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During the Cuban crisis, the Administration indulged in what it euphemistically called "news management"--an unhappy combination of silence and dishonesty which has been sending chickens home to roost ever since. Just over a week ago, Senator Dirksen proclaimed that he had discovered the largest such fowl yet brought to light; four American flyers had been killed in the Bay of Pigs invasion. A day later, Senator Mansfield revealed that "selected Senators"--apparently all Democrats--had been told of these deaths at the time of the invasion...
...case of the four flyers was brought up by Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, who for weeks had been conducting a personal investigation, and now revealed some of the details. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield confirmed Dirksen's story, said that he had been told of the deaths in a secret briefing at the time. Since Dirksen had dug up the story on his own, Mansfield no longer felt bound to secrecy. "It is known," he said, "that a few experienced American airmen were employed to train Cuban pilots, navigators and radio operators. Several of these Americans volunteered...
...obscured by the competition, the Republicans held their Lincoln Day gatherings to honor the party's first winning presidential candidate. Much of what the speakers said was as predictable as what Democrats say at Jefferson-Jackson dinners. At Springfield, Ill., the voice of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen summoned the party to "plow the long, hard furrow through which the Republican Party came to power and saved the Union in grave hours." Republican National Chairman William Miller thundered that the G.O.P. "must win in '64, or there won't be a country worth saving...
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guests: Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles Halleck...
...Senate, Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen promised a personal investigation, with the blessing of the Republican Policy Committee. "Cuba is very much unfinished business," he said. Arizona's Barry Goldwater demanded an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, charged Bobby Kennedy and the Administration with attempts at "the rewriting of history." Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, retorted that he saw no useful purpose in "relaundering this linen-though I'll confess it has never seemed very clean...