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Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

days--they may still, I don't know--they put out a student directory, which gave the address and telephone number and hometown of all the students, and she listed herself from Karnack, Texas. Most particularly the girls--most of the girls from

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

out in a police car to view the riot scene on Seventh Street and Fourteenth Street . We soon found the traffic was very bad and one of the first things I did was to ask that the car be stopped so that I could telephone the White House and give them

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

assignment to Vietnam? WW: This was in December of 1963 when I received a telephone call one evening from General Wheeler, who at that time occupied this office and the position that I now hold as Chief of Staff of the Army. might fly up to Washington

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, the continuing group, the carry-over group from administration to administration, which consists basically of a file room, a mail room, a correspondence section, telegraph and transportation services, a telephone room, an administrative office, a messenger

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

, upstairs in the family dining room. I've never seen anybody work the way he did, day and night; every minute he was thinking about it, whatever it was he was concerned about in the nation at that point. And the result was that he had a telephone hooked

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

who had been recruited by Matt Reese through his telephone operation. They would be joined by, 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and myself. So there were only four people in the office. My principal concentration was to take all the detail work, as many of the telephones, as much of the planning, all of the staff work off Marvin's shoulders. Because Marvin at that time was spending

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that he depended on me for any strategy. part of the campaign hierachy. I wasn't a I was, as you say, in the lieutenant governor's office at that time and did see him quite a bit during the campaign, both the first and second. Also, I would telephone

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall any complaint. I do recall getting a telephone call from--I'm not sure who it was--at home, saying that he was in an ambulance or a car or something on the way to the doctor. They wanted me to meet him there. I got there before he did. I've

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there that you contact Governor Buford Ellington by telephone and tell him you're there, because it's his state. from there you're on your own. Then But you're there at my direction to resolve that and to give all assistance to resolve it that you possibly can

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

that demanded instant communications, so he had a telephone on a tree out there so he could reach over and answer it or call somebody right rrom his recliner. I remember of t he many visitors that vTere ·out. in that yard over that period of time, Ouida

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

out to an airfield with others who were going down there. B: That would have been Sunday night when the violence was breaking out? P: That's right. So I went down, getting there about eight o'clock. I took up a station on the telephones

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Westmoreland. when were you first contacted regarding your assignment to Vietnam? WW: This was in December of 1963 when I received a telephone call one evening from General Wheeler, who at that time occupied this office and the position that I now hold

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

back to Washington, and the only reason I was suggested was that they felt that I could talk to Lyndon Johnson who was, at that time, the majority leader of the Senate. got in town. I telephoned him when I He said held come by and pick me up at eight

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XII -~ 10 But in that article one of the things that really fascinated him was the telephone in the back yard down in Austin. Johnson had that house at that point
LBJ and Senate activities, 1958; hearings resumed; LBJ and the press; LBJ and the telephone; jury trial amendment; LBJ and the Hill Country; LBJ and foreign trips; LBJ's accomplishments; LBJ personal considerations, 1959-1960; Texas issues; LBJ

Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, it was a very pleasant, brief, considerate telephone call. > M: He talked to you personally, not one of his staff people. C: No. He talked to me. When he called me I had no knowledge that he was going to call and it was an inter~sting surprise

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as effective and as convincing and played the role of the leader. One of the things that he did, which I think probably is not the proper thing to do, but nevertheless is very impressive, was to call a couple of people on his telephone and put the conversation
LBJ's 1958 interview with Paul Ringler of the Milwaukee Journal; LBJ's practice of making telephone calls while people were in his office; Senator LBJ's ability to get information from people on the telephone; LBJ's tactics to gain Senate passage

Oral history transcript, Frederick Deike, interview 1 (I), 4/xx/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: FREDERICK DEIKE INTERVIEWER: ERIC F. GOLDMAN PLACE: Interviewed by telephone from Hye, Texas KTBC-TV~ Austin, Texas to G: Were you one of the men who worked with the President on the roads? D: No, neither Levi nor I worked with him

Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

working in a campaign like that. WR: Well, the first thing you got to do, you got to organize. You got to get your commi ttees to working. And there are all kinds of ways . . . . the Senator would get on the telephone and call people or go see people

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it for about a week. Then I telephoned back and said that my first inclination had been to do it and that the more I thought about it, the more I was anxious to do it, and I would welcome an opportunity to talk to Mr. Johnson about it. B: What did you and he

