From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Devine, James wrote:
[*] If Bush said, a billion here, a billion there, it's an homage by
his script-writers to the late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-ILL), who
said (paraphrasing) a billion here a billion there, and pretty soon
you're talking about
Carl Remick wrote:
And Dirksen had a great, stately voice for delivering remarks like that.
I think he had been a Presbyterian minister -- but I can't remember my
source for this. He did indeed have quite a voice.
One of the most popular newscasters of WW2 was also a former minister --
Devine, James wrote:
[*] If Bush said, a billion here, a billion there, it's an homage by
his script-writers to the late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-ILL), who
said (paraphrasing) a billion here a billion there, and pretty soon
you're talking about real money concerning government
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27551] Re: I'm not dead yet
said I: [*] If Bush said, a billion here, a billion there, it's an homage by his script-writers to the late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-ILL), who said (paraphrasing) a billion here a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money
