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Comic Relief. The day after Morse's speech, Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
...wife has taken not only the criticisms provoked by her own views and actions but also many punches which were really intended for me or for the publications of which I am editor in chief. The attack of Senator Wayne Morse is perhaps the most vitriolic example of this." Mrs. Luce, he recalled, had offered to resign after TIME became a factor in the "Bolivian incident." Christian Herter, then Acting Secretary of State, refused the offer. "Almost unanimously the press of Brazil asserted that even if a few U.S. Senators were unable to do so, the Brazilian people were quite...
...Mrs. Luce's mission to Brazil, said her husband, "has now been profoundly compromised." There is a question "whether she can now hope to accomplish the delicate mission assigned to her by the President in a climate of uneasiness which the smears and suspicions have created . . . Senator Wayne Morse and others have devoted themselves to undermining Mrs. Luce's usefulness. Senator Morse happens to be the chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee, which has cognizance of inter-American affairs and Brazil...
...voted against the nomination of Clare Boothe Luce would be proved so right." He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this slanderer." Three Democratic Senators who had voted for Mrs. Luce-Ohio's Frank Lausche, Texas' Ralph Yarborough, Wyoming's Gale McGee-solemnly announced that if they had known of her comment beforehand, they would have voted against...
...Illinois' Dirksen, "that she may have had some provocation-among other things, Wayne has made her out to be a liar and dishonest." Next day Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later verified it), called Mrs. Luce's physician in New York in an attempt to find out whether she had ever been under psychiatric care. Dirksen, quoting the doctor, said: "She-isn't and wasn...