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Line 1: − '''Everett McKinley Dirksen''' (1896–1969) was the leading conservative in the Senate after the untimely death of Senator [[Robert Taft]] in 1953. From Illinois, Dirksen first won his Senate seat in a huge upset by defeating the Senate Majority Leader, a Democrat. Dirksen won by campaigning against communism an siding with Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]].+ − [[Image:Dirksen.jpg|right|thumb|550px|Senator Everett Dirksen (Left) With President Lyndon Johnson, 1966]] − Dirksen was famous for his oratorical skills and likable, down-to-earth appearance. He was also a very shrewd politician who in just his second term was voted by a wide margin of 20-14 to become the Minority Leader in the Senate. So loved by his colleagues that within three years of his untimely death from cancer they renamed a Senate building as the Dirksen Senate Office Building. − − In 1966, Dirksen sponsored a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in public school. It attacted 49 votes, far short of the two-thirds (67 votes) needed for passage. In 1964, Dirksen helped write and pass the Civil Rights Act. − − He and House Republican leader Charles Halleck conducted weekly press conferences, known as the "Ev and Charlie show." − − The most famous quote attributed to Dirksen was his sarcastic account of uncontrolled government spending: "A million here, a million there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." It is uncertain whether Dirksen originated the quip; in recent years inflation has changed "million" to "billion". − − Dirksen's speaking voice was so resonant that he recorded four albums. His "Gallant Men" won a Grammy Award and rose to #29 on the U.S. Billboard charts. − ==Bibliography== − ===Primary sources=== − *Dirksen, Everett McKinley. ''The Education of a Senator''. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. − *Dirksen, Louella Carver, with Norma Lee Browning. '' The Honorable Mr. Marigold: My Life With Everett Dirksen''. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1972. − − ===Secondary sources=== − * Dietz, Terry; ''Republicans and Vietnam, 1961–1968'' Greenwood: 1986. − * Hulsey, Byron C. ''Everett Dirksen and His Presidents: How a Senate Giant Shaped American Politics''. (2000). [http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/huleve.html Abstract] − * MacNeil, Neil. ''Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man''. New York: World Publishing Company, 1970. − * Rodriguez; Daniel B. and Barry R. Weingast. "The Positive Political Theory of Legislative History: New Perspectives on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Its Interpretation" '' University of Pennsylvania Law Review''. Volume: 151. Issue: 4. 2003. pp 1417+. − * Schapsmeier Edward L., and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. ''Dirksen of Illinois''. University of Illinois Press, 1985, the standard scholarly biography − − ==External links== − *[http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/iht319648.html Stan Mendenhall, "Everett Dirksen and the 1964 Civil Rights Act."] − *[http://www.dirksencenter.org The Dirksen Congressional Research Center] − − − [[Category:Former United States Senators|Dirksen, Everett]]
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