Word: everette
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican troopers felt the wounds. House G.O.P. Leader Gerald Ford immediately retorted: "The Great Society of Lyndon Johnson has become a runaway locomotive with a wild-eyed engineer at the throttle." Johnson's speech was so widely acknowledged as blatantly partisan that Ford and Senate Leader Everett Dirksen had no trouble getting half an hour of rebuttal time three nights later on all three major networks...
Even Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, one of the President's most faithful congressional supporters, last week challenged him for the first time on his conduct of the war. "We urge again that this Administration-to a degree and with a vigor not yet evident-look beyond Viet Nam and consider where we shall stand and with whom we shall sit when this conflict ceases," said Dirksen in a joint statement with House Republican Leader Gerald Ford. "The Congress and the people have seen all too little evidence of genuine effort to explore and exploit the diplomatic opportunities available...
...supply of wedding gifts, including a $6,770 silver tea and coffee service from the Washington diplomatic corps, a nest of teak tables from Chiang Kaishek, a color sketch of Eeyore by Winnie-the-Pooh Illustrator Ernest Shepard (Lynda is a Pooh buff), and-from Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Mc-Kinley Dirksen, of course-a small silver elephant...
...PUBLIC WORKS. The rich aroma of pork converts even the most ardent budget cutters into big spenders. "Sometimes you have to put that feeling of economy behind you," said Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pleading for a $400,000 appropriation to start a dam at Decatur Ill. Dirksen got what he wanted, as did the others from both parties who approved the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968. Among its many nonessentials is the Delaware River-Tocks Island park; projected costs for it have grown from $90 million to $198 million. Well over $1 billion in similar public...
...former schoolboy star at nearby Everett who went on to set a Harvard career rushing average record of 5.5 yards per carry, was the Patriots' fifth draft choice last spring...