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  • 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
  • /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
  • : 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ://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
  • 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
  • [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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ] 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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