Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Dirksen says that "our outer defense perimeter started in Korea and went to South Viet Nam" [Oct. 13]. It would clear the air considerably if we heard a little less about freedom, justice, democracy, treaties, commitments and obligations in our public discussions, and a little more about defense perimeters. Then, for example, we who oppose the war in Viet Nam would not need to bother with moral points which don't interest anybody, or produce pictures of napalmed children; we could simply point out that our defense perimeter has no business being in Viet...
...Senator Dirksen is appalled by the notion that if our line in Viet Nam fails, it will be pushed back to Alaska and Hawaii. Now a line from Alaska to Hawaii strikes me as an excellent line, a natural line, a defensible line, and even, if you wish, a moral line...
...rolls luxuriantly down the neck and trespasses on the ears. And certainly, certainly not Bobby Kennedy, who was once a neat trim but who lately resembles a sheep dog-or maybe a sheep. Presumably long hair is now a political asset, although Washington's most notorious tousle, Everett Dirksen, declines comment as "below the pale." Dirksen is at least known to have visited his barber before the 1952 Republican Convention, at which he appeared in a hairdo that would have thawed a drill sergeant's heart...
Fulbright maintained that Dirksen wanted to turn Viet Nam into a permanent U.S. base and that "a nuclear exchange" was bound to result. Dirksen disagreed. "I cannot believe that mankind has so sloughed off its compassion and its common sense as to get into that kind of a hole-yet." But, replied Fulbright, if the Communists "are as dangerous a menace as you would lead us to believe because of Viet Nam, then surely we could have no assurance that they would not use nuclear weapons." Retorted Dirksen: "They know that nobody ever won an earthquake, and they...
...debate came down to the inevitable and all but unanswerable question. "You have been quarreling for the last year about the conduct of the war," Dirksen told Fulbright. "What does the Senator want to do?" Fulbright called for a reconvening of the 1954 Geneva Conference, followed by free elections throughout South Viet Nam and a U.S. withdrawal. However, he failed to note that Russia, as co-chairman with Britain of the Geneva Conference, has steadfastly refused to reconvene the talks...