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Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 3/10/1966 (Item)
  • in President's Room dictated 3/11/66 1. 9:30 Liz over to talk re: Big Bend 9:40 Talked to President after dressing 2. 9:45 Left for Spanish 3. 12:30 To Shoreham: Mrs. Smathers's apartment Lunch and bridge w/ Mrs. Talmadge, Dirksen, Smathers 4:15 Mrs. Hobby
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 7/10/1967 (Item)
  • Baltimore; watched some of "Gunsmoke" on videotape, but had to leave before it was over to see Senator Dirksen on the Johnny Carson show in the President's Room. 12:15 Retired. *******
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 8/18/1967 (Item)
  • to the second floor. Worked with Ashton and Liz re: Expo Worked with Ashton re: Karnack Post Office. 5:40 With the President and Senator Dirksen in the West Hall. Worked with Ashton. 6:20 Secretary and Mrs. Vance and their children arrived and went to the Yellow
Telephone conversation # 9683, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 2/28/1966, 8:53AM (Item)
  • SENATE CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; RFK'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; O'BRIEN'S COMPARISON OF RFK, JFK; POSITIVE REACTION TO O'BRIEN'S VIETNAM SPEECH; LBJ TELLS O'BRIEN TO TALK TO DIRKSEN, MANSFIELD ON PASSING VIETNAM BILLS, HANDLING WAYNE MORSE AMENDMENT
Telephone conversation # 11520, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD FORD, 2/7/1967, 4:00PM (Item)
  • "RE: SAME SUBJECT AS ABOVE W/SEN. DIRKSEN"; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER
Senate Daily Diary entry, 8/27/1960 (Item)
  • - to Lo - Local LD - Long Distance EXPENDITURE CODE: ACESP - Automobile Cab Entertainment Special Plane CP RTRR - * The birthday party was truly a surprise to the Senator. He seemed visibly affected as Senator Dirksen spoke to the crowd and said some
Senate Daily Diary entry, 9/2/1960 (Item)
  • Arrived P-38 To Walter Reed hospital with Sen Dirksen to see the Vice President. Lunch in P-38 with team of speech writers $13.90 To Butler aviation to take convair to Texas. But a motor went out on plane so had to turn around a few miles out and come back
Senate Daily Diary entry, 4/6/1960 (Item)
  • Miller Sen Ellender Palmer Hoyt, Denver, Col. Lunch in P-38 $1.50 Oscar Chapman John Connally (Fort Worth) Press conference (National Press) in P-38 Bill Lawrence (New York Times) Sen Dirksen Charles Patrick Clark; stag cocktail party and sit-down dinner
Senate Daily Diary entry, 4/7/1960 (Item)
  • Trinity River Project group -- spokesman was Ben Carpenter of Dallas Senator Johnson opened the Senate To Appropriation s Committee, F 37 in behalf of Trinity River Project Lunch in P-38 $.75 Sen Dirksen Cocktail party honoring Dick West in P-38 To Norman
Senate Daily Diary entry, 4/28/1960 (Item)
  • April 28, 1960 Expenditure Code visited by)* LD Arrived P-38 Sen Oren Long Senator Johnson opened the Senate Picture with Sen Kefauver in P-38 Joint Session to hear King of Nepal Policy luncheon at Joe Duke's Sen Dirksen Made weekly radio report
Senate Daily Diary entry, 6/8/1960 (Item)
  • television show with Sen Smathers television show with Sen Keating Party honoring Sen Dirksen in OSCC -- presented him with portrait given by Sen Talmadge and Sen Johnson painted by Gisbert Palmie Walker Stone in P-38 Bryce Harlow -- re: White House meeting
Senate Daily Diary entry, 9/2/1959 (Item)
  • Construction Appropriation Committee Conference, F-37 Texas Delegation (closed) Cy Anderson and Andy Biemiller Sen Bridges Jerry Holleman Sen Dirksen Jerry Holleman, Phil Potter, Chuck Bailey, Allen Drury, Russ Bill White Sen Morse George Speaker Sen Kennedy
