Dirksen

[durk-suhn]

noun

1. Everett McKinley, 1896–1969, U.S. politician.

Example Sentences

So, we can say not only that billions of dollars is real money and trillions even more real, but that the purported Dirksen quote begged the real question about the distribution of economic largesse in the United States.

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Dirksen actually didn’t actually say the second part of that quote, according to the keepers of the Dirksen archives.

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They need a sizable guaranteed income, great health care and a comfortable living until they freeze in a blank stare and drool from a podium in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

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The hearing, held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, began with a video of victims of child sexual exploitation, who said the tech companies had failed them.

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He is a co-writer of “Gallant Men,” a song that became an unlikely top 40 hit for Everett McKinley Dirksen, a Republican U.S. senator from Illinois, in 1967.

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