Word: dirksens
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Presidential Rebuke. The Senator also objected for a time to the nomination of Creed Black, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, as HEW Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs. At first, Dirksen said no because the News had opposed his re-election last fall. Later he relented when Senator Charles Percy intervened...
During the Johnson era, the Democratic White House courted Illinois Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen with unabashed political passion. He requited the wooing. The Senate Minority Leader helped pass important L.B.J.-sponsored legislation, and in return reaped prominence and prestige. Ironically, Dirksen's influence has declined since the Republicans won the White House. The reason: he is no longer the foremost elected G.O.P. official in Washington, and Republican Senators look to the President for leadership. Now, instead of cooperating, Dirksen prefers to harass the executive branch...
...Republican nominee for the chairmanship of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While the holding action will not prevent Brown's eventual confirmation, it did embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen is going along with American Medical Association opposition to the selection...
...Dirksen was instrumental in getting Nixon to shy away from appointing Dr. Franklin Long, a Cornell chemist, as director of the National Science Foundation. He would not abide Long's opposition to anti-ballistic-missile systems and said so to Nixon's advisers. The President acknowledged publicly that he was shelving the Long appointment because of the ABM issue. Last week, however, Nixon reversed himself, admitting that he had been wrong (by that time Long was no longer interested in the job). Nixon's statement seemed to be a rebuke to Dirksen...
...choice of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, to be Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. A proponent of such cost-saving schemes as group medical practice, Knowles has aroused the heated opposition of the ultraconservative American Medical Association and its Senate ally, Everett Dirksen. The G.O.P. minority leader says that he will block the nomination if it is sent to the Senate. Finch will not back down, and the matter rests on the President's desk. If Nixon stays above the battle, it will suggest to many?rightly or wrongly?that the A.M.A. will have considerable...