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Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . "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
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)