Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both reactions are a portent of the growing mood of neo-isolationism in the nation. Thus far, the feeling has been most clearly evident on Capitol Hill, where an influential coterie of Senators led by Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen and Majority Whip Russell Long are pressing for the tightest protection of U.S. goods since the bad old days of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff.* If the protectionist Senators-dubbed "the coalition of retreat" by Hubert Humphrey-were to succeed, they would impose strict quotas on more than 75% of dutiable U.S. imports...
...Dirksen and Long are among the strongest supporters that the President has on the war. In many other cases, the neo-isolationist mood may well feed on popular discouragement over Viet Nam. But, as Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach noted recently at Connecticut's Fairfield University, it would be "a grievous and dangerous delusion to believe all our problems would be solved if we withdrew from Viet Nam, or from Asia, or from anywhere else." From Latin America, New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger wrote last week: "Our humiliation in Viet Nam would persuade guerrilla nuclei here...
Still, few in the Senate wanted to vote against it-or, by extension, for subversives. Why, declaimed Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, abolition of the board might even undermine the morale of the men in Viet Nam. Besides that, one of the members happens to come from Pekin, Ill., which, as every schoolboy should know, is Dirksen's home town...
...political machine." He is an energetic handshaker and baby-kisser who is not above pumping a dog's paw at a shopping-center rally. To support his argument that the election has great national implications, Nunn has imported such Republican luminaries as Ronald Reagan, George Murphy and Everett Dirksen to point out that a Nunn victory would be a Johnson defeat...
Meeting with Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen at his Virginia home, six steel executives-whose companies had just increased domestic steel prices-persuaded the minority leader to back a bill that would slash imports of 125 kinds of foreign steel products by as much as 40%. South Carolina's Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings meanwhile got 68 Senate cosponsors for a bill that would reduce imports of textiles from 2.7 billion sq. yds. a year to 1.7 billion sq. yds. In all, the seven bills would lower imports on a range of products including beef, mutton, veal, mink skins...