtually empty; not a cheer rang through the chamber. But, in a sense, the lack of dramatics was a tribute to superb legislative technique. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen had allowed plenty of time for Northern liberals and Southern diehards to talk themselves out of election-year invective, then smoothly pushed through the House-approved (TIME, April 4) version of what was essentially the Administration's bill...
Republican Dirksen backed Democrat Johnson's move to force Javits to "stoo talking and start voting." Red-faced, Javits turned control of his amendment over to Dirksen, who promptly put it up for brief debate, quick defeat by a 48-to-38 vote...