He would speak in respectful tones of "my Commander in Chief," regardless of who occupied the White House at the time and regardless of his party. Frequently, he would confide to the audience the commonsense advice he had privately offered to the President that very week.

He would share aloud his grave concern over the economy, over the high cost of the Federal bureaucracy, over the Supreme Court, the future of the marigold, the Constitution or, quite likely, over all these matters. Yet in the end, he would talk with optimism and eloquence about our country, about its greatness and its promise, and his audience returned to their homes on the prairie, proud in their hearts to be Americans, and grateful that EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN was representing them in the highest councils of Government.

When I came to the Senate 3 years ago, I soon realized that the respect and affection he kindled at these Illinois dinners was shared by those who know him best-his colleagues in this body. And here, as in Illinois, he returned that respect and affection in full measure.

EVERETT DIRKSEN's political prowess at home was more than matched by his legislative skill in Washington. His secret perhaps was that, while a master of the reasonable compromise, he would never compromise a principle—and he would never ask another man to do so. It would have been easy enough for EV DIRKSEN as the leader of my party in the Senate, and as the famed senior Senator from my own State, to ask me to go his way on many an issue, even when he knew my inclination was in another direction—and it would have put me in a difficult position to refuse. But he never once did. Before I came to Washington, he said that, whenever conscience dictated, we should simply agree to disagree, and he always honored that principle between us.

Certainly one reason that his Republican colleagues elected him their leader time and time again was that he always respected each man's independence, individuality, and point of view. For he himself was an independent man of strong beliefs. Above all, he was a unique individual—an original in an era that discourages originality.

For more than 35 years, EVERETT Dirksen's life was devoted almost entirely to his family, his country, and Congress. He left his vivid imprint not only on each of these, but on every individual who knew him. He touched our lives with his special vibrancy and resil

ience, his color and passion, his wit and wisdom. A man who so amply embodied these qualities cannot leave us without great sadness. We shall all miss him.

I know I do.

ADDRESS BY HON. HUGH SCOTT

OF PENNSYLVANIA

Mr. President, I thank the distinguished Senator from Illinois, who has spoken so movingly of the great man we honor here today. First, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record at the conclusion of my remarks the report to the people of Tennessee of the distinguished Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Baker) for the week of September 14, 1969, consisting of the remarks which he made in the Rotunda of the Capitol in response to the eulogy of the late Senator DIRKSEN by President Nixon. (See exhibit 1, p. 38.)

As one who stands in his stead, but cannot presume to take his place, I rise to join in our eulogy of a great Senator. We call to mind the wonderful associations all of us in this body have had with him. While today we eulogize him, it is not possible to replace, except in fond memories, the position held by that great and distinguished leader of the Republican Party. Today we remember a man whose memory entertains the endearing recognition of all of us in this body and of millions and millions of Americans. We remember today that each day as he came to the Senate he had a bright and friendly comment. He delighted the American public and he delighted us. He contributed a spirit of accommodation to this body unsurpassed in my recollection. Yet, his spirit and stature fully recognized his responsibilities as an American first and foremost, as the senior Senator from Illinois, and as a great leader of his party.

Today we remember and recognize the warmth and compassion of EVERETT DIRKSEN. We remember his sense of humor. We remember, perhaps one of the greatest qualities which he had, the unstinting ability to view himself in due proportion as one of God's humble

creatures.

With engaging humor, he played games with his own posture. We, who enjoyed that deprecating exercise, nevertheless, recognize his great position and high responsibilities in the events of this Nation which he dealt with so well, so long, and so successfully.

It was in his moment of greatest triumph that I had the honor to work with him. We all remember his unstinting role in the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the United Nations bond issue, and a long list of equally great triumphs.

His leadership was unusual but unusually effective. His personality was appealing and his ability to gain the support of others on a wide variety of matters was unquestioned.

He had the undaunting courage to oppose when he felt he was in the right. In matters of his own well-developed conscience and search for the right, he opposed his constituents, his colleagues, and even his President. In matters which he supported, he supported all the way, and those who gained his support and whose support he gained, were numerous indeed.

His works are monuments to constructive achievement on behalf of his State, his party, and his Nation. His triumphs were often the triumphs of Congress and in a very real sense every President under whom he served.

He was patient under suffering; courteous amidst confrontation; cheerful as an adversary. His spirit was the spirit of the successful, and he demonstrated his delight and gratification at each of his long line of successes.

