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...White House luncheon Ike called Case, Vice President Richard Nixon, National Chairman Leonard Hall, top New Jersey politicians and, most important, Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, an oldfashioned, free-style orator and chairman of the G.O.P. senatorial campaign committee. After lunch, McCarthy-Backer Dirksen, who is beginning to be known around Washington as "the Wizard of Ooze," said he would campaign for Case this fall. Two days later, at his weekly press conference, the President gave Case solid endorsement...
Republican John Marshall Butler of Maryland signed without stipulation. Then Brewster called on Dirksen, raged at him and recalled their old Senate friendship. Said Dirksen: "Oh, well, okay, I'll sign." He insisted, however, that his signature would not be valid unless three specified Democrats, John McClellan of Arkansas, Stuart Symington of Missouri and Henry Jackson of Washington, also signed. Charles Potter, Michigan Republican, signed with the stipulation ,that three Democrats-any three Democrats-would have to sign before his signature was valid...
Frigid Work. The Senate's machinery is less well lubricated. One hot day this summer, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen stopped in to talk to Majority Leader Bill Knowland. Dirksen said he was thirsty, although Knowland had not asked him. Bill Knowland went to his icebox, found the ice trays frozen in from long disuse, began hacking at them with a letter opener. With characteristic single-mindedness, Knowland turned down his aides' suggestion that they get some ice from the Senate restaurant, and ignored Dirksen's pleas to forget it. Fifteen minutes later, Knowland...
...Army-McCarthy hearings ended. Michigan's Senator Charles Potter made an effort to sum up. He passed a mimeographed statement around the hearing room. McCarthy grabbed a copy, gawked at it with astonishment, and rushed it by messenger around the table to his friend from Illinois, Senator Everett Dirksen. Promptly, Dirksen blew a stream of earnest, oily words into Potter's ear. Charlie merely smiled...
...congressional side of the argument, the face of the G.O.P.-as TV saw it-was a sad face indeed. Its composite features: genial Chairman Mundt, the "tormented mushroom"; Illinois' orating Everett Dirksen ("Old Bear Grease"); Idaho's Henry Dworshak, who didn't know when he was being insulted; Michigan's well-meaning but generally ineffective Potter; and, of course, McCarthy...