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- Reference No. 13146
August 13, 2008
Processing Note
Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording.
DATE: 6/26/68
TIME: ll :lOAM
CALLER: Everett Dirksen
Pages ofTranscript: 2 pages
Barbara Cline
Archivist
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- LBJ SAYS ABA HAS FOUND ABE FORTAS, HOMER THORNBERRY HIGHLY ACCEPTABLE APPOINTEES AS SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, ASKS DIRKSEN TO TALK WITH ROMAN HRUSKA ABOUT APPOINTMENTS; VIEWS OF RICHARD RUSSELL, JAMES EASTLAND ON FORTAS
- Dirksen, Everett McKinley, 1896-1969
- Telephone conversation # 13146, transcript, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 6/26/1968, 11:10AM
- EVERETT DIRKSEN
- . Russell
Senator Everett Dirksen
Senator Thomas H. Kuchel
Senator Milton B. Young
E me st Goldstein
Barefoot Sanders
Ed Fried
Walt Rostow
Mike Manatos
Fred Deming
Joe Califano
Larry Levinson
George Christian
Tom Johnson
It ended at 6:40 p. m.
..
t?rt:7
- to bring Senator Everett Dirksen to Walter Reed Hospital; nap; dinner with the C. Douglas Dillons
- Halleck & Everett Dirksen and Republicans; Houston Symphony at Constitution Hall; Ima Hogg; national view of Texas
- 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
- Jackson about urban renewal; LBJ visits with Everett Dirksen; Lady Bird has afternoon guests; LBJ tells Dirksen about working with Dwight Eisenhower
- Ranch guests include Senators Mike Mansfield & Everett Dirksen and Congressman George Mahon; guests leave; Lady Bird goes to Johnson City to LBJ's Boyhood Home for restoration meeting; lunch; LBJ gives Lady Bird and Luci robes from Korea; Lady Bird
- ; Entertainment for dinner is Carol Channing in "Hello, Dolly!"; Carol Channing and Everett Dirksen have "same voice;" LBJ and Hubert Humphrey dance with Carol Channing; Lady Bird dances with Douglass Fairbanks, Jr.; Fairbanks speaks of President Franklin
- of the monetary
policy, the economy can take it.
MEETlt~&NOTES copyRl..GHTED
Ptthlicatio" ReCfuires
1'erm1ss1on of Copyright
Holder~ W. Thoma1 Johnson
THE PRESIDENT: We need to find out two or three things.
got to have a tax bill.
We've
( 1) See if Dirksen
- of you see as many of these Senators as you can. We do not want to
cut out any of our muscle. We will cut out the fat. Senator Dirksen is very
pro-German. He does not want to open another front by drawing down his
forces in Europe.
Secretary Clifford
- : That depends on the President's attitude toward
the recommendations.
THE PRESIDENT: I am ready to sign on except for how we
handle the announcement- - -what we say and the timing of it.
0
I would be guided by Senator Russell, Mansfield, Rivers
and Dirksen
- also check on Hickenlooper. He has been very lukewarm.
If Nixon and Dirksen won't oppose it, you are in good shape.
Would you feel out Aiken and Hickenlooper.
The President:
What about talks with Soviets?
Senator Fulbright:
It would
- this morning?
The President: I thought we did very little good, very little harm.
General Brown was not a good briefer. He does not speak with authority.
We need to take the toughest questions we get and answer them with
authority with Senator Dirksen
- Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles; LBJ discusses gun control with Senator Mike Mansfield; LBJ calls Senators Dirksen & Aiken about agriculture; Lady Bird cancels appointments; Lady Bird works on telegrams for Rose & Ethel Kennedy; LBJ makes