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  • Thomas, who had telephone conversations or oral conversations with and I think wrote some letters to Bill Moyers and others advising them of our position in the matter. that was the extent of his [involvement]. But He did not appear for us at any
  • 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
  • is raging? maybe I should tell Mr. Raskob what happened. working in the building. I also thought that No telephones were We had the Bankers' Trust Company downstairs and the Longchamps restaurant, but they had no telephones working out of there. Panic
  • live in Washington is that you naturally get going on the telephone, and, you know, Joe's a great friend. It's just easy to talk to him and for him to talk to us. There's a funny thing on the press though. difficult relations were. This is an example
  • : In Washington . I always stay at the Hay-Adams, and I went back at 10 :30 in the morning, which I just ordinatily never do, and there was this telephone call from the White House, from Mrs . Johnson . Liz Carpenter came on the phone and said, "I want you
  • it was on the floor of the House or Senate at night. He did everything he could to lobby the bill through. G: What did he do? L: Telephoned to everybody himself, sent emissaries to people. just fantastic. Do you remember? It passed. He was Finally, in the bill
  • 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