Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daily rate of close to $20 million. The airlines were losing more than $7,000,000 in revenue every day. In all, some 3,100,000 would-be passengers were delayed or grounded. By last week, such congressional leaders as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen agreed with the Civil Aeronautics Board that the nation faced "an emergency situation of major proportions...
...took up the bill, it was Title IV that got gored-while the other sections of the measure* passed with ease. First, several Republicans and moderate Northern Democrats sought to strike out the housing clause altogether, figuring that it was doomed anyway by warnings from Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Jerry Ford that they consider it "absolutely unconstitutional" and will fight to the end to defeat it. Title IV was barely rescued (17 to 15) by a curious coalition of Northern liberals who were committed to the housing provision and Southerners who reckoned that its inclusion...
...Dirksen scoffed at the compromise. Describing it as "a majestic piece of opportunism," he wondered aloud "what tortures those souls have gone through to come up with that!" There seemed to be no way, in fact, that the Administration could rewrite the provision to overcome his opposition. After a recent two-hour session during which Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach sought to find some language that would be acceptable, Dirksen finally told him: "Nick, it's just no dice. I see no out that doesn't violate principle...
...President's reluctance to speak more forthrightly prompted G.O.P. Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen and House Leader Gerald Ford to ask last week: "Mr. President, what can we believe?" With unusual asperity, Dirksen faulted Johnson for failing to be "candid or consistently credible" on Viet Nam. What is needed, he said, is a bipartisan committee to examine U.S. policy so that Republicans "will be better able to provide that unqualified support so necessary to the winning of a swift, secure and honorable peace." In fact, virtually all Americans might be convinced of that necessity if they were kept honestly...
Cake Defrosted. As Stygian as the week was when it started, things soon began lightening to at least a bearable shade of grey as a semblance of order returned to Viet Nam. Back home, things seemed a little more normal when Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen reverberated out of Walter Reed Hospital, supporting himself on crutches after breaking a thighbone...