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  • like Molly Malone and Bill Langer. He even managed to get Everett Dirksen to support him quite often. C: That is one aspect--and it's true, he did that--of the fact that politics and leadership, the exercise of power, was at the very core of his
  • Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil
  • any problem in the Senate, because in the Senate we felt we had a good eight or nine or ten votes to spare there--which of course we did have as time went on. have enough votes to break a filibuster, you see. But we didn't Everett Dirksen mounted
  • of California in 1958, the 1960 presidential campaign. Johnson as Vice-President, Senator Everett Dirksen as Senate Minority Leader, LBJ’s reaction to the press.
  • know [Senator Everett] Dirksen used to plead with him [to] get rid of this group or that group. Dirksen called me one night and he said, "If you've got any LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson