Word: dirksens
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...billion, although Congress gave him only $2.94 billion last year. Some Democratic leaders, notably Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, want to restructure the whole aid effort by ending bilateral arrangements and channeling funds into such agencies as the World Bank instead. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen merely aims to cut the total. The U.S., Dirksen said during his portion of the G.O.P. address, must pay "more attention to the conservation of our own strength and resources and less to those nations of the world that regard us as an amiable, vulnerable, jolly Santa Claus...
Senate Republican leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois criticized what he described as budget gimmicks. Specifically, he referred to budget figures indicating that $5 billion will be realized from the sale of participation loans. Dirksen said that while this money is counted as income there is no balance sheet to show a loss in government-held assets...
...Mental Indigestion." When the President wound up his 75-minute speech, he was rewarded with polite applause-even though many in his audience had sat through the last half-hour in a glazed slouch or, in a few cases, deep slumber. Snapped Senate Minority Leader Ev Dirksen at a post-mortem press conference: "It was too long. It gave me mental indigestion." House Minority Leader Gerald Ford criticized the President for trying to finance both "rifles and ruffles...
...Wait. According to Childs, Baker listed among those in "strong need" of campaign money: Democratic Senators Carl Hayden of Arizona, William Fulbright of Arkansas and George Smathers of Florida; G.O.P. Senators Thruston Morton of Kentucky, Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Wallace Bennett of Utah and Frank Carlson of Kansas; and Democratic Representative Wilbur Mills of Arkansas. Childs's testimony touched off a mass appearance in court by all eight legislators. After Mills and Fulbright took the stand and denied receiving a cent from Baker (Mills pointed out that he had had no opponent in 1962), Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams...
...proposal of a tax surcharge, however, is an encouraging sign, if he means to use the additional $45 billion in yearly revenue to ensure that domestic programs will not be cannibalized to feed the war. But more revenue will not be enough to pacify economy-minded Republicans; as Everett Dirksen said after the Johnson speech, the GOP congressmen will still be looking for ways to reduce the budget...