Dirksen
Americannoun
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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.
From Salon • Aug. 15, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024
Police said 12 people had been arrested for illegally protesting inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2023
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
In need of advice, he called his old senate colleague Everett Dirksen, a Republican from Illinois.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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