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- that connected a tape machine to the telephone. Anyway, so this was on a tape and God knows whatever happened to those tapes. So LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and last-minute guest lists and making lots of last-minute telephone calls to get people there who might not have received their invitations by messengers. G: I can imagine. F: Mike Dunn and I both worked very hard putting that together. G: How did
- . "Mr. Johnson's going to accept the vice presidency," I guess it was around noon I heard. No one was as stunned as I was. Matter of fact, I left town the next day. (Interruption - Telephone) M: You say you left town? S: That next day I left town
- at the department actually worked day and night for about three days getting together the various affidavits; and then they were called by telephone and dictated over the phone to U.S. Attorneys' offices all over the country who were then given the responsibility
- that, on his team. No doubt he looked forward to the Senate and all, and he loved people and he loved the state. And, through the telephone and otherwise, he kept up a relationship with these people and these were the people who were very influential
- the CIA. What happened to intelligence in that case? M: We had no advance notice of it. advance notice of it. I don't think that anybody had any I learned about it by a telephone call from Moscow telling me that Khrushchev was going to be removed
- with that problem--traffic congestion, an awful lot of confusion, and every difficulty in finding workable public telephones to call up the troops. Of course, I should point out that although the formal recommendation had come a little later, the military
- daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
- accurate? P: The newspaper account was fairly accurate. Incidentally, this is the reason why this must be held quite confidential for a long time. I immediately picked up the telephone and called up Walter. I said, '~alter, have you read the New
- of, lid say, two or maybe three telephone conversations with him regarding legislation. I was chairman of a subcommittee on agri cul ture, and these were usually conversati ons, very bii ef, deal i ng with bi 11 s that woul d come up. Of course, he wanted
- Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me
- often know what direction the country is taking in the wrong way before the people in Washington do . I think Lyndon Johnson was guilty of. that too, despite his intensive use of the telephone, I don't think he really had touch with the people
- returns over the telephone from Texas. Finally at midnight. Rayburn said crossly to me, "I'm going home, and 1'11 give you a ride if. you want to go." I said, "All right." And as we went out Johnson was yelping into the phone, "46 votes to 8, ruh. That's
- on several good-sized telephone banks to make phone calls to get people to the polls etc., and labor usually does this. Labor did not turn out. We had a small telephone bank in Racine and one in Milwaukee, and this was all that we LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , "You kno1-1 , this is a real error. don't debate \
- , they always wanted to own the land, wherever they were, that this was a universal longing. --Telephone interruption-I didn't have too much to do directly with the Kennedy Round. Let me conclude with what you need here on the Kennedy Round by saying
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- know, everybody was at lunch and everybody left his lunch untouched. What happened to you in the next three or four days following the assassination? touch with the new President? ~'l : He got in touch \vi th me, yes. F: By telephone? l.J: Yes
- church, and the Baptists is very close. There's not a great deal of difference. They use the same methods of baptism; they have their local govemment concept, and so on. I've taken more time to answer your question than-- (I nterrupt i on-- telephone
- two or three of the steel people. B: Were your telephone calls effective? H: And I went with Mr. Kennedy on an out-of-the-district trip, I think down to North Carolina to some military maneuvers, the day that they gave in. We kept right up to date
- business. We're not even interested in it. B: But Dr. King and the movement were aware of this kind of thing? R: Oh yes. At this period one of the great jokes whenever you picked up the telephone--often I'd say when I was calling Dr. King, 'Well
- in EOB, just frankly doing anything I could to assist. Of course, the office was inundated with telegrams and letters of condolence, best wishes for LBJ, et cetera. Well, in workin~ with so many politicians, in correspondence and the telephone while I
- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 2 telephone call from Dallas; and he came downstairs, I think--or the message was brought down. F: I don't suppose that was being televised in Washington
- decision. get an equivalent outpouring of As ~ matter of fact, telephone call: he got. and le~tcrs telegra~s then? the President was unable to answer all of the He got many, many cal~s from many people, not [He received] calls from people all lir
- telephones that they had had. They were working immediately trying to get phones put in. When we got to The Elms there we went into the President's den, where he sat in his chair. I remember him sitting down there; Mrs. Johnson was there and myself, Cliff
- --business-F: Was he pretty good in those kind of in-between years at staying in touch? G: Oh, yes. You mean with people? F: Yes. G: Very. F: He didn't wait for the need for Irving Goldberg to arise, and it's the Pick up the telephone, call you
- was practicing law, I became very interested in Democratic Party politics. In 1948 I became especially interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate. (blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call) Of course, I was aligned
- , 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
- the President was dead. things. I'm trying to remember the sequence of Kilduff came in and announced that the President was dead. Everybody went bowling out trying to find telephones, all through the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- were referring earlier to Ambassador Nolting. J: Nolting is right. A fine man. G: How would you contrast his style with Ambassador Lodge? J: Well, Ambassador Lodge, of course, had the great plus of being able to get on the telephone and talk
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- a black man on as a member of the board of governors now, and there are far more employees than there were. It's hardly solved, but it's not the lily-white bastion it was in 1968 when we held our hearings. The New York Telephone Company, where we held our