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...packed away in its tan case with the Senator's favorite 120-mm lens nestled in leather. He has a clutch of Arthur Adler's summer suits ready for rumpling. Tab, Fresca and coffee by the gallon are in the hold. The ghost of Everett McKinley Dirksen has been signed on. About this time Howard Henry Baker Jr. (5 ft. 7½ in., 160 lbs.) is ready to roll through 26 states, thumping and sweating and striving to be President...
...conservative ride? In his Confessions, Wills ranges from Jack Ruby to Cardinal Newman, from Everett Dirksen's Washington to St. Augustine's City of God. The pace is brisk, the intellectual hurdles high, the glimpses of auto-biography charming but scattered...
...Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics. 1. Get elected. 2. Get reelected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.−The late Senator Everett Dirksen...
...gymnasium, twice the size of the gyms in the nearby Dirksen and Russell Senate office buildings. According to Senator William Proxmire, the Dirksen gym is used regularly by only four Senators, and "stands idle all day long...
...overflow crowd packed Room 3302 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building last week, drawn by the promise of a heated confrontation between Budget Director Bert Lance and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Lance had been called to answer accusations that he had acted improperly while president of the National Bank of Georgia, his job before joining the Carter Administration. The major charge was that the Georgia bank had wrongly deposited $200,000 of its funds at Chicago's First National Bank in exchange for a personal loan to Lance of $3.4 million (TIME...