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Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

telephone votes because the Senate was out of session at the time--it was decided that they were going to have a full-blown investigation by the Preparedness Subcommittee. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasseter -- I -- 2 L: And VJe had a happy childhood. That was great. So happy vie never kneltJ we were poor. But being poor is a relative thing. You know, we had a piano and a telephone, which not many people had

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

us back and forth to Washington. No, the decision would have had to be made by telephone and much earlier. The LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the Hill came to a stop at that point. Any- one who had been working on guided missiles at all was automatically launched into outer space. So Senator Russell telephoned me and asked me to write an analysis on the impact on the United States

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Tully--I~-l2 Johnson? T: You answer phones a good deal of the day. the telephone and people know it. F: Because you know how he likes So they telephoned instead of writing. Did you work with Mrs. Johnson at all after she became either the vice

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. And I have no idea how much--our race was covered mostly by services that were given--telephone credit cards, gasoline credit cards, and airplanes, and so on. We estimated that our race probably cost a quarter of a million dollars for Lt. Gov

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

what is sometimes referred to as the mezzanine or the second floor is where our operations were set up. We had telephone hookups in Massachusetts with Mr. Kennedy's people from there, and we had some hookups statewide and some nationwide, where we could

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

live in Washington is that you naturally get going on the telephone, and, you know, Joe's a great friend. It's just easy to talk to him and for him to talk to us. There's a funny thing on the press though. difficult relations were. This is an example

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by telephone, or did you have to go see them in person? H: It varied, you know, if you had to do a head count you just didn't have time to go see them personally and you would contact them on the phone. And then you would set aside a certain amount

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been saying that And he walked away and picked up the II phone . . . (Laughter) F: He called somebody. H: . . , and made a call, you know. F: Ri ght. H: He was like a child, by the way, with those telephones -- he could call from the dining

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

is being held incommunicado." His wife Nan I don't know what We had people on the telephone calling down and going down to Vietnam trying to find out LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, about long enough for the letter to get to Austin and be read by somebody, I had a telephone LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, directly, to give my own views in addition to calling on the Secretary or the Under Secretary. dealings with him. So it was in that connection that I had face-to-face He never telephoned me directly himself. M: In spite of the famous myth that he phones

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

." Chairman of the Far Eastern Subcommittee. And he said, And I was '~e're going to want to pass a resolution on the Formosa Straits, and I want to talk to you about it." telephone?" r So I said, '~ell, why don't you talk to me on the And we had

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

desk, stacked it looked like two or three feet high with papers; and the credenza behind his desk was stacked with papers; and he had telephone lights blinking; and several of his administrative aides were sUll there, and I saw at least two secretaries

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

there when he became president. I didn't go out to the plane or get involved in that. plenty other people running around. involved. Then-- There wasn't any reason for me to be I kept in touch by telephone about what was going on. I was trying to think when

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

appeared not to be productive. We would But this was a very valuable network of contacts, and they were contacted selectively when we were seeking names. Me Was the contact by telephone? M: Always by telephone. Me Never written? M: ~. Me

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, frequently over the telephone; certainly a face-to-face discusion every fortnight. So I had a feeling that on most of these issues he was not only in accord with what was going forward, but that he had a heavy prod on to make sure that they were going

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in a telephone? M: No. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Sometimes he's alone. We have a phone here which is plugged in, and if he gets a call I'll ask him if he wants to speak to the person or would they rather wait while he's relaxing, and if he

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the first primary. And we worked then intensely in this area of rallying personal support from the people I've just mentioned as well as others in this four or five weeks that intervened before the second run-off. This necessitated not only telephone

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

telephonitis, I guess, as He didn't hesitate to call up a man and talk to him over the telephone or even ask him down or even to communicate in every way. Most Presidents have been rather stand-offish in doing that, but I think President Johnson, relying

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh MOORE -- I -- 12 a little pressure off [I don't know], because any time somebody wanted something out of the administration they felt like that all they had to do was go see Senator Russell and he could pick up the telephone and call

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it had when I did it. was very much disturbed about it. He called me about it, and I said, "I'm sorry. This is the way I feel, and I've got to speak out on it." F: Did you talk over the telephone about it, or did you go see him? M: Both. He talked

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a room in the Caravelle [Hotel], and then I'd make trips out from there . The communications all went out from Saigon ; Saigon was the only place you could file copy . Both the PTT [Saigon civilian telephone system], telegraph office, telex facilities

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: In Washington . I always stay at the Hay-Adams, and I went back at 10 :30 in the morning, which I just ordinatily never do, and there was this telephone call from the White House, from Mrs . Johnson . Liz Carpenter came on the phone and said, "I want you

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and I could feel we organized, as far as the labor group goes, I think one of the very best campaigns on the telephone. first telephone banks. That was one of the That is where we first got women started in doing this, and it paid off. But along

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

things for publicity stories, and we were in contact with the Harte papers, for example; they were on Johnson's bandwagon, and I was back and forth with them with mats and copy and so forth and getting all sorts of telephone communication with the Johnson

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a telephone down in his swimming pool in Texas. I think He'd spend most of his time I think on the phone instead of swimming in the pool. But he didn't call me on the carpet or anything of the kind. And he didn't organize any kind of effort by other senators

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Harry Hopkins? W: No, that was the WPA. can't think of it. This was--I know his name very well, but I [Roosevelt] called him up to talk to him about it while [Lyndon] was there and he laid out the,project to him over the telephone and he said, "Well

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

because we were starting late; they gave us a December 15 deadline and we met it. I wrote the first two drafts, cleared it, got telephone communications, comments from the participants, then made the changes, got a unanimous assent, came down and wrote

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was head of the AID mission. He said they had sent back a telegram saying they would advise Zwick to call him when they got to more modern facilities, that the telephone system didn't get them across the street. Every- body thought this was a big joke

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Corcoran -- I -- 17 hearing by the radio how we were behind by so many votes. Just before I got into the mouth of the Mississippi River, I managed by ship telephone to get