Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen likes to kid the President that the new father's parents are a pair of staunch Republicans from Waukegan...
...Negro, insisted Thurmond, but because he is a "political liberal" and would strengthen the court's activists. Nonetheless, Marshall has firmly aligned himself with civil rights moderates, condemning among other things the black power movement and racial violence in the slums. Senate Mi nority Leader Everett Dirksen, predicting that Marshall will be confirmed without difficulty, noted: "He's a good lawyer. The fact of his color should make no difference...
Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D., U.S. Senator, Illinois. Peerless orator, gifted political leader, American statesman...
Even should Dirksen line up the required 34 states, however, there is no certainty that a convention would ever meet. Some critics note that the petitions are invalid because they are not identical. Others point out that some of the legislatures that approved them have since been reapportioned, and that the petitions may thus be worthless...
More Help than Hurt. Politically, Dirksen's distaste for the reapportionment ruling is puzzling, since it has helped Republicans more than it has hurt them. Initially, political scientists thought that the state legislatures would see a swift, drastic transfer of power from rural areas to the predominantly Democratic inner cities. Power has in deed flowed away from rural representatives-but to suburbia, where political loyalties are still in flux and Republicans are more often elected than Democrats...