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Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to type the short, punchy political letters to people, and we'd get a list every day by telephone or by mail from the Johnson staff down here that he'd seen them, et cetera. I remember one day I typed a hundred and fourteen of those letters. Of course
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . TG: Well, it's interesting-- End of Tape 1 of 1 (Ed. note: On March 11, 1997, Rabbi Goodman dictated the following postscript to his secretary, who in turn relayed it over the telephone to Ted Gittinger.) 5 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the most valuable record of Lyndon Johnson's career is Walter Jenkins' notes. He made a note of every telephone conversation. He took shorthand. Are you aware of that? G: Yes. F: And by taking those notes he was able to make sure that everything
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . A few days later Kay Graham telephoned. It's one of the very, very few conversations I ever had with her. She was open and direct and talked a thousand times easier on the telephone than she is able to do in person. I made note of the conversation mainly
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the telephone and in person about it. He shifted the major responsibility for the event to young Rusk, whom I recall as a very bright, effective, articulate young man. F: Did he have any official position, or was he just sort of a friend of the court? C
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the state's business, and they just talked to Lubbock on the telephone and writing letters and so on. So I just did the work of doing what they told me to do. In the beginning we set up advisory boards. We'd find out who the leading citizens Here in each
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • it? in the morning, his business started. The telephone would start ringing, he would start calling people and he expected LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be a news conference. Anyway, the time was moving on and I had promised to have something for the noon newscast, so I decided I'd better call. Well, there was only one telephone at the Ranch, and it was in the Senator's den. wasan old-style telephone
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I learned; a U.S. marshal finally discovered he was in Monterrey--was Tom Donald, who was secretary. It was a funny thing. They got Mrs. Donald on the stand and said, "Where is your husband?" She said, "I don't know." telephoned me 1ast ni ght
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in government service ." So some months afterward, I had a telephone call from the Chilean Ambassador in Washington saying that the President had sent up this decoration, and could I come to Washington and receive it . went to Washington and picked up Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the story, and I ran to the telephone and we broke it the next morning. He opened his campaign in Fort Worth at a park there, a city park, and I was there. He had a warm-up deal of a few minutes before he came on for his speech, and he had a Dallas
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • down to handle Floyd McKissick. M: Yes. Got him cooled off and he left the White House. It was a hairy time. As we were driving out in the cars, I was on the radio-telephone with the White House telling a couple of guys, Jim Gaither and someone else
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -called O'Brien manual and had implemented it in all respects, and he therefore felt his people had done a good job at the convention. He was quite proud of this. We had, for the first time, in 1960 installed floor telephones and had a telephone system
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • weren't even sure shots had been fired, and I recall that at this time when I called the bureau (I was one of the first guys off the bus and got to a pay telephone in the Trade Mart and I called the bureau and Smith had a ship-to-shore radio arrangement
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • early in the morning, to bed late at night. G: I've heard that he would often use the phone, too, late at night. C: Yes, he used the phone. He was addicted to the telephone. when he was unhappy with someone. Particularly I can remember when he
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • never did get to any of the ball games . In fact-­ F: What kind of spectator did he make? B: He was a spectator for the first event usually, and then by the second event he was out looking up a telephone to call somebody to get back to his real hobby
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . G: You described how LBJ "worked you over" in the Oval Office. How about over the telephone? The tapes have proved what all of us knew: He could come through pretty strongly. W: I remember only a few calls from Lyndon while he was president
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Senate as long as he could, and in the meantime was on the telephone with the control tower out here at National Airport telling them get that plane in here that had Humphrey in it. I only can imagine what it was like with Johnson reaching out
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I discussed it thoroughly with him and he agreed to support my request for retaliation. We got on the telephone and called Viashington, got Cy Vance on the telephone, told him what had happened and that we both joined in recommending retaliation
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • learned that we were on the same side. early July. I received a telephone call from him in I remember that I was driving back to Michigan at the time for the Fourth of July recess. When I got to my mother's place, near Pontiac, she said that a call
Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] get on the telephone or have them to come over and bring me their budget and I'd put out my money. I did it for [Allan] Shivers and his ... and settled up after the election. G: How did you spend your money? Did you use it through the churches
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • maneuvering in that county. After about the hours live mentioned, we received, the man who was holding the hearing under the authority of Judge Whitfield Davidson, received a long distance telephone call from Washington telling him that he had been enjoined
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to me how that worked, and also tell me about any of your participation in Cabinet meetings or National Security Council meetings? M: Well, that of course worked several ways. Beginning at one end of the spectrum, I had frequent telephone calls
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : I How did that generally work? have no personal knowledge of that either. Being the telephone man that Lyndon was, I'm sure he was on the telephone a lot. G: What do you think his attitude toward Harry Drought was? I guess he was a [John
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. VW: Now we're talking about from Corpus Christi, Wilton, when you flew up. W: Yes. the Naval Air Station. VW: Yes. W: --was general manager of Brown and Root. G: And he called you, telephoned you? VW: Mr. Woolsey, who was the general
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the world's greatest experts on a lot of things. Somebody once said, "He's an expert on Social Security because he has Wilbur Cohen's telephone number in his pocket." The guy who said that was an assistant to Senator Lehman. G: He said he was an expert
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • were very helpful to us, I must say. They worked hard on this thing. They'd come to Austin occasionally. I went to Washington several times in the course of it. And we were on the telephone frequently. And Norman Hackerman was in touch with the White
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in a very minor way in the campaign. F: What did you do mainly? C: Oh, answering telephones, putting up placards, mailing out material. F: Just piecework. C: Just the piecework, just the routine work, really, primarily around the headquarters office
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • contact from that time on. B: Immediately, as of that very night. This was difficult for both of us, but obviously necessary. I met him at his request. I telephoned first that afternoon to say to him what 7 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • their fancy, especially a presentation I made to the Vice President on the Council's program and a brochure I had done for them. In late July 1965 I received a telephone call from Mr. Shriver and he said, ''How about coming down to Washington and serving?" I
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there, and I heard--I was i"n the outside office vlorking on scrapbooks and stuff . . . Naury was inside, talking on the phone, and [·lalcolm Bard\':ell, his secretary, had 90tten Aubrey Williams on the telephone. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Rayburn also talked over the telephone quite a bit, many times I thought on procedural matters, keeping each other abreast of some little development in their respective branches of the Congress. Then Johnson was a frequent visitor to the Board
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , whether by telephone or personally or through his assistants, and that the world around him was the world of action and of motion. Attempting to stop that action and motion to get him to listen with great precision to a long disquisition on some subtlety
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the single room with the single cot I managed to get that single room most all the time, and later on--I didn't know Lady Bird very well except over the telephone when she'd call for me, when I was mayor of Pasadena, to get a crowd up for Lyndon and get
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • telephoned me and asked me to come up to Washington. This was a few days after he took office. F: The press indicated that this meant a more realistic policy toward Latin America. Were press reports correct, or would you care to comment on that? M: I
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • want me. I felt they couldn't go to Australia without stopping over in Vietnam again, and somebody would remember that I had done that first advance at Cam Ranh Bay, and because of my experience would want me again. I waited by the telephone until about
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was in Bangkok. G: Yes. Could you kind of sum up? Do you have to go? M: No, I have to make a telephone call at 9:30 and then I've got to leave about quarter to ten unfortunately, but I can get together with you again while you're here. G: Sure. I'd love
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • frequently talked to the President on the telephone and Powell had a great respect for Lyndon Johnson. F: That was a busy committee in those years. P: Oh, heck, yes. F: Must have worked y'all's tail off. P: We did. As I say, especially during that two
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • assignment was counsel to the Washington Public Service Commission . The name has since been changed to Washington Transportation and Utilities Commission as representing the state and public interests in the regulating of the utility industry--telephone
  • Biographical information; meetings with LBJ; BPA; confirmation; cabinet meetings; telephone conversation with LBJ regarding the riot in DC; Park Police and DC riot; March on the Pentagon; Resurrection City permit; closing down Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thing that girl probably hasn't done and that's to be literally inside an American home." I thought, "Don't you wish that the ins and outs of protocol would make it possible for me to telephone her and say, "Come see my house [and] see how America