Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everett Dirksen, did not, of course, quite fit the mold. He took many diverse positions in his long career. Last week the postwar pattern of conservatism was all but broken. The Senate's 43 Republicans gathered beneath the ornate crystal chandeliers of the G.O.P. Conference Room to elect Dirksen's successor as minority leader. They chose Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, 68, a moderate liberal of the Eastern Establishment. Then, three hours later, the same band of G.O.P. Senators who accomplished that feat combined to give Scott's old job as assistant minority leader to Michigan...
Both are skilled political operators -which partly accounts for their success last week. Most of the Senate's conservative G.O.P. was aligned behind Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard Baker of Tennessee. Working against the 43-year-old Baker, however-even among such conservatives as Idaho's Leonard Jordan, Utah's Wallace Bennett and North Dakota's Milton Young-was the senatorial tradition of seniority...
...minority, have displayed their divisions. Yet the Senate G.O.P. now includes a band of moderates and liberals increasingly disposed to cross party lines to vote with their ideological counterparts on such issues as ABM and civil rights. Last week, as the 43 Republican Senators prepared to select Everett Dirksen's successor as minority leader, the factional lines of stress became clear...
...favorite of the liberals was Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, 68, an "Eastern Establishment" Republican who has served for the past eight months as minority whip under Dirksen. As the week began, the more conservative members were split between Nebraska's Roman Hruska, 65, and Tennessee's Howard Baker Jr., 43, Dirksen...
...upon whom the election may hang was hurriedly schooling himself in Republican senatorial politics and protocol. He is Ralph Smith, 53, a self-styled flexible conservative who was speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives until last week, when Governor Richard Ogilvie appointed him to fill the late Everett Dirksen's Senate post until next year's election...