Word: dirksens
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TIME'S correspondents aim week to week for such reporting, but their efforts reach a peak at convention time. When Senator Everett Dirksen last week had security forces thoroughly check the room in which the G.O.P. platform hearings were being held, he said it was because a similar hearing room at the 1960 G.O.P. Convention in Chicago had been bugged. The nonelectronic "bug" was actually TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, who had ingeniously managed to get firsthand intelligence about what went on in the room. MacNeil was in Miami last week, scouting for more information-and, inevitably, informing...
Senator Everett Dirksen, Platform Committee chairman, set out to write a "pungent" document that "any Republican can run on." It was obviously being molded, however, with Richard Nixon's shoe size in mind. All sides represented on the committee seemed determined to avoid the acrimony of 1964. Yet the proceedings, along with other recent discussions, outlined the party's options on the year's two major issues, Viet Nam and domestic upheaval...
Meanwhile, the platform committee, under the direction of Sen. Everett Dirksen, is drafting what one member admitted would be a document cloaked in ambiguity, vagueness and turgid prose. Platforms tend to be like that: in 1932, for example, both parties had almost identical platforms, although their candidates differed markedly on the issues...
...Fortas failed to mention the dozens of other Justices who had not had intimate dealings with the White House. There are, in fact, no set guidelines for the relations between a Justice and a President. Obviously, as Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen points out, no Chief Executive will appoint an enemy to the bench. Just as obviously, no one expects a Justice to sever old friendships when he takes the oath. On the other hand, even open, formal service to the President-as distinguished from informal advice such as Fortas gave Johnson-has been criticized. Eugene McCarthy has faulted Johnson...
...President's old friends, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, objects to the lame-duck label. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Johnson's Supreme Court nominations of Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Dirksen fulminated: "I find that term lame duck as applied to the President of the U.S. an entirely improper and offensive term...