Word: mckinleyism
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...Republicans of America have, every right in the world to be disgusted with their gutless, confused and wayward party. Let them nominate a man with foresight, leadership, presidential principles and wisdom-Everett McKinley Dirksen...
Only 15 minutes remained before voting time. Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, the Senate's minority leader, arose slowly from his front-row desk. He was the man most were waiting to hear, not merely because he is the Senate's most practiced and professional orator but largely because he is the shrewd, patient negotiator whose efforts, perhaps more than anyone else's, had made a favorable cloture vote likely. With great deliberation Dirksen took off his tortoise-shell spectacles, revealing his sad, bloodhound eyes underlined by deep, dark pouches. In his massive left hand, its little finger flourishing...
...since the floor days of Lyndon Johnson and, for a brief while, the fitful reign of Oklahoma's late Democratic Senator Robert Kerr, has the U.S. Senate had anything close to a king. But now moving toward that position is a most unlikely person: Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, a politician of many ups and downs and backs and forths, whose only present power lever is that of leader of an underwhelming minority of 33 Republicans...
...Perhaps we can say that in Booth, in Leon Czolgosz who shot McKinley, and in Oswald we have three men who were very much alike in basic personality defects. We must assume that they did not expect to change the basic political philosophy of the country. There must have been other motives. Two interlocking concepts seem possible: 1) that they were seeking immortality, and 2) that they were destroying the symbol of the highest authority. Their victim was a symbol of their general basic anger against the social order...
Maybe. At this point, though, the man with the Mystery Kit is not Johnson but Everett McKinley Dirksen, and most of last week's offstage activity on the bill centered around his shambling figure. The reason for Dirksen's importance is that Humphrey now has only 59 or 60 of the 67 votes that he will need to shut off a Southern filibuster by invoking cloture. The rest must come from among a dozen fence sitters, half of them Republicans responsive to Dirksen and anxious to soften the bill, particularly its public-accommodations and equal-employment sections. "There...