from which he drew untold vitality and rest sustained him through the years. He could equally master the "Halls of Congress" and the simple life at his home in Pekin and at his beloved Broad Run Farm.

Woven into his rhetorical gems of wisdom and knowledge were witty and colorful words and stories only he could master and make effective. He could describe his gardens with each plant and each flower making an artist's picture unfold before his listener's eyes and he could provide a pun with equal effectiveness. One often quoted was "The oil can is mightier than a sword." He was convinced he had a place to fill in life and it was his duty to fill it. He filled it— working diligently and prodigiously—not taking himself seriously but taking his responsibilities seriously.

On the seventh anniversary of President Eisenhower's inauguration, Senator DIRKSEN on this floor eloquently phrased his own treatise on life:

I have often said that, in my judgment, there is a quiet, brooding destiny that looks after the affairs of men and nations. I have puzzled hundreds of times how one could account for the fact that Abraham Lincoln came on the American scene when he did and make his exit when he did, if it were not the unfolding of the Divine pattern of history.

I feel that way, too, about the distinguished occupant of the White House, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Do not we all agree that the name of our friend and colleague, EVERETT MCKINLEY Dirksen, should be added to that list of distinguished Americans?

Mr. President, this Nation has seen trying times in the past 200 years. The current times are such, with the war in Vietnam, the international scene generally, the many domestic problems, the social unrest, our cities with their many problems, and so on. From Carl Sandburg's "Remembrance Rock," these lines are in point:

Long before this time of ours, America saw the faces of her men and women torn and shaken in turmoil, chaos and storm. In each major crisis you could have seen despair written on the faces of the foremost strugglers. Yet there always rose enough of reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom, to carry the nation through to a fresh start with an ever-renewing vitality.

Mr. President, I like to think of Senator DIRKSEN that on many occasions in his lifetime, and on a national scale, he was one of those

"foremost strugglers," the source and the person who often brought forth those "reserves of strength, balances of sanity, and portions of wisdom" of which Sandburg wrote.

He had a sense and appreciation for history. He knew of its origins, its thread, and its thrust. He was aware that in a real sense there is no such thing as death of thought or energy. The will and vision that motivated people in colonial times and in the Republic's founding years have not disappeared. They have moved on, alive and strong, to other episodes of our history. They are still with us.

And one of the most forceful transmitters of that energy and that life of our Nation was our recently departed minority leader. It was Sandburg, too, who wrote:

For we know that when a nation goes down and never comes back, when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition can always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along.

Again, one of those who always articulated so well on this point was Senator DIRKSEN. He always knew the importance of letting those who now shape the future know where the present times came from and what they are worth as a heritage.

For that he should ever be remembered. For that we should ever be grateful.

Our tributes are many to the man himself. But none should finish without a special tribute to his family-his daughter, Joy, and her husband, Howard, and their two children, and especially to the one who stood beside him for over 40 years.

Louella Dirksen was not only his devoted mate, but she also shared many of his unique qualities of rising in gracious fashion to the top through the simple and proven values that make life worthwhile.

I believe that those thousands of homefolks who stood along the highways between Peoria and the Pekin burial ground paying their last tribute to their native son were also paying tribute to Mrs. Dirksen and telling her they also loved and honored her for the contributions she also had made in their behalf.

May God give her good health and all of the needed strength and courage for days ahead.

ADDRESS BY HON. JOSEPH M. MONTOYA

OF NEW MEXICO

Mr. President, EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, an institution in American politics for almost four decades, now belongs to the ages of human history.

Since 1932, Everett Dirksen's charm, his sonorous voice, his eloquent oratory, and his manner have enriched the Congress and the United States in so many subtle, yet important ways.

In the Congress, it is very important for a legislator to pay attention to detail, to return to his or her home State in order to communicate with his constituents. Equally important, and synonymous with EVERETT DIRKSEN, is possessing the quality of leadership. The distinguished Senator from Illinois was a great leader. One who through his own unique and special spirit became a symbol of the Senatein style, in word, and in action. Who can deny that EVERETT DIRKSEN's passing is a great loss to the quality, the verve, the vitality of this great deliberative body? I am deeply grieved by our loss of a great leader, a great statesman, and a great American.

