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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Everett Dirksen
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Everett Dirksen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 4
Died: 1969
Died: September 7
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Illinois
Everett M. Dirksen
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