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Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • conversation was a little intense, and of course they were intense in their conversation with him, and they had a bri ef argument over the telephone . They said, "You fil ed a lawsuit against the Governor," so I never discussed anything with Senator Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and personal contact "l'li th Senator Johnson was again through Senator Symington, and this Hould be in early probably F'ebruary or March 1954. 1954, I received a telephone call from i3enator Jymington one day asking me to come up to lunch. He advised
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . did or Mr. Kleberg did. Lyndon didn't know any more than I He was feeling his way around. He was getting acquainted primarily over the telephone and learning who to talk to in bureaus on different subjects. the telephone, as he was in person. He
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • literature, we could field people into the precincts to do that kind of door-to-door walking. That's what it amounts to, that and telephoning. That requires a great deal of organization and schooling of people, and among the people we schooled in 1956
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was sitting in my office one morning, I guess it was about a month before the inauguration, and our telephone operator said, "The President is calling," as she rang my bell. And I said, IIWhich President?" because we have the President of the Council
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I don't know. But r just sort of offered it and I was a little surprised it passed. G: I thi.nk there was al so an attempt to remove telephone and transportation taxes that he blocked. M: Do you recall? I think that was a little different. I
  • How McCarthy got to know LBJ; founding the Democratic Study Group; election against Senator Edward J. Thye; committee work; the Lewis Strauss nomination; LBJ as majority leader; telephone and transportation taxes; oil depletion allowance; campaign
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . him on a continuing basis. So that type of person was more apt to see The others of us would see him dependent on whether he was focusing on something we were working on. You know, a lot of us had a lot of telephone contact and a lot of personal
  • to Clark Clifford’s luncheon for the President; personal political philosophy; LBJ’s theory of giving the same assignment to more than one person; Congressional relations; young men on LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s rapport with his staff; demanding boss; telephonitis
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • the two northern provinces. I thought that at the time, for his dispositions reflected that. On Tet, general intelligence: Weyand called me on the telephone, and we got together later to talk. I shifted troops so we would have greater flexibility
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at this point and more likely to spend an hour and a half on the telephone with him shooting the 2 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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and also Vance Hartke [offered] an amendment to exempt local telephone service from the excise tax restoration. [Editor's note: Prouty's amendment extended minimum social security payments to people seventy or older who had not been eligible before.] O
  • Security eligibility and exempt local telephone services from the excise tax restoration; the annual debate over raising the debt ceiling and foreign aid; a proposed rider exempting the proposed National Football League (NFL)-American Football League (AFL
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • "--which was true. "These costs incurred over the last several years, in addition to my loss of time, are in the amount of $18,700 and include accounting and legal fees, travel, hotel and long-distance telephone"--because I had to move back and forth from
  • A March 1973 memo from Charles Colson to H. R. Haldeman regarding Richard Kleindienst's confirmation as U.S. attorney general, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) files, false testimony by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his throughout his career to speak loudly, particularly the open . if he were addressing an audience out in And I think he did this on the telephone, speaking from Washington to Austin or to Houston, too . If he was it was like he was trying
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, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • down a long hall to the only telephone in the building and talked to Al Smith and agreed to accept the governorship, the nomination for governor. He spoke so loudly I heard him. And I had known him all through the years there, and when he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the Democratic nominee for the vice presidency, along with a telephone lineman and myself in a helicopter for two people, whereby that we had to get out and go through the cockleburs to hitchhike a ride over to my classmate, who presently is the lieutenant
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to bed until about five or five-thirty, so I had no communication with Mr. Hunt. G: I presumed that you learned by phone at six-thirty in the morning; is that right, that Kennedy was considering . . . ? B: Well, Bill Moyers was a telephone boy. He
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can remember hearing him call Bird on the telephone and say, "Get the furniture insured for Friday night . I'm having a bunch of newspapermen out there, and they're going to be delivering several cases of whiskey to the house. We'll have a wild
