Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a grueling 38-week session, practically everybody in Congress had hustled home to the hustings for a few speeches before Election Day. Staying behind in Washington, however, was an indefatigable pair: Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, 69, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 70, who went on orating in their pajamas at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Russell was in for a routine physical, Dirksen for an operation to remove the surgical pins from the hip he fractured last spring. It looked as if they were getting set for a hot debate on Medicare...
Stevenson, if elected next week, could easily run for either governor or senator in 1968. He probably would not challenge Senator Everett M. Dirksen, but if Dirksen declines to run for medical reasons, he might be tempted to seek that seat. More likely he will try for governor, his father's old office. Governor Otto Kerner would like a third term but the party might junk him in deference to Stevenson if Stevenson demonstrates vote-getting power...
Many people did not like that part of the record. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, whose cooperation had guaranteed passage of several controversial Administration proposals, expressed the opposition's reaction in characteristically flamboyant prose last week: "The Administration goes its higgledy-piggledy way; its high priests are no longer the flower of American culture but skilled political salesmen who pursue domestic social programs with the popeyed ardor of a Harpo Marx chasing blondes...
...average Canadian seems about as un-American as Everett Dirksen. He drives a car designed in Detroit, watches Bonanza and Batman, reads magazines edited in New York, and frets over international Communist conspiracy. In spite of all this, the average Canadian does not like Americans...
Both houses also zipped through the $58,067,472,000 defense-appropriations bill, which includes-for no ascertainable reason-a rider that gives the President the unrequested power to activate some 1,000,000 military reservists without first declaring a national emergency. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen even managed to insert an amendment in a public-works bill that authorizes the President to impound 20% of the funds Congress allows for domestic programs because of the "unpredictability" of the war in Viet Nam. The Senate approved it, even though it was simply a Dirksen exercise in oneupmanship. If the House...