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Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had one view. Califano had a contrary view. I look back on it really more with sadness than in anger that I have not had lunch with Joe since this episode. I didn't know what his role was at the time, but I've once or twice telephoned for lunch

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

did that night was, I just had the girls who make telephone calls to issue invitations, which Emily Post will tell you you're not supposed to do from the White House but Emily Post doesn't know that we have to work with the possible; they called

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-- Interview I -- 6 with the Japanese and United States governments. I was acting secretary of state. Bob McNamara was in the Pentagon. Mac Bundy was in the White House. In fact, the whole rest of top level government was out of town. So I telephoned Dean Rusk

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

did get the President to send Cy out there, and I did it largely by telephone back and forth. But those were three relationships--particularly Acheson, who was my great mentor and friend--that went on throughout my life. As he got older, he got more

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had breakfast with him. He had a telephone call then saying that the other side suggested Warsaw as a site. He asked me whether we should accept it. I said no, we should not. He said why. I said because the Poles and the Russians, Soviets, had been

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the President and Mrs. Johnson. (telephone interruption) / The friend of Rene' Verdon was not Craig Claiborne, but a chef at the Four Seasons, or the Pavillon--the Pa•rillon, I believe. tipped off Craig Claiborne that Rene was unhappy. And the Pavillon man

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

letter of resigration. And as I recall, I've forgotten some of the details perhaps. I made a telephone inquiry in December. reminding a member of the President's staff that my letter of resignation was there. that I was making my plans to go to San

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

more rational boundaries would be if they ran them through Anglophone areas and vice versa. Only a few years ago if you wanted to call from Lagos in Nigeria to Contonou in Dahomby less than a hundred miles away, you had to telephone London, r LBJ

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, they always wanted to own the land, wherever they were, that this was a universal longing. --Telephone interruption-I didn't have too much to do directly with the Kennedy Round. Let me conclude with what you need here on the Kennedy Round by saying

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for compensation service connected to show that any ailment they then had was connected with some injury they sustained in the war. Lyndon spent an enormous amount of time on this on the telephone, and doing other things, too. Anything that was required

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

confront. On Tuesday afternoon I got a telephone call saying, "lId like you to do this,ll and I found m.ysel£ saying, "Yes, sir. 11 M: This was the President who called you? K: Yes. But I had said that because I was very closely involved

Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a little bit and get you appointed here. Your name was put into the hopper--then how were you informed of the appointment? L: Oh, Secretary Weaver telephoned me and said I had been appointed. M: And how soon did you have to come to work? L: Oh

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was on the floor of the House or Senate at night. He did everything he could to lobby the bill through. G: What did he do? L: Telephoned to everybody himself, sent emissaries to people. just fantastic. Do you remember? It passed. He was Finally, in the bill

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Arms Control Disarmament Agency--had frequent occasions to deal with Mr. Spurgeon Keeney. M: Do any of these sort of stand out in your mind? Were you there, or were these primarily through telephone conversations? D: Mostly, I think it was Mr

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and government in which senior managers get away from telephones, paperwork, and distractions of family for a day or more of conferring. DOT held three of these retreats, generally running about a day and a half. One was at Charlottesville, one at Airlie House

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

his call. on the telephone. The Jack Valenti said [to the President], "He's I'll get him right away." So that's hO\'/ the story, I think, got out that I made the President wait on me while I was on the phone. L~ell, then I went in to see him

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. It is quite possible--as a matter of fact, a lot of business is done this way--for me to call Emminger of the Bundes Bank just on the telephone. I don't have to explain to him a lot of background; we've been in .. close

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or messages, that came to him every day in order, whether a telephone call or telegram, whether direct to him or through the Secretary of State, the decision that he made and brought me right up to the moment. He said--and it took him thirty minutes

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

for that jet." "Well, I'll take you on to San Antonio." [Murchison said], So we did. We came on to San Antonio, and just telephoned my son-in-law on the road, you know, that we were coming on to San Antonio. it was just raining the whole time

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

is Congressman Herbert Bonner, who is now deceased. But realizing the problems, and wanting Mrs. Johnson to come into my own area and stop in my own congressional district, after all sorts of telephone calls and many, many contacts, we finally got those

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in Califano's office. Now, this was my first night there, and all I had been told was that the little button on the telephone that said POTUS-F: Said what? G: POTUS--the President of the United States--if it ever rang and Califano wasn't there, be sure you

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

their arm by telephone is not, in your cas e at least, true? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

bills, did he contact you directly to influence you? T: Oh, he called me a few times on the telephone. I don't remember the specific legislative propositions, but from time to time he'd LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to a ground-breaking of a major project that I had been involved with. When we got back to New Haven that night there was a note by the telephone taken by one of my sons, that.just said, "Secretary Weaver called. What does he want?" I returned that call

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, what I did when they put the brakes on, I checked in with Jesse Kellam every Saturday at ten-thirty and I stayed with Jesse till we would have dinner together. And I did a lot of slipping off and doing things or doing things over the telephone. I

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

testified to that, and we took it that getting the programming was the important thing and the local loops, the lines coming in there. G: The local loop? T: The local loop is the telephone line which at that time brought the network programming to your

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the next speech? V: Oh, sure. Moyers and I and other staff members who would be aboard Air Force One would be working on the speeches, we'd be in telephonic contact with both the Washington headquarters speech writers, as well as the local people, so

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

strangely enough. understand why, because later it became so much in use. We I don't But I don't recall too many times that I ever called them on the telephone. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know, everybody was at lunch and everybody left his lunch untouched. What happened to you in the next three or four days following the assassination? touch with the new President? ~'l : He got in touch \vi th me, yes. F: By telephone? l.J: Yes

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. IG: Well, I went to Corpus with him once. I can remember that it was about the time of Hiroshima, because we got on a plane in Dallas to go to Corpus and he had gotten a telephone call in the Hotel Adolphus. Whenever

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 asked me if I would come out and help them with telephones and mail because I knew the family and the personal friends and So forth, so I did at night time and then through the days and So forth. And when

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that we had got our directionfinding equipment going so well up around Khe Sanh that whenever they'd hit the key for a minute, boom, they'd get hit. We'd get gripes; here were commanders on their telephones, saying, "Send me more--I need a radio operator

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)