Senate Daily Diary entry, 9/13/1959 (Item)
  • 13 , 195 9 N W Activity (include visited by)* LD Expenditure Code Breakfast: Mrs . Johnso n an d M M Sen Russel l Sen Dirksen, Herndon , Va . Sen Humphrey Bobby Bake r Lunch: Mrs . Johnson , Lynda , M M nap To Gene Worley' s fo r dinne r wit h th
Senate Daily Diary entry, 9/14/1959 (Item)
  • and Bess Beeman in P-38 To make radio tape and also t-v tape with Sen Yarborough in recording room Sen Dirksen's party in Old Supreme Court Chamber for Senate staff employees To Speaker's To floo r Dinner in P-38 with Mrs. Johnson and Ruth Schumm 6.10 Bill
Senate Daily Diary entry, 3/11/1959 (Item)
  • Preparedness Subcommitte e hearing s continue d Ambassador Carrill o Flore s Mr. Thornberry Sen. Dirksen , Se n Charli e Daniel , Bobb y Bake r cocktails, East Lounge preceding Press Club dinner at 8:00 Selected name s shoul d b e underscored . SEE VERS O FO
Senate Daily Diary entry, 1/28/1960 (Item)
  • ) Scotty Reston Mr. Weisl, Ken, Bill Lloyd, George Charley Gibson (Amarillo) re: Paul Rogers' possible filing for US Senator Sen Dirksen John Connally (Fort Worth) Committee for a National Trade Policy dinner honoring the Speaker who received Cordell Hull
Senate Daily Diary entry, 2/17/1960 (Item)
  • press plus Dave Botter Sen Dirksen, Sen Clifford Case, Sen Javits, Sen Keating -- r e: civil rights To home Selected names should be underscored. SEE VERSO FOR TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND CODE Page No.
Senate Daily Diary entry, 2/23/1960 (Item)
  • , re: Appropriations hearings on Texas projects Sen Dirksen re: civil rights Bob Clark (Dallas) Elmo Roper Made radio report Booth Mooney Dinner in P-38 with MM $3.95 Selected names should be underscored. SEE VERSO FOR TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND CODE
Senate Daily Diary entry, 3/4/1960 (Item)
  • (Dallas) Sen Russell and Harry McPherson Dinner in P-38 with MM $1.50 Picture with Sen Dirksen Selected names should be underscored. SEE VERSO FOR TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND CODE Expenditure Code R Page No.
Senate Daily Diary entry, 3/7/1960 (Item)
  • :30p 7. 12:45p t 8. 1:00p 9. 3:30p 10. 4:00p 11. 4:15p 12. 5:30p 13. 8:30p Arrived P-38 Sen Russell Gerry and George Sen Dirksen Senator Johnson opened the Senate Abe Fortas Mike Guajardo (Acapulco) and group of Mexicans here in interest
Senate Daily Diary entry, 3/16/1960 (Item)
  • (Austin) John Goldsmith Sen Pastore Homer Thornberry Sen Dirksen To Sen Mansfield's birthday party in G-23 Judge Salinas (Laredo) Mrs. Albert Lasker, (NYC) Mrs. Johnson and Lynda Bill White To Speaker's office Selected names should be underscored. SEE
Senate Daily Diary entry, 3/18/1960 (Item)
  • in P-38 $2.15 Irv Hof f and Fred Lordan (Seattle) and James Harris (Yakima, Wash) Cliff Ramsdale and Cecil Holland Sen Dirksen Congressman Lester Johnson (off the Senate floor) David Wright (Greenville, Texas; of Temco) and a group of Temco employees
Senate Daily Diary entry, 3/22/1960 (Item)
  • Jackson Sen Dirksen an d Sen Clark Ed Woods, St. Louis Post Dispatch Sen McClellan meeting of Campaign Dinner Committee at Crystal Ballroom, Willard Hotel cocktails East Lounge, Natl Press Club and 7:30 dinner -- Annual Congressional Night Dinner, stag
Folder, "Boggs, Hale (Cong.) 1/1/1967 - 12/31/1967," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-331 (Item)
  • , Defense Charles F. Luce, Interior J. Herbert Hollomon, Conmerce Wilbur J. Cohen, H&l Everett Hutchinson, Transportation Treasury Joseph W. Barr, Belen, Post Office Frederick Schnittker, John A., Agriculture James J. Reynolds, Labor Robert C. Wood, HUD
