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Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it." But he was devoted to his mother and to his family, and she was to him. But I never really had any conversation with her about [him]. I never felt--It was presumptuous of me to try to--I wasn't that close to her on a personal basis. F: What was she

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to and including (interrupted for telephone call). time in 1967 to those programs. We devoted a lot of We looked for programs to create an urban-rural balance to stop the migration of rural people to the cities piling up in the ghettos. We looked

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had some conversations, but he stuck pretty much to the line of, you know, defense, and he'd been there, and what he had seen. But I think he was frustrated with the way things were going. Well, I know he was. F: When the student opposition began

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

by telephone. M: Was there a telephone on the platform connected with Mr. Johnson? A: I talked to him from a trailer that I had behind the platform. I had a trailer office out there. That's where I talked to him. I talked to him at least twice. Once he said

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

no question at all about that. M: He didn't give away anything that you all thought was--? F: No, he didn't. As a matter of fact, in one conversation I had with Mr. Johnson he indicated that he'd have an easy time getting it through if he would give up

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

recall it was one of the habits that Governor Harrlman always had to keep the Vice President abreast of foreign affairs. When we came back, he always telephoned him and gave him a report of what we had done. I remember that day he asked me to get hold

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

." That was the notice that Mrs. Johnson got. And I know on two occasions I was in people's offices in the White House when she telephoned, one was to Jack Valenti and one was to George Christian, and I could hear enough of the conversation to know that she was asking

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that by telephone, or did you have to move around on the Hill quite a bit physically? J: I didn't move around too awful much--mostly on the telephone. part of it I had was usually carrying out instructions for him. Whatever I had very little to do with any basic

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

literature, we could field people into the precincts to do that kind of door-to-door walking. That's what it amounts to, that and telephoning. That requires a great deal of organization and schooling of people, and among the people we schooled in 1956

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: He just happened to be at the--? O: I had never met Mitchell prior to that. Mitchell chatted about sports. It was a conversation being carried on among three or four or five people, whatever. But finally Mitchell brought up Watergate. He said he
A March 1973 memo from Charles Colson to H. R. Haldeman regarding Richard Kleindienst's confirmation as U.S. attorney general, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) files, false testimony by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said something to the effect that, "Yes, I've known of your program. It interests me. something like that. brief conversation, You know, I used to be a schoolteacher," He was obviously interested, but it was a very The real discussion

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as the biggest major ones. One of my earliest home telephone calls from the new President was 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, in my opinion. This is conjecture on my part based upon many conversations. That since I was connected with Franklin D. Roosevelt's Social Security program I was a pretty good fellow. And since Social Security and old age were connected with honoring thy

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

conversation at dinner, I said that I had seen the President for the first time in a year and a half that night and that I had been stuck in the White House thinking I was going to be late. And he said, "What do you mean you don't see him?" I said, "He has

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of things including the political situation in 1966, which was an off-year congressional election. was no presidential race. There That's been almost ten years ago, and I can't really recall with too much specificity too much of those conversations. I

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really be more effective in a person-to-person conversation . Because those conversa tions in Saigon were stilted in a way, and you know, [there were] a whole bunch of people on both sides listening . So the statements had to be more carefully made

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

I could do." M: Were you in Washington, D.C. at the time of the assassination? B: Yes, I was •. M: Did you have any immediate conversation with Mr. Johnson or members of his staff? B: No, none. I stayed pretty far away during that early

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--he's dead--and he said, "Dudley, why don't you consider running against Lyndon Johnson? The country needs leadership desperately. win. II He didn't say I could But I had a letter or so, and I got a telephone call from my cousin Pat Tenant

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and ordered a beer, had a beer and then ultimately engaged him in conversation. Bought him a beer and invited him to come outside, he wanted to talk to him. So they went out and got in the car and this well-dressed gringo told him that he

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of, lid say, two or maybe three telephone conversations with him regarding legislation. I was chairman of a subcommittee on agri cul ture, and these were usually conversati ons, very bii ef, deal i ng with bi 11 s that woul d come up. Of course, he wanted