His oratory provided the bridges over which those who had already been persuaded could walk. It was the essence of persuasion which demonstrated all the smoothness and gentleness which was his as a man. It was the icing on the cake which he had already baked.

Today we honor the Nation when we eulogize EV DIRKSEN. We honor all those who knew and loved him and worked with him. We will remember him. We cannot forget him.

To the unique, unforgettable EVERETT DIRKSEN we say our warm, fond farewell. And to his wife, Louella, who epitomizes that oft said cliché, "Behind every great man there is a woman.” To his daughter, Joy, and his son-in-law and our colleague, Senator Baker, Marian and I extend our deepest sympathy.

(EXHIBIT 1)

REPORT TO TENNESSEE

(By U.S. Senator Howard H. Baker)

(Due to the death of U.S. Senator EVERETT M. DIRKSEN, Senator Howard H. Baker did not write his usual column this week. Below is the response Senator Baker made in the Rotunda to the eulogy by President Nixon of Senator DIRKSEN.)

Mr. President, thank you. I speak for Mrs. Dirksen and the rest of the family when I express our deep gratitude to you and to many Americans throughout the country for their thoughtfulness at this time. We are profoundly grateful.

A century ago another man from Illinois first lay in state on this catafalque, on this spot, described by Sandburg as "midway between House and Senate chambers, midway between those seats and aisles of heartbreak and passion.” And so it is with EVERETT DIRKSEN-a man of his nation who served long and well in both of those chambers.

EVERETT DIRKSEN cherished Lincoln, but with a great humility that rejected any thought of comparison. He sought to follow many of the precepts that are the Lincoln legacy. Both men understood with singular clarity that a great and diverse people do not speak with a single voice and that adherence to rigid ideology leaves little room for compromise and response to change.

A man of imposing presence and bearing, EVErett McKinley Dirksen was nonetheless a man of eminent wit, humor, and perspective, who kept himself and others constantly on guard against taking themselves too seriously.

He was guided by a simple religious faith, carrying through life a sense of the Creator's presence and doing homage to the small frail spark of immortality which defines the human spirit.

But perhaps most of all his hero was the people. He was of the people. Born of immigrant parents, his mother arrived in this country speaking no English and with a tag about her neck instructing only that she be sent to Pekin, Ill. He knew first hand "melting pot" America-its diversity and hardship, the brilliance of its people going about the business of forging a magnificent nation, and he loved them. All of them. Few people have loved so well, and I think the people saw something of their own greatness in him and understood and respected him for it.

This man was an idealist, but a realist as well; and in the end he chose calmly to risk his life, electing uncertain surgery in order to gain the opportunity to live and serve further, and he lost. But in losing, he fixed with permanence the image of a noble man of the people.

ADDRESS BY HON. MIKE MANSFIELD

OF MONTANA

Mr. President, on September 7, 1969, EVERETT M. DIRKSEN died at Walter Reed Hospital in the city of Washington. His death broke a hundred relationships which he had in the Senate. It opened the links which held him to all of us as a body and to each of us as a friend and colleague. We knew him in the same way and each of us knew him in his own way.

There was the public EVERETT M. DIRKSEN who stood at that desk across this aisle-intent, relaxed, fierce, gentle, humorous, earnestas a mood was upon him and as an issue moved him. As a group, the Senate knew that EVERETT DIRKSEN. The galleries, too, saw and heard him. The press characterized and sometimes, and without malice, caricatured him for a Nation which came to delight in him.

One remembers that EVERETT DIRKSEN in flickers of remembrance, his passionate defense of flowers and above all of his beloved marigolds, the deft brush of words painting a landscape of the Illinois countryside and the little red schoolhouse, the surging references to the sagas of history, the quotations from Shakespeare and the poets and the statesmen of the past.

Above all, one remembers his keynote phrase. When he said of a measure that it was "an idea whose time has come," whether in civil rights, in nuclear testing, or other of the great issues of his time, he announced a newly formed conviction which would move him to action. With that phrase, too, he illuminated time and again his capacity for change in a changing world.

As majority leader, I owe much-very much—to that capacity of EVERETT DIRKSEN. The Senate and the Nation owe much to it for what it has meant to the legislative history of the past decade.

For me as for every Senator there was still another EVERETT DIRKSEN, a personal DIRKSEN. I knew him as a determined Member of the House and I knew him in the Senate after 1953. I knew him best during those past 10 years when I shared with him the joint leadership of the Senate.

When I think of that personal EVERETT DIRKSEN, I remember his office where we met so frequently and of his tolerance, understanding,