Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Majority whip, as he emerged from the grounds, alerted reporters to the fact that there must have been (as, in fact, there was) a breakfast for the congressional leadership last week. Only the sharp eyes of a visitor told them, on another occasion, that Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen had been conferring with the President...
...favorite-son gambit, in fact, has caught on in almost every key state. Besides Reagan, Tower and Kirk, the likely list now includes Ohio's James Rhodes, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, either Percy or Everett Dirksen in Illinois, Rockefeller or Jacob Javits in New York. Romney strategists, realizing that their candidate has to build first-ballot strength in the primaries, are planning intensive campaigns in four states: New Hampshire, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin...
...about the G.O.P.'s presidential stirrings is that they are generally free of racist overtures. That there is a new Republican Party-as well as an incipient new South-was manifest in a speech to the New Orleans conclave by Tennessee's freshman G.O.P. Senator Howard Baker, Dirksen's son-in-law. "I'm a lot less concerned about what my Democratic granddaddy must think of me," declared Baker, "and a lot more concerned about what my grandchildren will think...
Neither speech suggested any clear battle plan for the Republicans on Capitol Hill. Both, moreover, seemed oddly at contrast, in spirit and specifics, with the creative pragmatism expressed by young G.O.P. freshman Senators who have taken positions, as well as seats, in Washington. Dirksen, who had risen at 4:30 a.m. to gild his rococo verbiage, never found the time-or need-to consult anyone but himself. "I've tried that consultation business," he said, "and I find it takes a year to get a consensus. The devil with that. If they want to try me for party deviation...
...brought forth a red-frosted, three-tiered cake to commemorate the fourth season of Hello, Dolly!. Channing paraphrased a line from the show. "I'm deeply grateful to the Great Society," she exclaimed, "because you know exactly how to spread it around!" At another point, L.B.J. brought Everett Dirksen over for an introduction, and Carol bubbled: "I'm so glad to meet you. People keep saying we sound alike...