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- out in a police car to view the riot scene on Seventh Street and Fourteenth Street . We soon found the traffic was very bad and one of the first things I did was to ask that the car be stopped so that I could telephone the White House and give them
- there that you contact Governor Buford Ellington by telephone and tell him you're there, because it's his state. from there you're on your own. Then But you're there at my direction to resolve that and to give all assistance to resolve it that you possibly can
- out to an airfield with others who were going down there. B: That would have been Sunday night when the violence was breaking out? P: That's right. So I went down, getting there about eight o'clock. I took up a station on the telephones
- ! Did you have any political occasions to work with Mr. Johnson in this period? H: No. I recall having, oh I would say, two or three telephone conversa- tions with him. I'd just call up and want some information on legislation and what it was about
- Kennedy to visit Texas. So, I offered to assemble, just by telephone, some twelve or fifteen what you might call community leaders in Dallas. at the Adolphus Hotel. We assembled them I remember I was out to lunch and received a phone call --I believe
- in a case like this? What are the mechanics of How does Mr. Vance talk to the President? c: When we arrived at Detroit police headquarters, we were assigned t~070 rooms there and the rooms had in them two or three telephones each. Mr. Vance simply
- That was, I believe, Mr. Johnson told Mr. telephone those folks and tell them they have lied about my I'm sure that Mr. Moyers did not put it in those words; and whether he ever called them, I do not know. I only relate it. It was related to me by Mr
- at the national level 9 Chicago telephone strike before 1968 convention 10,11,12 1960 Democratic Convention � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History
- Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
- , the guidelines we had for the candidates, not to ride in an open car, not to get into an area where there was no avenue of evacuation, which is consistent with our policy. ~1: What about things non-public, like crank letters, and crank telephone calls? R
- to be a news conference. Anyway, the time was moving on and I had promised to have something for the noon newscast, so I decided I'd better call. Well, there was only one telephone at the Ranch, and it was in the Senator's den. wasan old-style telephone
- weren't even sure shots had been fired, and I recall that at this time when I called the bureau (I was one of the first guys off the bus and got to a pay telephone in the Trade Mart and I called the bureau and Smith had a ship-to-shore radio arrangement
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- there; she was at the Ranch. Was it her birthday? Was it an anniversary? G: No. N: Maybe he was just homesick, but he got the violinist in the phone booth with him and called Mrs. Johnson and he had the violinist serenade Lady Bird over the telephone. G
- to move down here in '47. I knew Byron. I had known him through the years. I went to work for the Star-Telegram in '34 and, of course, up until he left in '46 we had telephone communication. except-- I never did work with him, LBJ Presidential
- the governmental structure. B: There's been a lot of talk about-(Interruption--telephone rings) B: I was getting ready to ask you [is,] there's been a lot of ~hat talk about the attitude of the Kennedy staff toward Johnson while he was Vice President. D
- of the then, I identified later as the Johnson men there. Woody was talking to the Senator. Then he said, "The Senator wants to talk to you, Jack." When I got on the phone, I probably had never had a private telephone conversation with Lyndon Johnson in 1960
- not prevail in the precinct. But in later years the climate did change, and Mr. Johnson received quite a substantial vote. Now in all of this that I'm relating--I may be going too much in detail--I'd have to say that I was engaged in weekly telephone
- of people who seemed to have urged him to reconsider. R: Yes. In correspondence, telephone calls, in person. G: Do you remember who some of the people were? R: Oh, no. I would say it was a cross-section of America. G: Really? Did he himself ever
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- and personal contact "l'li th Senator Johnson was again through Senator Symington, and this Hould be in early probably F'ebruary or March 1954. 1954, I received a telephone call from i3enator Jymington one day asking me to come up to lunch. He advised
- 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
- 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
- working on the Kennedy staff, notable Dr. Cochrane whom I mentioned earlier. Cochrane had been the chief agricultural adviser to the Kennedy campaign. these people. And I talked on the telephone with But the main option was to be a member of Cochrane's
- extent? B: (Laughter). [I had] that telephone call about 10:30 at night announcing, telling me, that we had already made the landings. F: What did you do toward getting Venezuela hooked into the OAS action? B: Well, I had a telephone call a few
- , because we had helped in a very substantial way in electing them. was constant. So the contact with President Johnson from that time on I would say that every week there would be two or three telephone calls and visits. I was in the White House
- to Washington. Some way that message must have fallen into the hands of the press, because the next morning when I got to Naples I was awakened about six-thirty by a telephone call from the local consulate telling me tha~ there was a group of news- papermen
- with my appointment were with the Attorney Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth of June and there began a series of conversations between us. B: Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time
- was get on the telephone and say, Come on out here," and that's how the Dallas News scooped the Times-Herald on that story. F: Did you do a lot of interviewing in this investigation, or did you mainly take the facts that the police and the FBI had
- a of tickets by getting on the telephone. I had not been with the Gov::rnor sufficiently long that I l-laS crass about those things. I l-laS very impressed ~vith the T,-lay he pulled that off. I think his attitude ,-las that he was going to let them put
- 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
- to know them pretty well. I got to know many of them damn good as a matter of fact, and that's one reason undoubtedly that when the 2nd ROK Corps got in trouble in June and July of 1953, General Taylor called me on the telephone about five or six o'clock
- 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
- airport. They put us in an unmarked police car--well, I'll step back for a second. I was on the third or fourth floor of the hospital filing on a telephone I had commandeered. The telephone was priceless. You could get your weight in gold for a phone
- Oh, no! So Buddy got on the phone, and I've often thought of whoever in the world IIBuddy" might be. There was some young man in Texas and all of a sudden he was thrust into a telephone conversation with a strange man whom he had never met who
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- state dinner automatically . Then Mrs . Johnson kept the restoration committee going and I'd always be asked to that, but I explained to .her in writing and on the telephone that it was really difficult for me and I didn't really ever want to go back
- ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -6- Leader, why, he and I would talk over the telephone or see each other two