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  • Date > 1988-03-17 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course, began to erode the power of the Subversive Activities Control Board, which had been created I guess during the [Joseph] McCarthy era. Senator [Everett] Dirksen was a big proponent of the board, in good part because he had--partly because he
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was when Strom Thurmond launched a-- C: Twenty-four hour-- G: --one man filibuster. C: Yes. Was that when Dirksen said the Civil Rights [Bill] was an idea whose time had come? Was that when Dirksen joined in with him and they put it over? No, I don't
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