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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of political leader.All that said, I still had the feeling in 1960 when the effort was launched in that speech in the Dirksen Building, of an almost convulsively naive undertaking in which there was suddenly just an eruption: "Well, okay, let's go

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Dirksen there with all that I needed a haircut . Poi : You're getting ready to kiss her on the cheek there . B: I think she's one of the finest ladies, or people, that I ever knew . 11 : You think she played the role of first lady B: Exactly

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 Senator Dirksen ran out on us. We thought we had him set, but he ran out and was going to vote against us

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to drink less than he'd give someone else to drink, which I'm sure they were under instructions to do. He'd have less than an ounce and Dirksen would get two full ounces. But that all stopped. G: He went to Fresca or some--? C: Well, he drank all those

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from Massachusetts jerked his support back. I think it was also Dirksen who started out neutral and then became neutral with a heavy tilt and started saying all the Republicans would vote against him, and there are several Democrats who'll vote against

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get through over the objection of some people who took a very adamant stand against any movement Ln that period. F: Were you privy to the developing cooperation between what became the Senate Minority Leader Dirksen and Senate Majority Leade r

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was quite good. F: Did you get the feeling that Johnson sometimes gave little lessons to Knowland on how to maneuver? H: I think he did. I don't think that Knowland learned them very well. I had a feeling that a Johnson-Dirksen combination was much more

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, the Committee on the Judiciary in the House had passed very restrictive legislation on the Court. Those bills had come on over to the Senate, and John McClellan and Jim Eastland handled those bills, and Ev Dirksen. They were all on Judiciary or on Government

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, whoever was the Treasury Secretary, or Joe Barr--and that you want to have Mansfield and Dirksen and Hickenlooper and Fulbright. But don't you realize that these are the people who every country wants to have and out of the last six dinners, they've just

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

believe, when there was an opportunity for the Senate to come in with a higher figure and then have it compromised down to the one-and-a-half billion that the House had recommended, Senator Dirksen reported on the floor of the Senate that when President

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

opposition leadership? H: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Yes, they would. In other words, were he and Gerald Ford able to talk? I think it was more so with Dirksen, but they kept their lines open. F

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and somebody else lost. H: McFarland lost. And the Senator from Illinois, Scott Lucas. Scott Lucas lost in that election and that opened the way up for him. [Lyndon] Scott Lucas was the Majority Leader of the Senate until Mr. Dirksen, I believe it was, beat

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was to call me back, you see. o'clock. That was at ten He called me back at four o'clock and said he made some checks with Senator Aiken, Senator Sparkman, Dirksen and I also asked him to check with the FBI. He asked me when I could be in Washington

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, was in a position where he wanted Republican support, he leaned heavily on Dirksen. Johnson did cooperate. Because Whenever it was in our national interest, and for the defense and stability of our country, and stability and the mutual defense in the world, he

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

graduated from college, and my first job in the real world was the office of Vice President Johnson, then located in the new Senate office building [the Dirksen Senate Office Building]. As far as my tasks go, just out of college I didn't have a great deal

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, what happened here. Kennedy was appointed. I assume that Johnson was largely responsible for naming the Democratic conferees and that Dirksen would name the Republican conferees. R: Not entirely, no. They're responsible for naming them

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] .. ' ' More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ' Gerald Siegel--IU-.-5 performance as Senate Democratic Leader was really virtuoso. He just dominated the whole scene. Even Dirksen, who was pretty

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

community in the state of Illinois is responsible for what happened to the 14B. that's where it came from. exactly squarely. They worked through Dirksen, but But I think Johnson played the game He set it up, he made it forceful, and he just didn't

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a discussion with Senator Dirksen, and Senator Long may have been involved in it. Anyway, the appearance given at the tine was that the President had gotten a commitment to put through the tax bill. This was on the basis of, as I recall, an expenditure

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the magazine that month, to my great pride and joy, although I couldn't say anything about it. G: We seem to have lost the appellations of that sort to political figures today. A: Yes, we have. For instance, Ev Dirksen in those days would have been

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- I -- 2 Dirksen. I lived there, say, from

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it again on a social Dirksen talked to me about it, he said, "What in the hell does Lyndon Johnson have on George Malone?" I mean, George Malone will vote 999 times with a straight Republican ticket, and on the most critical vote that the Republican

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)

. Senator Kennedy was not present -- Senator John Kennedy. Senator Dirksen was not. I think all three of us were sick at the time that the treaty was ratified 82-1, with only one vote against it Senator Langer from North Dakota. Senator Mansfield went out

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the crisis or refer to it as a crisis, but yet you had to impress upon Ev Dirksen and the rest out there in the hinterlands that there was a need for immediate return to Washington. G: Did you make these calls? O: I made some of them directly and my staff

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ambassador whether it was Peoria, Illinois, dedicating a downtown square because Senator Dirksen had asked you to, or whether it was riding down the Snake River in the Tetons. It was also highly- F: Do you think Mrs. Johnson envisioned a succession

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was for the good of the nation, that was the motivating force in my memory. for his party. He and Mr. Dirksen and Mr. Certainly he was a partisan ~lartin and Mr. Rayburn argued their points out, but when they went on that floor of the House and Senate

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

beginning. Pete Rodino; McCulloch of Ohio; Feighan, who is from Ohio, who is also a man long working in the field. On the Senate side, Hruska of Nebraska; Dirksen; Teddy Kennedy; Eastland, I believe--he never came around although one of his staff people

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

say that in Lyndon Johnson's drinking I never saw him lose control. But he'd consume Scotch, just lots of it, oh, lots of it! He would come down from Ev Dirksen's office sometimes about six o'clock. You know, I'd be waiting there for him. Scotches