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...last Incumbent to lose was Herbert Hoover...
Where will the political recording business end? With Dirksen and Powell racing for their gold platters (1,000,000 albums sold), other political figures may well find the urge irresistible. J. Edgar Hoover, suggests Columnist Art Buchwald, might cut Voices of Famous People I Have Bugged-if he could get the tapes from Bobby Kennedy. Lurleen Wallace could do Lurleen Plays Music to Segregate By, with Husband George conducting the Alabama State Police Symphony Orchestra. And Ronald Reagan might try Ronnie Reagan Swings at Berkeley. At any rate, as Dirksen himself has noted, the path from show biz to politics...
There would be no massive influx of secret agents, as some Senators fear. By most estimates, no more than ten to fifteen officials would be added to the Russian diplomatic corps here. Even J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I. and the nation's most enthusiastic bloodhound, admits that the government could handle any threat the new arrivals might pose...
...family in the form of a family allowance is not even suggested in the report, a document in any event destined for instant obscurity. The delegates were bored from the outset, and contented themselves with passing resolutions of no greater political realism than the report itself: "That J. Edgar Hoover be fired," "That the President ask for $2 billion to enforce Civil Rights laws." The President spoke briefly and warned his hearers not to expect miracles...
...whether the treaty passes or fails depends not so much on Rusk, Hoover or President Johnson but, as in all other measures requiring the approval of two-thirds of the Senate, on Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who controls a pivotal number of Republican votes. At week's end, Dirksen was inclined to be against the treaty, but was clearly open to-and vastly enjoyed-attempts to change his mind. One of the suppliants, he said, was a "young man" from the Soviet embassy. "His come-on was 'Yours is a big name in Moscow,' " Dirksen recounted gleefully...