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Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen Gallant Men Stories Of American Vinyl LP VG+ For Sale

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1966 Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen Gallant Men Stories Of The American Adventure Vinyl LP Record VG+
Vinyl / Jacket Grade Per Goldmine Standard: VG+ / VG+; Jacket still in shrink
Side onePrologue: 38Gallant Men2:38The Story Of The MayflowerAnd The Mayflower Compact4:14The Story Of The BattleFor Independence7:26The Story Of The Flag6:09The Star-Spangled Banner2:50Side twoThe Story Of Gettysburg5:24The Gettysburg Address2:24The Story Of The Statue Of Liberty4:55Epilogue1:45Pledge Of Allegiance To The Flag4:55THROUGHOUT a long career as a national po-litical figure, Senator Everett McKinley Dirk-sen of Illinois has always tried to serve hiscountry. For more than thirty years as a Con-gressman, Senator, adviser to Presidents, andRepublican Leader of the Senate, he has beena participant in the major issues and crises ofour time. He has contributed considerably tothe legislative and Presidential decisions af-fecting the lives of millions around the worldand the welfare and security of all Americans.Equally important, Senator Dirksen hasraised his voice to speak about those issues.Everett McKinley Dirksen is certainly oneof the great orators of America. His publicspeaking has been learned in the old andtraditional ways, honed through years of pub-lic appearances "on the stump” where he mas-tered the subtleties of speaking to, convincing,and moving an audience."Those were the years when I learned totell a story’’ he says. "Those were the trialyears.”Today, Senator Everett McKinley Dirksenis the unchallenged master of the politicalspeech. But he is always aware of his goal."My speeches have an immediate purpose.They are not intended as timeless documents’’Yet his speeches on the floor of his belovedUnited States Senate, while aiming for thatimmediate purpose, do have the ring of time-lessness to them. Once, on the eve of the ad-journment of Congress, the RepublicanLeader rose and said: "Old faces go and newfaces come, but somehow like Tennyson’sbrook, the free Republic continues to go onwith vitality, vigor and an energized faith, asit moves to newer heights and newer achieve-ments for its people in the great moral cli-mate of freedom’’His words have the luster of agelessness nomatter their immediate goals.But the voice! That is unique!Of it, Time magazine said: “In funerealtones he paraphrases the Bible and churchbells peal! 'Motherhood’ he whispers, andgrown men weep. *The Flag!’ he bugles, andeverybody salutes!’ Another writer said theDirksen voice can be a call to love or tobattle, a solo flute or a symphony orchestra.In GALLANT MEN, that voice and thosetrial-years of learning to tell a story are com-bined with Everett McKinley Dirksen’s firstlove — America! He breathes life into thewords of The Mayflower Compact, a keystoneof American government. The drama, thedanger and the daring of the writing of theDeclaration of Independence take on a deepermeaning. His telling of the story of The Star-Spangled Banner and his reading of theFrancis Scott Key poem should hush the oc-casional cries that The Star-Spangled Bannerought not be our National Anthem.The hope for the future and the faith inDemocracy which Abraham Lincoln wroteinto the Gettysburg Address are reflected inSenator Dirksen’s reading of that immortalAddress, and the words of the poem inscribedupon the Statue of Liberty as spoken by theSenator catch the very essence of the UnitedStates of America as the land of the open, wel-coming golden door.With these readings, Senator EverettMcKinley Dirksen becomes the first Senatorin the history of the United States to use themedium of Recordings to make available tothe general public not only the rare qualitiesof his own speech and style but the treasuresof Americana that have been handed downfrom earlier generations and which ought notbe entombed in ’old and dusty books seldomused or referred to’’Everett McKinley Dirksen was never one toclose the door to a new adventure. In the sev-enty years since he was born at Pekin, Illinoisin the land of Lincoln, he has been a baker, anad taker for a newspaper, a helper in a railroadoffice, a World War One balloonist, a lawyer,Congressman, and United States Senator.He has been called the prototype of aUnited States Senator — in appearance, man-ner, and in a speaking style of such eloquencethat it is unmatched in the Senate.Although he is a Republican, his supportand assistance made possible the enactment ofmany of the bills passed by Democratic Con-gresses during the Kennedy and Johnsonadministrations. His measure has always beenthe National interest. His goal has alwaysbeen to serve his country.And so, when the names of modern Ameri-can patriots are inscribed on the rolls ofAmerica’s Gallant Men, high among themwill be Everett McKinley Dirksen.— H. PAUL JEFFERSConceived and written by H. Paul JeffersOriginal score composed, arranged and conducted by John Cacavas
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Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen Gallant Men Stories Of American Vinyl LP VG+ For Sale

Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen Gallant Men Stories Of American Vinyl LP VG+: $9.50

Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen Gallant Men Stories Of American Vinyl LP VG+:
$9.50