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[From the Miami (Fla.) Herald, Sept. 9, 1969]

EV DIRKSEN, INDIVIDUALIST

"The marigold will flourish on soil not blessed with fertility. It marches through spring, summer and autumn, until the frost of early winter takes its toll... robust, rugged, bright, stately, single-colored and multi-colored, somehow able to resist the onslaught of insects . . . What a flower the marigold is."

When Sen. EVERETT M. DIRKSEN waxed rhetorically rhapsodical, as he once did while advocating the marigold be named America's national flower, the soft notes curled through the Senate fresh and pungent as woodsmoke and the hard ones sounded with such timbre that senators awoke and rafters rattled.

What a speaker the senator was! The language was his as though on tap, and he twisted the faucet both to illuminate and obfuscate, as it suited the purposes of him and the Republican Party.

The great head with its wild gray hair, the well-traveled face with bags under eyes covered by thick glasses, the political finesse and the sense of humor so rich it almost seemed sinful, are gone and so a historic gem in America's infinite variety blinks out.

He was a leader, a patriot loyal to the ideals of his country as he saw them, both a controversial and popular figure in Washington. He crossed from one line to the other, supporting Democrats, occasionally opposing Republicans, loyal to the cause of the moment. "I live by my principles," he once said, "and the first of these is flexibility."

Sen. DIRKSEN was an individualist in an impersonal age. During his 35 years in Congress, he became the legendary loquacious senator, who in time assumed a caricature of himself and joined the nation in chuckling at Sen. DIRKSEN.

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[From the Miami (Fla.) News, Sept. 9, 1969]

SENATOR DIRKSEN'S CONTRIBUTIONS

EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN was an eloquent member of the U.S. Senate who will long be remembered for his voluble contributions to the social issues of the day.

The Illinois senator began his leadership of the august Senate when Dwight Eisenhower was President but found his niche in history as the persuasive helper of a Democratic President. Senator DIRKSEN was a tower of strength for Lyndon Johnson during the stormy passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His stentorian tones and flowery phrases were more than a match

for the Southerners who tried to filibuster against legislation for human rights.

In the nine months that Richard Nixon has been in the White House, Senator DIRKSEN was a powerful confidante, swaying the Chief Executive on important appointments and at same time acting out the role of the Minority Leader in a Democratic Congress.

He was a humorist, a philosopher, could be a "corn ball" when the occasion demanded, was unmatched as an orator. Senator DIRKSEN was an outstanding leader, enjoying the confidence of all those around him. He was adaptable to the changing times and successful because he knew his country came before his politics.

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[From the Palm Beach (Fla.) Times, Sept. 9, 1969]

DIRKSEN FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

One of the greats is gone.

The passing of Sen. EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN leaves a void on the political scene that never will be filled.

Call him a politician. Call him "the Wizard of Ooze." Call him a "wheelerdealer."

But first, last and always-call him an American.

For the colorful Illinois statesman, as President Nixon says, "on the great issues always placed the nation first.”

But for the accidents of history, DIRKSEN might have been President of the United States. And if he had been, history might have been painted in less somber hues. That is pure speculation, of course, but it must be admitted that there have been times when the nation seemed to play second fiddle to political expediency.

Nevertheless, Sen. DIRKSEN did play a major role in history as it is written, especially as leader of the "loyal opposition" during the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He will be particularly remembered for carrying to passage the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

He will be remembered, too, as a man whose deep insight and involvement in the grave issues of our time did not dull a delightful sense of humor. This is a mark of greatness-perspective-that is becoming increasingly rare in government.

The nation, not just those who honored him as "Mr. Republican," owe Sen. DIRKSEN a debt of gratitude that can be repaid only by rededication to the principles of real Americanism for which he fought the good fight.

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[From Today (Fla.), Sept. 9, 1969]

EVERETT DIRKSEN

Sen. EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN wasn't ashamed to change his convictions in response to the realities of the swift and everchanging times.

This is not what made him a statesman, but without the ability to see that government must move forward, coming constantly to new grips with the changing problem of its people, DIRKSEN could not have become the statesman he was.

He called himself "an old-fashioned garden variety of Republican who believes in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, in Abraham Lincoln . . .”

But he went a step further.

His kind of Republican, he said, "accepts the challenges as they arise from time to time, and who is not unappreciative of the fact that this is a dynamic economy in which we live, and sometimes you have to change your position.

His kind of Republican was a credit to Republicans and Democrats alike. Originally an isolationist, DIRKSEN became an internationalist. Originally a conservative, he moved to the center with his support of civil rights legislation, the nuclear treaty and financing for the United Nations.

