Senator Everett Dirksen is on record as having asserted that the United States should
“not be a party to negotiating away any of those rights that the Israelis may establish through their own military efforts"
Senator-elect Franken is also a strong supporter of Israel. I believe that Senator Dirksen and Senator-elect Franken
would however have been opponents on issues of domestic policy, as Dirksen was a fiscal conservative (definitely not a liberal)
On the lighter side, Senator Dirksen made TV guest appearances on shows such as What's My Line, The Hollywood Palace, and The Red Skelton Show.
Senator Dirksen also appeared in a low-budget science-fiction movie in which invading extraterrestrials assert political dominion over the human race!


