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  • , I've noticed that he criticized him particularly on his voting against labor and civil rights. L: Yes. Early. Early on. Yes. Yes. And he would always answer. You notice he always answered those letters. They had an ongoing conversation. B: One of my
  • was to type the short, punchy political letters to people, and we'd get a list every day by telephone or by mail from the Johnson staff down here that he'd seen them, et cetera. I remember one day I typed a hundred and fourteen of those letters. Of course
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 asked me if I would come out and help them with telephones and mail because I knew the family and the personal friends and So forth, so I did at night time and then through the days and So forth. And when
  • it." But he was devoted to his mother and to his family, and she was to him. But I never really had any conversation with her about [him]. I never felt--It was presumptuous of me to try to--I wasn't that close to her on a personal basis. F: What was she
  • to and including (interrupted for telephone call). time in 1967 to those programs. We devoted a lot of We looked for programs to create an urban-rural balance to stop the migration of rural people to the cities piling up in the ghettos. We looked
  • had some conversations, but he stuck pretty much to the line of, you know, defense, and he'd been there, and what he had seen. But I think he was frustrated with the way things were going. Well, I know he was. F: When the student opposition began
  • the President, who had been listening in on the conversation with Mrs. Johnson, chimed in and I could tell that he was pleased over LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • by telephone. M: Was there a telephone on the platform connected with Mr. Johnson? A: I talked to him from a trailer that I had behind the platform. I had a trailer office out there. That's where I talked to him. I talked to him at least twice. Once he said
  • no question at all about that. M: He didn't give away anything that you all thought was--? F: No, he didn't. As a matter of fact, in one conversation I had with Mr. Johnson he indicated that he'd have an easy time getting it through if he would give up
  • recall it was one of the habits that Governor Harrlman always had to keep the Vice President abreast of foreign affairs. When we came back, he always telephoned him and gave him a report of what we had done. I remember that day he asked me to get hold
  • ." That was the notice that Mrs. Johnson got. And I know on two occasions I was in people's offices in the White House when she telephoned, one was to Jack Valenti and one was to George Christian, and I could hear enough of the conversation to know that she was asking
  • of that by telephone, or did you have to move around on the Hill quite a bit physically? J: I didn't move around too awful much--mostly on the telephone. part of it I had was usually carrying out instructions for him. Whatever I had very little to do with any basic
  • literature, we could field people into the precincts to do that kind of door-to-door walking. That's what it amounts to, that and telephoning. That requires a great deal of organization and schooling of people, and among the people we schooled in 1956
  • the audience. He was quite cordial, An Embassy official who spoke Vietnamese accompanied me, but when I met the Archbishop, I learned that he spoke Italian. It was therefore easy for us to converse as we both had studied in Italy. I also enjoyed
  • : He just happened to be at the--? O: I had never met Mitchell prior to that. Mitchell chatted about sports. It was a conversation being carried on among three or four or five people, whatever. But finally Mitchell brought up Watergate. He said he
  • A March 1973 memo from Charles Colson to H. R. Haldeman regarding Richard Kleindienst's confirmation as U.S. attorney general, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) files, false testimony by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell
  • said something to the effect that, "Yes, I've known of your program. It interests me. something like that. brief conversation, You know, I used to be a schoolteacher," He was obviously interested, but it was a very The real discussion
  • as the biggest major ones. One of my earliest home telephone calls from the new President was 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • , in my opinion. This is conjecture on my part based upon many conversations. That since I was connected with Franklin D. Roosevelt's Social Security program I was a pretty good fellow. And since Social Security and old age were connected with honoring thy
  • conversation at dinner, I said that I had seen the President for the first time in a year and a half that night and that I had been stuck in the White House thinking I was going to be late. And he said, "What do you mean you don't see him?" I said, "He has
