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Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was campaigning in West Virginia, and he bawled all over the telephone about how I'd been right and thank goodness he'd listened and we went on in the District. He said it was giving him a big boost in West Virginia. The trouble was that it didn't give him a big

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him. G: Would he generally prefer to do these things in person rather than over the telephone? R: My work with him, generally speaking, was on a personal basis rather than over the phone, but I think that was because I made an effort

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson was that state director for NYA he was historically interested in electronics and any gadgets that were at that time known to man. He quite often changed the telephone setup. installed new phones to facilitate the operation, and a buzzer system

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, because we had helped in a very substantial way in electing them. was constant. So the contact with President Johnson from that time on I would say that every week there would be two or three telephone calls and visits. I was in the White House

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the eee camps where Johnson may have gotten the news indirectly. P: That could have happened, and inc identa lly, Mrs. Carr, accord ing to a lawyer who told me, would telephone long distance and give the news if she got it in time to do

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know it was Jimmy Allred that called me on the telephone and asked me if I wouldn't come to Austin one day and meet with Lyndon and him, and the Brown brothers, in an effort to help Lyndon. F: Now this is after the election, but when the contest

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the nomination? P: Yes. And they were-- the whole Kennedy family were-- very disappointed that I did not support John Kennedy for the nomination--very, very disappointed, including Joe. the telephone. And I had been in contact with Joe over He would call me

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington. Some way that message must have fallen into the hands of the press, because the next morning when I got to Naples I was awakened about six-thirty by a telephone call from the local consulate telling me tha~ there was a group of news- papermen

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parr -- I -- 5 P: He didn't talk to him on the telephone either, sir. After I was married and what have you, I lived with George for quite a while. And George and I would sit around and talk at night. We'd cook supper together; he'd

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

counsel. They had one person for each subcommittee and a back up man who was an attorney and a very capable attorney. Jack Forsythe--have you tried to get hold of him? Well, you know his situation. I think we talked about it over the telephone. I must say

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was going [to happen] . Well, a few days later I had a telephone call from my good friend Josephine Roche, who was the under secretary of the treasury . She told me that Aubrey was most anxious that I take this job and was I willing to do it . I said

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with my appointment were with the Attorney Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth of June and there began a series of conversations between us. B: Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the Senate. Do you recall under what circumstances that happened? C: The first time I heard Lyndon Johnson's voice was on the telephone following my election to the Senate in 1956. I was having breakfast in my home, the old family residence in Boise

Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Americans for Johnson-Humphrey, and I was presumed to rally rural consumers for President Johnson. In this capacity I made quite a number of telephone calls asking for support and for membership, asking individuals to join the committee, to allow

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a fairly close association with the Majority Leader that lasted all the time I was in the Congress. F: You saw him or talked with him, either by telephone or in person, off and on during the remainder of his Senate career? B: Yes, that's correct. I

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

questions about broadcasting he would give me a call, and I made trips down to Washington to see him and ultimately met Lady Bird, and then [we] picked up again, of course, after the war years. Throughout that period, there were numerous telephone calls

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and to the delight of the civil rights forces in areas that we didn't expect him to be active as a Vice President. For example, he took a very personal concern on the fair employment business. He used the inevitable telephone, without which he is never seen or heard

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

didn't want to make a final commitment until I had talked with them. After I did, I promptly telephoned and told Nick that I would take the job. To me the real keynote to it was what the job itself involved. The mere rank was not very impressive from any

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is in his office at 11:48. I arrived at 12:15 with the statement. You just look at this schedule. I mean if this is right, he telephones Fortas at 11:48. Okay? What does B-1 mean here? G: That's a Dictaphone belt number. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at this country today. Christ, the Catholic bishops a year ago on the maldistribution of wealth. In any case-And on Vietnam I hope these measures--on the tax thing we asked for restoration of the automobile and telephone excise tax reductions. We got them. We

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to be done. And the telephone rang, and I ·answered the phone for her; and they said, "Will somebody please send a car for Vice President and Mrs. Johnson? They're at the local airport." So I got on the phone. I don't even think we had a car here actually

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; Kuchel's role in legislation directly affecting California; LBJ's gall bladder surgery and telephone call encouraging Kuchel to have the same surgery.

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there? G: Well, there were a lot of strikes, a telephone strike, I think 80 per cent of the phones were out. J: I guess this was after Taft-Hartley, wasn t it? G: Well, let s see. J: That was one of the largest mails we ever received, both critical

Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

, and he called my house one day, which upset my mother to no end. I mean, upset her in a good way; she just couldn't quite handle the President of the United States being on the telephone at her house. When I walked in from some place, and she said, almost

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

very vitally interested in health matters. Her husband was the editor of a number of papers; I believe she is now divorced. She is one of the women who, as far as I know, had direct access to President Johnson on the telephone, easily, conveniently

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

in Illinois it was, in Tennessee it was, and elsewhere. Strangely enough it has been a continuing issue. It's an issue right now. On the telephone I talked to the committee leaders of the appropriate committees in the legislature in Iowa and right now

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

at this point on Saturday that the whole package would be signed? F: Yes, he was. That apparently was a very heated telephone conversation. Whether it was in the course of that or some other conversation with the President, two days before the end of the term

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

it successfully," because at that stage in life all the telephone wires and everything else are above ground, utility wires, and from the air you can't always know that you're seeing those things. Well, that gave him some bad publicity--he thought bad 10 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

-- 4 ~~e worked our way through dinner and went to a room next door to the dining room where we just looked at the President make a telephone call or two while he leaned back in his Barcalounger~ waving his feet in the air without any shoes on. He

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to know about it because Lyndon talked pretty freely on the telephone. He didn't say, "Get out, Sam Houston." So that's what you call--well, it'd be called nothing but a double agent. Coke Stevenson is thinking Ed was supporting him and actually he

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. I recall about ten or eleven o'clock at night after getting some additional reports on this matter, getting quite concerned about the hesitancy of the White House. this belief. I got a telephone call which reinforced I called the White House

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and find out what is happening to him. Perhaps he is dead." So I used my telephone at my expense and called the commanding officer of the brig or the guardhouse at Camp Pendleton and I identified myself simply, "Dr. Hector Garcia, a doctor whose patient

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was get on the telephone and say, Come on out here," and that's how the Dallas News scooped the Times-Herald on that story. F: Did you do a lot of interviewing in this investigation, or did you mainly take the facts that the police and the FBI had

Oral history transcript, O.B. Summy, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh S: Yes. Way out in California. G: She recently telephoned you and said you fellows had helped them when they were stranded somewhere in California

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a of tickets by getting on the telephone. I had not been with the Gov::rnor sufficiently long that I l-laS crass about those things. I l-laS very impressed ~vith the T,-lay he pulled that off. I think his attitude ,-las that he was going to let them put

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

talk frequently on the telephone. He was elected Democratic Whip of the Senate in 1951, only three years after he was elected to the Senate. And two years later, on January 3, 1953, he was elected Democratic Leader of the Senate. I think history

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