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Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

that demanded instant communications, so he had a telephone on a tree out there so he could reach over and answer it or call somebody right rrom his recliner. I remember of t he many visitors that vTere ·out. in that yard over that period of time, Ouida

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

girls as telephone operators to just go down 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as the Defense Department representative and I used to do a lot of the telephone business with the then-Vice President. M: He did take an active interest in that? Y: Yes. M: It wasn't just a title that [John F.] Kennedy assigned him? Y: Oh, no. No, he

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

at which Mr. C. N. Avery, the long time Buchanan manager, had undertaken to assure Mrs. Buchanan that if she would run for the office, there would be no opposition. He had got on the telephone with various people; I can't call any names because I don't

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, 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, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

and my most vivid recollection of early days in the office was the telephone-people installing telephones. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but I never had any knowledge of that. During the next two or three months, I had occasion to talk with him on the telephone once or twice; I would have said not many more times. I remember particularly one contact when, within a very short time after he

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

way of going at things? Q: He worked long hours and everybody around him worked hard. I bet it’s that way right now. He’s hard to work for. G: Did he use the telephone much? Q: Always used the telephone. Now here’s the name of the minister

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about going, none of them . Lyndon did go to Washington and he did write some letters . But Usually the letter was written as a follow-up to his telephone call, confirming it . But he used a lot of telephone calling up there because he had a lot

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson was that state director for NYA he was historically interested in electronics and any gadgets that were at that time known to man. He quite often changed the telephone setup. installed new phones to facilitate the operation, and a buzzer system

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington. Some way that message must have fallen into the hands of the press, because the next morning when I got to Naples I was awakened about six-thirty by a telephone call from the local consulate telling me tha~ there was a group of news- papermen

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was going [to happen] . Well, a few days later I had a telephone call from my good friend Josephine Roche, who was the under secretary of the treasury . She told me that Aubrey was most anxious that I take this job and was I willing to do it . I said

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, about long enough for the letter to get to Austin and be read by somebody, I had a telephone 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, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

indicate why he wanted you to. . . ? Y: In his phone conversation? G: Didn't you say that he telephoned you before that task force meeting? Y: Oh. G: Right. Y: Why did he invite me? G: Right. Y: Well, we had worked together in the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Pearl Hat'bor, or the day after Pearl Harbor, on the telephone? H: Now Pearl Harbor, I was in Kentucky. I had already gone with the mine workers, and we were down there preparing to go to trial on the Honday after Pearl Harbor Sunday and defending

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

means, by telephone call or by reading or however. He was always well informed about the project at hand, and he was intense about it and enthusiastic about it. this is the way that he convinced people. I think I mean you can't be around the guy

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that he did. G: Did you ever get to meet him or visit with him? L: I don't remember him. G: How about his mother? L: I I

Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)

that matter :came up, atld he got on the telephone. He called the Pentagon, and he didn't 'ask them, he ordered them to send a plane and get that boy and bring him up here to Arlington National Cemetery and bury him with full military honors. And they did

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just knew how to present [it]. This is a need we have, we have so much to do in a short period of time and you've got to help us. He just didn't take no for an answer. G: Do you remember what was at issue here, was it a question of telephones or--? O

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said, and this was very typical of Jo hnson, "I want you to get on the telephone to Aubrey Williams," who was the head of the NYA, " and get me answers to all these questions." So I did, and that was the first LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for compensation service connected to show that any ailment they then had was connected with some injury they sustained in the war. Lyndon spent an enormous amount of time on this on the telephone, and doing other things, too. Anything that was required

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and went back to Austin. I got a telephone call- -I recall this was towa rd the weekend - -from Mr. Johnson to come to Austin. I borrowed a car and drove to Austin. and stayed at the Driskill Hotel. The following Saturday I got to Austin Saturday night

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Smith -- I -- 26 s: No, I can't. Harry Drought may have known and I didn't know, because he may have had a telephone call from up there that I wouldn't have known about. G: Well, was Mr

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for Congress until one night I got a telephone call at home . It was Senator Wirtz calling me and telling me to come up to Number Four Happy Hollow Lane, where Lyndon was living at that time, that Lyndon wanted me to be up there right away . I went up

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

replaced Rusk . go into others . He didn't There were some other interruptions, a telephone call as I remember, and he never got back to that subject . fascinated by it . I was He said that Rusk had been a very loyal and highly intelligent secretary

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

up and drive out to his house with him and have a drink while he got dressed for some speech or someth.ing. I said, "That's wonderful. we can talk." There will be no telephones, and I right away told him what it was about, and he began k.i:ddi.ng

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, we were in a recess and Mr. Rayburn was the only one there from the House and Mr. Truman was over there from the Senate--he was Vice President--and the telephone rang and Mr. Rayburn was sitting at the desk like this, answered it, says, "It's for you

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Babcock -- 1-- 17 telephones, law books, clerks, an assistant, and so on. I say a pretty good fee, it was ten thousand