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Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Cambridge--and there was a telephone call waiting for me there from the White House, which surprised me a great deal. F: It gave your sister something to think about, didn't it? H: Yes, it certainly gave my sister something to think about. It also helped

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. on the Joint Chiefs. II I was down We were having an exercise of some sort and the telephone rang, and it was the White House asking me to come over. got somebody to replace me and went over there. about 5:30 then. So I It was late in the afternoon And I

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

calories he was taking on at this point, and he grousing about all the good things having too many and so forth. As you probably know there's a telephone mounted on everything that you can mount a telephone on in the White House, including the dining room

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

returns over the telephone from Texas. Finally at midnight. Rayburn said crossly to me, "I'm going home, and 1'11 give you a ride if. you want to go." I said, "All right." And as we went out Johnson was yelping into the phone, "46 votes to 8, ruh. That's

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

They called me to the telephone, and it He wanted me to find somebody for him. He wanted me to find the right man because he was going on television at 11 o'clock, and he wanted to tell these people what he was going to say, what they were going to be doing

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from the situation than I was when they were in Washington. F: When he was vice president and president, did a lot of the working with you and the planning and the rearranging and so forth go on by telephone from Washington, or did they wait until

Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

politician. G: In what ways did Senator Wirtz advise Lyndon Johnson, do you remember? W: No. G: I suppose Lyndon Johnson used the telephone a great deal in his I don't remember anything about how he advised him or anything. relations with other people

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

would use the gunships and the special forces company if we had to go in to get the people out. Well, what happened--first of all, the night before, I had gotten a promise from Lam that he would not move on--give me one more day. He got a telephone call

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

! You just mark my words: you're through!" I said, "Jane, I'm going to make a bet with you. I'm going to bet you that in twenty minutes I'm going to get a telephone call from Bob Komer, and we are going to be best friends again." Well, in twenty minutes

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him. Bell Telephone and a bunch of the people opposed it. They came down. I've forgotten who was head of the Bell Telephone at that time. But he showed them, he said, "Boys, you can make money withholding on this dividend. You'll have that cash at your

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

always called on from whom I could get a thousand dollars on the telephone. There was a funny thing; I knew a physician in New York, C. B. Powell, who was a Republican. But I knew C. B. well. He was a publisher of the Amsterdam News, a New York newspaper

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of conversations by telephone and otherwise that Clifford had had around the country. I'm sure that he talked to some members of the wise men group. He spoke with real passion and real concern. He said, "This Speech as it is presently written, is wrong. The speech

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: On the telephone? No, he would not do things like that though obviously I can't tell you he never talked [to him], but that was not the mode of operation. G: Some people were afraid that he was not adverse to doing an end-run from time to time if he thought

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was on the ticker--we had no other information. Finally one of the Kennedy staff people did get a call through. recall his picking up another telephone and ordering a fork lift at Andrews Air Base to take the casket down. to I can be present And about that time

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by telephone from Los Angeles to my home up here. vision. I was watching the convention on tele- He said, liThe arrangement's just been made. Johnson's going LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Phil, I'm sure, was talking to Lyndon because he always had a foot in that ,camp. He and I were talking daily, and sometimes almost hourly on the telephone. And he would then put me in touch with Rogers and the people in the Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on several good-sized telephone banks to make phone calls to get people to the polls etc., and labor usually does this. Labor did not turn out. We had a small telephone bank in Racine and one in Milwaukee, and this was all that we LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

twelve by twelve [feet], with three telephones, and that was another one of the problems . � 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, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

envisioned long distance telephone lines; not direct satellite broadcasting but [as] a distribution system. G: Now, the Johnsons did purchase an interest in a cable company. Do you think that this may have been a result of his conversation with you? S

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in there he had fifty-two hundred feet and fairly narrow and I don't know if you're familiar with it or not, you've got [Highway] 290 and telephone lines and electrical lines and you've got some Ranch land in between and there's a road, the Ranch Road 1

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

your fence?" BW: It was Sunday. TW: It was Sunday, yes. And I said, "Well, Gilbert Durst does lot of our fence building, and I think he's a pretty good man. He reached under the table and got the secretary, "Find Gilbert Durst's telephone number

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, Side 2 K: --to keep things quiet and not let the truth get out. (Laughter) I sat in MACV sometimes as the chairman of a conference with literally twenty or thirty people there, and messages running back and forth and telephone calls and so forth. So

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, "You kno1-1 , this is a real error. don't debate \

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

where we are"--he met me at plane-side--"to the telephone down the hall." So I walked down the hall, and obviously I had to say yes, but by the time I got to the phone, I was delighted. I said yes, with enthusiasm. So I took this extra assignment

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 20 And then he would stay on the telephone a lot, and read the papers, and Mrs. Johnson a lot of times would stay in bed with him for a while after we first got there. And they would talk a little bit and visit, or both read papers, and then we would

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Gossett, who was the congressman fran the Wichita Fa11 s district, was appointed general counsel of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and resigned from Congress. There was a vacancy in the dis trict that I lived in, and I fancied that I had a chance

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Antonio. And I used to get some of the most scurrilous telephone calls you ever heard in your life from people that would say that I was a thief and a rascal-F: And certainly a renegade. C: Yes. And had betrayed all of Texas, you'd have thought

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on every level of the court in their home state." It struck him. Everybody was kind of at loose ends, you know, who the other one would be because he talked to Russell; he talked to many others, I'm sure, in the Senate. We telephoned Sam Ervin, and he came

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

away. And he said he was going to-- F: No hint on the telephone of what it was? C: Certainly not specifically, but that he would have the chance to tell me. So he came by in a car, picked me up in front of my building on Connecticut Avenue, and we

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

I'd seen. I pretended I was just giving American opinion. That interview changed a very tiny element of history. Having returned to the United States earlier than I expected, I telephoned Henry Cabot Lodge, the American ambassador to the United Nations

Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

telephone communication with [inaudible]. They had their own way of going about it, forming this county meeting. The county meeting is a real--that particular year, the reason I emphasize the county meeting, on baseball, and all those races and so forth