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Their words may not have told the whole story, but their looks gave them away: John Anderson tight-lipped and near defiant, Edward Kennedy relaxed and bemused. While 200 reporters and spectators crowded around them last week in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the pair of presidential hopefuls gave a new twist to the race by singing each other's praises. Said Anderson of Kennedy: "I think he is one of the distinguished leaders of the Democratic Party." Said Kennedy of Anderson: "I admire the efforts he has made and continues to make to reach a responsible solution...
...night when I asked him about the political process. I said, "The people complain you're not a good enough politician, and they want you to do well, Mr. President," and he said, "I can't imagine sitting around and doing things the way Lyndon Johnson and Ev Dirksen used to do, trading judgeships." For me at least, that was quite revealing: it settled the way he really felt, and this perception of the process as something he wouldn't do. That's a problem--not that you have to trade judgeships, and somebody else is doing...
...blocks down, and four blocks up the hill, Sen. William D. Proxmire (D- Wisc.) is holding hearings to decide on the fate of the National Science Foundation's budget in fiscal 1981. It is very dark in room 1318 of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate Office Building, but Proxmire's tongue cuts through the bureaucratic gloom. Proxmire is asking a quivering panel of NSF administrators why their agency spent $35 a day to finance a graduate student's research on "The Development of Political Institutions in Colorado in the 19th Century" when a man in Maine spends the same amount...
...Donovan award is given by the Veterans of the OSS, the agency's alumni association, to people who exemplify Donovan's virtues, a category broad enough to include Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Apollo 11 astronauts and Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois. This year's winner is Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a hero of the French Resistance who is now president of the French National Assembly...
...father into Congress.) After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law, he became a spellbinding courtroom attorney. Following an unsuccessful attempt in 1964, Baker was elected to the Senate two years later. He demonstrated his independence by opposing his own father-in-law, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, on Dirksen's effort to block the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision. Baker was twice re-elected with large pluralities...