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

?" And indicated-G: How did he know? Where did he get his information to begin with? N: I can tell you that the incident that occurred in getting Klein on the telephone occurred with my going down to see the President on January 6, 1967. He had a warty growth

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Texas? And when did you start in the construction business? B: I came back for my health . My brother Herman asked me if I--in the conversation it developed that he had received a contract for a lot of bridges from the flood of 1921 . He had to do

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

issue; Dick Russell had opposed statehood consistently all the time. Near the end of their conversation Bob asked him a principal question, "Lyndon"do you think Alaska will have statehood this year?" His answer was, "No. 1I And in Bob's handwriting below

Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--he had no thought of withholding any thing in his conversation nor having me take off, no. At the conclusion of our conversation he said, "Well, how long would it take you to get here?" I said, "Well, Mr. Vice President, if you want me I'll be here

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to do a little investigating. W: Oh, yes, I came on Friday night, and I got on the telephone, and I talked to quite a number of people who knew about this matter. I talked to people in the Bureau of the Budget, I talked to several people on the staff

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

h.e. got to Pari s and got mixed up wi th 1eft wi ng groups that there might be trouble, and that there would naturally be talk about the war. The only reason I mention it is I handled the Rome end of it on the telephone, and Charles had to handle

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said, "No, you can't, you'll learn to do more," and I did. By the time we finished the White House, I had a telephone set with sixty buttons on it, and I could manage all of that. F: Did you have kind of a secretarial hierarchy there with Juanita

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the President [Johnson], or the then-Vice President, during later conversations that night with McNamara told McNamara that he wanted me to be assigned permanently as his pilot. Well, just--and I'm getting to the story about LeMay here in just a moment

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of approaching these particular meetings was to leave my house at seven, which I usually do, and use the telephone in my car to communicate with the deputy chief of the park police, Alfred Beye, who by the way was-F: How do you spell that? C: B-E-Y-E. He

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

can remember hearing him call Bird on the telephone and say, "Get the furniture insured for Friday night . I'm having a bunch of newspapermen out there, and they're going to be delivering several cases of whiskey to the house. We'll have a wild

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

did get the President to send Cy out there, and I did it largely by telephone back and forth. But those were three relationships--particularly Acheson, who was my great mentor and friend--that went on throughout my life. As he got older, he got more

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the state of McDonnell and Company. In those conversations that led to accepting the position, we had discussion regarding broadening and diversifying McDonell and Company well beyond the brokerage firm, with thirty-five hundred or four thousand employees

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, primarily. I'm not a politician. F: Does fund raising consist mainly of the telephone? W: Oh, no, no. But you had a clear-cut issue in 1964 for the first time. You had two identifiable candidates, and it was not a popularity contest in the political

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and for us it was a real tragedy. We were concerned that, because of the relatively short time left between the time of his separation and June 19, that they would make a shambles of the whole thing, which they did. Tucker and I had a couple of conversations

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in my hand, which was more money than I had ever seen. So I went back to the--oh, before the conversation ended, Mr. Miller said that he would like for me to meet a young man in an adjoining room. He opened the door and this tall, stringy fellow just

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

never did get to any of the ball games . In fact- F: What kind of spectator did he make? B: He was a spectator for the first event usually, and then by the second event he was out looking up a telephone to call somebody to get back to his real hobby

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Senate two terms, but I knew him as a congressman, because he had come from the Senate to the Congress in 1932, when I was five years old. My father at that time was in business, and I used to hear a lot of conversations between them, not always

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was furious with Johnson when in his book he said I was bored. I called him on the telephone when I saw that. And I was very--I was impolite I must say. I've always been polite to presidents and ex-presidents, but I was infuriated because I had told him

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 place or time. However, I don't recall the exact date, but I think it was somewhere in February or so in 1968, I received a rather strange telephone call from John Bailey. I used to call him quite often for other matters

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