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Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

physically outside the Defense Department on crisis matters, it was almost always to the State Department for Panama matters or to the Justice Department for civil disturbance matters. McS: How often did you have contact by telephone or otherwise

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

o'clock in the morning went back to see him again. Obviously there had been either a telephone call or a message from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Millican wouldn't serve, but in conversations with Knowland and in conversations with Johnson, I learned why Gene Millican wouldn't serve. It was not on account of any relationship he had with Joe McCarthy, because neither he nor Walter George had been

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that I prepared a suggested statement for him in that regard. F: Do you think this idea originated with the President? C: I don't know whether it originated with the President. I have something of the feel that it originated in a conversation which he

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-- Interview I -- 6 with the Japanese and United States governments. I was acting secretary of state. Bob McNamara was in the Pentagon. Mac Bundy was in the White House. In fact, the whole rest of top level government was out of town. So I telephoned Dean Rusk

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him had supported the establishment of this commission, he told you to talk to Abe Fortas. L: Yes. He did, yes. G: Do you recall your conversation with Abe Fortas, and what he told you to do? L: Was it [Myer] Feldman again who was the counsel

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration when the Republicans had charge of the Congress during the 83rd, I believe. I don't recall my first personal contact with the PreSident, that is, person to person conversations with him, unless it was when he was going into North

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of legislation? T: I'm sure he discussed it with me on many, many occasions. I don't recall any specific conversations in that area. B: Then, sir, when in this period did you begin to see signs of presidential ambitions in Mr. Johnson? T: About 1959, as I

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in February of that year. Towards the late spring or early summer as the project was about at its conclusion, I discovered by a personal conversation with the then Deputy Director of OEO, Mr. Bernie Boutin that Mr. Boutin was extremely unhappy in his job

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and President Truman were never very compatible. They both tried, I think mainly for my sake, and there was no disagree-. ment between them. They both went to dinner with me one night, for example, and they just didn't manage to carryon a conversation

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

upon the President in private conversations with the press. Of course, he disliked the President intensely--he had for many years--and made no secret about it to anybody but the President. And since Bill was never overly scrupulous about the truth

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was "Uncle Dick." But I did have one or two other conversations with him. They were all sort of undercurrent hints that he thought the President had gotten much too far away from the people, that there was a difference between leading the people and between

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said, "I'm never I'm never going to his office again. I went over there to talk to him, and the whole time I was there he had two telephones, one on each shoulder, and he was carrying on two conversations at the same time, and me sitting

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or something. John just completely ignored it and said--they had a--well, I only heard one end of the conversation, but a rather bitter discussion. John said no, we can't do it that way, we've got to be honest, we've got to tell them what's happening

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to move down here in '47. I knew Byron. I had known him through the years. I went to work for the Star-Telegram in '34 and, of course, up until he left in '46 we had telephone communication. except-- I never did work with him, LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the fall of 147, and I learned to know him slightly in 1948 when he was elected to the Senate from Texas. My first real contact with him was after he had been nominated, we had some conversations with him about his forthcoming campaign as I remember. I

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

cooked over the open fire. Then we would have pop- We roasted marshmallows or something. M: This was Lyndon Johnson's father who did this? L: Lyndon Johnson's father. M: Do you remember any of the topics of conversation? L: Well, we argued

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, of course, I had had strong impressions of Senator Johnson before I met him in his office because I had had many conversations with his staff, and I knew before that he was a very strong-minded individual, certainly a strong Democrat and certainly

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he told me to; I I said, "Well, thank you, Bill," and he went on back and that was the end of that conversation. G: Who got the postmaster's job? W: I have no idea. I think a fellow named Mohle that had about fifty kinsmen in that area and he

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of 1934 when she met Lyndon Johnson. P: Oh, yes! That! I think she sent a telegram--either that or telephoned, but I believe she sent a telegram to me saying, "Please go to the Brick House. We're going to have a guest for breakfast, to spend the night

