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Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 M: Did he call you as a commission member sort of as an informal adviser from time to time? H: He was supposed to have been a great telephone user. He may have called my predecessor as chairman, John Hannah, but I
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a full briefing on this whole new concept. just one of those damned things. And it was I arrived at his office, and there was some sort of political crisis going on in Texas. He was all tensed up; the telephone would ring every two minutes. He'd come
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 S: No, not even Truman. And Kennedy, the night of the election, the night he was elected, called me on the telephone about midnight to find out how
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to talk to the destroyer on the telephone, and asked the captain what expression did the Russian captain of the merchant ship have when he made him turn around and go back to Russia. happy? He wanted to know how he looked; was he mad; was he So
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he got to Utah the speech was pretty well ready, but we had done a lot of the negotiating on this on the telephone. remember specifically. My memory pretty much was that the speech content was worked out through Bob and Earle. G: It's hard for me
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] F: You all just sat and talked about-- Q: Well, we sat and talked and telephoned people. F: And tried to find out things? More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Were you able to get any idea of what
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that wasn't on the telephone. for the Floor, for the vote or something. There I think it was the buzzer You know, they'd buzz to indicate that a senator was to go for roll call or adjournment. would buzz for adjournment or buzz for convening, or whatever
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the point in the progression of man when World War I was over and-(Telephone rings) . 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, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , two o'clock in the morning we got telephone calls that Johnson was having a press conference. He was in a hotel in one end of the city and we were in the other. So they rallied us all out of bed, and we found cabs and got across to his hotel room
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with these black publishers, and I'm going to work a deal out." So I got on the telephone and talked with the most powerful newspaper guys in the area. I must say I had served as president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association for two terms. 5 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee, a significant debt. We had been able to scurry around to pay current obligations, the ones that you had to pay. That was primarily media. But as far as the other debt, travel, airlines, telephone, all of that added up to several million dollars
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • counsel for General Telephone and Electronics, handling its litigation. That's still what I do. G: Now more than ever, I guess. P: Now more than ever! All I do is litigate. G: Do you recall when you first met Lyndon Johnson, the first time you saw him
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Many of us found ourselves doing things for him directly in Washington. G: How would you communicate? R: Telephone, cable, frequent telephone communication. G: Some people have expressed an opinion that Mr. Komer was engaged in a little White House
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not talking about just the government people; I'm talking about these thousands of people who carryon the business of the rural electric cooperatives, principally, but also the telephone cooperatives and companies too-they were entitled to somebody
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • clear this was all very confidential and that's the way I kept it until after the election. He was in and out of the office. I think he had someone there, a secretary who took telephone calls, while he made flying trips here and there. He was being
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Were they very personally close? I saw President Eisenhower with great regularity ; I suppose during the years after his presidency I talked to him at least once a week by telephone . Johnson . I saw a great deal of President I know that President
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • extent? B: (Laughter). [I had] that telephone call about 10:30 at night announcing, telling me, that we had already made the landings. F: What did you do toward getting Venezuela hooked into the OAS action? B: Well, I had a telephone call a few
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 F: Did that come by telegram or telephone? B: Came by telephone and Coke and Bob Murphy and I were riding together. I was riding in the car with them; that was Coke's campaign
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Ranch then? W: No, he was in the car on the telephone radio. G: Oh, you had a car telephone. W: Had a car telephone. G: I see. And they were calling from Austin? W: Yes. G: And he told them to use their own judgment. W: Yes, I remember
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • politics in Texas. Heretofore we hadn't paid a whole lot of attention to the precinct convention, but the precinct convention became increasingly important after this date. again the technique that was used was the telephone. county men. Here We had
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was coming to Washington. She wrote down his name and address on a slip of paper, and I think perhaps his telephone number, too, and put it in my purse and said, "Now you take that out and you call him when you get there. He's going to be expecting you." I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a problem of one constituent on the telephone to the letter that was next up on my desk when I finished. It was straining. By the time we finally left the office, which might be eight-thirty, nine, nine-thirty, to go out to dinner, I wanted somebody else
