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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was visiting me in Saigon at the time so that both of us got on the telephone to Washington and reported, "Now this is the time we feel we must strike back." Plans had already been made, and strikes were off in the course of the next twelve hours against

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

his telephone and went on strike for a few days. G: There was another occasion I guess where the President had to be flown to the Mayo Clinic I think with gallstones. T: Something. G: And didn't want it known to the press. Do you recall

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the things that are most on his mind, the latest telephone conversations from the White House and the State Department. If there are decisions to be made that he is going back over to the White House to participate in, he will ask our advice

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as do law students. So I helped him with his campaign. F: In what ways did you help him? H: Oh, I rang doorbellsistuffed envelopesi called people on the telephone; just helped out any way I could. F: Did you confine yourself to work in this Austin

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a position by the Nixon Administration? R: The answer to that is yes and no, and I'll tell you exactly why I put Yes. it in those terms. I was originally approached by telephone from a very prominent Republican in upstate New York, a lawyer who is very

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he did. G: Did you ever get to meet him or visit with him? L: I don't remember him. G: How about his mother? L: I I

Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: A telephone call from Robert Komer. That was during the summer, because I remember the call came for me out on Martha's Vineyard, where we go in the summer. I didn't know Komer, had never met him. I called Walt Rostow to say, "Should I take this seriously

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as though it were still in the horse and buggy days, we all wanted to get out to telephones, but we had to stay there until he said everything he had on his mind about the Court. But it is a very good story--one of the outstanding stories of his day

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into business in New York. I had a telephone call at the luncheon, calling me from my New York office, telling me that they had just had word from Dallas that the President had been shot. I came back into the restaurant and passed the news to a few other

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had·,a telephone call in my office in Pittsburgh, and my secretary came in and said, "Mr. Joseph Califano wants to speak to you." said, "I think he's in Washington. I said, "Who is he?" And she It's a long distance call." I said, "Well, I guess I

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the Hill who are ready to unglue him from this, you know; and it makes me awfully nervous because I know just from the telephone calls that have been received from congressmen--Congressman Fountain--he's going to have a chance to go at this program again

Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

know firsthand how my name came to the attention of Mr. Clark and Mr. Christopher. My first knowledge that I was under consideration came from a telephone call from Warren Christopher, the Deputy Attorney General, in early October 1967 to determine

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the CIA. What happened to intelligence in that case? M: We had no advance notice of it. advance notice of it. I don't think that anybody had any I learned about it by a telephone call from Moscow telling me that Khrushchev was going to be removed

Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the President? M: Some. F: Just in general, or anything sp ecific? M: More in general. Lyndon Johnson is ahmys such a busy man that you'd be talking to him, and he'd be talking on the telephone, and everybody coming in. F: He named you as one

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: 0 h, yes. G: What can you tell me about that? H: l'iell, I can't remember the names much any more, I guess. But we were kept advised on a day-to-day basis, mostly by telephone, from Johnson's people down there. Johnson himself never had any

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the day after the election he called me on the telephone from the Ranch and he said, "Ted, this is Lyndon." I said, IIYes, Mr. President, congratulations. He said, IIHow did I do out there?" You won handsomely. I said, "You did very well. II You LBJ

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with that problem--traffic congestion, an awful lot of confusion, and every difficulty in finding workable public telephones to call up the troops. Of course, I should point out that although the formal recommendation had come a little later, the military

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Defense College when a telephone call came through from the State Department asking me to return immediately to discuss a new assignment. what they had in mind. This was in December [1963]. I was not told The Imperial Defense College had not concluded

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but I get all of my telephone calls from the United States between eight-thirty and ten o'clock. for us to come at ten, we'd love to come." said, "Judge Kaufman. If it's all right I said, "Who's we?" Judge Irving Kaufman is here with me." "Wait unti

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

accurate? P: The newspaper account was fairly accurate. Incidentally, this is the reason why this must be held quite confidential for a long time. I immediately picked up the telephone and called up Walter. I said, '~alter, have you read the New

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

available a room for our staff and telephones where we could be in communication with OEO people downtown; it was our command post. We also had members who supported the OEO program on the floor, working to line up votes. The House whip and DSG whip

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of, lid say, two or maybe three telephone conversations with him regarding legislation. I was chairman of a subcommittee on agri cul ture, and these were usually conversati ons, very bii ef, deal i ng with bi 11 s that woul d come up. Of course, he wanted

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was a great telephone-user. So was President Kennedy, I might add. views. He was a good question-asker. He liked to get a number of His method of doing business was contrary to that of President Kennedy who liked to see things in writing. He [Kennedy

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

?" And indicated-G: How did he know? Where did he get his information to begin with? N: I can tell you that the incident that occurred in getting Klein on the telephone occurred with my going down to see the President on January 6, 1967. He had a warty growth

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just knew how to present [it]. This is a need we have, we have so much to do in a short period of time and you've got to help us. He just didn't take no for an answer. G: Do you remember what was at issue here, was it a question of telephones or--? O

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

about the hours and the deprivation of personal family life, you still are working for a mighty cause which tends to make all of it worthwhile. The fact is that you can sitting here with a flick of a finger on the telephone do an awful lot--get a housing

Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

physically outside the Defense Department on crisis matters, it was almost always to the State Department for Panama matters or to the Justice Department for civil disturbance matters. McS: How often did you have contact by telephone or otherwise

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

things. As part of this communication process, it was well understood throughout the administration that a cabinet member would make himself available promptly in response to a Larry O'Brien telephone call. Now, that didn't mean that everybody

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was what it finally came to. We made individual contacts by telephone and tried to get a representative cross-section of the Democrats in the Congress. At the outset of the meeting the climate was reasonably good. Several said they were pleased an effort

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

dressing room when the famous Kosygin-Wilson meeting was going on at the Prime Minister's country estate. And we had a telephone line rigged up to him which I can recall spending hours on the phone with him, telling him how deliberations were coming along

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought Lyndon was sick and that we really ought to get a doctor. I got busy looking in the telephone book. George Brown was not there. The only people that were at the house were just Lady Bird and Lyndon and Clint Anderson and myself, except

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

can't recall the details of that, but it seems to me that we were in Washington at that time . That I had gone to Washington with Mr . Johnson--I can't recall now what for. But that there was a lot of long- distance telephoning between Austin

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the Pearl Harbor situation which we refused to do . M: Let me clarify this . B: Yes . M: And they wanted you to join ranks with them? B : Join ranks with them. You had a telephone call from a Communist representative? They were willing to withdraw

Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

with congressmen? B: We have quite a volume of mail, maybe a half-dozen letters a day from congressmen, asking for some information for their constituents and which we respond to very promptly . I have, on occasion, had a few telephone calls from specific

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 B: Middleburg . Bought it sight unseen over the telephone . M: And it turned out to meet

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

some talks on the telephone and correspondence with President Johnson after that . I went to the White House many times . M: Went to dinners and things of that nature? B: Yes . � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 (telephone) M: You had just said that there were other things that had demoralized the service. C