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Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

questions about broadcasting he would give me a call, and I made trips down to Washington to see him and ultimately met Lady Bird, and then [we] picked up again, of course, after the war years. Throughout that period, there were numerous telephone calls

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and to the delight of the civil rights forces in areas that we didn't expect him to be active as a Vice President. For example, he took a very personal concern on the fair employment business. He used the inevitable telephone, without which he is never seen or heard

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

submitting the domestic section. And then in the ideal world he'd have Goodwin write it and he'd edit it. The message went through I cannot remember how many drafts. In various conversations LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and that \/as included in the speech. sa" the draft of the speech. to rr:e. I I It obviously came as a good deal of surprise irr:mediately rClr.cmbercd the conversation I had had with John Connally the:. previc s tem:K:r ",hen he told me that was a possibility

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

always thought that he was one of the most fascinating talkers in a small group I've ever met. conversation totally. It's a monologue. F: It's high class monologue. W: ·It's high class monologue. mimics. Of course, he dominates the It's superb

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It turned out it was the telephone man who had put that on there and it stood for president of the United States. But everybody used to refer to it as POTUS and when somebody wanted to talk about the President, if they wanted to say LBJ or the President

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Big Inch pipeline that went all the way from my own East Texas way up somewhere into Illinois was completed. It was a lot of topic of conversation in our house. G: We really don't have much on the President's attitude toward the Big Inch. I know

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. In giving this history of Wilson County to my niece, I pointed out that Charles Deason, my daddy's older brother, was quite a community leader. I guess today we would call him an activist but he was instrumental in getting the first rural telephone line

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

vividly because I had a terrible cold. I got a telephone call, as I remember, from Alvin Wirtz asking me to come over to a lawyers' meeting in a hotel at Fort Worth. I told him that I was busy taking depositions, so he arranged for me to come over at night

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Tully--I~-l2 Johnson? T: You answer phones a good deal of the day. the telephone and people know it. F: Because you know how he likes So they telephoned instead of writing. Did you work with Mrs. Johnson at all after she became either the vice

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

what is sometimes referred to as the mezzanine or the second floor is where our operations were set up. We had telephone hookups in Massachusetts with Mr. Kennedy's people from there, and we had some hookups statewide and some nationwide, where we could

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from time to time, very seldom we'd talk about a specific speech unless he just happened to be thinking about it in the course of the conversation. Jack would get an assignment that was coming up and he would call Will or me and say, "Let's get going

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been saying that And he walked away and picked up the II phone . . . (Laughter) F: He called somebody. H: . . , and made a call, you know. F: Ri ght. H: He was like a child, by the way, with those telephones -- he could call from the dining

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the White House and had, therefore, some very limited participation in conversations with the President. It was only after I was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs that I developed a more sensitive relationship--direct relationship

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

been associated with him during the earlier days of his administration. It was a very happy occasion. He honored me by stopping at my point in the room and carrying on several minutes of conversation, during which he described the need that he had

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

service during the Johnson years. As I've indicated in some of the earlier conversation we've had, President Johnson had a high personal interest in the career service of government. He had a sense of the importance of the career service in terms of its

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and I could feel we organized, as far as the labor group goes, I think one of the very best campaigns on the telephone. first telephone banks. That was one of the That is where we first got women started in doing this, and it paid off. But along

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a telephone down in his swimming pool in Texas. I think He'd spend most of his time I think on the phone instead of swimming in the pool. But he didn't call me on the carpet or anything of the kind. And he didn't organize any kind of effort by other senators

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Harry Hopkins? W: No, that was the WPA. can't think of it. This was--I know his name very well, but I [Roosevelt] called him up to talk to him about it while [Lyndon] was there and he laid out the,project to him over the telephone and he said, "Well

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-organized opposition. That was part of the process. G: What specifically did Mrs. Johnson do to advance the legislation? O: She had conversations with a number of members of Congress. She spent her time on the telephone, and when members of Congress came

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that he might not be quite as sharp as he should be. him I better. And I thought, well, if I'm going to see He put me down in a somewhat profane telephone conversation, he said "I don't know you, and I just barely know Lyndon Johnson and I don't want

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, if it were productive, it was difficult for me to perceive that it was . Yet we were living in a world in that time when there were so many things that we did need to foresee . I get from students these days . It's something like the conversation They want

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as the Trinity River It has got a long, hoary background. Project. One of my sharp recollections--and you'll understand why it's so sharp--one day when the Vice President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, was· haranguing me on the telephone about

Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

words, you know, conversations on it because, when Truman was elected, I remember the Senator said, "Well, we'll have someone in the White House who we can go talk to," and I know that Ed Johnson felt that Truman was the type of person that he would have

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

shouldn't stop and leave me dangling! Well, then, President Kennedy was killed. Do you have any immediate contact with Johnson? C: Immediate. [Pause] M: Of course, he flew back to Washington. Did you have any conversations with him in that short period

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the airport, and they came out about--I think they telephoned somebody in Amsterdam, who'd given them the wrong answer, so they thought we were coming in about four in the afternoon, and they were all out there at three-forty-five. And Doug MacArthur and Wawee

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the impression, that growing out of some of the conversations that President Johnson had, and out of the meetings that we had, and all this seemed to be a natural kind of evolvement. B: ~\Tho were some of the people who met with you at Governor William IS LBJ

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a letter from him, a telephone call from him, a telegram from him urging me to run" and so forth. And Carl did help him every way that he could with the paper, probably to the extent of hurting him, because the paper was not popular at all. Neither

Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in the conversation with you but kind of listening [to them] . 0: Yes . They were sort of at the other side of the room . Or sometimes if Mr . Johnson wanted her, he'd say, "Bird, do you know so-and-so's Yet she would sit talking number," and she'd always have

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh How did you communicate with President Johnson--by letter, telephone, in person? Y: By letter, but the only really meaningful communications were in person. What I

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We were getting more letters than any other congressman from the state of Texas and probably as much as the senators were getting each day. My job, I had to sit right inside the front door. I had four telephones on my desk, and they were all ringing

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ball, my little toe. Johnson tells one of these Filipino mess boys to get some ice--forget about what their reaction was, just get some ice; put it on my toe so I can get on the telephone. So I went up to the house; we have to get some pictures of Camp

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would like to see move ahead and I would appreciate it if you would go ahead and start pulling together some things that might take place." My understanding is that that conversation took place in early December of 1963 or two or three weeks after

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it gave him the chance to be with President Truman and to engage in the conversation that went on during the game. I never had the feeling that he took too much interest in the game itself. F: He was more interested in being there? C: He was more

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. It is quite possible--as a matter of fact, a lot of business is done this way--for me to call Emminger of the Bundes Bank just on the telephone. I don't have to explain to him a lot of background; we've been in .. close

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that is interested in the retention of national features, parks, the creation and enhancement of those features and the conversion into parks and preservation of natural beauty such as we find in the parks--both in the cities and in the rural areas. So

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -~ I 5 ~~ You're asking something that was so doggone long ago that I don't know. I know that one of the planes belonged to Brown and Root. I frequently heard conversation

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

his own mind. There were some good meetings of the Cabinet on matters of legislation and things of that character. B: In your personal conversations with Mr. Kennedy, did he ask you for advice in areas other than specifically Commerce things? example

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Johnson let us all be privy to the conversation of what he thought and what Mr. Truman thought, and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library