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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, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak -- III -- 5 It was still necessary in the Senate to secure the approval and support of Senator Dirksen. Without that, we could
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • normally think of. lve broke a filibuster with Dirksen's help. F: Do you have any idea how you got Dirksen's help? Unfortunately, he died before I could get to that. S: I don't remember. I know Nick did some--I'll tell you what we did
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • office because I simply didn't have any duties. of pitched in. I just sort I remember that night congressional leaders came; I remember Senator Dirksen came and the Speaker and others to be ushered in to see the President. I spent little time in his
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 R: Yes. B: Apparently Senator Dirksen's support was a key part of it. R: I think when Dirksen came around it became inevitable
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