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  • to be a little closer check on him . If they notice anything, they get in touch with you? B: They get in touch with me and give me a report . Not only that, but I usually inquire how things go ; we keep a record of each night that he's seen by one
  • soaps, modifying it and making it into the best grade of toilet soap . Thev,were inquiring about the Chilean operation and I inquired about the price that they were willing to pay . And so when I got the notice to try to cancel all contracts, I didn't
  • . PM: That was really my next question: I don't it~ and I Because I did inquire. did you inquire into the administra- tion later about this--in Washington, I mean? M: Yes, I believe I did, after the coup. You see, the coup against Bosch took
  • ] Burkley? J: Yes, just the nicest man. G: Admiral Burkley? J: I shouldn't ever not remember his name. He was so nice to me and everybody else. But the Admiral would come by and take his blood pressure and anything else, and inquire about his
  • . Couldn't even get a line into the White House. I talked to Walter Jenkins before I came back; just "if anybody inquires, Helen and Gene and I are bringing the clothes and we are on our way back and will be in the middle of the morning." B: Did you see
  • envisioned the So locally I was asked~ in fact a 11 over the country many offers were made to me to buy it. The top offer was fifty thousand dollars, and it was by a man in St. Louis whose financial assets we inquired about and found to be absolutely
  • of them as closely as most of the people that I'm sure you're talking with, so my reactions would have to be classed as reactions and impressions rather than firm conclusions. But in the exposure I did have, Kennedy was much more the inquiring individual
  • , because we inquired "how much time do you need?" In fact, those who were opposed to the Administration's activities in Vietnam were given more time than those who supported it. vllien you look at the convention details of this sort, I can't see how those
  • . When Lyndon decided to take John on as his, I don't think it was administrative assistant but he was taking him on in his office, a couple of Secret Service men came out to see me and were inquiring about John, as they always do who gets a job
  • two o'clock that morning-he carried the press with him, and they was sitting around him inquiring about this and talking about that, and it was two o'clock in the morning. I told one of the press persons, a secretary, to tell him that I wasn't
  • near Flag Springs, where Mr. Sam lived and called home when he was growing up, also a son of a tenant farmer. I left the farm and hitch-hiked over to East Texas State to inquire about college at Commerce which is about 20 miles away. I started
  • . I would see him at different places, but I had a feeling he was angry about something. What it was, I don't know. He was easily upset. inquired because they couldn't understand. He used to quote what I said and talk Mutual friends We had been
  • a study of records, a social security case, a workman's compensation case, the department concerned is suppose to, and in most cases has been very good about sending an interim acknowledgement saying that your case is being inquired into. And then as soon
  • Oil him was that he had an inquiring mind and he was never satisfied with somebody else's judgment, preferring to make his own. Although he was quite respectful of many of the leaders and other prominent people of the time, he generally had more
  • , and that a number of names had been mentioned as a possible replacement. I was interested. He inquired as to whether or not I indicated after a couple of days of thought that I was, and I followed that up with a letter to Senator Russell. say about two weeks went
  • . But it's also related to a serious balance of payments problem that any responsible official cannot ignore to the extent that we can demonstrate to ourselves as well as to inquiring newsmen and so on that the AID program LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Russell, the staff man inquired rather gingerly, "Well, we're awfully happy to help you with this, but why didn't you take it to Senator George, who is your neighbor in your home town?" The constituent said, "Well, I wouldn't dare bother the Senator
  • . You had to make some statement. If you hadn't made the statement, then people would have certainly been inquiring quickly, particularly the New York Stock Exchange. 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
  • the conclusion that while it had been ridiculous for me to subject myself to this experience without knowing Drosnin's background, having had the experience, in fairness to those who inquired of me regarding him I should describe the experience I had
  • that a sponsor could support someone. HS: That was my question this morning. A: So Novy may have been inquiring about that, or sending a letter of support, or something like that. It is hard to tell, but that could've been how it-- R: A formality to confirm
  • : On that first occasion when you were riding around the Ranch, did the President inquire about you? M: Oh, yes. I think he always wanted to know about where you were from and things like that, but not really too much. I really didn't see a whole lot of them
  • you describe that, sir? in that? Did Mr . Johnson inquire into it, or did you, as Administrator, point out to him the problem? B: Who initiated the presidential interest How did it work? This was actually mostly before I was Administrator
  • , and his wife, Florence Hoff. P: What was he inquiring for? A: I think he wanted to get in and out as quickly as he could, and I think that he just wanted to know how this was going to be managed. A lot of people had been waiting in this room to meet
  • : This is a continuation of an interview with Mrs. Eugenie Anderson the following day on Thursday, November 14, at 3:30 in the afternoon. Mrs. Anderson, yesterday, and during a lot of both of the tapes, we were discussing your ministry in Bulgaria, and I wanted to inquire
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 4 B: Well, he was largely--he was inquiring . When I went in to talk to the President during this second
  • as pressure mail. These were letters from people that wrote in making comments and inquiring about legislation that either had been introduced or was going to be, and the letters really would be a form letter that would be geared to their inquiry. Those who
  • of a single point of strain that ever existed between those two fellows. I think, as you know, when President Johnson was trying to put together his Warren Commission to inquire into the assassination, it was Cooper who he selected. I don't know how. I
  • to be done, say, due for November, 1964 and you started screaming or inquiring about it, say, in February, we might be able to speed up the time schedule. Say, instead of Novem- ber or October, whatever it is, can't you move it up until August or September
  • judgments, because not everybody is necessarily commanding the best platoon, and people of a more inquiring mind might even admit logically of the possibility of luck of the draw. You get good troops, good replacements out of the repple-depple or bad