Oral history transcript, Percy Brigham, interview 01 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: PERCY BRIGHAM INTERVIEWER: Eric Goldman **This interview was conducted by telephone from TV station KTBC in Austin, Texas, to Mr. Brigham in a hospital. G: Hello, Mr. Brigham. I'm sorry to bother you when you feel so badly' and I won't

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)

suddenly ordered that the presidential libraries and other public institutions had to make available all transcripts of recorded conversations, or telephone conversations that had 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
of the telephone, especially following JFK's assassination; the difficulty in analyzing LBJ as a whole person using only the telephone conversations; examining presidents and their faults in the context of their time and their experiences.

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

! 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

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

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, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Ernest Lefever, who was working with Congressman Hale Boggs, chairman of the Platform Committee, and after dozens of telephone calls--I tried to hammer out an agreed draft. By Sunday I thought we had a draft that would be generally acceptable, and I gave

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and decided schedules down the road, points to make in speeches, key people to telephone. G: Did you travel any in that campaign? J: I did. I traveled quite a lot. The funny thing, I must have worn the same beige gabardine 3 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in a case like this? What are the mechanics of How does Mr. Vance talk to the President? c: When we arrived at Detroit police headquarters, we were assigned t~070 rooms there and the rooms had in them two or three telephones each. Mr. Vance simply

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Constantly! Constantly! He started it at seven o'clock in the morning and he ended it at eleven o'clock at night! G: I've heard that he could pick up the telephone and argue-- J: He didn't pick up the telephone; he grabbed the telephone! I never saw him

Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)

the chances were of getting it out, and who was against it, and who was for it." (telephone ringing and voices in the background) "Johnson was constantly working the floor, working the cloak room, keeping in touch with the interests, the desires, the weakness
use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity

Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

while he was talking on the telephone, and then when he put down the telephone he would go on without filling in. So the first time I went in there I came out and I said, "Walter"--Walter [Jenkins] sat outside. There were three offices: his office

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this was exceeding strange, obviously. So this put me back down on the first floor in the reception room with--what they were doing, they didn't invite me to join in that. I don't know what they were doing. Mainly on the telephone. And so I went up to the reception

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

finished the speech, Lady Bird called me on the telephone. And Lady Bird says to me, "Mr. Dubinsky, Lyndon told me what you did for him today. He was happy, and so I am happy, and I want to congratulate you and express our appreciation for the way you

"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)

through a deep depression and money was in short supply. One day the telephone rang and it was LBJ. He said: "Glynn, don't you have a new car?" Glynn said that he did. "Where is it parked?" he wanted to know. Glynn told him it was parked right under our
; Stegall's work transcribing Cabinet Room meeting recordings; Helen Markovich's transcription work; Stegall giving LBJ's telephone recordings to Harry Middleton of the LBJ Library in 1975; story about LBJ's request that Stegall figure depreciation on a bull

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a question." G: Was he speaking in terms of his radio station, do you think? A: That, and his telephone service, the two together, not his speech environment. He said, "I know nothing about those teleprompters. That's your problem. You've got to do those
How General Albright came to work for LBJ; Colonel George J. McNally; telephone system and security; functions of the White House Communications Agency; the teleprompter; LBJ’s lighting and background requirements for public appearances; problems

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ones are, he might very well call them on the telephone. If however, it doesn't really make any difference, then there would be no occasion for him to bother. Because if he did he might put them in his debt, or he would be in their debt either one

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[on the telephone] near my bed. The President and Charlie stayed in the pool house where we had just finished seeing a movie, and if I'm correct, Dr. Fritz from Boca Grande was there with the two of them. pains. They were both complaining about chest The doctor

Oral history transcript, Kitty Mae Wirtz, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

. They talked on the telephone almost daily. M: They did? You mean when Lyndon Johnson was in Washington? W: Lyndon would call Alvin almost every day. M: Almost every day? W: Yes. Lyndon said to me once, and people had criticized him, thought

Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 2 (II), 6/18/1975 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the [Internal Revenue] Service did monitor its own telephonic advice. The only way a supervisor of a telephone answerer who provides tax information could check on the work that his people were doing was to hear the question and the answer. But our internal
; Cohen's telephone conversation with LBJ three days before LBJ's death.

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