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

of thorn may see. ves : .bxor . it was ire was dam.Yes, - ;. Do you remdraber what kind of a car in those days'? a Ford Phaeton, as they called then then. Do ;-o=a remember much of that conversation Ices, tho many young a?4t:d, or rather he did most

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was not strong enough really. M: What persuaded your husband to run again in 1964? T: Well, I think the demand because--he said on the telephone you can get more work done and the things that are needed to be done even by your telephoning more than some new

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was within a couple of days, because McNamara did not want to give the President a chance to have second thoughts about it. He actually--I should check my telephone books of 1964--but I remember [Lawrence] O'Brien calling everybody [and] wanting to have

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

had in many of our meetings talked about the necessity of integrating everything that's public. One day Jim showed up in the office and had a conversation with Medgar about sponsoring him, getting him into Old Miss. Then Medgar called me, as state

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to a very considerable degree. F: Did he talk with you on it? D: Oh, yes, we talked about it. F: Do you recall the gist of some of your conversations, where he stood? D: Not particularly because it wasn't a big issue in Texas at the time whereas

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

conversion at that point. So Mrs. Hobby gets up and she's got herself a written-out speech to introduce Johnson, and you know, it was not a you-know-who-I-mean, the junior-Senator-from-Texas-type speech, it was a thought-out, three- or four-page speech. She

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the white place. Sure enough, in about a week here was Herman Welker out there in the Senate. He had telephoned Stu Symington, said he wanted him to be on the floor to listen to him give a speech, because he thought Stu ought- to be respects. th~re

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

be in the tub, and he would talk to you and two or three secretaries would come in and take letters . He never stopped . At night, the conversation would go on during supper and right up to bedtime . I would say that the press that followed him from all

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it a lot. It was a topic of conversation. The main contenders were Lyndon Johnson and Jack Kennedy; we had nothing else to talk about as far as applicants were concerned. G: Do you recall anything regarding his change of mind, why he changed his mind? P

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

used? Y: No, not--well, you know, President Johnson was a very unusual fellow in a conversation. You'd go in with a specific item for the agenda but, depending on his most recent encounter or telephone call or something, you'd find yourself sort

Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the calendar. He summoned his office and said, "My friends, we've got to do something about this fellow here." And they began to work on the case. And the next time we heard was when the Congressman telephoned in the place in Virginia and said, ''Now, I've

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the number of balls he had in the air. He had George Reedy scurrying about with memos, and somebody else whispering in his ear; there were telephone conversations going on, and he seemed to be very much at ease handling four or five things at the very same

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

/show/loh/oh Barnes--I --8 But John Connally--it was his first speech that he made, he made it by telephone after being in the car with Kennedy. guess that attracted a lot of attention. I But the story got on the front pages of all the papers

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and interrelate them in conversation, whether it was on the telephone or in person, whereas McNamara just went item by item. You cleaned it off and you went to the next one. M: Point one, point two, point three-type thing. (Interruption) LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you, and i t ' s a rather interesting incident, l think it lends some [insight]. The only time that I even remotely knew of a conversation with the Majority Leader was when at the end of the 1958 election, the Democrats had won that very large

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- III -- 4 B: The telephone conversation? M: Yes. B: No. It was a very grown-up conversation. There was nothing all that--and the text will be there somewhere, I'm sure. But I don't remember

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, about long enough for the letter to get to Austin and be read by somebody, I had a telephone LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in a telephone? M: No. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Sometimes he's alone. We have a phone here which is plugged in, and if he gets a call I'll ask him if he wants to speak to the person or would they rather wait while he's relaxing, and if he

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that they could at least read and write and learn how to use a telephone or cash a check--just those elementary skills that we take for granted. Now, what if we were able to take these kids out of their dead-end environments, and as Lyndon Johnson said

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

their fancy, especially a presentation I made to the Vice President on the Council's program and a brochure I had done for them. In late July 1965 I received a telephone call from Mr. Shriver and he said, ''How about coming down to Washington and serving?" I