“To be criticized for that is kind of a dirty dig.”

The clergymen's statement appeared the very day after Lyndon himself had revived the Jenkins case with his own dirty dig at the Eisenhower Administration, and on the very day after Barry Goldwater protested about "the clerical spokesmen who now become loud advocates of President Johnson" and suggested that they "get back to their business" of protecting the nation's morals.

Sirs: In that very fine article on Texas and the Texas Centennial you had something nice to say about every city in the State and about many of the smaller towns, but for some reason you gave Galveston a dirty dig.

Say, what did that tongue-tied sap Rodd mean by that dirty dig?

“That remark has all the appearance of a dirty dig,” said Bob.