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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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