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Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • having any conversation with him was when, I believe, Lynda got married, and he was at the wedding, at the reception, really. I had a long conversation with him. It was really the first time that I ever had a long conversation with him, and I enjoyed
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • conversations with [Ngo Dinh] Diem, who was then President of--or whatever the title was--of South Viet Nam. In countries like Sweden and Norway and Denmark and Finland and Iceland where you had mostly socialist governments or labor governments, he got along
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • envisioned long distance telephone lines; not direct satellite broadcasting but [as] a distribution system. G: Now, the Johnsons did purchase an interest in a cable company. Do you think that this may have been a result of his conversation with you? S
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think he was at that time maybe in Johnson City, or maybe he was in San Marcos. He said he and his father were going to drive down that afternoon or evening to Corpus at Dick's suggestion by a telephone call, I think, previously made to Lyndon to talk
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the telephone as the operating arm for the Treasury people in quite a range of their money LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • always said to the girls over the telephone. (To Sally) You told him that? 0: No. Do you want me to? F: Yes. 0: Oh yes, now, this is fantastic because I would be able to talk with Lynda and Luci. Lynda and I were the same age. F
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • late at the Depart­ ment of Agriculture one night and having a staff conference. The telephone rang and it was the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and he said to me very sternly that looking over the records he was not at all satisfied
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I'm his main reliance on the staff of the committee." I didn't say anything at all to Carl Vinson at the time. It was just a conversation with Connally, because Lyndon was trying to take Connally over there and he wouldn't do it. Texas. He didn't
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had to take the oath of office that night around seven o'clock . F: That must have stopped the conversation? M: That did stop the conversation . F: Were you around? M: I was here . But I don't recall that particular time of it happening
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • people usually do: sign postcards and check precinct lists and make telephone calls. M: That was a close election, too, that you lost. C: Yes, it was, and, of course, we lost. Then in 1948 it was close, and we won. By 1948 we had collaborated
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • built by Saturday night, and this was on a Tuesday or something like that. But we kept the yard full of deck chairs and had lights strung, and there were many happy summer gatherings out there, and a telephone placed handy in a tree. G: Now were
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and their conversations. Except in a few brilliant cases, the conversation among the women was not nearly as fascinating, and I was always glad to stick around with the men. G: Did they argue? J: In a good-natured fashion, yes. In an exchange of banter, and no doubt
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • primary, not necessarily in chronological order, I was sitting at my desk about ten o'clock in the morning. The phone rang and a voice said, "This is Lyndon. you doing?" doing?" He very often started conversation with, "What are you I said, "I'm
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "Act like you're talking to those folks. Look one of them in the eye and then move on and look another one in the eye. And always be conversational. Never be anything but conversational. " This made me later understand one reason that he was so
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mills -- II -- 18 M: Every one of them. Except I didn't have any conversations with Roosevelt that would have caused me to have had any knowledge
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the University? J: No. I persevered in French, but I can't say it was very fruitful, because it never was conversational, and it just has to be that way. I think the least fruitful course I ever took was chemistry. That seems a shame, too, because there's got
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • : art, literature, and publishing. The university also made me an honorary member of its council as well as on their of their other Texas universities. Conversations then led to: "what now?" Between Tom Staley and me, it was decided that it would
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • do about it is what concerned me. The lack of any political liaison, of any political exchange--had there been fifteen minutes of conversation reflecting the materials that you have shown me, I would have understood. Now, it may be that they assume
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, 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, 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, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Rayburn was in the car with us when this conversation came up. I went to his house for dinner I remember. Rayburn said, "I I was driving out there. don't know why you come out there working for him, but if you're up here, if he won't get you out
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be In the years as majority leader, he would come to the Board of Education and be full of discussion about what had happened in the Senate or what was happening politically. He would many times dominate the conversation, but in those very early months he
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , when he became President, related to the peace efforts he made. sent me on a trip in December 1965 to a number of countries. He It was just before New Year's and I remember very well his calling me on the telephone and he said, "Averell, have you got
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • church, and the Baptists is very close. There's not a great deal of difference. They use the same methods of baptism; they have their local govemment concept, and so on. I've taken more time to answer your question than-- (I nterrupt i on-- telephone
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of '37, and then Hugo Black was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt in August 1937. My friends here called me on the long distance telephone to tell me I ought to come on home and run for the Senate. So I came home as soon as I could
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • these things and he stuck where he was. Well, I went over to see Johnson a day or two after that incident. McNamara came up in the conversation and the President said, "Bob told me he'd seen you fellows the other night." I said, "Yes, Mr. President. little
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there were conversations to that effect. Did you talk face-to-face with Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson about this? R: No, Mr. Randolph did. group should go. I did not. The decision was that a small Therefore since Mr. Randolph and I represented the same
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the same time, enjoying it--in national issues. And that was the only topic of conversation that year. While there, I felt that I should also learn a little bit about my home state, having been there eighteen years in high school~ and then four years
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the consequences of a conversation or an accusation or a confrontation. 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
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as I recall it, when we passed the bill for the rural telephones, of which I was author. he at that time supported it in the Senate. author of it. Of course, Mr. Hill was the Senate You know, Lister was the long-time Senator--Mr. Johnson was brand
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the White House years. There are others that would have observed that kind of thing and would know more. I wasn't around him at all during the vice presidential or presidential years. saw him and had brief conversations at civic events. I I took
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • getting names on this petition. In some congressman's office, finally the White House telephone caught up with me and the President was on the phone. He said, "Tommy, how are you doing?" I said, "I'm doing wonderfully well." And he said, "Well, I want
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the questions of conflict of interest. We already read in the paper yesterday that President Nixon, in the midst of a major antitrust case, picked up the telephone and called the Deputy Attorney General and told him not to file an appeal. Later that order
  • recording conversations; Fair Housing Bill; writing historic speeches for the president
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