But he was not all things to all people, nor did he try to be. He worried that the young people of today seem to be turning their backs on their American heritage. Rather than sanctioning their prodigal discontent, he sought to bring them "back into the stream of tradition."

Whether you agreed with what he said or not, you had to admire him for the way he said it. He was a colorful man who conformed neither to the Republican image nor to the congressional image.

Among his colleagues, Everett McKinley DIRKSEN was a marigold in a field of soybeans.

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[From the Florida Times-Union, Sept. 10, 1969]

EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN

Senator EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN had a commitment so deep that it transcended all personal or political considerations of his public service. He had an abiding love for, and a sense of the continuity of, the United States of America.

Often he spoke, as he once did in Jacksonville, on the topic "What's Right with America." When he voted, the guiding principle was "What's Right for America."

It was this characteristic that enabled the late Senator from Illinois to be a statesman as well as a consummate politician. The most partisan of his own supporters and colleagues after a time came to realize that where the interests of the nation were at stake, DIRKSEN would be found on the side of what he believed to be the best interest-regardless of whether this side had been labeled conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican.

Once assailed on this point, he explained his philosophy in this way:

"You start from the broad premise that all of us have a common duty to the country to perform. Legislation is always the art of the possible. You could, of course, follow a course of solid opposition, of stalemate, but that is not in the interest of the country."

There have been many issues arising during Senator DIRKSEN's 25 years of service in Congress when it was essential to distinguish between a Republican President or a Democratic President and the President of the United States. Even while he was Minority Leader-for most of this time, therefore, the leader of the opposition-Senator DIRKSEN was able to make this distinction.

It is to the credit of most of his colleagues and of the American people as a whole that this quality was recognized to the extent that he exerted a great influence on both legislation and upon public opinion.

Roger Winship Stuart, in his 1963 book entitled "Meet the Senators," started the biographical passage on Senator DIRKSEN with the sentence: "Every so often in the Senate-just as at sporadic intervals among other groups—a particular member will come to be recognized as something apart, something in the nature of the institution."

The "institution," indeed the walking legend that was Senator DIRKSEN, was founded on deeper characteristics than the flowing locks, the famous voice and the courtly speech that enabled him to rebuke a senator who spoke too much by saying he would invoke upon the offender "every condign imprecation."

It was built upon a record of hard work, effectiveness and above all that deep and abiding love for America.

He provided a balance to the Congress and had the stature not only to himself rise above the level of pure partisanship but to pull many of his colleagues above that level as well.

"The heart of America is right,” he said in the 1967 speech in Jacksonville. And the heart of EVERETT DIRKSEN was right. The nation that he loved and served will miss him.

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[From the St. Petersburg Times, Sept. 8, 1969]

DIRKSEN'S SENSE OF THE SENATE

In the fullest sense of its traditions and respect for individual style, EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN was a prototype member of the United States Senate.

It was possible to strain against his actions and philosophies and yet greatly admire the man.

Because DIRKSEN So personified a senator, and played his role with such unabashed flourish, the Senate will have lost one of its principal actors—as well as its minority leader.

For the Republican Party the loss opens many questions.

Who will rise to the stature and power of an Everett Dirksen?

Does the passing of this old-fashioned politician mean room for a modernist?

What change in leadership tactics and relationship between party and President now will emerge?

For the Senate, the death of DIRKSEN expands the power vacuum begun by Sen. Edward Kennedy's summer of misfortune.

With so much on its mind that affects the nation's core, this vacuum in legislative leadership could blur the sense of direction in the Senate.

But while political strategists ponder a future without the man who has been so present for two decades of America's most changing years, the people will remember EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN's life for what it was. And how it ended as the summer ended.

It is difficult to sum up such a life. Or to find a quotation that fits a man who was himself such a quotable source.

Perhaps Thomas Carlyle comes close:

"In the long run every Government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom."

Sen. DIRKSEN was Government because he was good at it, and because his own balance of wisdom and unwisdom made him supremely human.

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[From the Pensacola (Fla.) Journal, Sept. 9, 1969]

A Loss TO THE SENATE

The Senate has lost, through the death of Sen. EVERETT DIRKSEN, one of its most colorful and powerful figures in a generation.

While the Illinois Republican was a staunch party leader who held it together during the grim days when the Democrats controlled two-thirds of the Senate seats, he was more than that. He was a bipartisan power who never hesitated to follow his own conscience in matters affecting the country. Consequently he was a confidant of presidents both Democrat and Republican. Without DIRKSEN many of the accomplishments of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson would not have been possible. Eisenhower found him a bulwark of strength and until his death he had shaped much of the course taken by President Nixon, sometimes changing it as he did in a confrontation with Secretary Finch of HEW over the assistant secretaryship.