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Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on either side of his country which were Argentina and Brazil ; they both voted against this measure . I'm simply piecing this in with my own three years in Uruguay . Then I went very briefly to Chile, and Secretary Rusk telephoned me after I had been
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • academic job would be the permanent academic job, but we've been here ever since 1949. I've long since become a Texan--at least in the eyes of everyone except native Texans. (Telephone rings.) And there's the telephone if you'll excuse me. (Interruption) L
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of of a fairly recent controversy, or revived controversy, in connection with the Oxford affair; precisely, what went on in the telephone conversations between Robert Kennedy and Governor Barnett of Mississippi. It was, I believe, the Justice Department's point
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to credit both. Florence had meeting after meeting in her home in Georgetown. Mary Lasker and Florence were on the telephone constantly and their enthusiasm knew no bounds. They were dedicated. I enjoyed both of them, particularly Florence because day-to-day
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that I have a sister in Massachusetts and she might feel it was strange that her brother had never indicated this to her. I went in the house and got my sister on the telephone. Sure enough, she had watched the press conference. As I'm explaining to her
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the union and call in the heads of the airlines and lock them up [behind] a door for an agreement." I ran like hell to the nearest telephone. I couldn't get him; he was in a meeting. I couldn't get Harry McPherson; I couldn't get anybody. Before I finished
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was president, you know, there were telephone calls, there were telephones all over the Ranch so you 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was a telephone call from a gentleman named Sidney Weinberg, who is a good friend of Johnson's and also of Trowbridge. Sidney Weinberg had just come from a meeting of the Business Council down in Hot Springs, Virginia; and he said that he had been approached
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • toward big business and big financial leaders but I think that he really admired them and wanted to get along with them. He enjoyed approaching business leaders directly, usually by telephone when there was a problem and taking matters up with them
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • telephoned the Secretary of State and reported this; the Secretary, the story goes, talked to Harlan Cleveland whoWls then Assistant Secretary for International Organizations and some place there I understand, and I'm trying m get in touch with Cleveland
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I think, to come . for a telephone call from Washington about his house . He was waiting And I urged that he let me sit by the telephone and that I would waken him when the call came because it was late and he had a big day the next day . And he
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that he might not be quite as sharp as he should be. him I better. And I thought, well, if I'm going to see He put me down in a somewhat profane telephone conversation, he said "I don't know you, and I just barely know Lyndon Johnson and I don't want
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they could at least read and write and learn how to use a telephone or cash a check--just those elementary skills that we take for granted. Now, what if we were able to take these kids out of their dead-end environments, and as Lyndon Johnson said
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and told him that Senator Johnson was calling . So he went to the telephone, and talked, and said, "All right, I'll be over in a minute ." So he came back, and we were finishing this one hand, and he just remarked : "Well, they've asked Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by telephone, and it was made at a time when, as I recall it, Dr . Hornig for one reason or other was out of the country. And as soon as Dr . Hornig became available he also telephoned me and I came over and discussed the matter sometime within a few days
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • telephone operator! B: So she had more influence than I did, I think . F: More name value anyway . B: Right . So they released the helmets, and they would send us reports on their whereabouts as they were approaching the city . I'm not sure that I
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just wondering about the physical difficulty of trying to work through all of this when you don't have electric power, when the cities have been shut down. S: Well, the telephone system was still working. G: The telephones were working-- S: Mostly
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with each other and for us to pass on our conclusions to him. Of course, this was over an open circuit so that we were guarded in what we said. M: Mr. Johnson, I believe in that instance was involved personally and to the extent of talking on the telephone
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the Trinity River It has got a long, hoary background. Project. One of my sharp recollections--and you'll understand why it's so sharp--one day when the Vice President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, was· haranguing me on the telephone about
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was a very valuable man to him, all his life, all the years. He and Jesse went to school together, somewhere. J. C. Kellam. G: Right. You said last time that he had a direct line established in your house. W: Yes, he had a telephone put in over
