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Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that newspaper experience on the College Star, and I went from there to Cuero and worked for a while on the Cuero Daily Record and then I went from there to San Antonio. I was on the San Antonio Express, but not in an editorial capacity. was teaching. I
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Department one, which is the telegraphic version of the top secret morning summary that goes to [the] president, vice president, secretary of defense, CIA director, and secretary of state. That would come in telegraphic form, usually arriving some time around
  • LBJ’s November 1963 trip to Luxembourg and other Benelux nations; William R. Rivkin; LBJ’s loyalty to JFK; LBJ’s complex personality; LBJ’s daily schedule while on trips; LBJ’s preference for hotels; Crockett and Dwight Porter; John Rooney; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and when I went out, obviously, I talked to a lot of old friends and new friends in the press business, and that was a major gripe. My recollection is that they were sending it through the telegraph office. I don't know which one, whether it was IT&T
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , especially when we started to--Houston traffic was nothing like it is now, but it sure was worse than it was at Telegraph, Texas. got well quick. It was still painful. whole trip that I didn't drive. G: That,s funny. M: Yes. My hand That was the only
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and activated the automatic telegraph wire printers--we called them Morkrums. Our political hero at the time was James V. Allred, then attorney general, later to be governor, federal judge, and a sometime candidate for the U.S. Senate. Governor Allred's
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a little slow to take credit for assisting on these projects. so, Lyndon Johnson. Not In fact while in the House as secretary and a member he brought the procedure to a fine art. In those days both Western Union and postal telegraph offered LBJ
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be a lead to a new opening? B: That's right. There were daily sessions with his two colleagues and the staff members of the three delegates, at which we examined the state of play at the end of each day and decided what strategy to follow on the next one
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , the continuing group, the carry-over group from administration to administration, which consists basically of a file room, a mail room, a correspondence section, telegraph and transportation services, a telephone room, an administrative office, a messenger
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the first combat troops to Vietnam, the marines, doing this and the instructions and he was explaining it, why he was that he had given these marines and so on . Well, it was very clear to me at the point that I was going back to daily journalism
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Keyes Beech's view of the war, I think in the early years at least, coincided with that of the Chicago Daily News. I think that was coincidental. So with that one possible exception--and I don't think that's a significant one--no, I don't think
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • A March 1973 memo from Charles Colson to H. R. Haldeman regarding Richard Kleindienst's confirmation as U.S. attorney general, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) files, false testimony by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I haven't had a hot shower in two weeks." They were talking about the fact that the people they were advising would not listen to their advice, that they were deliberately telegraphing their attacks so that the other side could get away
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mondale’s trip to Paris; how a trip to Italy led to a job working on LBJ’s staff; Scandinavian trip with LBJ; LBJ “misbehaving” on VP trips; LBJ and foreign affairs; LBJ’s old-fashioned nature; LBJ’s ability to win over a crowd; delivering important daily
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And this is not, you know, this is not a matter of five or six crises a year, this is a matter of daily pressure, the waters dripping on the rock. Every time that he called--not every time obviously--but more times than you could possibly imagin~ when he approached
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Peace Corps. F: Did you have any sort of a quid pro quo situation as far as getting countries to accept the Peace Corps in Latin America? V: No, i t was instead the jungle telegraph. There were two countries, Chile and Colombia, where
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--l6 independents around. We had a second newspaper at Bryan at that time--the Bryan Daily News--that supported Mr
Oral history transcript, B. F. "Tom" Donald, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the difference. The last 200 names were all in the same color ink, whereas the earlier voters' names were written in different colors. The last 200 were written in good hand by a person who wrote well. Luis Salas was a telegraph operator; he wrote well. G: Who
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Resolution. F: Right. G: None of us knew, of course, that the Tonkin Resolution was spurious. And you're familiar, of course, with the telegraph that was suppressed from Captain Herrick of the r·laddox. If that telegraph LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • by the President became law. I did receive a telegraphic invitation from Mr. Lawrence O'Brien, who was then on the President's staff, inviting me to the signing ceremony at the White House, but I did not attend. G: Before we get back to the legislative history
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • correct it to that extent. The communications workers had concluded a contract with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the East. It was a satisfactory settlement. Mr. Joe Byrne, the president of the union, had blessed it, the employees had
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the request by telephone. But And of course, bolstered it, came through with the telegraph request, too. And it was all done and I had no problems. As I say, thare were no blocks in the way any place. F: Did the Justice Department send someone out here
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and he would talk about something that was coming up. He knew in advance about my thinking. That was easy to telegraph. He had adventitious aides to help him. I have no recollection of the subject matter. But he was on the ball all the time. As whip, I
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Weber -- I -- 19 Senator except I would predict every day at least. When the Senator got back to Texas, telephone calls, of course long distance calls, were very, very common, but they would telegraph each other as to when they were
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the methods of financing the 1972 Republican National Convention raise a serious cloud over the recent out-of-court settlement by the Department of Justice of three anti-trust cases involving International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, ITT. The reports
  • ; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) case; O'Brien's June 1972 request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation look into the Watergate break-in and the response from Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen; O'Brien's correspondence
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the establishment. And I went to some of his speeches around the area with my father. And once, I recall--I could not have been more than fourteen, maybe thirteen--there had appeared an editorial or a letter attacking Governor Russell in the Macon Telegraph, which
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DUTTON -- I -- 13 anything like that he telegraphed the punch through the papers, which you know is not uncommon
Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • them in or--there was a telegraph office right across the street--one or the other, and turned those deals in to the Texas Election Bureau. Then next week when the [County] Democratic [Executive] Committee met to canvass the returns, it was 765 to 60
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Mr. Johnson telling us that one of the main things he said was, "Just don't telegraph your blows. you're going to do." Congress. Don't let them knm'/ everything But I cannot say that he consulted with the Of course, we passed the Gulf of Tonkin
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with Mr. Stevenson? C: Nothing, really. Stevenson, obviously, was a very bitter man. He not only went into political retirement, he almost went into hermitage. He went back out to Telegraph, near Junction, and he wouldn't come out for anything
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , a telegram to each of the fifty state presidents of our Federation. Federations in all our states. We have It was a two-page telegram; it was the largest telegraph bill that the Hopkinsville Western Union office had had up to that date. I asked each state
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reforms; McGovern's 1972 campaign financing; O'Brien's efforts to attack Richard Nixon; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) scandal; how O'Brien became chairman of the 1972 Democratic National Convention; Daley's reaction to his
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • information. A couple of times when they closed down the telegraph machine, I'd let the press file limited copy through embassy channels to Washington. There's no way you can gild that lily and there's no sense in trying. In fact, if anything
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)