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Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

completelyCour home burned completelyCthe family lost most of what it had and it was a severe setback. And then my strong German parents did not believe in insurance, so I could not start school. So I went to work for three years, and I worked for the telephone

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and he said, "Somebody's fooling with your telephone pole outside the ranch. I just saw the car parked~. I just drove by there." I had Frank Hamer, the ranger, try to trace down a wire tap and he couldn't find it, but I'm sure the usual Watergate type

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

That was, I believe, Mr. Johnson told Mr. telephone those folks and tell them they have lied about my I'm sure that Mr. Moyers did not put it in those words; and whether he ever called them, I do not know. I only relate it. It was related to me by Mr

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

girls as telephone operators to just go down 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. And then on a number of occasions the President would telephone me in times of financial crises, the. weakness of the pound, devaluation, things of that kind . He would telephone me, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sometimes because there were times when I couldn't type, if he was on the telephone or if he was meeting with someone. At times I'd have to be very quiet myself and talk on the telephone in a 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wouldn't come down to the office in the mornings much at all unless it was kind of an unusual day. He'd call early in the morning from home wanting to know what was in the mail and what we needed to do, and he would give us instructions by telephone

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Now, what kicked him off to call me, I don't know. F: You didn't have any rising volume of mail or telephone or anything like that? C: No, although it was clear in the papers. My hunch is that somebody called him. In any case, it was a complicated

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to their various towns or villages or cities, wherever they came from in the state. I happened to be the only one left in the Austin office. Early one morning the telephone rang, about nine o'clock. I answered it. The Senator was on the other end of the line. I had

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

President, I do appreciate it, but I don't believe that it would just fit the circumstance, I don't think." He said, "Well, couldn't you put it up on some telephone books or something of this nature and sort of raise it where Lyndon could use it? He's taller

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

light on the topic we are about to discuss. Also, on December 14, 1966, Mr. Rowe had a memo which says: Mr. Rowe telephoned George Christian, press secretary to the President, and repeated his conversation with Dudman. Christian the President had told

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was going to be with us, and all that sort of stuff. said, "Aw, don't bel ieve it. He's just a big bunch of stuff. telling you the truth," and all that. They He's not About a week or so later I got a telephone call from the Majority Leader saying

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. (Laughter) Mr. Johnson was driving now. The other story also has to deal with machinery. It's a story of my good friend Les Carpenter, who printed it as I recall. He said that President Johnson was noted for his use of telephones, and the story

Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 was not going to seek the position of National Committeewoman again . So about two days before the convention, I received a telephone call

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to think of all the other people and I can't give you any names. G: What about former President Truman? Did he come to the White House; was he called? C: I think there was a telephone call, but I don't think he came to the White House. I'm sure

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

remember the figures precisely, but the excise tax reduction was voted to take effect partly at the time, and partly later on. For example, the tax on automobiles, the tax on transportation, the tax on telephones, was scheduled to go off in steps

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

be replaced, Go: Have you had much contact with the President since then in 1966? Gu: No, not a lot. Telephone conversations occasionally regarding flights when he wanted someone picked up at a point and delivered to a point. He has always been very nice

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as the Defense Department representative and I used to do a lot of the telephone business with the then-Vice President. M: He did take an active interest in that? Y: Yes. M: It wasn't just a title that [John F.] Kennedy assigned him? Y: Oh, no. No, he

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

request, what telephone calls the plane had made between Albuquerque and Washington, D.C., particularly to the Department of State or to the South Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States. Reportedly, the President had a specific reason for doing
and its effect on LBJ; White House telephone line in DeLoach’s bedroom; how LBJ related to his aides. LBJ and the Kennedys, especially Bobby Kennedy; the relationship between the FBI and the Attorney General’s Office; surveillance of and interaction

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

O'Brien -- Interview XXXI -- 10 see the office Bailey had occupied. And in the course of being given the tour by my secretary, he located the unlisted telephone number of my phone on my desk. In my hotel apartment in Washington, files had disappeared
; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) case; O'Brien's June 1972 request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation look into the Watergate break-in and the response from Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen; O'Brien's correspondence

