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Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • office buildings as well as the Senate. The president called a conference of the managers of the two telegraph companies and put to them the following proposition: Since his office (or Mr. Kleberg's) sent telegrams by the hundreds annually, and were
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the University of North Dakota, I received a telegram from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U . S . Department of Labor inquiring as to whether I was available as a statistical clerk, CAF-2, $1,440 per year . This was in the spring of 1935 . I replied
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to your liking than Stevenson, or was it basically friendship? B: Just because it was friendship. G: What about the other beer breweries? Did Falstaff and Schlitz help LBJ? B: I don't know. G: How about Lone Star? I wonder about the Texas
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • a lieutenant Although he served for only five months, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal for distinguished service while serving in New Guinea. He left active duty only because President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress serving in the Armed Forces
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be a huge star at a given point. The timing was off. In 1976 or 1980 or 1984, whatever the period is, the parochial-personalized approach, simple-fireside-chat concept that FDR started, in my opinion, can be very effective. I happen to think it would be very
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • . So we waited until about two o'clock Sunday afternoon, and no money had shm'ln up. Effie and Uncle Gato. Then we started wiring Aunt Didn't you get a telegram from us about the money? Do you remember that? P: I don't remember. W: You sent
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/16/1970, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that 1941 campaign, can you describe some of the ways in which the Administration helped you, James Rowe issuing telegrams at crucial times? J: I think they did everything that they thought they could appropriately do without offending the people of Texas
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • conversations--I'm sure there are telegrams on some of them. Maybe the whole feeling--after we got to know each other, and we did--reflected a funny, tough relationship. It was never quite the same as Badeau's with him, which it couldn't be, but we had a tough
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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • in the vineyard. M arvin--there was somebody very close to us who was close to him, and who asked him if he didn't want to go with us. I'm trying to remember who that was that brought him in. And I can't quite get it. M: He worked for Lone Star Steel-- J: Lone
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • duty or I'm going to put up my uniform, throw it away, go back to Congress. [Inaudible] I can help Roosevelt more in Congress than I can out here with these this damn movie stars." don't know. See, that's the part about Lyndon Johnson that people
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the cabinet members and the Congress and a couple of movie stars then they think that they've really had a good time. That was a problem that I had at the beginning with the National Committee people. They thought that we ought to have each dinner at least
Oral history transcript, H.M. Greene, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • This man, if you get that article, this boy dug down, his name still hasn't come to me, he dug into those files, you see Lyndon became Editor or the College Star and he enjoyed his philosophy -- especially his editorials. And this lad picked up a group
Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was. F: You re not too short yourself. R: Well, he was at least three or four inches taller than I am, and he I was big. I noticed my eyes weren't much above his Silver Star pin which he had in his lapel. I remember noticing that. He said
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of established that job, and it had to be what was considered a glamorous blonde in the old Hearst tradition. Really, that was an old Hearst tradition. They would have some femme fatale always as a star reporter. Marianne Means was the one in Washington, and she
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Star. Of course, his good, young, loyal staffers were very proud of him for that. We didn't realize, I think, the full significance of how rare that award is, which is a very high award. I believe [it's] second only to maybe the Congressional Medal
  • Connally, and Mary Rather working in LBJ's congressional office; Lady Bird Johnson's meeting with Undersecretary of War Robert Lovett; staff members assigned to particular office duties, such as speaking to Texas constituents; LBJ's Silver Star award
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • disappointment of the Kennedy White House group, who largely blamed the National Education Association for spraying the town with telegrams objecting to the bill on the grounds of church and state. M: Was this the true reason for the failure of the bill? K: I
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a changed vote because I can remember some of the telegrams and things we sent out that said, "Due to information that has now come to my attention, I must advise you that I will not vote for the bill. I will vote against it." And we always did that. We