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • come over from the White House and camp out in the Majority Leader's office and make the telephone calls and buttonhole, call key senators in and try to put the arm on them to vote this way or that way. It's done pretty much on an ad hoc basis really
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the particular arguments that Lyndon Johnson used in that? H: No. No. I wasn't in on any of that. G: Sometime before the committee selection, Ed Johnson had given a telephone interview to Robert Lucas, I think with the Denver Post, and it said something
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was learning about how this all went. G: Were communications different at the Ranch? J: Yes, communications were very, very different at the Ranch. We had the same basic system of telephones with the White House operators answering. We would take several
  • the Kennedy family; Adam Clayton Powell; a party LBJ hosted for congressional aides; staying at the LBJ Ranch; the telephone system used by LBJ and staff; radio communication at the Ranch; having picketers near the Ranch arrested and later invited to the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • states for Kennedy, for the ticket. M: An indication of how strong the feeling was in Texas among even some of your friends and supporters must have come in August when the Vice President-elect telephoned Oveta Culp Hobby to ask for support, and she
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • pound from here. M: You might mention that story. For the sake of the tape, over in the corner of this office there is a telephone, unconnected, a black telephone, which has the White House in the center of the dial, and it's sitting on a pedestal
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that was rather interesting. HD: Well, I know where she was. G: Where was she? HD: Up there on that telephone trying to help out her brother. That's my idea. G: Okay. HD: Because she was very distraught right then. G: You were going to say something
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the airport, and they came out about--I think they telephoned somebody in Amsterdam, who'd given them the wrong answer, so they thought we were coming in about four in the afternoon, and they were all out there at three-forty-five. And Doug MacArthur and Wawee
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • co-ops were formed, and even the telephone co-ops [that] were formed were the result of [his efforts]. I remember in 1950 when I was a member of the state legislature, speaking of telephone co-ops, John Connally was there representing the co-op people
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • telephone lines, telegraph lines, et cetera? B: Yes, that was all done in advance, a fantastic operation, but I didn't get into that part of it. F: That's not your role. B: That's right. F: What did you hope to get out of Punta del Este? B: I think
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • in the drama, of course, and pieces of decisions would then come in, and the director or somebody would grab a telephone and call Budget Review and say, "Such-and-such is what we’ve worked out," and then they'd try to crank that in, and when it would become
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But at any rate, the Record got a telephone call, and I can't say from whom it was exactly, but my inclination would be to say that it was from Dean [H. E.] Speck. the paper. But they were told to stop Then I was told to bring up all of the copies
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and fast rule as some, like the FCC may have with the telephone company. hauls many items. another. Because a truck line--for example, if he's a common carrier, And he may have a different rate for one than he does for The hauling of a chair, boxed, maybe
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Conference1 T: I hope someday that one of them will write about it because I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure, and yet I was very close to it. In meetings with mainly Rev. Abernathy and Bayard Rustin--I was in telephone communication with them
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , including myself, on the telephone. I'm sure he called many others about certain pieces of legislation, pointing out that he felt a deep urgency that we ought to get the Kennedy program on the road. was stalled dead-center. It hadn't been. It He used
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that we have divorced completely from our program ideological considerations. That doesn't mean I haven't views. I couldn't help but overhearing parts of your telephone conversation a moment ago. I have had since t 59 four protracted working trips to South
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : But he, in my opinion at least-- Telephone rings.) Do you think that Goldman's disillusionment was based on policies, or the way that Johnson treated him or what? R: \!Iell, I think it was several things. It vIas a discovery of vlhat Johnson
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a letter from him, a telephone call from him, a telegram from him urging me to run" and so forth. And Carl did help him every way that he could with the paper, probably to the extent of hurting him, because the paper was not popular at all. Neither
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No, I would simply call the White House on the telephone and tell the President what decisions the space agency had made with respect to missions where critical decisions had to be made. But these were not discussions nor were they on my part a request