Election to the Senate in 1954; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Dick Russell; committee assignments; LBJ moving to the left; 1964 Civil Rights Bill; 1965 Voting Rights Bill; 1957 filibuster; the Southern Manifesto; HR3; LBJ’s hunger for power 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, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Citation
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 31, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-thurmonds-19790507-1-80-64