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Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BELEN -- I -- 2 P: When did you first become better acquainted with him? B: I had a telephone
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , being a part of everything he did. It wasn't just, as I say, an employer-employee relationship. F: What he wanted, you wanted him to have. C: That's right. And conversely, he was trying to be as helpful to me as he knew how to be, and with Nellie. So
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • occasionally he would come up with someone and Ramsey and Warren Christopher, who was the Deputy Attorney General and really lucid after most of the Judicial appointmeuts, might conclude after a conversation ,vith me that maybe there ,-Jere more talented, more
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from the situation than I was when they were in Washington. F: When he was vice president and president, did a lot of the working with you and the planning and the rearranging and so forth go on by telephone from Washington, or did they wait until
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dictated a letter announcing for re-election to Congress; then he dictated another one announcing for the United States Senate. That was sent forward to KTBC to mimeograph for the five o'clock press conference. The telephone rang--we had a suite
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Sarge Shriver was going to have to move over to the anti-poverty [program]. Sarge Shriver telephoned me some time later and asked me if he could come to Rochester and have lunch with me. Washington." I said, "No, I've got to be in We had lunch
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in and tried to help, l~alter Reuther. It was a very, However, we finally did reach an agreement very painful negotiation. which was agreed to by all. My own contribution to that, other than endless participation and conversation, was the idea on seating
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there; she was at the Ranch. Was it her birthday? Was it an anniversary? G: No. N: Maybe he was just homesick, but he got the violinist in the phone booth with him and called Mrs. Johnson and he had the violinist serenade Lady Bird over the telephone. G
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of a national policy revolution, namely, the conversion of the President of the United States--and the conversion of leading thinkers, limen of affairs," opinion makers--to these concepts. That revolution did not take place until the sixties, and nothing that Mr
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • very vitally interested in health matters. Her husband was the editor of a number of papers; I believe she is now divorced. She is one of the women who, as far as I know, had direct access to President Johnson on the telephone, easily, conveniently
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they had typed fifty letters. letters were quite concise and short. Now, most of the However, Lloyd dictated rather long, lengthy letters, plus the fact that I was constantly being interrupted to take telephone messages in shorthand. Finally in tears
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in office, and that played a part in the campaign. I think all those three were factors but insofar as political organization and drive were concerned, it didn't exist. M: Did you have any particular conversations with Johnson during this period of time
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This covered a span of about eighteen years. The first contact that I had with the Johnson office was in early March, 1958, and that was through a telephone call from Mrs. Juanita Roberts, his personal aide and secretary. She asked that I make time
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the problems of the national economy, did you have pretty quick access to the White House when you needed it? M: Oh, I could pick up the telephone and get Lyndon Johnson or President Kennedy either on the telephone within a very, very short time. Usually I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Arkansas right down to Texas, and believe me, there were plenty. My Aunt Effie sat there beaming from ear to ear and just soaking it all up, because she loved a good conversation. The Civil War was right back where her ancestors had played a part, and she
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the tape was not on, didn't you mention something about that conversation you had with LBJ about that dinner? Was that the one? F: No, I don't think so; I don't think so. G: Where he was wondering who was going to pay for it? F: No, that wasn't
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • him exactly what the situation was and asked him not to let the boy try to come on the campus at that time. The Attorney General asked to speak to me, and I spoke to him on the telephone. I told him that there would be blood on his hands, because
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thing I find curious and I've had to make this correction speaking to people around the world as a matter of fact, when we get into conversations about the Presidents of the United States. That there is an enormously strong myth that President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a full briefing on this whole new concept. just one of those damned things. And it was I arrived at his office, and there was some sort of political crisis going on in Texas. He was all tensed up; the telephone would ring every two minutes. He'd come
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , yes. F: Introduced a resolution that President Truman was to reveal to Congress • •• Kansas ••• Missouri. the content of secret conversations he had with Prime Minister Attlee, and any talks that he had with anyone regarding Korea. And there were