  • . Cecil Evans; Allred's Senate loss to W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; time spent relaxing at the National Youth Administration building on Buchanan Dam; LBJ's fried egg breakfast being interrupted by telephone calls; the Johnsons' house at 4921 Thirtieth Place
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in an automobile. I mentioned the telephones. When they put in the dial phones in the Capitol, he wouldn't let them put a dial phone on his desk. made them leave the old-style telephone on his desk so he could pick up the phone and talk to the operator and get
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as well as you could intimidate some villages in Vietnam. They had no communication, there's few telephone lines, the roads were very poor. If anyone went from one place to another, they walked, or they rode a bicycle. Yes, those things could happen
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Rayburn had gone to Bonham. The telephone rang, and he was on the line. He said he just wanted to let me know in case anybody up at the press gallery might be interested that he had just called the Bonham Daily Favorite and had announced that he
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called me up on the telephone. Of course he said, "You have got this opportunity now, Hubert, but you liberals will never deliver. You don't know the rules of the Senate, and your liberals will all be off making speeches when they ought to be present
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • always made use of my amateur shorthand, taking down telephone messages and taking directions about what to write soand-so or tell so-and-so. I was not totally easy with it. I could write it better than I could read it, faster than I could read it in any
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • predating your tenure? C: Yes, all of those taps predated the first of July 1965, which is the day of the President's order with some exceptions. The exceptions arise this way. We forget how many people use a telephone; we forget how many lawful reasons
  • Safe Streets Bill; use of electronic surveillance (telephone wire taps) for national security; federal aid to local law enforcement; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . There was another factor, and I think the telephone operators were on a strike in Chicago and there was great concern-- F: And also a taxi slowdown, not a strike. C: --and announcing they were going to strike when the convention came. Those were problems. Then I
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the telephone, called the departments involved and told them to do it. F: You know there 1 s a move on to take these off-shore islands from Mississippi and turn them into some sort of a national recreation area. Have you been active in that movement? E
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • were years in which, when he was in Austin, he always popped in our office to visit with Senator Wirtz. They were years in which he was calling Senator Wirtz on the telephone and talking to him frequently. B: He was still--? G: And, as I've said
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • extant, and I wonder if you would give us your version of the sequence of events and phone calls. RG: As you know, it was over a weekend, on a Sunday to be precise, and I think my first inkling of what was proposed came in a telephone call from Mike
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Senators frequently, telephone calls, for example, frequent conversations, frequent briefings, this type of thing? B: I'm sure this happened. I've heard a lot about it. I did not ever receive one call from the President of the United States asking me
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to be truthworthy [trustworthy?]. But there comes a point somewhere in here where all of a sudden Clark Clifford starts being around every day and on the telephone. So obviously McNamara has resigned and Clifford has come on. But who else? I don't know. By that time
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • meetings on them if that's required or, if it isn't, maybe handle it by telephone. The process is conducted with a considerable amount of flexibility and informality but I think it is quite effective and can work very fast if the legislative requirements
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . That is very important to us. smack in the middle of the Pacific. We're It also has jurisdiction over the airways, flight,radio, etc., and telephonic corrnnunications to Hawaii is extremely important and airline contacts are most important, fisheries
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • three of those things? E: Probably all three. Actually, I think, probably more by letter and by personal visit than anything else. I'm not very articulate, unfortunately, on the telephone and I don't really like to get too deep into telephone
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to get this done at the office with the telephone and other things, I took it home and worked on it nights to get it completed. P: It was all by hand? F: All by hand, yes. It isn't completed yet but it is in the process anyhow, and I want
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with instructions to report directly and personally. to me by telephone as to what the facts were. I sat down to a very good hand and I thought I had it made. Roger Prear got up and he said to this group, in effect, "You're not going to get anywhere if you buy
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correspondence and telephone and what not contact with me before this confirmation of Dan Quill as postmaster in San Antonio. There was quite a fight on it from some of the old machine people who pulled various wires in Washington trying to obstruct the thing