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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there were a couple of other telephone contacts through the night but I never went near the Mayflower. So the next morning, Ira and I, early in the morning, went to the Mayflower to meet Hubert. He was excited, all aglow, "This is great; got it all done." I

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. They had the telephone campaign underway with our leader. ·so I bypassed this and told Mr. Johnson as we :olled in~o town that we didn't put out the · handbills in this community because I _thought the best thing to do 10 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, made a deal over the telephone. Of course, we reminisced about the time the bank got robbed in 1923 or 1924 there, and half the people in the bank got fired over it. There was a lot of things I don't care about revealing now, but he'd talked to me about

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the most imaginative persons that I've ever known, caught onto it right away. [telephone interruption] F: We were talking about Brewton and space. R: So I wrote Johnson a rather strong memo on it, saying that he had the natural vehicle, which

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the morning and picking up a paper and seeing a headline, "Hurricane So-and-so Hits Washington, D.C. Three People Dead." My thinking, my God, Billy and Mike and Lil, and dashing to a telephone and calling back and discovering that the headline was somewhat

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think it was mostly a question of keeping pressure on the air force. You know, on a thing like that, what you really get is a lot of private telephone calls, and nothing else, maybe a letter occasionally. But keeping Goodfellow Air Base going was one

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

think he was exposed enough to Rusk and probably Gene Rostow and others in the course of discussions on the telephone. And I think it would come up in conversation that things were a little bit more indefinite than President Johnson would have liked

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

did not call me. .He called others on the · ' B: - ' Post who he knew.to be more capable of helping him. While the tape was off, you mentioned the second story~ about the time right after. the assassination, a telephone call involving what

Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)

were going to do it. We never had to do it because they did eventually cave in and the hospitals did agree, and to a considerable extent it was mostly agonizing over the telephone and agonizing at the meeting, but in the event it turned out. So we had

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with one hour on the telephone, and who now has his own front page column daily in the Austin afternoon newspaper, the Statesman. An index t o the atti tude of the Johnsons was the fact that KTBC sent me to San Francisco for a series of first-hand reports

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

uninstructed delegations . him about it at the White House . I talked with I think I talked to him on the telephone . F: But he wasn't going to-- B: He wasn't going to put his name up at all . He wanted a delegation, of course, that was very friendly

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

interest in what's going on in an agency like the IMF. Do you get, for example, telephone calls from the White House staff on matters? D: Yes, from the White House staff, yes. For example, during the Johnson Administration by and large the person I

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

up a telephone and call somebody to get it done here in Washington. If they told him it couldn't be done, the next day he got a little membership card in the “I-can't-do Club” signed by Congressman Johnson --he just had that reputation. C: What were

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 2 telephone call from Dallas; and he came downstairs, I think--or the message was brought down. F: I don't suppose that was being televised in Washington

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people back. I remember being in his hotel room at the Adolphus Hotel during the 1952 campaign for several days. He was in pretty bad health at the time, and he did a lot of his work laying in bed, on the telephone. He was calling person after person

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Berry -- I -- 9 proposals were gone over very carefully . Some questions were answered by long distance telephone, [questions] raised with reference to some aspects

Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ting-a-ling whenever his alarm went off. Let's see, he had an intercom system rigged in his office that was absolutely superfluous. He had two telephones, and [with] one he could call anybody in[to] the room. Well, the other one had a built

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for Congress until one night I got a telephone call at home . It was Senator Wirtz calling me and telling me to come up to Number Four Happy Hollow Lane, where Lyndon was living at that time, that Lyndon wanted me to be up there right away . I went up

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, so that if he found himself in a town and wanted to spend a few hours with an American family, he would have a telephone number to call and arrangements would be made for him to visit a typical American home . So, we kicked this off in 1964, Americans

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

saw to the mail; he took all the telephone calls for the Vice P r e s i d e n t He was the contact point for the vice president. People who knew Johnson realized that if they were talking to Walter that he would give Johnson an almost verbatim report

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was overthrown and Harold Wilson, the Labor Government won the election. So here was sort of a climax within the campaign and I was with Palmer Hoyt in Denver, and the President of course had his lines out to everybody, his usual telephoning. Hoyt and I talked

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in my house, and he had one in Moursund's house. He put one out there and put one in my house. And from then on, it was pretty well over the telephone. G: I see. Well, now, he came back to the Ranch just a couple of weeks after the assassination, I

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the main part of the store, and work at the books and telephone, and everybody that needed to see him would go back there to see him. I would just wander around, so to speak, among the dry goods and the candy cases, upstairs where they would have things

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

four and look liked people's idea of a Texan had something to do with it. And folks would say, "Oh, Lyndon, I don't go along with a lot of his ideas, but he sure does love Texas." And for that they forgave him much. We got some bad telephone calls, both

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCloskey -- I -- 6 together over the telephone--about mid-morning, because all the briefings came within half an hour of one another. But you asked about

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to the funeral in Georgia, of this young man. But he and I were sitting, having a cup of coffee. in the Georgia delegation. got a telephone call. I was seeking any insights he had and he So he excused himself; went to the phone and came back trotting

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Yes . And t ha t he had with . The telephone t hat e could call the White Hous e igna l Corps, i n par t i cu la r , j u st perfonned n iracles on t e se things . Of co urse , i n a lo t of pla c e s th e gone in we ll ead oi t ime j ust on t

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and information over the telephone by, "You know where we were yesterday," and this sort of thing, by doubletalk, as we'd call it. It just doesn't fool anybody. We proved it to them time and time again by intercepting them with our own intercept devices

Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the laws. So Judge Hamilton told me one day--I was trying a divorce case for a lady named Theresa Ault [?]. She was on the long distance telephone exchange here in Austin, had been on it for a number of years. When I got through trying the divorce case

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Dave Bell was Director when I left. (Interruption: telephone) M: Marvin called me up one day, the first of January of '66, I think it was on Saturday. He asked me to come to the White House, and he and Jake Jacobsen were there. They said, "You're

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Morris -- I -- 9 say the minimum time ever was probably an hour's advance notice. There's little doubt in my mind that when you had to do that, you almost inevitably had to go through the telephone system to get the clearance

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We had any number of conversations, obviously, over the years, but I don't recall anything like that, and I have to assume that conversation was held in his office because it was recorded. G: It was a telephone conversation. O: Oh, was it? Yes, I

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the telephone. The day wore on and I kept [getting] back to Donahue saying, "Stand by." I never was able to make the contact; there was no filing. The decision obviously was made by the President not to have a stand-in. I hadn't been advised that was his