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Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

came back to the office and answered some phone calls and went to lunch. While sitting at lunch in the White House Mess the telephone rang with the news from Dallas. Of course we did not know at that moment that the wounds necessarily were fatal

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

indicate why he wanted you to. . . ? Y: In his phone conversation? G: Didn't you say that he telephoned you before that task force meeting? Y: Oh. G: Right. Y: Why did he invite me? G: Right. Y: Well, we had worked together in the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh How did you communicate with President Johnson--by letter, telephone, in person? Y: By letter, but the only really meaningful communications were in person. What I

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or two later. We had offices on the top floor of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel. Senator Wirtz had one with a large sitting room for where people could come and meetings and people who needed to see him. There was a bedroom, a telephone in both rooms. I

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

staff couldn't get them all answered. So that evening I received a telephone call. I was at a party, and they traced me from my aunt and uncle's house to the party. Senator Wirtz was in Washington on business and he and Mr. Johnson were together

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We were getting more letters than any other congressman from the state of Texas and probably as much as the senators were getting each day. My job, I had to sit right inside the front door. I had four telephones on my desk, and they were all ringing

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

go very well prepared in dress and so forth. But after I spent a night there, the next morning the telephone rang and it was a young lady and she says, "The President would like for you to come down and have breakfast with him in his room." Well, I

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

would go for him . Then a lot of my liberals in California started to raise hell, and I wired Johnson a letter of--I called him up on the telephone and said to him, "Senator, I'm for you from here to kingdom come . I've got some people in our

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the telephone strike that created Then the fact that the television people couldn't be lieve that we would not change our plans and hold the convention in Miami, because they already had their studios set up in their convention hall � � � LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and saw Lyndon. But he was busy. It was just more or less a hello and goodbye because he kept being interrupted on the telephone and [by] people I guess far more important that I was. So I didn't stay there very long and left. The only reason I went up

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

"Well, how would you like to pick up the Washington paper tomorrow and read that Lyndon Johnson had died in the home of his best friend?" And his face got sort of white, and he went over to the telephone, a wall phone, and tried to get a doctor

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the airport saying, "Teague, we've got a problem out here. Look, I'm going to put the phone over here and let you hear this engine." He could probably tell them what was wrong with it by the telephone. He was that good. He started flying as a young kid

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and ask what could be done. (Long pause) G: You needed congressional approval to sell the balance of that l.4 million. C: We needed congressional approval and there was an effort, and [Lawrence] O'Brien did most of that effort. My calls in my telephone

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ball, my little toe. Johnson tells one of these Filipino mess boys to get some ice--forget about what their reaction was, just get some ice; put it on my toe so I can get on the telephone. So I went up to the house; we have to get some pictures of Camp

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

strike. I'm setting up some kind of a--I can't tell what this is. Whether it's GE or the telephone company or-- End of Tape 1 and Interview XLIII NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION LYNDON B. JOHNSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Addendum to the Legal

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the President of June 24, 1966, the memorandum of a telephone conversation with Drew Pearson of June 29, 1966. And as you can see, we by and large took a very tough line, including the inclusion of criminal penalties for the auto industry. I went over

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on my telephones. B: In those years you just assumed that the telephones were tapped? H: Yes. B: Were they? H: Well, you can't tell, I don't know. I don't know how to find a tap. They do the tapping in the office of the telephone company, that's

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. He was still acting as governor and had problems there. He said before I came, in our telephone conversation, "I don't know whether I'll like you and I don't know whether you'll like me, but I'd like to discuss the job with you." I called my wife

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

but not in his office; he was sitting down on the steps that went upstairs to the office and he didn't hear the telephone ring. He very seldom got calls anyway. But anyway, he was sitting down there. So I believe it was Emmette--I don't know now whether

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The only thing exciting Dudley Dougherty did was, as far as I remember, pay for the first talkathon. And probably the night before election he had some telephone on the statewide radio network, but none of us took that very seriously as a means of getting

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

late at the Depart ment of Agriculture one night and having a staff conference. The telephone rang and it was the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and he said to me very sternly that looking over the records he was not at all satisfied

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

his public confession to the Baptists gathered there, she got a telephone call from Marshall 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and the telephone company and a few other miscellaneous unions such as the projectionists with the theaters and a few like that. M: One side note on this: Is this true of Texas on the whole also? H: It was true at that point. j'1: Is the union strength

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

nome, and there was some matter that she wanted to talk to Jack about. I don't know whether it was in connection with the divorce or not, but she evidently made a telephone call to him. I think he was living in Los Angeles. G: She was married to his

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. it's a girl's address, maybe something else. things. Maybe You get all sorts of But, anyway, we had some disobedience and one thing or another. Somewhere along there, the President called me on the telephone one day and talked to me about the fact

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Richards -- I -- 14 do the calling." So Lyndon went to the old telephone. telephone on the wall. It was a crank He called Houston and told them he was calling

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

mean hotel. Kennedy was nominated. just to say goodnight. I went back to see Johnson, Then I went back to my hotel to get a good night's sleep, and he woke me up on the telephone and said, "Kennedy is coming down here in a few minutes," or ten

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and ,.,;rorking overtime on the telephone in '65 and '66, and I must say all the specifics I ever heard of that were most unjustified, but I believe he was sensitive to this because I got the idea pretty fast not to ask the President to do much calling. really

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tax evasion. After I had been in office just a month or two, I had a telephone call from Claude Pollard who had been an attorney general of Texas. This former attorney general of Texas telephoned me in my office there LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://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

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)