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Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they had typed fifty letters. letters were quite concise and short. Now, most of the However, Lloyd dictated rather long, lengthy letters, plus the fact that I was constantly being interrupted to take telephone messages in shorthand. Finally in tears

Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

to it. And the records show that none was spent before I got the money. In other words, we have had court costs; we've had some condemnation suits; and we've had lawyers' fees and that type of thing; but there have been no administrative funds spent--not a telephone

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the telephone what the mail was. And Johnson was there at that time. I left the files between two chairs on the floor, and I came in the next morning, they were gone. Well, I absolutely panicked! I ran around, found out where they put the trash from

Oral history transcript, Kathryn Deadrich Loney, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

, oh yes I did. So we made telephone calls and different things around~Mr. Marks was lovely ; everybody has been so wonderful; ·we just rushed here. C: You got the tickets for the ceremony? L: Yes, we got the tickets to everything and we got

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MANATOS -- I -- 13 President Johnson were both accessible any time by telephone or in person, if we wanted to see

Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the telephone,according to George Reedy. it was on--heaven knows what! We assumed that He was getting restless or he was tired of his trip and eager to get home. Mrs. Johnson went ahead with her schedule and went on the canal tour and went out to a castle

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a television and a radio in it, and telephone. Most of the time that he was in those cars he was talking to somebody LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

20 I let out a release to the newspapers that I was going to stay on, comewhat-may. At that time Johnson's secretary, Marvin Watson, got me on the telephone and I told him what had transpired and he said, '~ile involved, I'm not sure you made

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze -- IV -- 6 more of his time either in telephonic communication with the President or at the White House than did Mr. McNamara. His style of operation also has been one of greater deliberateness. He has wished to consider

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

used? Y: No, not--well, you know, President Johnson was a very unusual fellow in a conversation. You'd go in with a specific item for the agenda but, depending on his most recent encounter or telephone call or something, you'd find yourself sort

Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the calendar. He summoned his office and said, "My friends, we've got to do something about this fellow here." And they began to work on the case. And the next time we heard was when the Congressman telephoned in the place in Virginia and said, ''Now, I've

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

over there with him sometimes in the afternoon. It was a place where they were not disturbed. Very, very few people had the telephone number, and only a few had a key to open the door. It stayed locked. Well, I don't know, now what do you want to ask me

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

it, I was so indignant I wrote Lyndon in Washington. You know, he never wrote a letter if he could use the telephone, so he called me about it. He says, "You have Lila Bess and George write me a letter and sign it about this, and I'll do something about

Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

about two weeks before the dinner . night time, a boiler room tactic . We had another meeting at We got on the telephone and each called a list of friends and sold the tickets . think, sixteen that one night . I sold, I The organizations were so

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the number of balls he had in the air. He had George Reedy scurrying about with memos, and somebody else whispering in his ear; there were telephone conversations going on, and he seemed to be very much at ease handling four or five things at the very same

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

/show/loh/oh Barnes--I --8 But John Connally--it was his first speech that he made, he made it by telephone after being in the car with Kennedy. guess that attracted a lot of attention. I But the story got on the front pages of all the papers

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to do a little investigating. W: Oh, yes, I came on Friday night, and I got on the telephone, and I talked to quite a number of people who knew about this matter. I talked to people in the Bureau of the Budget, I talked to several people on the staff

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

one Subsequently Reedy occupied it, and then a couple of other guys--Cater for awhile. Anyhow, Califano brought his things up to my office and we began sort of wheeling and dealing on the telephone. I was the first one to hear about it and I called

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Ruth Wright, came running into the room and she said, "Oh, Mrs. Woods, something horrible has happened. They've just telephoned and said Lady Bird Johnson was in a wreck. I thought you better know right away." So Wilton went then to find out what he

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and interrelate them in conversation, whether it was on the telephone or in person, whereas McNamara just went item by item. You cleaned it off and you went to the next one. M: Point one, point two, point three-type thing. (Interruption) LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and rang. It didn't go ring--you know, if you dial something (Califano demonstrates how the phone rang using telephone), it stops and rings again. The POTUS line just rang. It also couldn't be set. When you couldn't-you didn't have the power on your phone

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember that Neustadt learned about going on the board as the President was talking to Wayne Morse on the telephone. I think Neustadt just was sort of ga-gaed and after the lunch said, "I can't. I don't want to serve on the board." I said, "It's over

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BELEN -- I -- 2 P: When did you first become better acquainted with him? B: I had a telephone

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

influence on LBJ to be greater than it actually was; LBJ’s love of telephones; LBJ’s “earthy” language and storytelling ability; LBJ’s private nature; LBJ’s relationship with the press; night reading; keeping LBJ’s schedule.

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, when John F. Kennedy appointed Udall to his cabinet one of Udall's aides telephoned me and asked if I would come in for a job interview. I did, and right after the inauguration received another call from the aide saying, "Where are you? We're starting

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

dictated a letter announcing for re-election to Congress; then he dictated another one announcing for the United States Senate. That was sent forward to KTBC to mimeograph for the five o'clock press conference. The telephone rang--we had a suite

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 18 on the telephone with Texas politicians to ensure that any brush fires springing up down there would be promptly extinguished. He dictated cogent, succinct memos to LBJ about political

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that Sarge Shriver was going to have to move over to the anti-poverty [program]. Sarge Shriver telephoned me some time later and asked me if he could come to Rochester and have lunch with me. Washington." I said, "No, I've got to be in We had lunch

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

here and join us." So I called General McConnell on the radio-telephone and told him about it, and he was to meet us then at Marietta--well, he was going to be at Marietta, anyway, for the rollout, that's the way it was. And I told him

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to know them pretty well. I got to know many of them damn good as a matter of fact, and that's one reason undoubtedly that when the 2nd ROK Corps got in trouble in June and July of 1953, General Taylor called me on the telephone about five or six o'clock

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from the 13th District resigned to go with the telephone company, then there was the special election. There were about 8 or 9 of us that ran, and Walter was in that race. It was a rather heated campaign, and while there was never any personal feeling

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. to be sure you weren't-- G: What was his relationship with LBJ like? J: It was a difficult one to describe. I thought it was close. Whenever Johnson--he'd be on that telephone on the plane long before we got in sight of Bergstrom, calling A. W., getting

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me every day. Tell me what you're doing, how you find things, what you plan you're going to change, and I'll write you. Sometimes we'll phone each other." The use of the long distance telephone was always a scary thing to me; it ran into so much money

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

got Jim Gaither on the phone and he just bawled him out on the telephone in this way that is generally reported of how he critically criticized one of his own staff assistants, who, I think, had done a very good job. But obviously the President had

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on the telephone? D: Not often, but on a number of occasions. I called him on very rare occasions about things that were really of great importance. There were not too many because I just did not take advantage of it. A number of times he'd call me; sometimes he

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

vividly because I had a terrible cold. I got a telephone call, as I remember, from Alvin Wirtz asking me to come over to a lawyers' meeting in a hotel at Fort Worth. I told him that I was busy taking depositions, so he arranged for me to come over at night

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- III -- 4 B: The telephone conversation? M: Yes. B: No. It was a very grown-up conversation. There was nothing all that--and the text will be there somewhere, I'm sure. But I don't remember

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. This has been written about, like in the Saturday Evening Post story. There was a bank of five or six pay telephones in that airport and I went over to try--we handled airline reservations and all differently then than you do now. I was over making sure we

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

--indeed, I found one memo later today that I may not have included. It's a memo from you in December of 1967 where you noted to the President that you were following his telephone instructions that each cabinet officer personally submit by next Wednesday