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  • conversation and mainly telling stories, some political and some family. He enjoyed kidding people that he was close to. G: We're going to use 1960 as a watershed here. Can you describe some of your travel s with him before 1960? W: Yes. My first
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So we had that type of conversation. He I said, "I think the first thing we have to do is to decide what the potential market is, then to decide how much capital we need to produce
  • 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
  • with the number of balls he had in the air. He had George Reedy scurrying about with memos, and somebody else whispering in his ear; there were telephone conversations going on, and he seemed to be very much at ease handling four or five things at the very same
  • knew instantly who it was, and I stood up also. It was the President. He sat down in a little rocking chair there in Valenti's office, and we talked for more than an hour. Much of that conversation was devoted to the coming Republican
  • they had typed fifty letters. letters were quite concise and short. Now, most of the However, Lloyd dictated rather long, lengthy letters, plus the fact that I was constantly being interrupted to take telephone messages in shorthand. Finally in tears
  • with that agreement or resolve that we both agreed to. B: That conversation that night in the South Pacific there, did it get off on the career military officers? A question comes up about Mr. Johnson's attitude toward the place of career officers as opposed
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 worked out to be anything. And then it was a general conversation during that half an hour about speeches and image, and television, and Newsweek and things like
  • the President had apparently told SOTI'.E:~ody, which I think is valid, that Bill went down to the ranch and they had a long two-hour conversation down on the banks of the river there. So the President said Bill ,-las just hinting in every "lay