the senate call it is top republican, everett dirksen, with a message.nd and has the goods to burn agent anna chennault. chennault. >> when you hear johnson talking, you hear in johnson this master politician who's used threatening tactics throughout the course of his political career to achieve his political ends. >> it's classic johnson. it's classic. get to the head of the republican party to try to get nixon to do this. n to do this >> he's holding out the prospect of going public with this explosive story. the same time, you can hear johnson's palpable anger and indignation that somebody would tamper with the peace process that could end a war. >> senator dirksen delivers the message to the nixon camp. the very next morning, sunday, two days before the election. >> "meet the press". >> richard nixon launches his cover-up on live tv. >> i want to make it clear to every one of my public statements including "meet the press," i stand with the president in regard to get the paris negotiations. >> after making that public lie, nixon doubles down on his c

everett dirksen. hugo black. all veterans of world war i. famous soldiers, sailors and airmen went, like george s. patten, who commanded a brigade of tanks in the battle of the muse argueon, was badly wounded on the first day. douglas macarthur who rose to the brigade in the 42nd rainbow division, rose to command the division by the end of the war. father of the united states air force, billy mitchell, led general pershing's air service. the man who became chief of staff of the army in world war ii was pershing's most indispensable staff officer during the war, george c. marshall. beside him is wild bill donovan who was one of the more redoubtable commanders in the rainbow division and wounded three times in world war i. famous writers and poets went, william falkner left a dissolving love affair in mississippi, and ever the anglo fooil joined the royal air force and still in flight school in toronto when the war ended. archibald mcclosure, the pulitzer prize winning poet who wrote the great poem the silent slain, the original title for my b

attitude whether on the part of democrats or republicans, only a few billion here, few billion here, everett dirksenay that adds up to serious money. go to former cbo director douglas holtz-eakin. doug, that is my biggest worry. i understand people saying five billion is a drop in a bucket, a rounding error, on a rounding error when it comes to the trillions this government spends. i get that, i understand that, but humor me but show me how you are going to pay for that. that is all i'm saying. i don't hear that? >> i think it is 100% a fair concern for number of reasons. number one, 5 billion is still five billion dollars. that is a lot of money of the somebody ought to pay for that. they're sew focused on process issues, continuing resolutions, not dealing with the fundamental problems which we have enormous amount of debt and very large deficits projected as far as the eye can see, no one is looking out over longer term. they're looking out literally week 1/2. that is the vision of our federal government, both sides. that is the problem in my view. we have a substantial difficulty task ahead of u

everett dirksen was the republican leader of the united states senate sitting right over there. he had even fewer republican senators. when orrin hatch did his work in the 1978, there were 38 republican senators. dirksen had fewer than that. and lynn don johnson -- and lyndon johnson and the american labor unit decided that they wanted in effect to make it illegal for any state to have a right to work law. that's what they wanted to do and they thought they could do it except -- except the legislative filibuster was in place. at that time it took 67 votes and everett dirksen toured the country and he was able to defeat a measure supported by overwhelming democratic majorities. now, why do i tell those sters, mr. president -- those stories, mr. president? it's because the foot is on the other foot right now. republicans are in charge. we hear many people say including the president get rid of the filibuster. get rid of the legislative majority. let's do it our way. we should not do that. we have never done that in the united states senate. the senate has always been different. on

at that time it took 67 votes and everett dirksen toured the country and he was able to defeat a measure supported by overwhelming democratic majorities. now, why do i tell those sters, mr. president -- those stories, mr. president? it's because the foot is on the other foot right now. republicans are in charge. we hear many people say including the president get rid of the filibuster. get rid of the legislative majority. let's do it our way. we should not do that. we have never done that in the united states senate. the senate has always been different. one senator said to me a few minutes ago, that's the whole rein i came to the senate from the house so every time the majority got an idea, it wouldn't be like a freight train running through the senate. one of the major purposes of the legislative filibuster is to protect the minority in this country. a young frenchman wandered through america in the 1830's. his name was alexis de tofo. he wrote a book democracy in america, maybe the best book on democracy in america ever. it was very perceptive. he said looking ahead he saw two potenti