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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 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org 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