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...most excellent cover portrait of Everett Dirksen. My vote goes to our Senator from Illinois for President...
Even as a Democrat, I cannot help recognizing Dirksen as a great man. I even like his eccentric hairdo...
...independent voter, I was much impressed by your excellent article on Senator Dirksen [Sept. 14], and found myself leaning strongly toward him until I read his remark, "There was no Wall under President Eisenhower...
Appearing in a CBS television interview, Schirra had a few words about the postorbital activities of Astronaut John Glenn, who has recently been making appearances ranging from the Seattle World's Fair to Everett Dirksen's frivolous Anti-Superstition Society, while sandwiching in some water-skiing with Jacqueline Kennedy and attendance at a Bobby Kennedy pool party...
...apocryphal story describes Dirksen on the day that he got his official car phone. Eager to show Democrat Lyndon Johnson that he too rated such privileges, Dirksen phoned Lyndon as they were both being driven from the Hill to their homes. "Hello, Lyndon," he said. "This is Everett. I'm calling you from my limousine with my new phone." There was a split-second pause. "Wait a minute, Everett," said Lyndon. ''My other phone is ringing...