A resolution designating September 6, 2014, as "Everett McKinley Dirksen and Marigold Day".

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates September 6, 2014, as Everett McKinley Dirksen and Marigold Day.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 534 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 534

   Designating September 6, 2014, as ``Everett McKinley Dirksen and 
                            Marigold Day''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2014

     Mr. Kirk (for himself and Mr. Durbin) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Designating September 6, 2014, as ``Everett McKinley Dirksen and 
                            Marigold Day''.

Whereas the great Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Pekin, Illinois, has 
        passed from the halls of the United States Capitol;
Whereas the current Senators wish to honor Senator Dirksen;
Whereas, upon the passing of Senator Dirksen, his contemporaries and peers 
        stated that--

    (1) Senator Dirksen--

    G    (A) provided sage advice and counsel and wholehearted wisdom;

    G    (B) provided support that made the civil rights legislation of the 
1960s a fact rather than a dream during that decade; and

    G    (C) was known as an American who cultivated a high sense of honor; 
and

    (2) when Senator Dirksen spoke, the country listened, and his eloquence 
was a source of national strength;

Whereas, as the obituary for Senator Dirksen in the New York Times noted, 
        Senator Dirksen ``was ever constant to the marigold, which he sought to 
        make the national flower and which he grew profusely in his garden'';
Whereas, as Senator Dirksen said on the Senate floor on April 17, 1967, the 
        marigold ``is a native of North America and can in truth and in fact be 
        called an American flower'';
Whereas, as Senator Dirksen said in that speech, the marigold ``is national in 
        character, for it grows and thrives in every one of the fifty states of 
        this nation'';
Whereas, as Senator Dirksen said in that speech, the marigold's ``robustness 
        reflects the hardihood and character of the generations who pioneered 
        and built this land into a great nation'';
Whereas, beginning in 1973, Pekin has held the Pekin Marigold Festival each year 
        to honor Pekin's favorite son, Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen; and
Whereas the 40th Pekin Marigold Festival will be held during the first week of 
        September 2014, which includes Saturday, September 6: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the Senate designates September 6, 2014, as 
``Everett McKinley Dirksen and Marigold Day''.
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