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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

of this district. She just really worked at it. She had trouble getting office help, enough people to help her answer all the mail she got and all the telephone calls, but she worked at it and she did a good job and it got to be kind of a joke around that Lyndon

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

necessary for pacification. Nevertheless, the RF/PF, as organized, as trained, as armed, were not up to keeping the hamlets and the villages secure. (Interruption) G: Let's see. We were talking about the last month of OCO, and the conversion into CORDS

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 10 I kept telling them, "I don't want anything. I just want you to be at the other end of the telephone when I call you." (Laughter) I ran like an employment agency with John Macy for about two years after the election, because all these people who

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

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

to appointment to the Civil Rights Commission 9 - 11 Conversation with the President about the press 12 - 15 Observation of South Viet Nam elections; report on observations to the President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

year, and I received it that year from President Kennedy over in the Rose Garden in June. Of course, a ceremony like that is not an occasion for much conversation, but I did meet him and we spoke briefly at that time. P: On what occasion did you

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

determined not to make similar concessions in Vietnam. Nothing that was going on at that time led us to believe that in fact a similar policy was envisaged for Vietnam. But again, I don't recall that as being a very major topic of conversation. G: I had

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Corpus Christi for him to make a a speech at the Rotary Club. year before this election. This was in the fall of 1947, almost a I heard the conversation between him and the folks in Laredo, including Ramon and whoever else was at the meeting. It seemed

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and Mexican public housing in Austin. I think there were about eight of them. I spent a great deal of time with him at that period, just in conversation with him, talking about his ideas and his dreams and things of that nature. And that's when I first

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

I joined the Armored Division because that was the thing to do for horse cavalrymen in those days. telephone call. time. I was on maneuvers in Louisiana and got a General Gay [?] had called, Colonel Gay at that He was with General Patton. He

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

selected? Why did you come up? F: Well, I think we have to attack this from a couple of angles. say, why did the White House offer me the job? First, let's It was the White House; it obviously was not the president who made the telephone call to me

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, we were in a recess and Mr. Rayburn was the only one there from the House and Mr. Truman was over there from the Senate--he was Vice President--and the telephone rang and Mr. Rayburn was sitting at the desk like this, answered it, says, "It's for you

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

instinctively to goals. But when action was involved, oof! G: Do you remember any specific conversations in which he was weighing whether or not to run? R: Well, the main one that I remember was the night before he flew up to Atlantic City to accept

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

own skepticism on the matter was registered. I have no way of judging the Eric Sevareid story because that was a third-hand account.Sevareid himself says that his conversation with Adlai Stevenson was supposed to be off-the-record, but how much

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Willy Brandt. M: Oh. S: He disappeared during the war. He was in communist country. I regret very much when he became chancellor in Germany. So there was Willy Brandt sitting beside me; however, he was not a bit interested in any conversation. I

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 but in one of his many untold acts of kindness, sent me down here in February of 1937. He just merely picked up the telephone and made a call

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and things of that kind on equal employment, especially [concerning] my conversations with some of the major business people here in the community and getting them to participate in his Equal Employment Opportunity Program down there. But that was done more

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

with talking to him about taking it? A: Dr. Givens did but not me. I was not in on that conversation at all, but Doctor did, and he was out there, too, at that particular time, and he could get in and out where many people could not. He just walked through

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

]." I had no qualms about that. They didn't say, "We want a copy of your manuscript." I had talked to them. So the next day was Washingtonls Birthday. I called the main office of Time[-Life] to try to get [Bob] Luce's home telephone number; I didn't

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a shorter-term view, clearly we did too many new things and not enough in each one. Conversely, and what you've got to remember is you have a situation now in which the federal government has the legislative authority and the precedent to do almost

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. on the Joint Chiefs. II I was down We were having an exercise of some sort and the telephone rang, and it was the White House asking me to come over. got somebody to replace me and went over there. about 5:30 then. So I It was late in the afternoon And I

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

would use the gunships and the special forces company if we had to go in to get the people out. Well, what happened--first of all, the night before, I had gotten a promise from Lam that he would not move on--give me one more day. He got a telephone call

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him. Bell Telephone and a bunch of the people opposed it. They came down. I've forgotten who was head of the Bell Telephone at that time. But he showed them, he said, "Boys, you can make money withholding on this dividend. You'll have that cash at your

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, was [a] fairly new aircraft in our wing there at SAM [Special Air Mission]. They came out in 1961, late 1960 and 1961. And Cross had flown Johnson several times and Cross married a local Austin girl. In conversations, the Vice President at that time learned

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the honor to sit to his right, and I probably found out later why he wanted me to sit there because he could do this to me. He engaged me in conversation during the end of the dinner very, very intently, and he looked into my eyes while we were talking

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

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and standing with the senior officer corps at that time? D: I think that we figured he was the big roadblock, at least I did, in conversations with my peers. I never talked to Westmoreland or Abrams about it; it wasn't any of my business. But we felt

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

he meant. He could see that I was a little puzzled. He said, "I'm going to make you a full Special Assistant to me." My part in that conversation LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: You said that your first conversation with Johnson took place in October of 1964. R: Just before the 1964 elections. M: Then what was the subsequent nature of your relationship with him after that time? R: I didn't see him again until in the ADA

Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

e s t i g a t i n g [sub]committee of the Armed S e r v ic e s , the f i r s t telephone [ c a l l ] I got was from Lyndon from the Senate. He had a s i m i l a r oppo site committee t o mine over on th e Senate s id e and he o f fe red me h

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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in conversation with Earl Browder, who was the head of the Communist Party. Wasn't that the election in which he was also defeated, do you recall? G: Yes. He was. Let's talk some more about the California election. Did LBJ do anything to help Helen Gahagan

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)