Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political aristocrats, OEO Boss Sargent Shriver and Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, were interested in the Governor's chair that Democrat Otto Kerner is relinquishing this year. Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72. And both were anathema to Daley's party regulars...
...THIS is the day we make some history in this country," Senator Everett Dirksen (R-I11.) said last Friday. That was the day the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders released its 1400 page report, but Dirksen was referring to the Senate's attempt to pass a three year old civil rights bill on open housing...
...cloture vote was three short of the number needed to stop debate. The measure, billed as a compromise between Dirksen and liberals, would have made discrimination illegal in two-thirds of the nation's housing action rather than 97 per cent as the original bill provided. Still Dirksen failed to deliver; he could produce only three new votes for cloture including himself...
...failed despite a low piece of political double-dealing earlier in the day that would further catch the liberals off guard. Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard W. Baker (R-Tenn.), slipped in an amendment which would lop off 29 million more units from the anti-discrimination law. Dirksen termed the amendment "technical changes," and later, trying to explain himself to the liberals, he said that "some provisions crept into the bill which I was not aware...
...cerebral hemorrhage; in Rocky Mount, N.C. A confirmed New Dealer, Lucas backed an internationalist foreign policy, farm and social security legislation, proved so adept in cloakroom maneuvering that he was chosen majority leader in 1949, only to lose his seat to an even more adept Republican, Everett McKinley Dirksen...