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Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- innovative system of sending people into the areas who did not know the area, but he would be in full command . state of Missouri . For example, I was sent to the I stayed out in Missouri probably for fifteen to twenty days . (Telephone interruption) O
- 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
- 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
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was going to be with us, and all that sort of stuff. said, "Aw, don't bel ieve it. He's just a big bunch of stuff. telling you the truth," and all that. They He's not About a week or so later I got a telephone call from the Majority Leader saying
- never did get to any of the ball games . In fact- F: What kind of spectator did he make? B: He was a spectator for the first event usually, and then by the second event he was out looking up a telephone to call somebody to get back to his real hobby
- and Rayburn also talked over the telephone quite a bit, many times I thought on procedural matters, keeping each other abreast of some little development in their respective branches of the Congress. Then Johnson was a frequent visitor to the Board
- an invitation to Mr . Wilson to meet him, as he did soon, and commenced an interchange between them sometimes by telephone, although infrequently, but often by letter . I've seen a good many of the letters from either side because they were sent to me either
- 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 the hotels and I think that was where it was. F: You mean it just stuffed envelopes and answered telephones? P: That's right and organized the precincts. section. Of course, we had a publicity We had it pretty well organized along the line as well
- [telephone] I had friends here, I used to know the Gores very well. I used to visit the Gores. came here and then married in New York and we had an apartment here. I We lived in Pittsburgh but we always had an apartment here in the old Willard Hotel. F
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- proved later as president, Mr. Johnson personally made his appeal to another senator. leave it up to an aide. He did not He picked up the telephone or he went over and buttonholed him or got him by the elbow and pleaded his case with him, Democrat
- : Then what happened about 1960? J: Well, I got a telephone call from Senator Johnson one day, and he told me that his right to run for the Senate and as Vice President had been challenged in the federal court in Austin; and that he wanted me to represent
- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 F: Did that come by telegram or telephone? B: Came by telephone and Coke and Bob Murphy and I were riding together. I was riding in the car with them; that was Coke's campaign
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- was campaigning in West Virginia, and he bawled all over the telephone about how I'd been right and thank goodness he'd listened and we went on in the District. He said it was giving him a big boost in West Virginia. The trouble was that it didn't give him a big
- and find out what is happening to him. Perhaps he is dead." So I used my telephone at my expense and called the commanding officer of the brig or the guardhouse at Camp Pendleton and I identified myself simply, "Dr. Hector Garcia, a doctor whose patient
- 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
- ." Chairman of the Far Eastern Subcommittee. And he said, And I was '~e're going to want to pass a resolution on the Formosa Straits, and I want to talk to you about it." telephone?" r So I said, '~ell, why don't you talk to me on the And we had
- telephonitis, I guess, as He didn't hesitate to call up a man and talk to him over the telephone or even ask him down or even to communicate in every way. Most Presidents have been rather stand-offish in doing that, but I think President Johnson, relying
- , and I could feel we organized, as far as the labor group goes, I think one of the very best campaigns on the telephone. first telephone banks. That was one of the That is where we first got women started in doing this, and it paid off. But along
- and told him that Senator Johnson was calling . So he went to the telephone, and talked, and said, "All right, I'll be over in a minute ." So he came back, and we were finishing this one hand, and he just remarked : "Well, they've asked Senator Johnson
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
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- would go for him . Then a lot of my liberals in California started to raise hell, and I wired Johnson a letter of--I called him up on the telephone and said to him, "Senator, I'm for you from here to kingdom come . I've got some people in our
- mean hotel. Kennedy was nominated. just to say goodnight. I went back to see Johnson, Then I went back to my hotel to get a good night's sleep, and he woke me up on the telephone and said, "Kennedy is coming down here in a few minutes," or ten
- before I had a telephone call from vice presidential nominee Johnson over at the Ranch. He insisted that we come on over there. We had a couple of our children, but that didn't seem to make any difference. He sent a plane to pick us up, and so we went
- . "Mr. Johnson's going to accept the vice presidency," I guess it was around noon I heard. No one was as stunned as I was. Matter of fact, I left town the next day. (Interruption - Telephone) M: You say you left town? S: That next day I left town
- as do law students. So I helped him with his campaign. F: In what ways did you help him? H: Oh, I rang doorbellsistuffed envelopesi called people on the telephone; just helped out any way I could. F: Did you confine yourself to work in this Austin
- HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 B: Middleburg . Bought it sight unseen over the telephone . M: And it turned out to meet
- some talks on the telephone and correspondence with President Johnson after that . I went to the White House many times . M: Went to dinners and things of that nature? B: Yes . � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- staff who shared his proclivity to use the telephone. M: Who contacted you and what were the--? A: Very frequently--and this changed from time to time--but very frequently I had contact with Marvin Watson there. M: Do you recall what the issues were
- to meet with them, or did they come down here to meet with you, or was it handled by telephone or how? M: I met them here. to Bonham. I met them on an airplane here at Love Field, ·and we rode Then I talked with them at that time and told them that I
- that in conversation over the telephone from Chicago, and he told Wallace, and Wallace came around to my office in the Congress Hotel where I was staying, and he was very much disturbed. He said he thought I was a friend of his, and I told him I was, but that didn't
- returns over the telephone from Texas. Finally at midnight. Rayburn said crossly to me, "I'm going home, and 1'11 give you a ride if. you want to go." I said, "All right." And as we went out Johnson was yelping into the phone, "46 votes to 8, ruh. That's
- by telephone from Los Angeles to my home up here. vision. I was watching the convention on tele- He said, liThe arrangement's just been made. Johnson's going LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- or messages, that came to him every day in order, whether a telephone call or telegram, whether direct to him or through the Secretary of State, the decision that he made and brought me right up to the moment. He said--and it took him thirty minutes
- two or three of the steel people. B: Were your telephone calls effective? H: And I went with Mr. Kennedy on an out-of-the-district trip, I think down to North Carolina to some military maneuvers, the day that they gave in. We kept right up to date
- was practicing law, I became very interested in Democratic Party politics. In 1948 I became especially interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate. (blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call) Of course, I was aligned
- and sweaty ; so I said, "4,7ell, I'll tell you, we've got an old friend down there that's county chairman for us and has been county chairman . his house ." Maybe we can go to He said, "All right ." So I called up on the telephone Judge John Miller