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Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with their report and anticipated ours, using much of our material. F: You've had a senator from Illinois named Everett Dirksen among whose stands, but not consistently--he switched positions on the civil rights issue, most particularly open housing, when you were
  • ; Committee on Government Reorganization; Task Force on Income Maintenance; Dirksen; Shriver.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • now. [Everett] Dirksen said that we had to stay in South Vietnam and win basically but the next line in the perimeter from South Vietnam was Alaska to Hawaii and we couldn't be forced back to that point, that as far as military decisions were concerned
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • And they obviously on the floor M: In the comnittee? K: In the committee. M: How about agreed K: No, Senator to vote we were able accommodations M.] Dirksen but we never paid attention [R-Ill.] to that man and can be brought the liberals they knew
  • policy on pardons; civil rights; riots in Oxford, Mississippi; integration of University of Alabama; Civil Rights Act of 1964; legislative maneuvering by LBJ; William McCulloch; Everett Dirksen; cloture threat; LBJ, HEW, and Chicago school funds; LBJ
Folder, "South Vietnam and U.S. Policies [X-File] [2 of 2]," Files of Walt Rostow, NSF, Box 19 (Item)
  • adds : "By Saturday he had accused Sen. Everett Dirksen of a Re­ publican plot to sabotage peace (which ' Dirksen, ·presumably, hastened to relay to Nixon head­ quarters); and · by Sunday, Johnson was in direct and bitter telephonic contact with Richard
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not unusual. I think if you go back over the history of it, it was always that stalemated Senate situation you were faced with. G: Mansfield assured [Everett] Dirksen that no effort would be made to bring the bill back as a rider or anything else. Why would
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • peels off the outer layers for the benefit of, say, Everett Dirksen, or whether he's just playing a game with 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/25/1967 (Item)
  • McNamara . Operator. "I want you to have the following list of people standing by to talk after the press conference is over.: Ambassador Goldberg, Senator Mike Mansfield, Senator J. W. Fulbright, Senator Everett Dirksen, Senator Bourke Hickenlooper
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/4/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Jackson about urban renewal; LBJ visits with Everett Dirksen; Lady Bird has afternoon guests; LBJ tells Dirksen about working with Dwight Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~: By it to the: point that he could still get Justice th'~: same token he knc,., that Everett Dirksen ~}as the ler of the Republicans in fact, and if he supported the nomination, there was a likelihood
  • Alexander’s nomination; LBJ’s attempts to reconcile with Russell; maintaining support for Fortas over time; losing Everett Dirksen’s support of Fortas; Homer Thornberry; Temple’s advice to LBJ and Mrs. Johnson’s support regarding Thornberry; Barefoot Sanders
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Thornberry and Abe Fortas; Senators Richard Russell and Everett Dirksen; separation of powers issue regarding Fortas; the effect of Humphrey’s campaign on LBJ’s work; cancelled arms control meeting with the Russians; measuring how LBJ would run against Nixon
Folder, "Boggs, Hale (Cong.) 1/1/1965 - 12/31/1965," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-330 (Item)
  • . The Secretary of Conmerceand FCRTAS,Abe Mrs. CCNNCR The Secretary of Health Education and GARDNm,John W• Welfare and Mrs. CELEIIU:ZZE GRISWOLD, Erwin N. HAYDEN, Carl HAAR,Charles M. HALL,Peter EASTLAND, James o. HOIT, Palmer LOtll, Russell B. DIRKSEN,Everett
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their friendship or their loyalties. Johnson and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Kerr and [Richard] Russell of Georgia really ran the Senate on the Democratic side along with the late Styles Bridges, [Everett] Dirksen and some of them on the Republican side. G
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/1/1968 (Item)
  • Joseph, Marina, 14 Mary Edward 12 Mary Victor, 11 Mary Margaret. 10 1:00p Back 1:01p t 1:01p 1:15p 1, and his mother. Mrs . Anthon y Re 9 8 Elizabeth, 6 Joan. 5 Ellen, abc 3 to Oval Ofc ~ Sen. Hon. Everett Dirksen Sargent Shriver OFF RECORD 1968
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/2/1964 (Item)
  • - Mont. Frances F. Bolton - Ohio J. W. Fulbright - Ark. Clement Zablocki - Wisconsin Everett Dirksen - Ill. Secretary Rusk Bourke Hickenlooper - Iowa Mrs. Robert Kennedy Frank J. Lausche - Ohio Averell Harriman - Under Secy, of State for Political Affairs
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/26/1966 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Ranch guests include Senators Mike Mansfield & Everett Dirksen and Congressman George Mahon; guests leave; Lady Bird goes to Johnson City to LBJ's Boyhood Home for restoration meeting; lunch; LBJ gives Lady Bird and Luci robes from Korea; Lady Bird
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/15/1967 (Item)
  • visited by) ture Code -. 7:42p --8:15 15, ., - *!--,- RECORD: Senator Everett Dirksen Johnson (pl)--re a memo that Tom J had sent in asking for the President's approval for Asst Secy Goulding to release a statement about a plane downed in action
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/21/1967 (Item)
  • (include visited by) Christian (pl) Johnson Mike Mansfield Rostow Senator t Everett Dirksen Senator John Sparkman ~~MW (pl) "~~ .. . 12:30p t ay_ Secy of State, Nicholas Katzenbach _i Walt ^12:11p t Wednesday i Senator . Wallace Bennett
