Dirksen
Americannoun
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When Sen. Everett Dirksen was voted Republican leader at the beginning of the 86th Congress in 1959, expectations were low.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
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.
From Salon • Aug. 15, 2025
As the late Republican Senate leader Everett Dirksen supposedly said, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”
From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023
Butler, who’d served as an advisor to President Kennedy, was contemplating a run against Everett Dirksen, the gravel-voiced Illinois senator, when he saw an off-Broadway production of “Hair.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022
“I can identify him, because I know who’s doing this,” he told Dirksen.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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