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  • ! 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ://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
  • that connected a tape machine to the telephone. Anyway, so this was on a tape and God knows whatever happened to those tapes. So LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • and last-minute guest lists and making lots of last-minute telephone calls to get people there who might not have received their invitations by messengers. G: I can imagine. F: Mike Dunn and I both worked very hard putting that together. G: How did
  • the CIA. What happened to intelligence in that case? M: We had no advance notice of it. advance notice of it. I don't think that anybody had any I learned about it by a telephone call from Moscow telling me that Khrushchev was going to be removed
  • accurate? P: The newspaper account was fairly accurate. Incidentally, this is the reason why this must be held quite confidential for a long time. I immediately picked up the telephone and called up Walter. I said, '~alter, have you read the New
  • know, everybody was at lunch and everybody left his lunch untouched. What happened to you in the next three or four days following the assassination? touch with the new President? ~'l : He got in touch \vi th me, yes. F: By telephone? l.J: Yes
  • decision. get an equivalent outpouring of As ~ matter of fact, telephone call: he got. and le~tcrs telegra~s then? the President was unable to answer all of the He got many, many cal~s from many people, not [He received] calls from people all lir
  • , we were in a recess and Mr. Rayburn was the only one there from the House and Mr. Truman was over there from the Senate--he was Vice President--and the telephone rang and Mr. Rayburn was sitting at the desk like this, answered it, says, "It's for you
  • the President was dead. things. I'm trying to remember the sequence of Kilduff came in and announced that the President was dead. Everybody went bowling out trying to find telephones, all through the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • were referring earlier to Ambassador Nolting. J: Nolting is right. A fine man. G: How would you contrast his style with Ambassador Lodge? J: Well, Ambassador Lodge, of course, had the great plus of being able to get on the telephone and talk