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  • conversation I had with Mr. Johnson was in 1961, just before I was assigned to Mexico or shortly after--I'm not sure which, whether it was before or after. We talked at that time about what the problems were in LBJ Presidential Library http
  • £:~ :::,;:.;tr. . OF THE TREASURY WASHINGTON . DEC1 5 19bt. - MEMORANDUM FOR TIIE PRESIDENT I have had a telephone call this afternoon from Mitchell Sharp, Finance Minister of Canada, to say that the Canadians are prepared to let us have $100 million
  • by telephone, and it was made at a time when, as I recall it, Dr . Hornig for one reason or other was out of the country. And as soon as Dr . Hornig became available he also telephoned me and I came over and discussed the matter sometime within a few days
  • Or OTHERKEYco~~TRIES, E.G., THE SOVIETU~I0N, UK, INDIA, ITALY H~NOITELEGRAM 661/662 REPEATEDWASHINGTON, • tiA?.SAV•·LONDO~. RAMGOON,STATEO THAT. 0UIRIELLE •s POLI~HCOLUAGUl,VA5IL!WS~Y. TOLDHIMTHATIN A CONVERSATION· •;:;1cli Tit£ IJS A!13 HAO MENTIO~'EDTHAT·THE
  • ON UNDERTAKINGS CONVEYED BROMELL YESTERDAY CCAIRo•s 7153). CBROMELL HAS APPOINTMENT 6i00 PM THIS EVENING TO RE.CEIVE WORD AS TO WHAT STEPS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPL.ISHED AS A RESULT HIS ·MAY 5 CONVERSATION.> ( TO PLEAD TOO FREQUENTLY FOR HELP WILL NOT O~LY
  • this morning. (The President had Miss Nivens in Walt Ro stow' s office read the message over the telephone; the message thanked Wilson and Brown for standing firm despite party pressures.) We all have our peculiar problems; all of us have our setbacks
  • the dust Douglas Dillon has just telephone{ to say that he has the flu. I told him you might wish to call him in the nex t few days, and he said the operators w
  • that we have divorced completely from our program ideological considerations. That doesn't mean I haven't views. I couldn't help but overhearing parts of your telephone conversation a moment ago. I have had since t 59 four protracted working trips to South
  • 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
  • , "There's a telephone call for you," and it was the President. He began talking about the subject I was talking on. I wish I could remember; I just can't now, precisely what it was. I suppose I could look it up but it would be hard 5 LBJ Presidential
  • the cuff ... were very often overblown, sentimental, even grandiose. exaggerated in order to drive home a point. He He very often exaggerated in his conversation with people; especially a group of liberals. tended to exaggerate in order to drive home
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  • .·~· ~:~~: : .. T~fl_~~ ~~~.:.·. ::::·:,:~~~ .~-~.:. ~-'; MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: ;.:·~.~ --- 9 ~:::!.Y..)!~v. . ·. ~ ~·-,; ~·, ..... \\. ·-··-vw....., .:.'. .___·. . 1:.._.._-~ u·.-.. 1.11..:. /0-1',L#j~ ii! c Telephone conversation with General
  • ] get on the telephone or have them to come over and bring me their budget and I'd put out my money. I did it for [Allan] Shivers and his ... and settled up after the election. G: How did you spend your money? Did you use it through the churches
  • to me how that worked, and also tell me about any of your participation in Cabinet meetings or National Security Council meetings? M: Well, that of course worked several ways. Beginning at one end of the spectrum, I had frequent telephone calls
  • in the meetings? P: Yes, because the President always asked her opinion. I was over there a number of times. Always. got used to that right quick. So everybody He'd get her involved in conversations about any and everything. G: I gather one
  • into I think Virginia that night, not too far, but [a littleJ anyway. We made the trip to Washington in about lid say it would be Karnack, Virginia and then to Washington I think. G: Do you remember any conversations with Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Johnson's
  • , and I went in to see him. He was on the phone all by himself, with a list of telephone numbers, and I heard him talking to a man who turned out to be the County Chairman of Kansas City. He was coming up to the third term election in I 940 and I remember
  • as the continu­ ing release of the LBJ White House telephone recordings. ln September, Lhe Archives made available the recordings from September-October 1964, or 34 hours of presiclenti"'I telephone conversations. About 40 per cent of the collection has now been
  • a dinner at the Carlton Hotel in honor of Miss Lou. February 2/1 Truman telephones LBJ concerning the wildcat railroad strike. Eisenhower addresses an informal joint session of Congress in the Library of Congress and emphasizes the need for U.S
  • In telephone conversation with Mack DeGuerin, Ed Clark mentions that people in Texas think LBJ is leading candidate in the race for governor now, despite the fact that Beauford Jester, John Lee Smith and Coke Stevenson may be in the field. 1945 Chronology ● p