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/10/1967 (Item)
  • the President's call (held while the President talked to the Sen) (began talking at 3:28p) Everett Dirksen, Walter Reed Hospital (b-2) Valenti--about a John Steinbeck letter (mjdr placed the call to tell JV that the President wanted to talk to him; he held until
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/16/1967 (Item)
  • Cramer Cong George Mahon Sen John J Williams j Sen John S Cooper Cong Wilbur Mills Sen Milton R. Young ; Sen Everett Dirksen Cong W. R. Poage i. Cong George Fallon Sen Jennings Randolph ' Cong Gerald Ford Sen John Sparkman r ^w — HUE House Date ENT
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/31/1966 (Item)
  • (at his residence) Sen. Everett Dirksen (b. 1) Secy Rusk Bill Moyers (pl) Secy McNamara (b. 2) Jake Jacobsen Secy Rusk (b. 2) Bob Komer Secy Henry Fowler Secy McNamara 31, 1966 WEDNESDAY Ilatf AUGUST 31, 1966 White House Dav WEDNESDAY > Cod
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Fortas] was a good man. chief justice. G: He would have made a good Very capable man. I guess the President initially thought he had both Senator [Everett] Dirksen and Senator [Richard] Russell of Georgia behind him on that, and then both men ended up
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • House in the Johnson Administration than we had in the Kennedy Administration. I think this was particularly true with men like Everett Dirksen, who had worked shoulder by shoulder with Johnson for a long time. Kennedy, during his term in the Senate
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No, there wasn't. F: Of course, you've got a disadvantage in effect when you support an administration that was against somebody like [Everett] Dirksen, where Johnson always had to bring him around on issues. 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 46, 15 January 1990," LBJ Library (Item)
  • with Nation's Business who formerly was with U.S. News & World Report; John Kornacki, Direc­ tor of the Everett Dirksen Congres­ sional Center in Pekin, Illinois; Middleton, and Dean Livingston. Eveningsat The Library The team of Karen Kuykendall, Sterling
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recommendations. To my knowledge we never had situations like the problem that Nixon's now having with [John] Knowles between [Robert] Finch and [Everett M.] Dirksen. And if we had any, I'm sure that the President was fully capable of ironing out the situation
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Califano -- XXVIII -- 11 resolutions in both the House and Senate to oppose, but we beat them both. I don't think they were major battles. G: At one point it appeared that the move was in serious trouble in the Senate. [Everett] Dirksen came
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stuff we figured we could get. G: Did you know [Everett] Dirksen would oppose it? C: I'm sure we assumed that. But he always started that way; we didn't know whether he'd ever turn around. The slips again from April fourth, now we move the desirable
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • compensation; LBJ's relationship with Knowland and Dirksen; LBJ as VP; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • i mita te I don't remember his imitating Halter--there wasn't much about Walter to imitate--but he would imitate people all the time. G: How about [Senator Everett] Dirksen? W: Yes. Did you ever hear [LBJ] do him? It wasn't so much the talk
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • marvelous jokes at the time. One is a famous one about Everett Dirksen finally getting a telephone installed in his Senate car. You know, this was the car allocated to the leaders. And Dirksen is supposed to have seen Johnson up ahead and dialed his
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And it wasn't the kind of adversarial relationship that [Everett] Dirksen and LBJ had, which was that they could rant and rave and roar at one another, and then Dirksen would send him some marigolds. I think it's marigolds that were Dirksen's favorite flower
Folder, "Douglas, Paul H., 1/1/65 - 12/31/65," Name Files, WHCF, Box D-251 (Item)
  • , Carl T. DffiKSEN, Everett McKinleiJ DCDD, Thomas J. DOONICK, Peter H. DOUGLA H. - STLAND, James O. ELLENDER, Allen J. ERVIN, Sam J ., Jr., FANNIN, Paul J. om, Hiram L. F BR.I
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their advantage of incumbency, have limitations imposed on the financing of campaigns, be dependent upon some sort of a check-off procedure and, therefore, eliminate the big donor. You had to live with that and focus on presidential elections. Then with Ev Dirksen
  • in the 1980s; encouraging Democratic civil-rights-supporting members of Congress to organize and become more actively involved in the passage of related legislation; the civil rights views of southern members of Congress; Everett Dirksen's and Mike Mansfield's
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/7/1967 (Item)
  • ) Califano (pl) . Everett Dirksen Cong. Gerald Ford ^______ __ ___ Cong. John Burns __ Edward Bennett Williams , President of the Washington Redskins Commissioner Pete Rozelle, Commissioner • - i the ___ Mrs. i to present lifetime pass to National
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 86, December 2005," LBJ Library (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Everett Dirksen to come around on open housing bills? You know, Dirksen would always oppose the civil rights acts and wound up in the long run dragging a few Republicans in with him, enough to put it over. G: Well, Johnson was a great persuader. I mean