Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

22

Description:

Election to the Senate in 1954; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Dick Russell; committee assignments; LBJ moving to the left; 1964 Civil Rights Bill; 1965 Voting Rights Bill; 1957 filibuster; the Southern Manifesto; HR3; LBJ’s hunger for power and control over Senate voting; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s rapport with Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen; National Defense Education Bill; how LBJ dealt with Vietnam.

Contributor:

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Strom Thurmond

Subject:

Voting rights; Vietnam

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details

Interviewee:

Strom Thurmond

Interviewer(s):

Michael L. Gillette

Specific Item Type:

Oral history

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

oh-thurmonds-19790507-1-80-64

Date:

1979-05-07

Time Period:

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Citation

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Library Oral Histories, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed May 01, 2025, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/oh-thurmonds-19790507-1-80-64