EVERETT DIRKSEN's oratorial abilities are legend. Perhaps one of his greatest moments came during the 100 days of debate in the Senate concerning the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I would like to quote a portion of his final Senate floor speech immediately prior to the historic Senate vote on June 19, 1964. His thoughts serve well to illustrate the quality of the man who was among us.

Referring to the reason why he had become a crusader in the cause of civil rights he said:

I am involved in mankind, and whatever the skin, we are all involved in mankind. Equality of opportunity must prevail if we are to complete the covenant that we have made with the people, and when we held up our hands to take an oath to defend the laws and to carry out the Constitution of the United States.

He then quoted an English poet, who said:

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

Relating the poet's thoughts to his own, EVERETT said:

so every denial of freedom, every denial of equal opportunity for a livelihood, for an education, for a right to participate in representative government diminishes me.

EVERETT DIRKSEN on that historic day said the poet had "left what I believe was a precious legacy on the parchments of history."

U.S. Senator EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, American, statesman, leader, poet, personality, and friend to use his own words, has left "a precious legacy on the parchments of American history.”

He leaves behind his wife and daughter, relatives, and many close friends everywhere, but he also leaves with us a standard truly becoming only the greatest of Americans in our time. It is for future generations to preserve that standard and continue to pursue the unfinished tasks of the generation that has gone before. In this way EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN lives on in American history, and in the history of the long human day of all mankind.

ADDRESS BY HON. GORDON ALLOTT

OF COLORADO

Mr. President

He speaks and the words emerge in a soft sepulchral baritone. They undulate in measured phrases, expire in breathless wisps. He fills his lungs and blows wordrings like smoke. The sentences curl upward. They chase each other around the room in dreamy images of Steamboat Gothic. Now he conjures moods of mirth, now of sorrow. He rolls his bright eyes heavenward. In funeral tones, he paraphrases the Bible . . . and church bells peal, "Motherhood," he whispers, and grown men weep, “The Flag,” he bugles, and everybody salutes.

The above quotation is from a cover story in Time magazine of some years ago.

As we today pay tribute to the memory of Senator DIRKSEN, I am reminded of what author Edwin McDowell said about our late colleague a half decade ago:

If DIRKSEN had not existed, it would have been necessary for some imaginative writer to invent the euphonic orator whose florid phrases and resplendent responses have enabled him to become a Senate institution during his lifetime

Both of these quotations really describe DIRKSEN, the actor upon the political stage; DIRKSEN, the man with an appropriate response

to almost any question; DIRKSEN, the crusader for what he believed could be acceptable to the Senate-the sides of the senior Senator from Illinois which were well known to the American public.

I should like to mention briefly today, the sides of EVERETT DIRKSEN which were not so well known to the public.

When I came to the Senate nearly 15 years ago, Senator DIRKSEN had preceded me in the Congress by many years and had already been in the Senate for 4 years. While 4 years is not a long time, the Senator's role in national politics and his background in the House of Representatives made him an important figure in Republican senatorial activities.

We wasted no time in becoming friends. Through the years when he might need some assistance, or later when he became Republican leader and was needed, he always approached me as a friend and, as a friend, when I had to say "no" there were never any hard feelings, never any grudge, never any move to put me at a disadvantage because I could not support him.

It is in this way that one Senator can truly look upon another and say, "I trust him." EVERETT DIRKSEN was known to change his positions on occasions, but his colleagues always knew where he stood. He would inform us and unabashedly make public such a change. His word was good. I know of no finer compliment that can be paid to a legislator, particularly a Senator.

EV DIRKSEN's sense of humor was well known. However, as most "public figures" people are never sure if an attribute such as a sense of humor is a "front" or is genuine. Having been through some tough battles with him, particularly on those early civil rights bills, I can assure anyone interested that even during tense and difficult hours, he kept his balance and most often he had something humorous, some interesting sidelight or observation, that helped to defuse a potentially explosive situation.

Again, Senator DIRKSEN's sense of the dramatic, particularly as reported by the press, sometimes hid the depth of his knowledge on a myriad of Government problems. What most of those who read and heard what he had to say did not know is that he had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the Federal Government and its operations. Without notes, he could trace the history-and very accurately, I might add-of America's currency and financial involvements