The hearing will take place Feb. 25 at 2 p.m. in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington.
Even then, Dirksen knew that, with television, public speaking as high art had passed into decline in America.
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We remember the profound impact of Lyndon Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Everett Dirksen and Howard Baker on the Senate.
Dirksen gave oratory a humorous afterlife as self-parody, a touch of W. C.
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Then he tells us: Dirk Dirksen, from the Mab, gave him a call.
Dirksen would eventually bring all but a handful of his colleagues with him to support both cloture and the bill.
Put a thousand of these threads in one pipe, and, as Everett Dirksen might have said, soon you're talking real bandwidth.
The key was to allow Dirksen to shape the bill, within certain parameters, so that he could leave his imprint on the measure.
At 22-22 Nicky Thomas blew a long kick for Swansea then Dirksen blew a certain try with the last move of the match.
In order to get Dirksen on his side, Johnson told his administration team and congressional leadership to play to Dirksen's ego and sense of history.
Dirksen made some important changes to the bill during the negotiations but in the end, he delivered over 20 Republican votes, which killed the filibuster.
Adam Whitney took Neath clear before the superb Hanno Dirksen replied.
The Russell and the Dirksen Senate Office Buildings would be closed Saturday afternoon for further testing prompted by the discovery of the Leahy letter, Capitol Police said.
The ball came across the line to Dirksen, but with a clear five-yard run to the line the South Africa-born centre could not gather the pass and knocked on.
"A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton, " Dirksen would announce, his gray-golden ringlets vibrating with emotion, "has let much of life pass him by!"
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Nicky Thomas missed a chance to equalise with a long-range penalty, before a dazzling Dirksen break won them another kick in the shadow of the posts, Dixon making no mistake for the three points.
The All Whites hit straight back with a dazzling run from right wing Eli Walker, whose pass was hacked on by Dirksen who had the pace to follow through for a try converted by Dixon for 22-19.
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