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...published Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives, and seven years later he wrote Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man. MacNeil also owns what is perhaps the nation's finest private library on Congress, a collection that includes scarce chronicles from the body's earliest years. Among the items: all but two issues of Congressional Debates (1789-91), compiled by Thomas Lloyd, the first legislative reporter, and the original issue of View from the Congress Gallery (1795), by Peter Porcupine (Reporter William Cobbett). "It is never lonely at my house late at night after the kids have gone...
L.B.J. could mimic Bill Fulbright ("the stud duck of the opposition"), Ev Dirksen and even Bob Kennedy until your sides ached with laughter. He knew men as no other national leader did. He knew their bank accounts, their mistresses, foibles, skills, their very hearts. Just how did he manipulate the Senate in 1957 to produce the first civil rights bill in almost a hundred years? For those of us in the gallery, it was an awesome display of leadership. How did he feel, and where did he go, and with whom did he talk when the moment came...
There were times in the Cabinet room when Ev Dirksen and the President would lean across the mahogany and look each other in the eye and make a deal and nobody watching them would know exactly what it was or how they had arrived at it, but they would know that the die had been cast. That kind of reading might even keep Harvard awake...
...chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Ervin has long taken positions that startle conservatives and liberals alike. Despite his Bible-Belt constituency, he successfully opposed the late Senator Everett Dirksen's proposed amendment that would have allowed voluntary prayers in public schools. "I believe in a wall between church and state so high," says Ervin, "that no one can climb over it." Though a strong law-and-order man, he vainly fought the Nixon Administration's District of Columbia crime bill with its controversial "no-knock" and preventive-detention provisions. He called it "a garbage pail...
...STEVENSON ill, 40, Democrat, Ill., bears the prestige-and the burden-of a highly revered name. The biggest vote getter in Illinois history, excepting his father's gubernatorial landslide, he was sworn in immediately after the November elections to fill the remaining four years of the late Senator Dirksen's term. He hit the deck running, voting for a job-safety bill dear to Democrats...