  • . At the end of most days I spun a piece of paper through my typewriter and recorded that day's conversations and events. Thus this journal supplements my memory. I grew up in Seattle and spent a great deal of time in the out of doors which is so close
  • Oeo~so Ball to answer Adlal'e memorandum ot February 17 (Tab A} and hor• ta my own euggoatlon as to what you might eay to him 1f you wlah to telephone blm. ta the curreat eltoatlon. I do not tblnk auch a phone call l• urge11t. 1. Stevenson saggeeta
  • meetings on them if that's required or, if it isn't, maybe handle it by telephone. The process is conducted with a considerable amount of flexibility and informality but I think it is quite effective and can work very fast if the legislative requirements
  • him. G: Would he generally prefer to do these things in person rather than over the telephone? R: My work with him, generally speaking, was on a personal basis rather than over the phone, but I think that was because I made an effort
  • in the Senate. Do you recall under what circumstances that happened? C: The first time I heard Lyndon Johnson's voice was on the telephone following my election to the Senate in 1956. I was having breakfast in my home, the old family residence in Boise
  • to their various towns or villages or cities, wherever they came from in the state. I happened to be the only one left in the Austin office. Early one morning the telephone rang, about nine o'clock. I answered it. The Senator was on the other end of the line. I had
  • all those books about how if you always told the truth you'd be all right. So lid say, "Oh, no sir, I don't have to go to bed till eight o'clock." And one time I was brash enough--I was in a conversation with the Speaker, it was maybe at the Ranch
  • come to my house in Maryland. Lyndon would usually show up, take over the conversation, and fill them full of stories, some of which were the usual . . • . When Lyndon wanted to be he could be full of bullshit, and he was occasionally, at least
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So we had that type of conversation. He I said, "I think the first thing we have to do is to decide what the potential market is, then to decide how much capital we need to produce
  • be replaced, Go: Have you had much contact with the President since then in 1966? Gu: No, not a lot. Telephone conversations occasionally regarding flights when he wanted someone picked up at a point and delivered to a point. He has always been very nice
  • that he was contemplating proposing the opening of negotiations or conversations, or talks I think is the word that was very carefully used, with CommunistChina and proposing me as the U.S. representative, I accept. and would I was somewhatstartled
  • to know all the Secret Service guys really well, and I had a long--I had a fortyfive-minute conversation with Lem Johns, who was the chief of the White House at that point in time, about us chasing him at the lake. And we argued and argued and talked
  • ; interactions with Secret Service agents regarding Kaufman's efforts to follow LBJ; LBJ's opinion of press attention; touring the Ranch house; a seventy-fifth birthday party for LBJ at the Ranch after his death; the telephone system at the Ranch; the lack
  • . HICKENLOOPER Interviewer: Paige E. Mulhollan September 19, 1968 M: Senator Hickenlooper, I'd like for you as a man who has been in the Senate for 25 years, if you can, to recall for me first conversations and acquaintances that you made with Mr. Johnson
  • , I've noticed that he criticized him particularly on his voting against labor and civil rights. L: Yes. Early. Early on. Yes. Yes. And he would always answer. You notice he always answered those letters. They had an ongoing conversation. B: One of my
  • was to type the short, punchy political letters to people, and we'd get a list every day by telephone or by mail from the Johnson staff down here that he'd seen them, et cetera. I remember one day I typed a hundred and fourteen of those letters. Of course
  • in the northern period two areas." At this concern point, about the President again expressed Khe Sanh. - In a telephone Westmoreland reaffirmed When General Wheeler and Wheeler's agreement the President be informed call to General
  • to transcribe the entire collection of approximately five thousand Dictabelt recordings of LBJ's telephone conversations. Rather than rely on the standard cassette tapes which are available tluough the Museum Store, the Center decided to make their own high
  • the conversation lea• interesting to me than it might have been otherwiae. He claimed that these people :·=' f "\. - The Honorable Roy R. Rubottom. Jr., · Asaiatant Secretary !or Inter-American Affair a. Department of State, · ' - · -.. '-· Washington. D. C. G
  • elect me as your senator." This particular case his conversation was in essence this: "Folks, I'm out here talking to you man to man telling you what I'm going to do." He says, "On the other hand, my opponent, that pipe-smoking, fence straddling opponent