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...chairman of the Watergate Committee was lured, not by a White House ploy but by his own ego, into buffoonery." The trivial incident merely involves Ervin being snookered by show-biz types into making à commercial recording of his-favorite quotations and anecdotes à la the late Senator Everett Dirksen. Whatever the wisdom of Ervin's performance, it hardly seems to rate the breathless treatment New Times gives...
...Johnson, says Sullivan, went much further than the Roosevelts. In "devious and complex" ways, he would "ask the FBI for derogatory information of one type or another on Senators in his own Democratic Party who were opposing him. This information he would give to the Republican Senator [Everett] Dirksen, who would use it with telling effect." During the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings in 1966, White House Aide W. Marvin Watson told the FBI that the President was worried that "his policies are losing ground." He wanted the agency to check out the possibility that Senator William Fulbright and other...
...side of the street. While the hearings take place in the Senate's colonnaded Caucus Room, across First Street the staff labors in quarters that resemble a hastily established World War II recruiting office. A huge workroom has been thrown together in the ground-floor auditorium of the Dirksen Office Building, with makeshift cubicles, stenographers' desks and photocopying machines scattered about. Newsmen and everyone else unconnected with the committee are barred from the room except for specific purposes...
...graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1949, then joined the law firm founded by his paternal grandfather in 1885. Young Baker quickly earned a reputation as a shrewd cross-examiner in courtroom exchanges. His natural proclivities for politics were cemented by his marriage to Joy Dirksen, only child of the late, grandiloquent Senator from Illinois...
...good friend of Richard Nixon, Baker seconded his nomination in 1968 and was mentioned as a possible 1972 running mate. A son-in-law of the late Everett Dirksen, Baker is loudly antibusing-"a grievous piece of mischief"-but is a strong backer of open housing, a member of the Commerce and Public Works committees...