Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...included such subjects as Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1957), Alabama Governor John Patterson (1961), Author James Baldwin (1963), The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins (1963), Alabama Governor George Wallace (1963), Senator Everett Dirksen (1964) and Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner...
...purchases included, according to the prosecution, oil portraits of Stratton and his wife (supposedly for Stratton's 1956 campaign), a spinet organ, a manure spreader for Stratton's farm, a European trip for one of his daughters, a magazine subscription (Realties) for Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. The defense replied that such items were either gifts or related to Stratton's political career. Said Defense Counsel William Barnett: "It is hard to say that even his toothpaste was not a deductible expense...
Silver-Tongued Star. The star defense witness was none other than Ev Dirksen. In his most sonorous tones, sipping water to moisten his silver tongue, Dirksen said he had known Stratton "man and boy" since the defendant was 14, went on to relate the burdensome financial life of a politician. "I have never yet found a substitute for money," said Ev. "Carrying out the work and projecting an image obviously requires funds. I've clocked the demands made upon me over a period of six months, and it comes roughly to $100 a day in political and nonpolitical requests...
Judge Will asked Dirksen whether he had ever spent campaign contributions for clothing for himself. "I came very close to it on one occasion, your honor, and it might have been a sizable sum," replied Dirksen gravely, settling into his chair for a good anecdote. As a freshman Congressman in 1933, the witness said, he arrived in Washington for Roosevelt's inauguration without a dress suit and was described in the newspapers as "the man who attended the inauguration in a rented suit." Recalled Dirksen: "It was a frightful embarrassment, and it resulted promptly in the raising...
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen said: "However such proposals for negotiation under pressure may be explained or camouflaged by intricate rationales, it is simply a proposal to run up the white flag before the world and start running away from Communism." He and other Republican leaders, in a joint statement, declared: "So long as there is a Communist-promoted infiltration of South Viet Nam in violation of the 1954 and 1962 Geneva agreements,* there can be no negotiations on the Vietnamese question, and we urge the President to make this unmistakably clear to the world...