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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the on-the-wall type Republicans who were from states where it didn't matter how they voted either way. And he lined them up, and I think Everett Dirksen had an awful lot to do with a civil rights bill of any kind passing. And that goes for education, because
  • of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); an alliance between Republicans and Southern Democrats in the Senate, and Everett Dirksen's influence on that alliance; Tommy Corcoran; the Hill-Burton Act and ESEA legislation that favored poorer states.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talk to [Everett] Dirksen early on about the-- C: He talked to Dirksen, and Dirksen agreed to support it. He never would have done it if he didn't think he could get it through. I think he thought he could get it through. I think he had Dirksen's