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Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

o'clock in the morning went back to see him again. Obviously there had been either a telephone call or a message from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

staff who shared his proclivity to use the telephone. M: Who contacted you and what were the--? A: Very frequently--and this changed from time to time--but very frequently I had contact with Marvin Watson there. M: Do you recall what the issues were

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

telephone number was going to be at Los Angeles. And he said, in that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

always supported the efforts to have better farm programs. Rural electrification-- he was an early advocate and always a strong supporter of rural electrification, rural telephone program; the various credit programs of the Farmers Home Administration

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall some of the conversations on the telephone. You know, I'd be in the room when Johnson was trying to defeat John LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and what the Senator's reactions were? B: No, I can't. though. I can remember many telephone calls at the house here" I would say that Bob would not always be adamant; that there would be occasions when he would change. Often he would refuse to even

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

give you a telephone number . G: That's great . B: And you really should get in touch with him . G: Yes . in Houston . have to look at our list to see if we have . I had lunch with him the day after Thanksgiving . I have not, but the man who

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

often know what direction the country is taking in the wrong way before the people in Washington do . I think Lyndon Johnson was guilty of. that too, despite his intensive use of the telephone, I don't think he really had touch with the people

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

point for observing the events of the actual coup? You said you were at lunch when the thing began. S: Well, I was at lunch; I got this telephone call from Don and he said, "I wanted you to know," to be the first to know, or something to that effect. I

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of press facilities did you have? Or did you have to get off in each town and--? T: Well, yes. We had a lot of our people along the route who could take the copy, and we'd have to run to telephones at different stops and also [inaudible]. F: Yes. Did

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in 1969. And that morning, of course, we were trying to keep the guards in place and just defending ourselves. We had some information, but very little, by telephone with headquarters. Very little information. I went in to the embassy early in the morning

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

embarrass him." W: I don't have any reaction to that at all. I don't know of anything. I was not aware of anything where it was presidential action of the sense that the President got on the telephone and called a few fellows and said, "What the hell

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

worked, including some of the girls, on the road: Cousin Ava and Cousin Margaret. Do you recall anything of that? W: No, I don't. G: Did you work on the road? W: No, I didn't. (Laughter) G: You were a telephone operator; of course not. Can you

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

predicted that O'Daniel would come in a little bit ahead of Johnson in the count. And I was close to it, I was on the telephone all day every day. But I wasn't surprised, really, at the preliminary report that Johnson had won. I'm also not at all surprised

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that whenever--this memo is at 6:25. Valenti's down at the Ranch. The President's over at [Dale] Malechek's residence. Okay? G: Yes. C: He returns to the main house at 7:53. All right? He gets Valenti's memo and he picks up the telephone and gives me hell

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

phone. The army signal crops set it up. G: It worked like a regular telephone? C: It worked like a regular White House phone. Pick it up and an operator answered. It was sort of overload. The signal corps--White House Communications Agency was run

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

that time that the news occurred. call at the hotel_room after we got back. We got a telephone That was another time I had talked briefly with the President , just a brief time. M: Then you went to West Point for the funeral. L: Yes. Is that right

Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to meet with them, or did they come down here to meet with you, or was it handled by telephone or how? M: I met them here. to Bonham. I met them on an airplane here at Love Field, ·and we rode Then I talked with them at that time and told them that I

Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bird and me to vis it her. I had met Hele and went up on the same ding, but we got toge ther over the telephone nged for us that it was plane. Everything was just so bea utif ully arra lf. I could have sett led jus t marvelous. I loved the White House

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you, I hadn't been in this job for two weeks. M: I was going to say you probably thought this was really the begin ning of a job. S: Yes, yes. I'd already had two direct telephone calls from the President, an hour and a half's discussion

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or major, and was on two-weeks active duty when we were going on another trip. I've forgotten what trip it is right now. And I had to telephone up to Fort Slocum and have him come back. Well, he was a little reluctant; he wanted to finish his active duty

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

pol.ice protection .for..all of these Negro leaders? [Were there] .threats against their li'ves and so on? J: Not too much, because during those periods of time, there was a lot of anonymous telephone calls; there was a lot of note writing and II

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XLII -- 10 instance, telephone service to talk to him, or so it was said. She lived, I believe, at Wardman Park Hotel, in a reasonably modest suite

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of it with USARV. The reason was that there was nobody at the end of the telephone when the adviser of USARV called. I don't mean that they weren't in communication. But they didn't have a headquarters--there was no [general] army headquarters that the chief

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

]." I had no qualms about that. They didn't say, "We want a copy of your manuscript." I had talked to them. So the next day was Washingtonls Birthday. I called the main office of Time[-Life] to try to get [Bob] Luce's home telephone number; I didn't

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into the hotel, walking right through the crowd shaking hands. He was obviously having a good time • • [A] half-hour after he got into the hotel, the telephone rang. "The Vice President would like to see you Mr. Komer!fI right up. There was the VP. So I

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that in conversation over the telephone from Chicago, and he told Wallace, and Wallace came around to my office in the Congress Hotel where I was staying, and he was very much disturbed. He said he thought I was a friend of his, and I told him I was, but that didn't

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had some similar advice just to make the offer. So the two just met and locked in, and that was it. F: Your father wasn't telephoned by Kennedy to be told that he was being passed by? s: That I don't know. Kennedy would have had to have made

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Califano who immediately got a telephone call from him that the President was substantially irritated, and asked if he--Califano--Jad delivered the President's earlier messages back to Wirtz and Reynolds. him that he had. The President ask~d Califano

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, said, IlGet the business community lined up --" who the heck is the business community really? thing. This was a difficult In the tax increase, for instance, the tax surcharge question, I telephoned personally a hundred businessmen and asked

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weeks -- II -- 22 W: That's right. So we kept getting telephone calls from Sam Helebrand - [?J, who was the leaislative liaison for the Office of Education. . He'd been developing

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said, and this was very typical of Jo hnson, "I want you to get on the telephone to Aubrey Williams," who was the head of the NYA, " and get me answers to all these questions." So I did, and that was the first LBJ Presidential Library http