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Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was and was not going to do. In other words, he-- M: How had he reached that position? W: Well, he had sat down and talked to various people. one, you know, for talking to people. He's a great He talks to people all over the country by telephone; he gets

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the President was dead. things. I'm trying to remember the sequence of Kilduff came in and announced that the President was dead. Everybody went bowling out trying to find telephones, all through the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

were referring earlier to Ambassador Nolting. J: Nolting is right. A fine man. G: How would you contrast his style with Ambassador Lodge? J: Well, Ambassador Lodge, of course, had the great plus of being able to get on the telephone and talk

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

eight times. Eight times! And the service [is] complained about all the time. Now they talk about business. AT&T--the cost of your telephone is less now than it was in 1950, and you can get somebody else almost instantaneously. Efficient, efficient

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It turned out it was the telephone man who had put that on there and it stood for president of the United States. But everybody used to refer to it as POTUS and when somebody wanted to talk about the President, if they wanted to say LBJ or the President

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

sheet, reached for the telephone, called him in Macon, Georgia, and said, "You' re a young man with some newspaper background and I need a good young man in my office. How about nine o'clock tomorrol'1 morning?" ' saw some ten years demonstrated

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

feelings that he would redirect either by telephone or sometimes with an actual notati0n on the draft. And it was also through these directions 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ordered, on the telephone, a battalion from Fort Bragg, a parachute battalion. I had a cousin's son who was down there, a graduate of West Point, a brand-new lieutenant in the army. He had come up for the weekend to date some girl up here that he knew

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

without any established timetable and an agenda would be developed through telephone conversations. President Kennedy, in my judgment, was not convinced that cabinet meetings were very productive. Consequently he didn't have them on a regular basis

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

." Then we went to another room. There was a suite of rooms: a sitting room, a bedroom, bath, telephone and TV, and he looked around and said, "I think that's better. I hope you will be comfortable." "Oh, wait a minute," he said, "let me see, you might

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 but in one of his many untold acts of kindness, sent me down here in February of 1937. He just merely picked up the telephone and made a call

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson wanted to present a personal gift each to Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller, and I was asked to come forth with ideas. for trout. I knew that Mr. Rockefeller likes to fish, especially Liz and I talked on the telephone a number of times, and we agreed

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

secretary over there. I could do little things for him by the telephone if held call that could save him endless trips and letters and things and I could do things for him to help him on public land matters. Your state [Texas] is the one state

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

nebulous statement. Governor Shivers told him, II We 11 , let's get the cards on the table. What would you do if it were passed again?lI, and Stevenson said he'd veto it. So on getting that in \'/riting--I had heard that by telephone--when

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a black man on as a member of the board of governors now, and there are far more employees than there were. It's hardly solved, but it's not the lily-white bastion it was in 1968 when we held our hearings. The New York Telephone Company, where we held our

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

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the Freedom of Information Act, which had gone into effect about a month earlier. I was just getting ready to leave the hotel on the morning of August tenth when the telephone rang, and it was Joe Califano. I could tell that there went the week's holiday I had

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

the hospital for any length of time. I did call them on the telephone and talk to them, every day. I got Willie Day Taylor, God bless her; she was already my great reliance with the children. She was on Lyndon's staff. She had been married, years earlier

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)