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Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it a better operation . It has not been run that well since . F: Did he ever talk about his relationship with Senator Dirksen? B: Oh, sure . They got along fine . That's no problem, they always got Dirksen was a friendly, affable old rascal
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Senator Dirksen, Congressman Halleck, and so on? The personal relationship seems to be very close. N: Yes, it is, but I guess it'll go back to Senator Knowland when he was Republican leader of the Senate and Mr. Johnson was the other leader. No, it'll
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 Senator Dirksen ran out on us. We thought we had him set, but he ran out and was going to vote against us
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and somebody else lost. H: McFarland lost. And the Senator from Illinois, Scott Lucas. Scott Lucas lost in that election and that opened the way up for him. [Lyndon] Scott Lucas was the Majority Leader of the Senate until Mr. Dirksen, I believe it was, beat
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • community in the state of Illinois is responsible for what happened to the 14B. that's where it came from. exactly squarely. They worked through Dirksen, but But I think Johnson played the game He set it up, he made it forceful, and he just didn't
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • say that in Lyndon Johnson's drinking I never saw him lose control. But he'd consume Scotch, just lots of it, oh, lots of it! He would come down from Ev Dirksen's office sometimes about six o'clock. You know, I'd be waiting there for him. Scotches