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  • early in the morning, to bed late at night. G: I've heard that he would often use the phone, too, late at night. C: Yes, he used the phone. He was addicted to the telephone. when he was unhappy with someone. Particularly I can remember when he
  • proved later as president, Mr. Johnson personally made his appeal to another senator. leave it up to an aide. He did not He picked up the telephone or he went over and buttonholed him or got him by the elbow and pleaded his case with him, Democrat
  • is raging? maybe I should tell Mr. Raskob what happened. working in the building. I also thought that No telephones were We had the Bankers' Trust Company downstairs and the Longchamps restaurant, but they had no telephones working out of there. Panic
  • they had typed fifty letters. letters were quite concise and short. Now, most of the However, Lloyd dictated rather long, lengthy letters, plus the fact that I was constantly being interrupted to take telephone messages in shorthand. Finally in tears
  • 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