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the order that I had prepared and would I come down and prepare another one. I said, "Look, I don't know Coke Stevenson." But he was on the telephone asking me to come down there. G: Coke Stevenson? JG: Coke Stevenson [was] on the telephone asking me
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Poage came to lunch with Mary Rather and Ray Roberts and Idanell [Connally]. After that more people [came] than you can count. Our house was just like a Marx Brothers movie in those days, with the doorbell and the telephone and the maid and everybody
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • , "That's right." He was very gruff and abrupt on the telephone. So I said, "When would you like to see me?" He said, "Right now." So I came down here, and we met right here in the Fish Room. I was sitting in about this position, and he was sitting to my
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would have let any of these circumstances interfere with that recollection and knowledge of what was going on. G: Anything on Kennedy's telephone call to Coretta King at the end of the campaign when Martin Luther King was in prison
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • beaming in to us from telephone calls and from news accounts and messages all along the way. Daily Mrs. Johnson was in contact with the President and daily considered the option of our having to turn around and go back to Washington. Fortunately we did
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ushers or police or service or something, a small room with a telephone. So just as I looked into the Blue Room and saw I couldn't go in there, the President came up--President Kennedy. He said, "Let's go over in this room." He was down early, too. So we
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • programs, and I had a call from the director who had just come back from a meeting with President Eisenhower and Sherman Adams. He told me over the telephone that the President felt that the Russians had gone one-up and that he was going to be taking
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to handle this flood of copy and improve the telephone service, because a lot of guys, if they had good telephone service they could call Tokyo and dictate, and their office in Tokyo could pick it up and transmit it to the United States. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Now,there you're cut off from much of the normal business, though a president of the United States can never cut himself off entirely, the telephone rings and-F: People slip him notes. W: --the ticker machine keeps on ticking away, but it is a much
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was elected to Congress. My first five children were born in Washington. As a matter of fact, the family got so large and the salary was so small that, in August of 1951, I was offered a job as general counsel in Texas for Southwestern Bell Telephone LBJ
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that horn, that walkie -talkie or whatever it was in the car and say, "Where is so-and-so? G: This fence here needs a little attention." Did he do much work while he was out there, to your knowledge? Was he still, say, on the telephone a lot? R: Oh, he
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was done that had to be done. On a request like that, can it be granted over the telephone, or do you have to have some telegram, something tangible? S: vJell, you have to submit your request by telegram, of course. in order to save time, L made
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [telephone] I had friends here, I used to know the Gores very well. I used to visit the Gores. came here and then married in New York and we had an apartment here. I We lived in Pittsburgh but we always had an apartment here in the old Willard Hotel. F
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, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • from his hospital bed. G: Who was with him in the hospital? W: Mrs. Johnson--I don't remember--presumably Mrs. Johnson. G: What did he do? W: You couldn't keep him off the telephone then anymore than you can now. G: I'm sure he was jubilant
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, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on--just as a favor to me they'd been sitting on the story for three days and that time had just run out. His final comment was "Hell of a way to run a Department." And that was the last telephone conversation. F: Did he ever explain why he ad-libbed
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and asked him to telephone a special assistant or a special counsel and underline what I have said in points where I have known that other pressures from other sources might be trying to sway that special counsel or special assistant to a different decision
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVI -- 7 talked about other situations coming up: telephone companies, the Teamsters, General Electric, Westinghouse, that this was a better case than those cases. We talked
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that by telephone, or did you have to move around on the Hill quite a bit physically? J: I didn't move around too awful much--mostly on the telephone. part of it I had was usually carrying out instructions for him. Whatever I had very little to do with any basic
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . The day that I was leaving the Treasury a big party was given in my honor and I was standing in the reception line shaking hands with all the people and one of my assistants came along and said, "Dix, Dix!" He said, "Telephone!lI the President!" I said
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of such organization. do you go about rallying support? F: How How do you contact businessmen? Just call them up and talk to them on the telephone and go and see them and find out their views and find out how they felt and determine whether or not their feelings