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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
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Russell wrote to LBJ that LBJ sent back to Russell? R: No. Wouldn't accept it? G: Yes. R: No. G: Now, [Everett] Dirksen was another one that was very important for the You don't remember that 1etter? I didn't see it. Fortas thing. R: Yes. G
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Everett Dirksen? M: I don't think so except in the Senate itself, and I don't mean in their public debate but sometimes talking \'lith each other. I'd be over there and they'd be He liked Dirksen pretty \'Jell but laughed at him a little, too, because
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then, but this was the first spectacular. I would see a lot more as time went on. G: [Everett] Dirksen and [Hubert] Humphrey were both prominent in that occasion. C: Well, you know, Dirksen was the guy with whom all the compromises were worked out on the civil rights
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we were doing. He used to drive me crazy. The other thing I guess which is really wonderful, the thing that clinched going with the State of the Union Message on January 10, the date I suggested, was that Everett Dirksen called Marvin Watson
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • I'd let them see what these Republicans want to do about this thing. Because i,1hil e you get your message off tomorrow, my friend, probably Everett Dirksen and Dick Russell will be sitting around next Sunday over a mint julep with an understanding
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; he's too good a friend." So, no, we never caved in. G: How about Dirksen? D: Well, Dirksen, he didn't care so much about contracts and that sort of thing. Did he get special accommodation? What he wanted particularly [was] the regulatory agencies
  • of White House tours; state dinners; value of using the Sequoia; receptions and stag dinners for Congress at the White House; Lady Bird; Air Force One travel; appointments and congressional recommendations; LBJ's persuasive powers; Everett Dirksen; dealings
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Senator [Everett] Dirksen. He said, "Mr. President, I object to that committee meeting. In fact, I object to the Padre Island bilU' (Laughter) Lyndon said, "Permission enacted." (Laughter) Jim tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Have you heard enough?" I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • there at that time? Do you remember about it? The Diary says that he was visible affected by the remarks made by Senator [Everett] Dirksen. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Golden; Everett Dirksen; Barry Goldwater; Senator J. William Fulbright.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; it was a fairly long statement. Boy, when we finally talked him into it, I don't think Goldwater ever had a chance. In fact, I sometimes wonder whether Johnson and Everett Dirksen didn't set up Goldwater as the Republican candidate. But he blew it right
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Everett Dirksen," or Bill Knowland or anybody like that, to keep the southerners and the Midwest and conservative Republicans from making common cause and dominating and running the Senate, instead to form a Democratic majority with most of those
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • book here to [Senator Everett] Dirksen and [Senator Mike] Mansfield and others were more related to [Robert] Weaver in the Department of Housing and Urban Development than to this. I don't think I spent much LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to try to repair the damage? I noticed that shortly after that he met with [Everett] Dirksen and Russell. Did he have any success in--? R: Yes, he did. Eventually he reached a point where he realized that something had to be done substantively
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , during that session, there was a surprise birthday party for LBJ. R: Yes. G: Everett Dirksen came and spoke. The staff, I guess, was part of the party. Do you recall anything significant about that occasion? Dirksen's speech? R: No, it was just
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in that office which Senator Dirksen now occupies. [Minority Leader's] And it's kind of poignant to remember that big, strong, 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recounted a remark by Everett Dirksen at, I guess, a party that members of Congress and senators had for you, in which he asked you to save a little bit of bricks and mortar or something for a post office in Illinois. 15 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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.
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
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
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
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)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • .-Ga.] to walk across the aisle and embrace Everett Dirksen [R.-Ill.]. They believed that the establishment of any hard line of Democratic policy that would exclude the John Stennises [i.e. Sen. Stennis, D.-Miss.] would make the hardening
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: There's an indication that this concession was necessary in order to get the support of [Everett] Dirksen and Sam Ervin. O: I think that's valid. G: There was also an emphasis placed on family relationships, admitting immigrants who had close
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • spoke of the help that he got in his civil rights legislation from [Everett] Dirksen. He spoke of what he had to do to accomplish that. That had something to do with an appointment that Dirksen wanted. G: Regulatory commission or something? K
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • whip was Senator Francis Myers from Pennsylvania. So you had Scott Lucas, who was a moderate Democrat that Senator [Everett] Dirksen had defeated in November of 1950, and Senator Myers had been defeated, which was unexpected. We knew that Senator
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Tarlton of Corpus Christi who is dead now, Everett Looney of Austin . No other names come to me at the moment, but there were fifteen or twenty of them.:anyway in the room . This was the afternoon before the trial was to open, and they had not, of course