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  • weren't even sure shots had been fired, and I recall that at this time when I called the bureau (I was one of the first guys off the bus and got to a pay telephone in the Trade Mart and I called the bureau and Smith had a ship-to-shore radio arrangement
  • telephone calls, ''But during the week he left, he received 'three or four pressing calls' that seemed to excite ~im. "'. • DRAFT DRAFT - 2- 2. A friend of Ray••• pre1umably 1n But St. Louta, drove h1m to Bdwardeville where he caught a bua for Chicago
  • there; she was at the Ranch. Was it her birthday? Was it an anniversary? G: No. N: Maybe he was just homesick, but he got the violinist in the phone booth with him and called Mrs. Johnson and he had the violinist serenade Lady Bird over the telephone. G
  • 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
  • the governmental structure. B: There's been a lot of talk about-(Interruption--telephone rings) B: I was getting ready to ask you [is,] there's been a lot of ~hat talk about the attitude of the Kennedy staff toward Johnson while he was Vice President. D
  • of the then, I identified later as the Johnson men there. Woody was talking to the Senator. Then he said, "The Senator wants to talk to you, Jack." When I got on the phone, I probably had never had a private telephone conversation with Lyndon Johnson in 1960
  • not prevail in the precinct. But in later years the climate did change, and Mr. Johnson received quite a substantial vote. Now in all of this that I'm relating--I may be going too much in detail--I'd have to say that I was engaged in weekly telephone
  • of people who seemed to have urged him to reconsider. R: Yes. In correspondence, telephone calls, in person. G: Do you remember who some of the people were? R: Oh, no. I would say it was a cross-section of America. G: Really? Did he himself ever
  • Office work and meeting with staff about state dinners; party for Rebekah Johnson Bobbit; Lady Bird's diary for November 22, 1963, to Abe Fortas for Warren Commission; telephone call to John Connally; dinner with LBJ
  • and personal contact "l'li th Senator Johnson was again through Senator Symington, and this Hould be in early probably F'ebruary or March 1954. 1954, I received a telephone call from i3enator Jymington one day asking me to come up to lunch. He advised
  • , Sirhan's fattorney, Los Angeles, received two telephone calls on June 20, 1968, from a person claiming to be John Lawrence of New York City. This caller said he was executive secretary of the Clemency Committee for Sirhan Sirhan and that Los Angeles
  • was done that had to be done. On a request like that, can it be granted over the telephone, or do you have to have some telegram, something tangible? S: vJell, you have to submit your request by telegram, of course. in order to save time, L made
  • to be offered the vice presidency. Anyhow, we talked. Now who made the [call]-F: This was in Los Angeles? T: Yes, this is in Los Angeles, and we talked. F: Personally or on the phone? T: On the telephone. morning. I was staying at another hotel
  • working on the Kennedy staff, notable Dr. Cochrane whom I mentioned earlier. Cochrane had been the chief agricultural adviser to the Kennedy campaign. these people. And I talked on the telephone with But the main option was to be a member of Cochrane's
  • extent? B: (Laughter). [I had] that telephone call about 10:30 at night announcing, telling me, that we had already made the landings. F: What did you do toward getting Venezuela hooked into the OAS action? B: Well, I had a telephone call a few
  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • to know them pretty well. I got to know many of them damn good as a matter of fact, and that's one reason undoubtedly that when the 2nd ROK Corps got in trouble in June and July of 1953, General Taylor called me on the telephone about five or six o'clock
  • was--maybe there was no particular occasion--anyway I was called to the telephone, and it was the President, and he said, "I've been trying to locate you for three or four days" or something like that. need your help particularly. And he said, "I need your
  • airport. They put us in an unmarked police car--well, I'll step back for a second. I was on the third or fourth floor of the hospital filing on a telephone I had commandeered. The telephone was priceless. You could get your weight in gold for a phone
  • Oh, no! So Buddy got on the phone, and I've often thought of whoever in the world IIBuddy" might be. There was some young man in Texas and all of a sudden he was thrust into a telephone conversation with a strange man whom he had never met who
  • state dinner automatically . Then Mrs . Johnson kept the restoration committee going and I'd always be asked to that, but I explained to .her in writing and on the telephone that it was really difficult for me and I didn't really ever want to go back
  • ://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/loh/oh -6- Leader, why, he and I would talk over the telephone or see each other two
  • 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
  • plane available for Kennedy family; Lady Bird has coffee with houseguests; phone call from Luci Nugent; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Robb; LBJ has meetings & telephone calls; Lady Bird thinks of dangers to her family; LBJ gives television speech
  • 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