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • shows that Clarence Mitchell made a significant contribution in this. G: Well, what was the key to passing the cloture vote? O: The ultimate key was the attitude of [Everett] Dirksen. It was a surprise that he changed his position. There were people
  • The 1968 proposed tax surcharge to address rising costs of the Vietnam War and curb inflation; support from the business community for the tax surcharge; Civil Rights Act of 1968; Everett Dirksen's role in passing the cloture vote; the Housing
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 4, May 1-27, 1964 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • . Fulbright George A. Smathers Everett M. Dirksen Thomas H.- Kuchel Bourke B. Hickenlooper Leverett Saltonstall Congressman Hale Boggs Congressman Carl Vinson Congressman Thomas E. Morgan Congressman Leslie C. Arends Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton {Invited
Folder, "Brewster, Daniel B. 1/1/67 - 12/31/67," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-449 (Item)
  • , Senator YARBOROUGH, Ralph W., Senator McFALL, John Congress PATTEN, Edward Congress LONG, Clarence D., Congress CEDERBERG, Elford A., Congress JONAS, Charles Raper, Congress TALCOTT, Burt L., Congress Secretary of State HAYDEN, Carl, Senate DIRKSEN
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to Bridges and some of the key people. Mr. Johnson's relationship with [Everett] Dirksen later developed, as everybody knows, of having a great working relationship with Dirksen, apparently a mutual admiration society, even though they might in public say
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Marie Wilson -- II -- 8 MW: It was constant. GW: It was just a constant~ day-to-day [thing]. He ran circles around him every day over there. ~~: And Knowland never related to LBJ the way [Everett] Dirksen did. Dirksen would come around
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the power of the comptroller general. Whatever we decide to do, we've got to get the leadership, [Mike] Mansfield and [Everett] Dirksen, the Senate leadership, and the committee chairman aboard. And ended by saying, "Whatever you do"--it was another weekend
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Bill was a plodder. tendency to put things off until tomorrow. Bill had a He had some fixed ideas, very conservative, and Lyndon could just talk circles around him. G: How about Johnson and [Everett] Dirksen? M: They got along fine. G
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 85, November 2004," LBJ Library (Item)
  • of the Dirksen Congressional Center, joined LBJ Education Special isl arsh·1 Sharp anJ author Nick Kotz in conducting a workshop on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. lso participating were rep­ resentatives or the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . As a general rule I think the answer would be yes. But I think, you know, a [Everett] Dirksen or a [Mike] Mansfield would have a lot more influence than just a senator. But I think Johnson was pretty sensitive about all those sort of courtesy issues. As I said
Folder, "Celler, Emanuel (Cong) [1 of 2]," Name Files, WHCF, Box C-151 (Item)
  • . Welfare and Mrs. CELEBREZZE GRISWOLD, Erwin N. HAAR, Charles M. HAYDEN, Carl HALL, Peter EASTLAND, James o. HOYT, Palmer LONG, Russell B. Sir Robert and Lady JACKSON DIRKSEN, Everett McKinley JENSEN, Howard SMATHERS, George A. JORDAN, James KUCHEL, Thomas
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . MG: What were his skills? G: I think that's probably pretty difficult, for me to answer anyhow. I would rank him with [J. William] Fulbright and [Everett] Dirksen, and of course, if you look at who taught him with politics, Sam Rayburn. Why
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)