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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • mean hotel. Kennedy was nominated. just to say goodnight. I went back to see Johnson, Then I went back to my hotel to get a good night's sleep, and he woke me up on the telephone and said, "Kennedy is coming down here in a few minutes," or ten
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /oh Jenkins I -­ 12 course I gathered there·was a little difference in opinion even between the father and the.son, because Senior was trying to put on the brakes and slow. the thing down, .and Junior was leading it. And my conversation was more
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : No, the only contact was following my talk with Jack Connor. the White House, and Mr. Macy was there. I met him for the first time, talked with him about my conversation with Connor. there be any conflict of interest problem? I then went to He said, "Fine
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with credentials. And we started back--I even forget now who it was I '07as going to help him with. remember the conversation. in it. I just And the thing got resolved before I got involved I had to really kind of sneak in because I wasn't a part of the Dallas
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 18 on the telephone with Texas politicians to ensure that any brush fires springing up down there would be promptly extinguished. He dictated cogent, succinct memos to LBJ about political
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson is in Texas; call him on the telephone, and tell him of your interest." Proxmire didn't get that seat. But later on, he got a seat on the Appropriations Committee, which may be . . . F: At least an equivalent plum. H: That's right. Sure. You
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on Lynda's bed so she could read them when she came home from school. She was a student of history, as well as current events, and she would almost always get on the telephone to somebody in her daddy's office and say: "What about such-and-such a bill? Did
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on up until midnight and send it over to the usher's office to be sent up and put on his bedside table. M: Did he use the telephone as much as he has the reputation? In the books and so forth they say the telephone is one of his chief instruments. C
  • use of telephone; nature of LBJ’s mind; capacity to remember; LBJ’s energy; talking to relax; sense of humor and temper; LBJ as a decision maker; effect of the Vietnam War on domestic policy; relationship to communication media; virtues as a chief
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as chairman? Really, I don't know. M: Not why so much, for the technique of selection. Did Mr. Johnson talk to you personally, for example, about it? K: Oh, yes. I had received a telephone call previously out of the White House that the President
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • any exchange of conversation between the two? H: No, I don't, because I was busy telling him my little bit. We were just thrilled to death. I'm sure he said some things, but I don't recall what. G: How about Jesse Jones? H: Oh, he just stood
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, 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, 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, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is quite a little distance. Well, the morning after the night that President Kennedy was nominated, which I think was a Wednesday night, I got a telephone call from Tommy Corcoran asking me if I could get down to the Biltmore Hotel right quick. I did
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, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . "Mr. Johnson's going to accept the vice presidency," I guess it was around noon I heard. No one was as stunned as I was. Matter of fact, I left town the next day. (Interruption - Telephone) M: You say you left town? S: That next day I left town
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and also for evidential purposes. And this has never been considered illegal by our courts, where a party to the conversation consents to the transmission of the conversation. B: Even if the other parties have not? V: That's correct. B: I know
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in this election, do you recall? L: Well, he was apparently pleased and proud of Johnson. There were a number of conversations with the Governor, Johnson directly, or Wirtz with the Governor, or somebody else with the Governor. He did not make a public
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , the Ivory Coast, Colombia--where I would go to formal dinners when their president or chief of state would come --and of course conversations at such social gatherings with the President, I don't think I was ever in his office during that time he
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • apartment and came in, whereupon we all arose and I introduced Lyndon to Mr . Carter. Lyndon immediately engaged him in the intense conversation of which he is most capable and proficient . After standing and talking for about thirty minutes before letting
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • predicted that O'Daniel would come in a little bit ahead of Johnson in the count. And I was close to it, I was on the telephone all day every day. But I wasn't surprised, really, at the preliminary report that Johnson had won. I'm also not at all surprised
Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talked about and what way again. we did. I don't recall our ever talking about sex or any of that sort of thing . We never had conversations like that. about boys. romance. I believe it We may have talked We did, we talked about boys, and we talked
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • I was getting out of the service along with thousands of others, going through the processing, when I was paged to come to the telephone, which scared me because I didn't think anybody knew where I was. It was Congressman Johnson say­ ing that he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or telephone bill or a purchase of furniture going back to heavens knows when, at least I had them until not long ago. G: So you managed the finances, in other words? J: Indeed I did, all of that, the income and the outgo, and around time for the income tax
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, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there, while the President and Mrs. Johnson toured the ambassadors, introducing them to the local folk who had been invited to help be hosts and hostesses. grey-haired couple. And I picked up a conversation with this nice The man turned out to be a friend
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • was talking to you about last night. This is the fellow I want for my pilot." That was the first I knew that there had been any conversation about me. And I just was flabbergasted, you might say, because I had been selected for quite an honor, at least
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was able to devote to this was very limited. The best that I can recall is that we had conversations over the phone, and that he may have sat in two conferences at the White House where a variety of people from over 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Safe Streets Bill; use of electronic surveillance (telephone wire taps) for national security; federal aid to local law enforcement; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • before it started. F: He did. C: My own idea was, and I think I may have mentioned it before he left, then I think it may have come up in a telephone conversation, I rather favored his appearing at the convention. He was the President; he
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • know it was Jimmy Allred that called me on the telephone and asked me if I wouldn't come to Austin one day and meet with Lyndon and him, and the Brown brothers, in an effort to help Lyndon. F: Now this is after the election, but when the contest
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it." Mr. Johnson was there the next morning, and, as I recall, the Senator had a little conversation with him and then sent him down to someone in the department. The outcome of it was, with other help that may have been registered, Mr. Johnson
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, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Americans for Johnson-Humphrey, and I was presumed to rally rural consumers for President Johnson. In this capacity I made quite a number of telephone calls asking for support and for membership, asking individuals to join the committee, to allow
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • questions about broadcasting he would give me a call, and I made trips down to Washington to see him and ultimately met Lady Bird, and then [we] picked up again, of course, after the war years. Throughout that period, there were numerous telephone calls
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and to the delight of the civil rights forces in areas that we didn't expect him to be active as a Vice President. For example, he took a very personal concern on the fair employment business. He used the inevitable telephone, without which he is never seen or heard
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • submitting the domestic section. And then in the ideal world he'd have Goodwin write it and he'd edit it. The message went through I cannot remember how many drafts. In various conversations LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and that \/as included in the speech. sa" the draft of the speech. to rr:e. I I It obviously came as a good deal of surprise irr:mediately rClr.cmbercd the conversation I had had with John Connally the:. previc s tem:K:r ",hen he told me that was a possibility
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • always thought that he was one of the most fascinating talkers in a small group I've ever met. conversation totally. It's a monologue. F: It's high class monologue. W: ·It's high class monologue. mimics. Of course, he dominates the It's superb
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