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  • of gold, it was--he used to joke about it that he had a gold telephone that would ring on a dime- -not true, but he was very interested. Now Mr. Johnson had plenty of other things to do and he didn't have this sort of interest. He knew it was important
  • in private meetings, either in bipartisan meetings or by telephone. F: One of the early burdens that both President Eisenhower and Senator Johnson had to face was the problem of Senator Joseph McCarthy. H: Yes. F: Both were criticized for not being
  • , 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
  • , including myself, on the telephone. I'm sure he called many others about certain pieces of legislation, pointing out that he felt a deep urgency that we ought to get the Kennedy program on the road. was stalled dead-center. It hadn't been. It He used
  • that we have divorced completely from our program ideological considerations. That doesn't mean I haven't views. I couldn't help but overhearing parts of your telephone conversation a moment ago. I have had since t 59 four protracted working trips to South
  • their arm by telephone is not, in your cas e at least, true? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
  • 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