  • of things including the political situation in 1966, which was an off-year congressional election. was no presidential race. There That's been almost ten years ago, and I can't really recall with too much specificity too much of those conversations. I
  • really be more effective in a person-to-person conversation . Because those conversa tions in Saigon were stilted in a way, and you know, [there were] a whole bunch of people on both sides listening . So the statements had to be more carefully made
  • I could do." M: Were you in Washington, D.C. at the time of the assassination? B: Yes, I was •. M: Did you have any immediate conversation with Mr. Johnson or members of his staff? B: No, none. I stayed pretty far away during that early
  • --he's dead--and he said, "Dudley, why don't you consider running against Lyndon Johnson? The country needs leadership desperately. win. II He didn't say I could But I had a letter or so, and I got a telephone call from my cousin Pat Tenant
  • and ordered a beer, had a beer and then ultimately engaged him in conversation. Bought him a beer and invited him to come outside, he wanted to talk to him. So they went out and got in the car and this well-dressed gringo told him that he
  • the things that are most on his mind, the latest telephone conversations from the White House and the State Department. If there are decisions to be made that he is going back over to the White House to participate in, he will ask our advice
  • of, lid say, two or maybe three telephone conversations with him regarding legislation. I was chairman of a subcommittee on agri cul ture, and these were usually conversati ons, very bii ef, deal i ng with bi 11 s that woul d come up. Of course, he wanted
  • ?" And indicated-G: How did he know? Where did he get his information to begin with? N: I can tell you that the incident that occurred in getting Klein on the telephone occurred with my going down to see the President on January 6, 1967. He had a warty growth
  • with this and then built the most extraordinary series of conversations with people at all levels in this Department, in the Defense Department, in our Embassies abroad, in foreign embassies; they went to Warsaw; they went to Ottawa; they went to London; I suppose
  • to Texas? And when did you start in the construction business? B: I came back for my health . My brother Herman asked me if I--in the conversation it developed that he had received a contract for a lot of bridges from the flood of 1921 . He had to do
  • Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me
  • issue; Dick Russell had opposed statehood consistently all the time. Near the end of their conversation Bob asked him a principal question, "Lyndon"do you think Alaska will have statehood this year?" His answer was, "No. 1I And in Bob's handwriting below
  • --he had no thought of withholding any thing in his conversation nor having me take off, no. At the conclusion of our conversation he said, "Well, how long would it take you to get here?" I said, "Well, Mr. Vice President, if you want me I'll be here
  • to do a little investigating. W: Oh, yes, I came on Friday night, and I got on the telephone, and I talked to quite a number of people who knew about this matter. I talked to people in the Bureau of the Budget, I talked to several people on the staff
  • h.e. got to Pari s and got mixed up wi th 1eft wi ng groups that there might be trouble, and that there would naturally be talk about the war. The only reason I mention it is I handled the Rome end of it on the telephone, and Charles had to handle
  • said, "No, you can't, you'll learn to do more," and I did. By the time we finished the White House, I had a telephone set with sixty buttons on it, and I could manage all of that. F: Did you have kind of a secretarial hierarchy there with Juanita
  • , the President [Johnson], or the then-Vice President, during later conversations that night with McNamara told McNamara that he wanted me to be assigned permanently as his pilot. Well, just--and I'm getting to the story about LeMay here in just a moment
  • of approaching these particular meetings was to leave my house at seven, which I usually do, and use the telephone in my car to communicate with the deputy chief of the park police, Alfred Beye, who by the way was-F: How do you spell that? C: B-E-Y-E. He
  • can remember hearing him call Bird on the telephone and say, "Get the furniture insured for Friday night . I'm having a bunch of newspapermen out there, and they're going to be delivering several cases of whiskey to the house. We'll have a wild
  • did get the President to send Cy out there, and I did it largely by telephone back and forth. But those were three relationships--particularly Acheson, who was my great mentor and friend--that went on throughout my life. As he got older, he got more
  • and the state of McDonnell and Company. In those conversations that led to accepting the position, we had discussion regarding broadening and diversifying McDonell and Company well beyond the brokerage firm, with thirty-five hundred or four thousand employees