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • didn't wake him up, let him sleep about two or three hours, and of course he needed the rest very bad. I always remember the table down there where he got massaged and he slept. Around a health club there's a good deal of conversation, you know
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • counsel for General Telephone and Electronics, handling its litigation. That's still what I do. G: Now more than ever, I guess. P: Now more than ever! All I do is litigate. G: Do you recall when you first met Lyndon Johnson, the first time you saw him
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Many of us found ourselves doing things for him directly in Washington. G: How would you communicate? R: Telephone, cable, frequent telephone communication. G: Some people have expressed an opinion that Mr. Komer was engaged in a little White House
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • being told what to do . was building up . And so this And I know that in conversations with Arosemena's cousin, who had been President before and had been overthrown, Carlos Julio . . . Frequently I'd be talking with him about the utilization
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 F: Did that come by telegram or telephone? B: Came by telephone and Coke and Bob Murphy and I were riding together. I was riding in the car with them; that was Coke's campaign
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that. That's about all the conversation [inaudible]. G: Some people said he wasn't a very good patient when he was sick. Can you comment on that? W: I don't think he was. G: Why? Was he restless? W: Restless, that's right. G: Give the doctors trouble
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • politics in Texas. Heretofore we hadn't paid a whole lot of attention to the precinct convention, but the precinct convention became increasingly important after this date. again the technique that was used was the telephone. county men. Here We had
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • days he did some things that really helped us. G: Really? Can you recall specifics? P: For example, he arranged that our DSG office telephones would be hooked into the Capitol switchboard. We really didn't have an offi- cial office then and we had
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a problem of one constituent on the telephone to the letter that was next up on my desk when I finished. It was straining. By the time we finally left the office, which might be eight-thirty, nine, nine-thirty, to go out to dinner, I wanted somebody else
  • . Cecil Evans; Allred's Senate loss to W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; time spent relaxing at the National Youth Administration building on Buchanan Dam; LBJ's fried egg breakfast being interrupted by telephone calls; the Johnsons' house at 4921 Thirtieth Place
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the hallway thinking that was the subject of the conversation. He said, referring back to the conversation in 1946 that I just related, "You don't think that I'm here because I want to be here," which was acknowledgment of his irritation with me for turning
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , which they di d not do. They got in the embassy grounds through the wall, but they did not get into the embassy at all. I also had long conversations with General [Cao Van] Vien, the Chief of the Vietnamese Joint General Staff, with President
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • enough about that to have anything substantive to tell you about it. G: Right. Were you very conversant with what I guess then-Colonel Lansdale was up to in regards to the North? I know the evacuation was going on at that time. J: Yes. No, I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • without any established timetable and an agenda would be developed through telephone conversations. President Kennedy, in my judgment, was not convinced that cabinet meetings were very productive. Consequently he didn't have them on a regular basis
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a black man on as a member of the board of governors now, and there are far more employees than there were. It's hardly solved, but it's not the lily-white bastion it was in 1968 when we held our hearings. The New York Telephone Company, where we held our
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a very close friend, warm friend out of Harry Truman, which was not hard to do at all, because Harry Truman was a very masculine man. He was exaggeratedly masculine. You know, his conversation was loaded with words that were so damn blue that even
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was learning about how this all went. G: Were communications different at the Ranch? J: Yes, communications were very, very different at the Ranch. We had the same basic system of telephones with the White House operators answering. We would take several
  • the Kennedy family; Adam Clayton Powell; a party LBJ hosted for congressional aides; staying at the LBJ Ranch; the telephone system used by LBJ and staff; radio communication at the Ranch; having picketers near the Ranch arrested and later invited to the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , courteous and low-key. We discussed this. He had a staff man with him and it was Ted and I. And the conversation led to presenting the letter. I at least, and I think Ted shared that view, realized that the staff representative, and I can't even remember his
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was one of his mistakes . G: Did he outline what he should have done? B: Yes, he said that he should have replaced the whole bunch when he was elected . I think, though, in subsequent conversation at that time he indicated that he would not have