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Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • would use the gunships and the special forces company if we had to go in to get the people out. Well, what happened--first of all, the night before, I had gotten a promise from Lam that he would not move on--give me one more day. He got a telephone call
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him. Bell Telephone and a bunch of the people opposed it. They came down. I've forgotten who was head of the Bell Telephone at that time. But he showed them, he said, "Boys, you can make money withholding on this dividend. You'll have that cash at your
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , was [a] fairly new aircraft in our wing there at SAM [Special Air Mission]. They came out in 1961, late 1960 and 1961. And Cross had flown Johnson several times and Cross married a local Austin girl. In conversations, the Vice President at that time learned
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the honor to sit to his right, and I probably found out later why he wanted me to sit there because he could do this to me. He engaged me in conversation during the end of the dinner very, very intently, and he looked into my eyes while we were talking
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and standing with the senior officer corps at that time? D: I think that we figured he was the big roadblock, at least I did, in conversations with my peers. I never talked to Westmoreland or Abrams about it; it wasn't any of my business. But we felt
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he meant. He could see that I was a little puzzled. He said, "I'm going to make you a full Special Assistant to me." My part in that conversation LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : You said that your first conversation with Johnson took place in October of 1964. R: Just before the 1964 elections. M: Then what was the subsequent nature of your relationship with him after that time? R: I didn't see him again until in the ADA
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • e s t i g a t i n g [sub]committee of the Armed S e r v ic e s , the f i r s t telephone [ c a l l ] I got was from Lyndon from the Senate. He had a s i m i l a r oppo site committee t o mine over on th e Senate s id e and he o f fe red me h
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and information over the telephone by, "You know where we were yesterday," and this sort of thing, by doubletalk, as we'd call it. It just doesn't fool anybody. We proved it to them time and time again by intercepting them with our own intercept devices
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in conversation with Earl Browder, who was the head of the Communist Party. Wasn't that the election in which he was also defeated, do you recall? G: Yes. He was. Let's talk some more about the California election. Did LBJ do anything to help Helen Gahagan
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and interest relationship there. Dick, I recall, was sent out to Pittsburgh to catch Dr. 0~~ke~ between planes, and they had a very brief conversation around the idea of forming some sort of committee. Then Dick got involved in other efforts and he asked me
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • as a standard before. And I think the biggest thing was getting people to put it into effect on their own and believing that in some way or another they were connected with the effort. For example, the telephone call which interrupted us a few minutes ago
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was practicing law, I became very interested in Democratic Party politics. In 1948 I became especially interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate. (blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call) Of course, I was aligned
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or five members that were listening to the conversation. I called her and said, "You've got to repudiate this. It's a humiliation. You have to admit that this fellow's gone haywire but keep the blame on his defection; his default is a better word." His
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • sheet, reached for the telephone, called him in Macon, Georgia, and said, "You' re a young man with some newspaper background and I need a good young man in my office. How about nine o'clock tomorrol'1 morning?" ' saw some ten years demonstrated
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • feelings that he would redirect either by telephone or sometimes with an actual notati0n on the draft. And it was also through these directions 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on natural beauty. Diana had sparked the idea for it and, as a result of our conversations at the luncheon, Mrs. Johnson decided to go ahead and have Diana spearhead the youth conference on natural beauty, to take place in 1966. Liz did a great deal
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • the hospital for any length of time. I did call them on the telephone and talk to them, every day. I got Willie Day Taylor, God bless her; she was already my great reliance with the children. She was on Lyndon's staff. She had been married, years earlier
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or five members that were listening to the conversation. I called her and said, "You've got to repudiate this. It's a humiliation. You have to admit that this fellow's gone haywire but keep the blame on his defection; his default is a better word." His
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was taking advice and it depended which one had spoken to him last as to what he would say on the telephone with Attorney General Kennedy or anybody else. President overestimated Kennedy was very, the impact of this very reluctant because
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Dayton Moses said, "Hell, of course, Sam." Miller. He put a call in to Roy That was the man that had managed Dick Kleberg's campaign. Never forget the name of Roy Miller in conversations, because to me, well, he was one of the shrewdest public
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the case. G: Let's go back to 1964 and the legislative operation again. What I've just handed you is a telephone list of senators to call and subjects to take up with them. It's not clear who was to make those calls, whether the President was or you were
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 5 (V), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a conversation between President Johnson and Secretary [Robert] McNamara in my presence in the Cabinet Room late in the afternoon of May 3, 1965. My reason for being present at that time was a previous session that had been held with the President and Secretary
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ear, and I sat at his deaf ear and talked while he was talking, and vice versa when the Bulgarian ambassador [was talking]. I didn't even have a notebook with me, so there's no memcon [memorandum of conversation] of that, except my own recollection
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVIII -- 2 G: But he took the initiative, as you recall. C: Oh, he took the initiative and pressed very hard. G: Do you recall what he said in those phone conversations? C: No, I
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And there were conversations during the two or three days before the nomination itself with my father. My father was under a strong belief that President Kennedy should not make the effort to secure the vice presidential nomination-- F: Because it was too
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a conspiracy or anything of that nature? O: No, I don't recall any conversations with him on the assassination. There were probably references to it, but it just never came into our discussions. My sole after-the-fact involvement was, as I recall it, being
  • running mate and RFK's concern that the conversation might have been recorded; whether or not RFK wanted to be vice president; a memo LBJ dictated to Walter Jenkins about his meeting with RFK; the candidates LBJ considered for his vice presidential running
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • well conversant with what electronic hobgoblins can do. And I recall there being a great deal of doubt about just exactly what had been approaching those destroyer units. M: Did that mean that the advice from the Department was divided on whether
  • Escalation of the Vietnam War; Gulf of Tonkin incident; inadequacies in advice given to the President; Ed Gullion episode; XYZ Affair; UN and U Thant; Bundy-Dobrynin conversation, fall of 1965; A-B Theory proposal; Glassboro; Averell Harriman
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it by getting the sense and the meanings of our conversations and our discussions and convey that sense of meaning to Hanoi. Of course there was, I can't remember in detail now all of the elements of the conversations, but the Poles pressed us pretty hard