follow a type of formula laid down by Edmund Burke, the great parliamentarian and prime minister of Britain, when he said it was his business to consult with his people, but it would be a betrayal of his conscience and a disservice to them if he failed to exercise his independent judgment.

So today my statement that I shall support the treaty is an exercise of my independent judgment based upon what I think is best for my country.

Those of us today who feel we must exercise independent judgment have a firm precedent in the life of Senator DIRKSEN, who often exercised strong convictions in the face of strong opposition. As Senator DIRKSEN once said:

We must stand up and be counted in our generation.

Cooperation, enthusiasm, and strength were part of EVERETT DIRKSEN, the leader. These qualities were also inherent in his legacy of life-in EVERETT DIRKSEN the "remarkably likable man."

I shall always remember him as a man who enjoyed life—a man who went about his life's work with joy and enthusiasm. This enjoyment pervaded his diverse activities no matter if that work happened to be steering a major piece of legislation through the Congress, orating before an enthralled audience on subjects ranging from marigolds to missiles, tending to his garden at home, or even making best selling record albums.

This enthusiasm was matched by a personal strength and determination which allowed him to overcome critical physical affliction. He confounded medical experts predicting loss of his eyesight. He retired from the other body, spending 2 years to recover from this affliction. When he recovered, he ran for the Senate and defeated the majority leader in that election. Later, he was continually bothered by a succession of recurring illnesses. But he never allowed these difficulties to interfere with his life's work and succeeded in spite of them.

Which one of us never felt Senator DIRKSEN's strength and enthusiasm? Because of this he was an effective leader. But because of it he also was a friend. No one of us agreed with him on every issue. And so we would drift into opposing camps for a time. But it was his style and ultimately his strength to never oppose so vigorously as to lose a friend.

We have lost a friend. We have lost a leader. But in this loss, we feel a deep respect and admiration for his memory.

Many have said that Senator DIRKSEN was a product of an earlier era, a touch of Americana in the space age. These phrases are no disservice to his memory. He served his country and spent his life with a robustness and vigor that could only be the spirit of America. He faced the failures and successes of his life with a dogged determination to correct and perfect himself. This is the essence of his legacy. May we take this legacy and have the strength to apply it in our deliberations as public officials and individual men and women.

ADDRESS BY HON. WALLACE F. BENNETT

OF UTAH

Mr. President, the death of EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN last month brought a sense of loss to the Senate-and to me in a very personal way that will be felt for a long time to come. This Chamber will always remain a little empty without him.

Senator DIRKSEN's untimely passing has deprived the Senate and the Nation of one of its most vibrant personalities. He had come to be almost everyone's image of what the U.S. Senate was and still is.

It was not just the commanding presence, resonant voice, or patented DIRKSEN style that made him so vital. It was rather his forthright love of America and her noblest traditions, and his devotion to his service here on behalf of the people of Illinois.

He was unquestionably fired by a deep and very real patriotism, which fortuitously was recorded for posterity in the record albums he cut. Although some cynical commentators derided Senator DIRKSEN'S unabashed Americanism, those of us who knew him well can testify to its efficacy in motivating this great statesman to help make possible the landmark legislation associated with his name.

For all his flamboyance and drive, it was Senator DIRKSEN's great genius for necessary political compromise both within his own party and between the two political parties that resulted in so much significant legislation.

On a personal basis, it was an honor to be among those who came into the Senate with EVERETT DIRKSEN in 1951, to have served with

him on the Senate Finance Committee, and to have lived in the same apartment building with him and Mrs. Dirksen for many years. And, in the Senate, it was a privilege to work alongside this giant of a man whose tolerance and understanding provided so much to all of us. Truly, he was a Senator's Senator.

Senator DIRKSEN dedicated more than a third of his life to service in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Although the system inevitably carries on in the absence of any man, his passing has left a void in each of us.

The Senate is poorer for his passing.

I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an editorial published in the Salt Lake Tribune of September 9, following Senator DIRKSEN's death.

There being no objection, the editorial was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:

GRAND OLD MAN OF POLITICS

No question about it. EVERETT McKinley DIRKSEN will be missed. He was one of the most powerful men in Washington, a past master of political strategy, a resourceful party leader, and, perhaps most important of all, a man who was not afraid to change his mind. His death this week at the age of 73 will be mourned across the nation.

