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• W229410376 abstract "Everett McKinley Dirksen cultivated a colorful, slightly eccentric image during his career as a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1951 until 1969. He favored rumpled suits and an unruly crown of tousled hair that delighted cartoonists. A frustrated thespian, he enjoyed delivering long-winded, hyperbolic, and melodramatic speeches that rolled off his tongue in a rich bass voice. His rhetorical style became so distinctive that late in his career he achieved commercial success with recordings of patriotic oratory. Dirksen also projected the image of a staunch conservative who revered Abraham Lincoln and remained unswervingly loyal to the traditions of American government. Just as his easily caricatured appearance and language disguised Everett Dirksen's intensity, political ambition, and skill at legislative maneuver, so too did his conservative image distract attention from other realities. Throughout a long congressional career that began with sixteen years of service in the House of Representatives from 1933 through 1948 before his nearly nineteen-year tenure in the Senate, Dirksen repeatedly engaged in efforts to alter radically the constitutional structure of American government. While only the comparatively most moderate of the causes in which he enlisted managed to succeed, at least three others achieved majority approval in the Senate and two more obtained lesser, but still substantial support. The demanding requirements of constitutional amendment-- approval by two-thirds of Congress or a constitutional convention followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states-stymied attempts to construct an American Constitution quite different from the one that prevails today, but not before Dirksen put them to the test. His political peers as well as journalists, political scientists, and historians have regarded Everett Dirksen as one of Illinois and America's most effective mid-twentieth-century politicians, particularly during the decade beginning in 1959 when he served as leader of the Republican minority in the United States Senate. They credit him with moderating an early abrasiveness and extremism, developing a capacity to work with legislators and presidents of both parties, and thereby shaping some of his era's most significant legislation, most notably the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. When Dirksen died at age seventy-three in September 1969, contemporaries from George McGovern to Richard Nixon eulogized him as a great U.S. Senator (although perhaps in some cases with questionable sincerity). Early biographies by his widow as well as a journalist who covered his Senate career and a brother team of professorial historians continued the accolades.1 Finally, thirty years after his death, a well-researched and shrewd study of Dirksen's relationships with Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson provided a more nuanced and penetrating assessment. It concluded that Dirksen was indeed a skilled legislator, but one whose embrace of policies was too often emotional, uncritical, momentary, and self-serving. But even this latter work, while unquestionably the most deeply researched and insightful yet produced, fails to address adequately the issue of Dirksen's erratic constitutionalism.2 Beneath his colorful exterior, Everett Dirksen proved to be more an adroit legislative craftsman than a reflective or consistent political thinker. Possessed of a wide range of interests, thrust into a position of political power where he had to deal with a multitude of issues, and gifted with the capacity to project an image of knowledge regardless of his actual depth of comprehension, Dirksen masked his sometimes limited understanding of complex matters and insufficient consideration of the consequences of his proposed solution. He also managed to portray his preference for the status quo as reasoned rather than instinctual. Grasping his essential nature and evaluating his place in American history requires much more than listing his major accomplishments and repeating the eulogies. …" @default.
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