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • this pain, this loss, it's good. Speaker Sam Rayburn was the very first telegram we received after the death of 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the elementary schools and teachers and students and so on. I only got into the matter at the very tail end of the discussions going on about sending a telegram which I was very uneasy about and urged them not to do at that time. I don't know who made
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PERRIN -- II -- 26 telegrams to various of the Congressmenls constituents who will then write or phone
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Rusk was very concerned that lITe make available in the Department of State to the Vice President and his office all that they '.ITAnted in terms of material and telegrams and reports and what have you. M: Was a man
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • got to feeling pretty good on this gin, and the more he looked at this girl the more he was convinced that she was movie-star material. I think he may have already had some experiences i.n Hollywood, so he had Iona almost convinced that she
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • he goes about it is the only way he knows how to, fight his way in and out, that kind of thing. He came out very highly decorated, multiple Silver Stars and Bronze Stars for valor, DSC [Distinguished Service Cross] and that kind of stuff. It went
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be ruination, and we went to the Star and talked to them about it, and the presentation we made was that we hoped every effort would be used on their part to be sure that they had the facts of the story because if they printed it one way and then it turned out
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -and-three bipartisan committee, and he was a star in it. At any rate, Scott voted with the majority on or about December 3 to censure--I don't know what the word was, anyhow the effect of it was to. . . . G: I wanted to ask you if, in Kerr Scott's
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , WASHINGTON STAR Interviewer: Dorothy L. Pierce September 28, 1968, 11:00 A.M. E.D.B. 123, approximately 1 hour P: Mr. Lincoln, you've already made one very good tape for us just a little over a year ago, and I would like to pursue some questions from
Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Navy, winning the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, a Letter of Commendation. I served as Judicial Administrator for the State of Colorado for one year. B: That's the position that resulted in a division of the Colorado Judiciary System, is that right
Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , arrived in Vietnam July 7, 1961. I had been previously, about July 4, promoted to two stars. My first job was to be deputy to the chief [of] MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group], General [Lionel] McGarr. He left in March of the following year
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • said, "Oh, Josefa, I see the stars!" And she said, "Yes, and when Daddy gets through with you, you're going to see more than stars." (Laughter) G: Was it a convertible? It had a cloth top? W: No, it was one of these old touring cars, I guess
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • president. But at that moment, we were living from moment to moment. You had the cathedral service and the clamor of people to be invited to that; you had the arrangements for the rotunda; you had telegrams to members; the busing arrangements. emotion
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cablegram was received in the office. I came in that morning. It was waiting for me, and we immediately drafted a telegram and sent it right back." nOh, yes, but that was the second cablegram we had sent to you." I said, "I don't know what you're
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that communication, and so I got badly misinterpreted. By the time I got back and the telegrams that I got would fill a suitcase condemfiing me for what I had done--. F: You had sold out the party, hadn't you? $: A traitor. I could tell by looking
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there, grossly misjudged the extent of the riot and the need for force to put it down, for a large presence. They began telegramming or calling the White House--and Lee White and I were the two people that worked on it--wanting federalization of the guard
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an office here in the Executive Office Building, and there was that stack of mail and telegrams for my handling just the same as when I left, but it was a new angle, of course, that I had never experienced before. It was pretty exciting and moving. F
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : GORDON BUNSHAFT INTERVIEWER : PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Bunshaft's office, 400 Park Avenue, New York Tape 1 of 1 B: This started the whole thing . You lose track of years . Here's a telegram from Mr . Heath, who
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 with a telegram thanking him for his generous t>lords and acknowledging t of the President's telegram
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • spoken about Senator Kennedy said, "Oh, I don't think there was anything of that kind, but you know more about it than I do, so go ahead and report it any way you want to." That came back in a telegram that got extremely wide distribution
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , Ill., 1938-39, McAlester, Okla., 1946-47; mem. of Congress, 3d Okla. Dist., 1947-1977; House majority whip, 1955-62; House majority leader, 1962-71; Speaker of the House, 1971-77. Served in U.S. Army, 1941-46, PTO. Decorated Bronze Star, Democrat. 12