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Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was backing; LBJ calling Everett Dirksen to get votes to support certain legislation; the Commission's subpoena power; the role of the media during the riots; why the Commission report was released quickly in March 1968

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recollection of that at all? AG: Very little. He and Knowland did not have the same relationship that he did later with [Everett] Dirksen. He and Knowland didn't necessarily get along that well or didn't work together that well. specifics on that. I
LBJ's relationship with Senate staff; Gonella's working relationship with LBJ; personal relationship with LBJ and his siblings; Everett Dirksen; Hale Boggs; Huey Long; LBJ's early workings with the Senate

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- XXXV -- 5 C: Kintner. G: He's dead. C: Did you ever interview him? Did anybody ever interview him? G: Yes, we have. C: Then we got Morse to introduce the joint resolution. [Everett] Dirksen introduced something else; we got [Charles] Murphy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the recommendations of his cabinet. [Everett] Dirksen asked him whether Taft-Hartley applied, and he said no. Hickenlooper said, "When do we face up to the destructive power of unions in this country? We've got to deal with this." Johnson said, "I've asked all sorts

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Austin; George Reedy; examining FBI files for potential oral history board members; LBJ’s involvement in the oral history program and reaction to what was said; H.T. Zachary and other failed interviews; Everett Dirksen; Rufus Youngblood and Dorothy

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in. Lyndon killed the filibuster himself by using Everett Dirksen." This LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to me?" G: How about Lyndon Johnson's relations with Everett Dirksen? Y: Well, I think they had a good working relationship. Both of them had a great sense of humor and both of them loved politics. They knew politics and both were effective. G: I

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

good, very good. When I was governor, I had no problems at any time, so far as cooperation was concerned. F: Were you ever able to get any insights into President Johnson's relationship with Senator [Everett] Dirksen? Dirksen's a Republican. I

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Everett Dirksen onto the floor the following day to reply on behalf of the administration. I think that it is fair to say that Everett Dirksen was his principal lieutenant in support of the war in the Senate. M: And ne was on the leadership as well. C

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Tom Kuchel; Kuchel's support for, and Everett Dirksen's opposition to, Pierre Salinger's 1964 Senate race; the tobacco industry and O'Brien's compromise regarding anti-smoking public service announcements on postal trucks; the 1964 federal food stamp

Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)

if it was the least bit controversial. Sometimes he had the Southern Democrats; sometimes he didn't. Sometimes he had to pick off enough Republicans to get a program passed. Sometimes he had to make deals with Everett Dirksen or Gerald Ford to get enough votes

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of course that was a masterful feat. I can't overlook Everett Dirksen because Everett Dirksen had a tremendous part in that leadership. Johnson worked together on it. I'm sure that he and Lyndon There were a number of Republicans who weren't for it, you

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to others. Yes, come to think about it, sure. Of course, Kuchel became assistant minority leader, you know, under [Everett] Dirksen, and, actually, pretty much the acting minority leader because Dirksen's health was not good and he spent a lot of time on his

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Senator [George] Aiken of Vermont got a protégé on the commission. That was Charlie Ross. G: How about [Everett] Dirksen? S: Dirksen managed to get one of his political operatives appointed. G: Harold Woodward? S: Yes. He looked at his job

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

, and my feeling is that the historian trying to come to terms with Lyndon Johnson wants to hear him talking to Everett Dirksen on the telephone. And while one feels in a certain sense that, my goodness, here's this damn fool, on the other hand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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