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Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as the Defense Department representative and I used to do a lot of the telephone business with the then-Vice President. M: He did take an active interest in that? Y: Yes. M: It wasn't just a title that [John F.] Kennedy assigned him? Y: Oh, no. No, he

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

early in the morning, to bed late at night. G: I've heard that he would often use the phone, too, late at night. C: Yes, he used the phone. He was addicted to the telephone. when he was unhappy with someone. Particularly I can remember when he

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

learned that we were on the same side. early July. I received a telephone call from him in I remember that I was driving back to Michigan at the time for the Fourth of July recess. When I got to my mother's place, near Pontiac, she said that a call

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, 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, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

used? Y: No, not--well, you know, President Johnson was a very unusual fellow in a conversation. You'd go in with a specific item for the agenda but, depending on his most recent encounter or telephone call or something, you'd find yourself sort

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was--maybe there was no particular occasion--anyway I was called to the telephone, and it was the President, and he said, "I've been trying to locate you for three or four days" or something like that. need your help particularly. And he said, "I need your

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

because we were starting late; they gave us a December 15 deadline and we met it. I wrote the first two drafts, cleared it, got telephone communications, comments from the participants, then made the changes, got a unanimous assent, came down and wrote

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

indicate why he wanted you to. . . ? Y: In his phone conversation? G: Didn't you say that he telephoned you before that task force meeting? Y: Oh. G: Right. Y: Why did he invite me? G: Right. Y: Well, we had worked together in the Kennedy

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

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

days he did some things that really helped us. G: Really? Can you recall specifics? P: For example, he arranged that our DSG office telephones would be hooked into the Capitol switchboard. We really didn't have an offi- cial office then and we had