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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

proved later as president, Mr. Johnson personally made his appeal to another senator. leave it up to an aide. He did not He picked up the telephone or he went over and buttonholed him or got him by the elbow and pleaded his case with him, Democrat

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in private meetings, either in bipartisan meetings or by telephone. F: One of the early burdens that both President Eisenhower and Senator Johnson had to face was the problem of Senator Joseph McCarthy. H: Yes. F: Both were criticized for not being

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was on the telephone quite a few times each week talking to Johnson, and Johnson was assuring him that he was not promoting a man to run against him for this office. Mr. Daniel of course had had three terms and was running for his fourth term.· No one in Texas ever

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. This covered a span of about eighteen years. The first contact that I had with the Johnson office was in early March, 1958, and that was through a telephone call from Mrs. Juanita Roberts, his personal aide and secretary. She asked that I make time

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the problems of the national economy, did you have pretty quick access to the White House when you needed it? M: Oh, I could pick up the telephone and get Lyndon Johnson or President Kennedy either on the telephone within a very, very short time. Usually I

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people would even go so far as to cut out chunks of the telephone book. or course, it was easy enough in the morning, because you had the Washington Post, the New York Times , the Congressional Record , the Federal Register, and then whatever memoranda
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Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for the record because future research scholars may spend time looking for memoranda of conversation between me and my Presidents, which are simply not there. Finally, I had no mechanical means in my office at any time to record telephone conversations or other

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is raging? maybe I should tell Mr. Raskob what happened. working in the building. I also thought that No telephones were We had the Bankers' Trust Company downstairs and the Longchamps restaurant, but they had no telephones working out of there. Panic

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--no, she telephoned them. The parents wanted to know how she was 22 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, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And that it was out of that [the task force was formed]. Again, I don't have firsthand knowledge of specific meetings or telephone calls, but I was always very, very aware that Bill Moyers was a crucial link between the President and Sargent Shriver, Bill Moyers

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

I was getting out of the service along with thousands of others, going through the processing, when I was paged to come to the telephone, which scared me because I didn't think anybody knew where I was. It was Congressman Johnson say ing that he

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to lift the telephone. I drove home, the car being in no shape--in fact, I guess that car was still in the ditch, and I don't know when and how it got out. G: So how did you get back? J: I drove home with Lyndon's sister, Rebekah, and her friend, Anne

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or telephone bill or a purchase of furniture going back to heavens knows when, at least I had them until not long ago. G: So you managed the finances, in other words? J: Indeed I did, all of that, the income and the outgo, and around time for the income tax

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think he was at that time maybe in Johnson City, or maybe he was in San Marcos. He said he and his father were going to drive down that afternoon or evening to Corpus at Dick's suggestion by a telephone call, I think, previously made to Lyndon to talk

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be offered the vice presidency. Anyhow, we talked. Now who made the [call]-F: This was in Los Angeles? T: Yes, this is in Los Angeles, and we talked. F: Personally or on the phone? T: On the telephone. morning. I was staying at another hotel

Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the telephone as the operating arm for the Treasury people in quite a range of their money LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

working on the Kennedy staff, notable Dr. Cochrane whom I mentioned earlier. Cochrane had been the chief agricultural adviser to the Kennedy campaign. these people. And I talked on the telephone with But the main option was to be a member of Cochrane's

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

traveled I received a call from a man by the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, to my surprise, about four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. duced himself. I went to the telephone. He intro- I told him yes, I had read of him in the papers, of his having come

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

box of peanut brittle, which was his favorite candy. And Mr. Jersig told me that, one day when he was in the President's personal quarters over at the Ranch, he saw a white telephone, and underneath it, carefully hidden, was a box of peanut brittle. M

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

h.e. got to Pari s and got mixed up wi th 1eft wi ng groups that there might be trouble, and that there would naturally be talk about the war. The only reason I mention it is I handled the Rome end of it on the telephone, and Charles had to handle

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

always said to the girls over the telephone. (To Sally) You told him that? 0: No. Do you want me to? F: Yes. 0: Oh yes, now, this is fantastic because I would be able to talk with Lynda and Luci. Lynda and I were the same age. F

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

--and would tie in to the regular Bell Telephone System--that it was actually clearer and better than your telephone as far as quality communications. put that all in. M: We I did, while I was there as the aide How would you all find riut about things like

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was furious with Johnson when in his book he said I was bored. I called him on the telephone when I saw that. And I was very--I was impolite I must say. I've always been polite to presidents and ex-presidents, but I was infuriated because I had told him

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was there after a series of telephone calls from Kenny O'Donnell and on a couple of occasions from Bobby [Kennedy], who was involved in acting the role of president, that this was not going to be a very pleasant assignment, because I felt that the staff

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Humphrey -- Interview I -- 9 telephone, Johnson called me, and said, "We're going to arrange now the committee assignments." Now about that time is when I became

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

fought to get it through. In fact, I, in that period, was sitting there in his office talking with him, he was on the telephone part of the time, I suspected that part of that was to impress me with what he was doing--that's legitimate too! But he

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Southern Bell had always enjoyed a rather special niche within AT&T, partly because of its size and partly because of the social mores of the way the company operated with telephone operators and all the rest of that, the work force composition as 24 LBJ

Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

because of this. We would take Senator Wirtz's steak, or whatever it was, and put it back in the oven until this 30-40-50 minute conversation was over. President Johnson has always been a great telephone man--even back in those days when I think he

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Cummings, didn't you? W: I did. G: And Ickes, too, both of them? W: My recollection is, yes. Ickes. I had a couple of telephone calls with That's my recollection of it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 place or time. However, I don't recall the exact date, but I think it was somewhere in February or so in 1968, I received a rather strange telephone call from John Bailey. I used to call him quite often for other matters

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Then what happened about 1960? J: Well, I got a telephone call from Senator Johnson one day, and he told me that his right to run for the Senate and as Vice President had been challenged in the federal court in Austin; and that he wanted me to represent

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

him exactly what the situation was and asked him not to let the boy try to come on the campus at that time. The Attorney General asked to speak to me, and I spoke to him on the telephone. I told him that there would be blood on his hands, because

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

recall it was one of the habits that Governor Harrlman always had to keep the Vice President abreast of foreign affairs. When we came back, he always telephoned him and gave him a report of what we had done. I remember that day he asked me to get hold

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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