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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, 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