When DIRKSEN was elected to the House of Representatives in 1932, he was an isolationist, as were many of his fellow Americans. But the nation changed and so did he, and as a senator he was a staunch supporter of the foreign policies of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He also moved from conservatism to a middle-of-the-road position as the years passed.

DIRKSEN served more than a quarter of a century on Capital Hill-16 years in the House followed after a two-year "recess," by 19 in the Senate where, in 1959, he was chosen majority leader. A year later, however, the Republicans lost control of the Senate and for the rest of his career he was minority leader. Ordinarily, that is not a position of much influence except in party affairs. DIRKSEN played the game differently. Democrats Kennedy and Johnson often relied on Republican DIRKSEN for help on legislation and he usually delivered. He rallied the votes needed to break the filibuster against the civil rights bill of 1964 and played a key role in winning ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty. Interestingly enough, on several occasions Republican Nixon found himself at odds with Republican DIRKSen.

Much has been made of DIRKSEN's oratorical style which was florid and somewhat old-fashioned. That may have been one reason the senator adopted it. He was a showman who thrived on attention. He also knew how to use

the English language with telling effect. When he spoke, despite the clouds of words, his meaning was perfectly clear.

We leave it to the historians to add up the pluses and minuses of DIRKSEN's career. But we can with confidence say that he leaves a great vacancy. How could it be otherwise when he was at the center of affairs for so long and so intimately involved in almost everything that went on in Washington? He was in truth the grand old man of American politics.

ADDRESS BY HON. BARRY GOLDWATER

OF ARIZONA

Mr. President, to try to express my thoughts and my emotions wrapped up with EVERETT DIRKSEN is an impossible task from the very outset, because my mind does not know the words to express the feeling in my heart.

I first remember this wonderful man on the roof of the Adams Hotel in downtown Phoenix on a bright, moonlit night, the sky studded with the brilliant stars of the desert. He was talking to me, urging me to run for the U.S. Senate, and this was my first interest in obtaining the position I now hold. I decided that night to do it, and told him I would, and from that moment there was just a wonderful, warm, and close friendship that few men ever have the pleasure of experiencing.

He once called himself my political godfather, and I would have to admit that this is true in every sense of the word, because I cannot remember a time when I went to him for advice and counsel that he did not give it his wholehearted wisdom. I remember, in particular, his counseling me during the troubled days of 1963 when I was trying to make up my mind whether or not to seek our party's nomination, and his advice was always sound, was never pushy, was always restrained, but the message came through that he thought I should do it, and this decision on his part is one of the major reasons I made the race.

I remember the night he came to my apartment in 1964 to read to me the nominating speech he had prepared after I had asked him if he would place my name in nomination in San Francisco. I do not

mind saying that there were tears in my eyes as he read this straightforward, simple, and plain message of nomination, and the night that he made it in the Cow Palace, in San Francisco, will remain with me forever as one of the highest moments of my life.

I followed him as chairman of the senatorial campaign committee and his help was ever present. He volunteered and served briefly on the Labor and Public Welfare Committee to help us work out a bill to help end the abuses practiced by some of the leaders of labor. No one will ever know his major contributions to the conference that produced the Landrum-Griffin bill, and I feel that he, with all deference to the others, more than any other member, was instrumental in putting together a bill which readily won the approval of both Houses.

Having served with him in politics for so long, it is not easy to think of continuing to serve without him. He had become so much a part of my life and the life of the Senate. We will all miss him; I perhaps, a little more than most of the rest. As I said at the outset, I wish there were words to convey what I really feel, but I think as Louella and the other members of his family read this, they will know in their hearts what I am trying to say.

ADDRESS BY HON. HOWARD W. CANNON

OF NEVADA

Mr. President, once again we stand on this floor in sorrow to pay our respects to a departed colleague-a true, loyal and devoted patriot of our Nation.

The many years EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN served as statesman and Republican leader attest to his devotion to our great Nation and to the well-being of its citizenry.

He was motivated by the highest principles of representative government of which he was a part. He translated his firm belief in the basic tenets of democracy into actions which benefited the Nation, his State, and his constituency.

He was an American who cultivated the chivalric virtues of public life-love of combat in statesmanship, high sense of honor, practical