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Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, right. D: I probably got a telephone call, too. And we did what they asked us to; we tried to check every way we could. G: As county attorney, would you have had to advise the election judges on what the election law was? D: Yes. That was part

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reforms; McGovern's 1972 campaign financing; O'Brien's efforts to attack Richard Nixon; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) scandal; how O'Brien became chairman of the 1972 Democratic National Convention; Daley's reaction to his

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really do lose track. But the main reason I remember it is I remember waking up in a hotel and wondering where in the hell I was and getting absolutely panicky. Nothing in the room could tell me. There wasn't any telephone book. There was a blotter which

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

," he said, "where can going to be responsible if you don't ." I get in touch with them by telephone?" number out at the airport . I gave him a pay phone I don't know whether he called them or not, but they were called, and they got on a plane

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, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

before I had a telephone call from vice presidential nominee Johnson over at the Ranch. He insisted that we come on over there. We had a couple of our children, but that didn't seem to make any difference. He sent a plane to pick us up, and so we went

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

from the group going down to his room. fill out the admittance papers? The nurse said, Woul d you 11 I paused, maybe as long as five minutes, 11 to fill out the admittance papers, address and telephone numbers and all th~ pertinent infonnation

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, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

accepting the nomination of his party, I went to the telephone to call Ivlama to see if she was listening. Lyndon through; he'd accepted, you know. hangers-on [with] him, crowding him. In a few minutes here come He had a bunch of these Hell, I don't know

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that connected a tape machine to the telephone. Anyway, so this was on a tape and God knows whatever happened to those tapes. So LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was this, in St. Thomas? H: St. Thomas. Niles one night had attempted to burn down the airport, the Hilton, the telephone company, and the home of a reporter. F: Had a busy night. H: This reporter was thought by most people to be a very racist individual who

Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

or help him in any way? H: Only through the paper, of course, and through telephone conversations many times when the candidate ran. Particularly the campaign that I remember was when he was running in a run-off against former Governor Coke Stevenson

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the efforts to desegregate hospitals in the South; but these efforts inevitably had repercussions on the Hill. So that I had many telephone calls, either from members of 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXX -- 3 G: Was there a telephone at the dining room table? J: Not immediately. That did follow a little later. I bought an antique

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

guess I'd look in the yellow pages of the telephone book and find somebody. Well at any case, it couldn't have been prevented, and I think I finally wound up in the hospital in Austin and whoever could took care of me. Later on I did go to Scott & White

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

man, portly, well dressed, quoted Shakespeare at the drop of a hat, in love with the city of Austin, marvelous storyteller, talked at great length on the telephone. If you got him on the phone late at night, your next day's work, you were liable to go

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XIII -- 11 the people just seemed to be in sort of a state of paralysis and so their neighbors did things like bring food, answer the telephone, open the door, and meet the guests and receive the condolences, just

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

all the way through with automobiles, and the following day they called me. I started getting telephone calls in the afternoon from Dallas, from Austin, from San Antonio, to ask me when we'd get the helicopter back in the air again. This one fellow

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in hotels where Dr. King was staying in rooms where he would be on several occasions. And perhaps, and this was in 1965 . . . Earlier than that, there had been, as far as I could tell, perhaps telephone wiretaps on Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, he was chief telephone page, and of course Lyndon Johnson made him secretary of the majority. So he started off there. He's one of the best illustrations I ever saw of the old saying, “knowledge is power,” because he had it. He would tell them how

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the next talking to them? E: Yes. Right. Yes. And he'd have his little trips all lined up, and he'd have all those strategic telephone calls he'd make. Bobby Baker would count heads for him. It was just a wonderful thing to watch. 19 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

telephone rang it was the President and he said, "Now, Orville, that goddamn food stamp bill of yours, 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

us going till the next stop. B: Was Mr. Johnson involved in all the planning for this? A: Yes. Not down to the minute details, but he was very much involved and I'm sure was on the telephone with people saying, "How's it going to work?" B: Did

Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

cent of the contact with me on the operation of the station. Now, if he conferred with Mrs. Johnson after hours [I don't know], but my telephone conversations were with him I'd say almost [entirely]. Oh, she might get on and say hello or something like

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

is quite a little distance. Well, the morning after the night that President Kennedy was nominated, which I think was a Wednesday night, I got a telephone call from Tommy Corcoran asking me if I could get down to the Biltmore Hotel right quick. I did

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Pearl Hat'bor, or the day after Pearl Harbor, on the telephone? H: Now Pearl Harbor, I was in Kentucky. I had already gone with the mine workers, and we were down there preparing to go to trial on the Honday after Pearl Harbor Sunday and defending

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

means, by telephone call or by reading or however. He was always well informed about the project at hand, and he was intense about it and enthusiastic about it. this is the way that he convinced people. I think I mean you can't be around the guy

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Yes. Yes. And you know, those old habits die hard, and a guy who has spent all those years on the telephone, making policy, and so on and so on, finds it very hard to just relax and read a good book, and as you know, Lyndon Johnson was not a great

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

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/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 12 (Interruption. M: Telephone rings

Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

enumerators to follow up on those. Some of them that come back won't be complete and we may use enumerators to telephone to get the information, or we may have to have them go and visit. B: This will be used primarily in the urban areas? E: Urban areas

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

on a surprise visit. then. My desk was over here We were just ready to begin the academic procession down to the graduation exercises; Fogarty was to be the speaker that morning-Congressman Fogarty. rang. He was standing right about here when the telephone

Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it done by the time he got down there so that he could telephone. that out all right. We managed to work I remember that was the one occasion where I had any direct contact with him, because he was in the White House Mess. Walter brought me over

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and last-minute guest lists and making lots of last-minute telephone calls to get people there who might not have received their invitations by messengers. G: I can imagine. F: Mike Dunn and I both worked very hard putting that together. G: How did

Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at that list of people who were on that task force, I remember almost everyone of them as being involved there. know, you sort of kept following what they were doing. Also, you Take a guy like Lisle Carter, who you just telephoned; I mean that's when I first

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the big things. The telephone people hadn't been to take out the White House phone yet. due that afternoon .. Th~ White House phone rang. Valenti himself; not his secretary, but Jack. They were It was Jack He said, "Cecil, the President just heard

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. "Mr. Johnson's going to accept the vice presidency," I guess it was around noon I heard. No one was as stunned as I was. Matter of fact, I left town the next day. (Interruption - Telephone) M: You say you left town? S: That next day I left town