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Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

more rational boundaries would be if they ran them through Anglophone areas and vice versa. Only a few years ago if you wanted to call from Lagos in Nigeria to Contonou in Dahomby less than a hundred miles away, you had to telephone London, r LBJ

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, they always wanted to own the land, wherever they were, that this was a universal longing. --Telephone interruption-I didn't have too much to do directly with the Kennedy Round. Let me conclude with what you need here on the Kennedy Round by saying

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for compensation service connected to show that any ailment they then had was connected with some injury they sustained in the war. Lyndon spent an enormous amount of time on this on the telephone, and doing other things, too. Anything that was required

Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a little bit and get you appointed here. Your name was put into the hopper--then how were you informed of the appointment? L: Oh, Secretary Weaver telephoned me and said I had been appointed. M: And how soon did you have to come to work? L: Oh

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Arms Control Disarmament Agency--had frequent occasions to deal with Mr. Spurgeon Keeney. M: Do any of these sort of stand out in your mind? Were you there, or were these primarily through telephone conversations? D: Mostly, I think it was Mr

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or messages, that came to him every day in order, whether a telephone call or telegram, whether direct to him or through the Secretary of State, the decision that he made and brought me right up to the moment. He said--and it took him thirty minutes

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, what I did when they put the brakes on, I checked in with Jesse Kellam every Saturday at ten-thirty and I stayed with Jesse till we would have dinner together. And I did a lot of slipping off and doing things or doing things over the telephone. I

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

party the individual may have chosen, and to work for the election of that candidate ofthe majority view. That's true whether it's in a Democratic primary or whether it's in a Democratic convention. Conversely it's true for those that work within

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that we had got our directionfinding equipment going so well up around Khe Sanh that whenever they'd hit the key for a minute, boom, they'd get hit. We'd get gripes; here were commanders on their telephones, saying, "Send me more--I need a radio operator

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

speeches, but they've been very difficult to locate. I have the feeling that there was a real split in the labor and liberal movements on this race. I do remember a conversation with Tom when he said, "Don't you worry. Lyndon Johnson's a real liberal

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and went back to Austin. I got a telephone call- -I recall this was towa rd the weekend - -from Mr. Johnson to come to Austin. I borrowed a car and drove to Austin. and stayed at the Driskill Hotel. The following Saturday I got to Austin Saturday night

Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

don't believe he at that time, at least, was fluent in Spanish. Oh, he would use some phrases, but I don't recall that he ever tried conversations with them or make speeches in Spanish. F: Was he more active personally down here in this campaign than

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

knew, General LeMay telephoned me and told me to come on over, that I was going to succeed Bozo McKee as vice chief. McS: General, did you discuss at all General LeMay's retirement and some of the friction that was occurring between him

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

of this district. She just really worked at it. She had trouble getting office help, enough people to help her answer all the mail she got and all the telephone calls, but she worked at it and she did a good job and it got to be kind of a joke around that Lyndon

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

necessary for pacification. Nevertheless, the RF/PF, as organized, as trained, as armed, were not up to keeping the hamlets and the villages secure. (Interruption) G: Let's see. We were talking about the last month of OCO, and the conversion into CORDS

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 10 I kept telling them, "I don't want anything. I just want you to be at the other end of the telephone when I call you." (Laughter) I ran like an employment agency with John Macy for about two years after the election, because all these people who

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. They had the telephone campaign underway with our leader. ·so I bypassed this and told Mr. Johnson as we :olled in~o town that we didn't put out the · handbills in this community because I _thought the best thing to do 10 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think it was mostly a question of keeping pressure on the air force. You know, on a thing like that, what you really get is a lot of private telephone calls, and nothing else, maybe a letter occasionally. But keeping Goodfellow Air Base going was one

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)

figure that he was. He crune into public life as [Joseph] McCarthy's counsel and then he was [John] McClellan's counsel and then he tapped Martin Luther King's telephone wire. I said, "Piss on Mennen Williams." He said, "You know they'll embarrass you

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to appointment to the Civil Rights Commission 9 - 11 Conversation with the President about the press 12 - 15 Observation of South Viet Nam elections; report on observations to the President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

year, and I received it that year from President Kennedy over in the Rose Garden in June. Of course, a ceremony like that is not an occasion for much conversation, but I did meet him and we spoke briefly at that time. P: On what occasion did you

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

determined not to make similar concessions in Vietnam. Nothing that was going on at that time led us to believe that in fact a similar policy was envisaged for Vietnam. But again, I don't recall that as being a very major topic of conversation. G: I had

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Corpus Christi for him to make a a speech at the Rotary Club. year before this election. This was in the fall of 1947, almost a I heard the conversation between him and the folks in Laredo, including Ramon and whoever else was at the meeting. It seemed

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and Mexican public housing in Austin. I think there were about eight of them. I spent a great deal of time with him at that period, just in conversation with him, talking about his ideas and his dreams and things of that nature. And that's when I first

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

I joined the Armored Division because that was the thing to do for horse cavalrymen in those days. telephone call. time. I was on maneuvers in Louisiana and got a General Gay [?] had called, Colonel Gay at that He was with General Patton. He

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

selected? Why did you come up? F: Well, I think we have to attack this from a couple of angles. say, why did the White House offer me the job? First, let's It was the White House; it obviously was not the president who made the telephone call to me

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

instinctively to goals. But when action was involved, oof! G: Do you remember any specific conversations in which he was weighing whether or not to run? R: Well, the main one that I remember was the night before he flew up to Atlantic City to accept

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

own skepticism on the matter was registered. I have no way of judging the Eric Sevareid story because that was a third-hand account.Sevareid himself says that his conversation with Adlai Stevenson was supposed to be off-the-record, but how much

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Willy Brandt. M: Oh. S: He disappeared during the war. He was in communist country. I regret very much when he became chancellor in Germany. So there was Willy Brandt sitting beside me; however, he was not a bit interested in any conversation. I

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 but in one of his many untold acts of kindness, sent me down here in February of 1937. He just merely picked up the telephone and made a call

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and things of that kind on equal employment, especially [concerning] my conversations with some of the major business people here in the community and getting them to participate in his Equal Employment Opportunity Program down there. But that was done more

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

with talking to him about taking it? A: Dr. Givens did but not me. I was not in on that conversation at all, but Doctor did, and he was out there, too, at that particular time, and he could get in and out where many people could not. He just walked through

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

]." I had no qualms about that. They didn't say, "We want a copy of your manuscript." I had talked to them. So the next day was Washingtonls Birthday. I called the main office of Time[-Life] to try to get [Bob] Luce's home telephone number; I didn't

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a shorter-term view, clearly we did too many new things and not enough in each one. Conversely, and what you've got to remember is you have a situation now in which the federal government has the legislative authority and the precedent to do almost

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. on the Joint Chiefs. II I was down We were having an exercise of some sort and the telephone rang, and it was the White House asking me to come over. got somebody to replace me and went over there. about 5:30 then. So I It was late in the afternoon And I