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

some suggestion by someone, but I ran on a write-in as a Democrat. One thing I didn't like was that the Democratic Campaign Committee furnished money to my opponent, Senator [Edgar A.] Brown, when I "laS a Democrat, too. But he was a Democratic
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

on to Washington. We'd come in 1933, but I hadn't gotten into any kind of action or done anything there. I had gone to work for the Democratic National Committee in the Women's Division, but only as a volunteer. see, in those days you had servants. You Even

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Yes. G: And then from 1966 to 1967 you were the chairman of the United States Select Committee on Western Hemisphere Imigration. S: Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration. G: I'm sorry, my mistake. You are a member of various
; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

important precedent. And, as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill. B: Yes, he did. Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson? R: Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson

in '64, he loved working on the Hill--was working with the House Judiciary Committee, first on the hearings on the bill. This was Mr. [Emanuel] Celler's committee. called the mark-up ot the bill. And then on what's I sat with the subcommittee

on and the closer the time came, the more we were in disrespect and out of kilter with the Democratic Committee . They wouldn't have iir . Johnson . They They wouldn't have Mr . Rayburn . didn't like Fishbait because he was a Rayburn-Johnson man

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Views" of twelve of the Judiciary Committee members which included a good number of the Democrats and a good number of the Republicans, including Dirksen. The twelve constituted a majority of the comnittee. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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