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Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember the Area Redevelopment Bill? That was the depressed areas bill. T: I remember a bill coming before the Senate. G: You opposed that and I think it was ultimately beaten by another close vote. Did Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen have a good
and control over Senate voting; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s rapport with Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen; National Defense Education Bill; how LBJ dealt with Vietnam.

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as I know because I know many times the boys were down there. Ev (Everett) Dirksen, I found out about it through Jerry (Gerald) Ford. They were there many times you understand, and that's the way it's gotta be. Truman. I used to go down

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, 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, 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

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, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

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

; 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, 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

to this conference and there was quite a heated discussion that had developed among the conferees The conferees of the Senate were Mrs . (Senate opposed House positions) . (Margaret Chase) Smith (R-Maine) was the chairman, Senator (Everett) Dirksen (R-Ill

for translating that experience into [actionJ. G: How would you characterize Johnson's relations with each of his Republican T: counterparts~ Taft and then Knowland and then Dirksen? Well, Johnson had a good working, personal relationship with Ev Dirksen, who

of the country, certainly the leadership of the Congress. And I'm speaking now of both bodies and of both parties, the Democratic and the Republican. For example, yould always have Senator Mansfield, Senator Dirksen, Senator Dick Russell, Stennis, Margaret

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

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, 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, 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, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, 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, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. This embarrassed the agency, it was improper. There was another charge that was made in 1967 that had to do with the telegram to Senator Dirksen and to Congressman Ford from twenty-one Republican mayors urging that OEO be continued. This got carried to the point

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