![]() I did not then suspect that the nonchalance and composure I so admired Slipped from Senate cloakroom to Senate hideaway, sharing jokes with powerful men old enough to be their fathers. It was thrilling to watch them, the regulars, so nonchalant, so composed as they ![]() If I could get close to Russell Baker, I would know what was going on and I would not embarrass myself and the mighty news magazine I worked for. I thought, if only I could get close to Russell Baker. Dirksen would say something and the reporters would guffaw. Would often hold little informal press conferences on the Senate floor, mostly banter and inside jokes. Senator Mike Mansfield, the majority leader, and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, the minority leader, I found its language opaque, as subtle as Arabic. I knew nothing of Congress beyond the usual propaganda. N the spring of 1961 I was working in the Washington bureau of Newsweek, assigned to cover ''The Hill,'' Congress. ![]() ![]() Still Growing Up: A Reporter's Journey By WARD JUST ![]()
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