Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical harm of civil rights workers or of voters. It would also forbid discrimination in the sale or rental of housing by anyone selling or leasing more than three units (other than their own house) in any one year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried to bring the bill to the floor, it took two days even to muster a quorum...
...Modest Milestone" [Aug. 19] notes Senator Dirksen's opposition to the fair-housing bill and the concern that civil rights legislation may affect the right to sell property to whomever one chooses. Let me put this "right" in focus in the light of my experience, which convinces me that federal laws have become as necessary to protect free trade in property as to protect free suffrage in Mississippi and Alabama...
...main line of defense for those who oppose open-housing legislation is their contention that it violates the absolute right of property. Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, without whose support the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills would have been defeated, sincerely considers the housing measure "absolutely unconstitutional" and intends to fight it to the death in the Senate. Even many Northern liberals confess that they are disturbed by the idea of depriving a man of the right to sell his property to anyone he likes. It is an idea that appears to go against the American grain...
...Nugent, a novice at the game of politics, handled the names like a well-briefed pro and made lively small talk to the guests. With obvious relish, the President bestowed kisses on a number of ladies. And, of course, almost everyone wanted to kiss the bride. Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, on crutches, received the most benign of greetings from the President as he came through the line, got his second kiss of the day from Luci. Cooed Luci: "Oh, I could do that all afternoon." Alice Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, whose own dazzling wedding set a White House...
...merest hint of secrecy has made him one of Washington's most feared as well as respected investigative reporters. Because he cannot resist lid-lifting, Mollenhoff has at one time or another outraged, embarrassed or exasperated Dwight Eisenhower, Sherman Adams, Ezra Taft Benson, John Kennedy, Everett Dirksen, Jimmy Hoffa, George Meany, Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Baker and Robert McNamara, to name just...