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Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • things for publicity stories, and we were in contact with the Harte papers, for example; they were on Johnson's bandwagon, and I was back and forth with them with mats and copy and so forth and getting all sorts of telephone communication with the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Corcoran -- I -- 17 hearing by the radio how we were behind by so many votes. Just before I got into the mouth of the Mississippi River, I managed by ship telephone to get
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the union and call in the heads of the airlines and lock them up [behind] a door for an agreement." I ran like hell to the nearest telephone. I couldn't get him; he was in a meeting. I couldn't get Harry McPherson; I couldn't get anybody. Before I finished
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be good for it, the President was carrying on a conversation with the rest of them and seemingly ignoring him. Then when Dale got to the end of his story he said, "Well, that's all of my qualifications. I want the job. What do you think?" He said
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that particular action. It was just sort of a sidebar kind of conversation that I had with Chairman Martin and I'm sure that others did have. I certainly recall that I indicated to him that I thought he had done the right thing, and that we needed to do
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • co-ops were formed, and even the telephone co-ops [that] were formed were the result of [his efforts]. I remember in 1950 when I was a member of the state legislature, speaking of telephone co-ops, John Connally was there representing the co-op people
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • an occasional dinner together in elegant surroundings with a name band, but Lyndon found it hard to unwind," and the music was a--and he was an indifferent dancer--"so invariably our conversation turned to politics. As he would twirl his glass of wine
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, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Walt Rostow and I had a lot of conversations on that. I think that I may have felt that the bombing could accomplish somewhat more than Rostow thought, although I think we were pretty close in our thinking. G: Of course, he had been picking targets
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XLII -- 10 instance, telephone service to talk to him, or so it was said. She lived, I believe, at Wardman Park Hotel, in a reasonably modest suite
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the hotel, walking right through the crowd shaking hands. He was obviously having a good time • • [A] half-hour after he got into the hotel, the telephone rang. "The Vice President would like to see you Mr. Komer!fI right up. There was the VP. So I
  • and Pakistan with LBJ; accompanying Vice President LBJ on Middle East trip; disagreeing with LBJ; differences in how JFK and LBJ dealt with their staffs; anecdote regarding King Faisal Abdel al Saud; suggesting conversation topics for Vice-President LBJ to use
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • pretty well and Bill had better command of French than I have. So we both could speak to Sihanouk just alone, no interpreters around, free to let our hair down and talk Dutch uncle business. So in this conversation that came up, I said to Bill, "I'm
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] he had really ever had any conversation with him . known individual around the Department . More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 He was not a well- Many of us
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That came out over the speaker. Because [it was] the conversation that Symington had with Secretary of Army Stevens, a Republican. He was against McCarthy because McCarthy [Stevens] was investigating that LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and then to Florida. V: As I recall the conversations that he had with me, he realized that John Connally as governor would bear the brunt of this visit, and he knew that there were problems between Connally and Yarborough. Also, he wasn't sure this was the time
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was saying he might have been able to draw that, and I think Joe and Louis probably drew that, but that wasn't in my mind. I didn't assume that we--he opened the conversation up by saying that he had some thoughts here. I think perhaps if I had talked
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Taft-Hartley and labor was adamantly against it. He just had a frank, earthy conversation with those labor leaders. G: Let me ask you to recount as much of that occasion as you can remember. S: All I remember is it was in some hotel room. He took
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • them out, either, because to shake hands with the President, and particularly if there are three or four together to get him in, let's say, two or three minutes of conversation is a pretty big item. So I concentrated on the big givers, and we had a list
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • just a feeling about the man. I don't recall any conversations with him about it, so my impression was that it was not anything that he expected or that he regretted. That it was one of those things. They had a coup and they knocked a guy off
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 businessmen.· Sandy's utter conversance with the textile import program and his obvious skill and attraction to the business men and the governors, I think, was perhaps
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Morris -- I -- 9 say the minimum time ever was probably an hour's advance notice. There's little doubt in my mind that when you had to do that, you almost inevitably had to go through the telephone system to get the clearance
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • accepting the nomination of his party, I went to the telephone to call Ivlama to see if she was listening. Lyndon through; he'd accepted, you know. hangers-on [with] him, crowding him. In a few minutes here come He had a bunch of these Hell, I don't know
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The only thing exciting Dudley Dougherty did was, as far as I remember, pay for the first talkathon. And probably the night before election he had some telephone on the statewide radio network, but none of us took that very seriously as a means of getting
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the telephone company and a few other miscellaneous unions such as the projectionists with the theaters and a few like that. M: One side note on this: Is this true of Texas on the whole also? H: It was true at that point. j'1: Is the union strength
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . it's a girl's address, maybe something else. things. Maybe You get all sorts of But, anyway, we had some disobedience and one thing or another. Somewhere along there, the President called me on the telephone one day and talked to me about the fact
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • tax evasion. After I had been in office just a month or two, I had a telephone call from Claude Pollard who had been an attorney general of Texas. This former attorney general of Texas telephoned me in my office there LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://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/loh/oh -6- Leader, why, he and I would talk over the telephone or see each other two
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. R: Well, there wasn't too much to tell really except I had some long conversations with Alan Bible in which he outlined the political realities of Nevada for me. G: What did he say? R: The largest single vote--well, the most important single
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did not seem to realize at the start of our conversation that the Congress would have the control over the jurisdiction of the federal courts that it actually does exert or may exert. We were taking some of this away from the courts and investing
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of a dinner table conversation with infinite distractions. Yet all the time he was absorbing. M: He was working even though it was social. G: It was sort of a family affair. The only people who were there were the Fortases and the Valentis
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • economy. I'm trying to remember it. We were having gold problems in May of 1968, right? A lot of that conversation had to do with the economy, with what would happen to Australia. You know, when Britain went into the Common Market it had to join the common
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • letter of resigration. And as I recall, I've forgotten some of the details perhaps. I made a telephone inquiry in December. reminding a member of the President's staff that my letter of resignation was there. that I was making my plans to go to San
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which many of the poor people do not realize exists and do not take advantage of them because they do not know how to go through the vast bureaucracy of the city government nor are they conversive with city hall. And this program is designed to bring