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- on up until midnight and send it over to the usher's office to be sent
up and put on his bedside table.
M:
Did he use the telephone as much as he has the reputation? In the books and so forth they
say the telephone is one of his chief instruments.
C
- use of telephone; nature of LBJ’s mind; capacity to remember; LBJ’s energy; talking to relax; sense of humor and temper; LBJ as a decision maker; effect of the Vietnam War on domestic policy; relationship to communication media; virtues as a chief
- about or talk about, at least.
C:
No, I don't remember ever having a conversation with a colleague in the White House or
with my wife to the effect that I think the President is on the physical edge or that he may
have a breakdown. He himself kept
- ] around the President. He's a quiet kind of man, and they
never had an easy conversational relationship. It came his turn and he made what I
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- to the education or health one.
During the campaign, however, as a result of some conversations I had with
several people and as a result of some soundings with the President, I developed the firm
conviction that the President ought to make education his top