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...outside the Senate itself, they tend to forget or ignore the fact that Dirksen has become the most effective G.O.P. floor leader in a line of succession that includes Oregon's Charles McNary, Maine's Wallace White, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Ohio's Robert Taft and California's William Knowland...
...Challenge. Everett Dirksen was once a man of vaulting ambition. He campaigned seriously for the Republican nomination for President in 1944. He badly wanted to be Taft's vicepresidential running mate in 1952. Now he is happy where he is, and has a deep sense of fulfillment. "Life," he muses, "is a matter of development or decay. You either grow or you retrogress. There's no standing still. You go backward or forward. The challenge will make you grow, if you are willing to assert a leadership and look on the challenge as something...
Frankfurter followed his boss to Washington in 1911, when President Taft named Stimson Secretary of War, remained in Government service for three years, then went back to Harvard to teach. He remained at Harvard for nearly a quarter of a century, becoming one of the nation's most eminent teachers...
Landis. To many of the New Deal's enemies. Professor Frankfurter seemed downright sinister. His outspoken interventions on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti and other unpopular defendants in the 19205 had led Chief Justice William Howard Taft to remark that he "seems to be closely in touch with every Bolshevist, Communist movement in this country." As late as 1945, a Southern Congressman told the House that "practically every department is now infested with those who see eye to eye with Frankfurter-the Rasputin of this Administration." ∙ But fears that Frankfurter would be a flaming radical on the bench...
...right." But in their private, more candid moments, they were beset by doubts. "Realistically," said one, "we Democrats are faced with the basic problem that the votes aren't there. We made our score in 1958, when we had a lot of things going for us, like Ezra Taft Benson. The same climate isn't here today...