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

played it two or three columns. It wasn't a long story, but they really blew it up into a box on page one, and 'r had a telephone call from Jack in Palm Beach saying, ''Where did you get the information that the Library of Congress is doing research

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

for him, they would come to my office and discuss it with me. And I would stay in touch with him on the telephone or through the mails and tell him just exactly what the issues were, what issues were important. M: What year was that that you took over

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, primarily. I'm not a politician. F: Does fund raising consist mainly of the telephone? W: Oh, no, no. But you had a clear-cut issue in 1964 for the first time. You had two identifiable candidates, and it was not a popularity contest in the political

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of approaching these particular meetings was to leave my house at seven, which I usually do, and use the telephone in my car to communicate with the deputy chief of the park police, Alfred Beye, who by the way was-F: How do you spell that? C: B-E-Y-E. He

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the Tenth Congressional District chairman of the women's division. So they had a big meeting. I believe it took place in the Austin Hotel. Lyndon talked to them, by telephone, from Mayo's. Of course Marietta presided and Mrs. Sam Johnson

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ago where the technology wasn't the same as it is today. I mean, today it's nothing to have all sorts of sophisticated telephone equipment around. But he would install to his people of the moment a direct line, and he'd press the button and that would
office was organized; Bonanno's regular duties for LBJ; methods people used to get LBJ's attention; how LBJ used private telephone lines to contact people directly; how most telephone calls were made from the White House; the Diary Backup file; Bonanno

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

at which Mr. C. N. Avery, the long time Buchanan manager, had undertaken to assure Mrs. Buchanan that if she would run for the office, there would be no opposition. He had got on the telephone with various people; I can't call any names because I don't

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it for him. I had a farm out in Maryland, and I remember once John Connally called me. I didn't have a telephone at that point, and somehow he got hold of my builder, who had done my house over. This chap drove about twenty miles to tell me that I had

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at the national level 9 Chicago telephone strike before 1968 convention 10,11,12 1960 Democratic Convention � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History
Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there were several other ranches--the Reagan, the Scharnhorst, and so forth and so on, which I never put foot on. But one of the most interesting stories was, we got to know the telephone people. They had the--I think he said fifty-six trunk lines
; interactions with Secret Service agents regarding Kaufman's efforts to follow LBJ; LBJ's opinion of press attention; touring the Ranch house; a seventy-fifth birthday party for LBJ at the Ranch after his death; the telephone system at the Ranch; the lack

Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, many senators would make telephone calls on behalf of constituents. It is a normal procedure. It has always gone on, and I suspect always will. I don't think there is anything wrong about it. If the inquiry related to a proceeding or an investigation

Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

and personally contacting Bob Casey? J: Well, I picked up the telephone and called Bob Casey to tell him about the call and what the President's reasons were on this. forgotten what the matter was about. It was something, though, live LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and personally contacting Bob Casey? J: Well, I picked up the telephone and called Bob Casey to tell him about the call and what the President's reasons were on this. forgotten what the matter was about. It was something, though, live LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

Thomas, who had telephone conversations or oral conversations with and I think wrote some letters to Bill Moyers and others advising them of our position in the matter. that was the extent of his [involvement]. But He did not appear for us at any

Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was on that committee, and that's where some of this stuff came in--you were supposed to come and bring a contribution. (It was called a) green and silver coffee. Then after we had the home set, we would telephone or maybe write to some people that didn't even have

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

what should be done? H: I don't [think] there's any question but what the decision to send the troops in had been made a little before that, because while we were there in the White House, the telephone was open most of the time to the Dominican

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, the guidelines we had for the candidates, not to ride in an open car, not to get into an area where there was no avenue of evacuation, which is consistent with our policy. ~1: What about things non-public, like crank letters, and crank telephone calls? R

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. At first, I had kind of a time breaking them in. But the first six months, it played into my hands, because we had a telephone rate case coming up, and then the bus company wanted a new franchise, and they wanted to raise the rates. The way that they had

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/show/loh/oh Murphy -- II -- 2 took a number of birthday gifts for President Truman. that very much. He appreciated President Johnson also called President Truman on the telephone from time to time to tell him some of the things that he was planning

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