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- , upstairs in the
family dining room. I've never seen anybody work the way he did, day and night; every
minute he was thinking about it, whatever it was he was concerned about in the nation at
that point. And the result was that he had a telephone hooked
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suddenly ordered that the presidential libraries and other public institutions had to make
available all transcripts of recorded conversations, or telephone conversations that had
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LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
ORAL HISTORY
- of the telephone, especially following JFK's assassination; the difficulty in analyzing LBJ as a whole person using only the telephone conversations; examining presidents and their faults in the context of their time and their experiences.
- the chances were of getting it out, and who was against it, and who was
for it."
(telephone ringing and voices in the background)
"Johnson was constantly working the floor, working the cloak room, keeping in
touch with the interests, the desires, the weakness
- use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
- , 1985
INTERVIEWEE:
CYNTHIA WILSON
INTERVIEWER:
Lewis Gould
PLACE:
By telephone from the LBJ Library to Ms. Wilson's office, Washington,
D.C.
Tape 1 of 1, Side 1
G:
I think when we paused the last time we were just about getting to the point
- 12, 1983
INTERVIEWEE:
BILLY GRAHAM
INTERVIEWER:
Monroe Billington
PLACE:
Interview was conducted over the telephone
Tape 1 of 1
B:
Why don't you just talk a little bit about the time you first had contact with President
Johnson?
G:
Well
- , 1985
INTERVIEWEE:
CYNTHIA WILSON
INTERVIEWER:
Lewis Gould
PLACE:
Via telephone from LBJ Library to Ms. Wilson's office
Tape 1 of 1, side 1
G:
Why don't you start out by just telling us something about your own background, education
- ? My first contact with
President Johnson was during a telephone conversation. It was an amusing situation. It
occurred during the Christmas holidays in 1960. I was calling President-designate
Kennedy and found him in Florida. I was calling to clear
- Special telephone interview regarding the impact of television on public policy; White House Communications Agency; use of videotape; White House Naval Photographic Unit films; LBJ's close relations with the press; television news reports; effect
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In giving this history of Wilson County to my niece, I pointed out that Charles
Deason, my daddy's older brother, was quite a community leader. I guess today we
would call him an activist but he was instrumental in getting the first rural telephone line
- that matter :came up, atld he got on the telephone.
He called
the Pentagon, and he didn't 'ask them, he ordered them to send a plane
and get that boy and bring him up here to Arlington National Cemetery
and bury him with full military honors.
And they did
- were going on, when it was election time in Texas, every
morning he would be in Washington, at six o'clock the telephone would ring. I'd look at my
clock and it was six o'clock. I'd tell my wife, "This is LBJ. Go get me a cup of coffee and
bring
- , and the whole atmosphere was entirely different. In
those days a lot of our mail was from people who were trying to get hospitalization or
veterans benefits out of World War I. So we would talk to people all day long who came
in the office, on the telephone
- figure that he was. He crune into public life as
[Joseph] McCarthy's counsel and then he was [John] McClellan's counsel and then he tapped
Martin Luther King's telephone wire.
I said, "Piss on Mennen Williams."
He said, "You know they'll embarrass you
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