Re-elect Everett McKinley Dirksen, United States Senator. A pamphlet. The back page shows how to vote straight Republican. I was not old enough to vote in 1963. Not for another year. Back then, the voting age was 21. I think it's 18 now? I don't remember when it changed. I do remember that the first election I voted in, I did register Republican so I could vote against Barry Goldwater in the primary. Looking back now, I almost long for the days of Republicans like Goldwater and Dirksen. From what I hear, so do some Republicans.

Dirksen was in Congress from 1932 to 1948. In 1950, he challenged Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas "on the issues of centralized government and the drift toward socialism." He won. A blurb reads: "He has consistently and vigorously opposed government control whether in Federal aid to education, farm programs, compulsory medical care under the Social Security system, or in any other field as a threat to freedom." On the other hand, a director of the AFL-CIO writes to express "to you...the appreciation of our organization of your votes in favor of cloture and in opposition to cutting off further consideration of the Mansfield-Dirksen bill to ban discriminatory use of literacy tests to deny the right to vote to Negroes and Spanish speaking Americans in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution."