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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the on-the-wall type Republicans who were from states where it didn't matter how they voted either way. And he lined them up, and I think Everett Dirksen had an awful lot to do with a civil rights bill of any kind passing. And that goes for education, because
  • of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); an alliance between Republicans and Southern Democrats in the Senate, and Everett Dirksen's influence on that alliance; Tommy Corcoran; the Hill-Burton Act and ESEA legislation that favored poorer states.
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of circumstances, would those same people be considered liberal or conservative? That's a hard one; that's tough. G: Everett Dirksen replaced Bill Knowland as the Republican leader. Let me ask you to describe how Lyndon Johnson worked with each of those men
  • of a Democratic majority in the Senate in 1958 and how that changed the character of the Senate; LBJ's relationships with Bill Knowland and Everett Dirksen; LBJ's reputation in the Senate; the Senate majority leader's power; Senate Rule Twenty-Two allowing