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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • toward the vote, I know in the Senate where we had the filibuster, Mike Manatos, the President's Senate man, played a role. But the real managing of it and dealing with the tactical decisions appeared to me to be in Nick Katzenbach's hands. B: What
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like he did with [Nike] Mansfield. rights bill passed. They wanted that civil It was written in Dirksen's office. just let him take the lead in order to help get it passed. Mansfield That must have been the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Lyndon
  • 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.
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • themselves, you know. You know, he knew them all. In the civil rights thing, which is what I'm trying to think of, I don't remember instances as such except to go say to the leadership or call up Mansfield and say, "Let's get that bill up," or ask
  • Voting Rights Act 1965; Civil Rights Act; Mansfield; McCormack; Hale Boggs; Russell Long; LBJ’s feelings about open housing; differences between Ramsey Clark and Katzenbach over civil rights; LBJ’s consideration of legal problems raised by open