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  • Contributor > Dirksen, Everett McKinley, 1896-1969 (remove)

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Telephone conversation # 9466, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 1/8/1966, 7:34PM (Item)
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON
  • "SUMMARIZED"; DIRKSEN ON HOLD 0:20; LBJ IS MEETING WITH LADY BIRD JOHNSON AND LOUELLA DIRKSEN IS MEETING WITH EVERETT DIRKSEN AT TIME OF CALL
  • First Lady
  • DIRKSEN TELLS LBJ THAT NYT STORY REPORTING THAT HE AND LBJ HAVE PARTED COMPANY ON VIETNAM IS INACCURATE; LBJ ASKS DIRKSEN TO MEET WITH HIM NEXT WEEK; TIME, ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEETING; LADY BIRD JOHNSON AND MRS. DIRKSEN EXCHANGE NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Telephone conversation # 10644, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 8/27/1966, 10:17AM (Item)
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL
  • First Lady
  • DIRKSEN TELLS LBJ HAPPY BIRTHDAY; LBJ'S TRIP YESTERDAY; MINIMUM WAGE BILL TIE VOTE; LBJ PRAISES JOHN LOVE'S DENVER HOUSING PROGRAM, ITS EFFECT ON RACIAL PROBLEMS; LADY BIRD JOHNSON ASKS ABOUT DIRKSEN'S HEALTH; LUCI JOHNSON'S, PAT NUGENT'S TRIP
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Telephone conversation # 13102, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 6/4/1968, 6:05PM (Item)
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON
  • "CALIF. PRIMARY, KUCHEL, MCCARTHY-KENNEDY DEBATE, JUDGESHIPS"; "SUMMARIZED YB" WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; LADY BIRD JOHNSON BRIEFLY INTERRUPTS RECORDING TO SPEAK TO WILLIAM WESTMORELAND WHO IS ON ANOTHER LINE
  • First Lady
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • . But it did come a bit as a surprise. I presume he and all others and Lady Bird must have evaluated this thing in terms of his future, his health, any other conditions that had to be taken into account, and then decided that this was the course to pursue