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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • motivated. We want to thank them in advance for what they were going to do. The bottom line was we ought to try to at least informally organize them rather than be totally dependent on brief telephone conversations that had taken place over a period of time
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson had a telephone conversation, sort of trying to work out their problems and difficulties. My recollection is that John Connally was upset that he had taken it. I may be wrong in that, though. G: Oh, I think that's right. Well, how would you
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Ernest Lefever, who was working with Congressman Hale Boggs, chairman of the Platform Committee, and after dozens of telephone calls--I tried to hammer out an agreed draft. By Sunday I thought we had a draft that would be generally acceptable, and I gave
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • you talked to LBJ frequently by telephone in that period. Any notable conversations that you recall? W: Yes, two or three. In the first and most important, which took place before our first Ranch visit, I asked his advice and help on gelling
  • with LBJ, including one in which an unknown woman accidentally interrupted their conversation, not believing LBJ was who he identified himself to be; the LBJ Library fountain spraying prestigious visitors at the Library dedication; Nixon's failed secret
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as effective and as convincing and played the role of the leader. One of the things that he did, which I think probably is not the proper thing to do, but nevertheless is very impressive, was to call a couple of people on his telephone and put the conversation
  • LBJ's 1958 interview with Paul Ringler of the Milwaukee Journal; LBJ's practice of making telephone calls while people were in his office; Senator LBJ's ability to get information from people on the telephone; LBJ's tactics to gain Senate passage
Oral history transcript, Percy Brigham, interview 01 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: PERCY BRIGHAM INTERVIEWER: Eric Goldman **This interview was conducted by telephone from TV station KTBC in Austin, Texas, to Mr. Brigham in a hospital. G: Hello, Mr. Brigham. I'm sorry to bother you when you feel so badly' and I won't
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • suddenly ordered that the presidential libraries and other public institutions had to make available all transcripts of recorded conversations, or telephone conversations that had 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • of the telephone, especially following JFK's assassination; the difficulty in analyzing LBJ as a whole person using only the telephone conversations; examining presidents and their faults in the context of their time and their experiences.
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were disturbed by her conversion to Catholicism--that she had gained a lot from it. I didn't know from a political point of view if this would hurt the President, but certainly from a personal point of view I thought Luci was very happy
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." comment . That was his only I know the history of what happened . I know the conversation between McCormack, Wright Patman, and Sam Rayburn . I know Sam's feeling . I know I delivered the message to Jack Kennedy ; I gave him Sam's telephone number
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the substantive part I told you about. The conversation constantly included matters of world events and his participation and his decisions. That's what I meant by saying I was surprised that he had somebody in the press that close, because he was often talking
Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 2 (II), 6/18/1975 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • listen to the phone conversations. Technically, that's a violation of the law, although most people would not think of it as a violation of the law. We had to stop that. I once pulled out a telephone tap on which was revealed a contract being made to kill
  • ; Cohen's telephone conversation with LBJ three days before LBJ's death.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President's approval?" I said, "You've got White House approval," because I could not get an answer from the President either directly or through Jack Valenti. G: Try to describe, if you recall, your phone conversations down there. You would generally talk
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at this point on Saturday that the whole package would be signed? F: Yes, he was. That apparently was a very heated telephone conversation. Whether it was in the course of that or some other conversation with the President, two days before the end of the term
Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , she didn't fuss much then. PB: Mr. Mayor, I understand that when the telephone company changed over to the dial system for long distance you had a very interesting telephone conversation. Can you tell us about it? WR: Yes. At that time I called
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the most valuable record of Lyndon Johnson's career is Walter Jenkins' notes. He made a note of every telephone conversation. He took shorthand. Are you aware of that? G: Yes. F: And by taking those notes he was able to make sure that everything
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • conversation was a little intense, and of course they were intense in their conversation with him, and they had a bri ef argument over the telephone . They said, "You fil ed a lawsuit against the Governor," so I never discussed anything with Senator Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and personal contact "l'li th Senator Johnson was again through Senator Symington, and this Hould be in early probably F'ebruary or March 1954. 1954, I received a telephone call from i3enator Jymington one day asking me to come up to lunch. He advised
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • Thomas, who had telephone conversations or oral conversations with and I think wrote some letters to Bill Moyers and others advising them of our position in the matter. that was the extent of his [involvement]. But He did not appear for us at any
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ? Very detailed scenarios were worked out with these telephone conversations. Then we honed, revised, modified the scenarios a little bit further, and then prepared that for the President. Then we made the trip. After each day's trip, I was on the phone
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the President over the telephone. that ~ve would have later. It was characteristic of the conversations He began by asking me whether this was ~vorse than Watts, and I told him that I thought it was probably going to be at least as bad as Watts
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and will be made available in the course of things . B : Ba : The records of the telephone conversations, I've never seen . You know, that's one of the reasons why we're doing this kind of oral history project . may not be recorded . Many of those telephone
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • the chances were of getting it out, and who was against it, and who was for it." (telephone ringing and voices in the background) "Johnson was constantly working the floor, working the cloak room, keeping in touch with the interests, the desires, the weakness
  • use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • particular impressions or conversations that you had? WW: We talked mostly about West Point, about the young men about to be graduated, about the ideals of West Point, particularly the ideal of -.--.---.-------. ~.. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • morning? K: In the morning. And the gentleman said, "You're taking me a little , fast. " From that conversation, there was developed the pattern for the organization. They did have good foremen. Through that project, NYA provided the unskilled labor
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had close personal exposure to Senator Johnson. any other way. I felt like I knew him better through them than To be sure, rarely was I ever with Walter that I was not present when there was a telephone conversation between Walter and Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall any complaint. I do recall getting a telephone call from--I'm not sure who it was--at home, saying that he was in an ambulance or a car or something on the way to the doctor. They wanted me to meet him there. I got there before he did. I've
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in some of these telephone calls: "we're afraid you're too late; you should have spoken up sooner; we have committed ourselves." Yell, we knew he was getting that sort o.f talk; we could hear his end of the conversation. And all this time he
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't know whether he's still living or not. F: Did the Vice President tell you what the conversation was about? W: No, he did not, or at least if he did I don't recall, quite frankly. But during the whole trip I was impressed by President
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on his mind. The poverty program, the demands for the urban programs, but I think the position that he took--and I don't recall the conversation in detail--but I believe that it was at this occasion that the point I made was that the Space Agency had
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • felt very good about it. I must say, it was just awful. M: Did Rostow say anything during that telephone conversation about what you had given WnBon not being consistent with the President's letter? C: No, this came-- M: That was not used
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to a conversation that I had had with him in which he was telling me that the Regents were going to consider it at that meeting. So I was providing a kind of aide-mémoire to Harry about 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to do at that time that I didn't think I could . So during the conversation Mac Bundy put the President on the phone, and I was shanghaied into this job. M: He used what they call the treatment on the telephone? B: That's right . So
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a standard conversation after the riots that began by saying that the country wouldn't tolerate rewarding the rioters.And it would end by the development of substantial programs to rush into the area. And knowing that we were doing precisely what we said we
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • some three thousand conversations that were taped, both on the telephone and the Oval Office and Cabinet Room discussions. Harry Middleton is eager to get these opened, obviously. Because you know Johnson didn't commit himself to paper all that much
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was a matter of clearing the air, but the implementation in terms of the structure of the campaign was never discussed in any detail. I was left, when I arrived at the headquarters, to pursue my own course. As I mentioned, Gary Hart had a lengthy conversation
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of of a fairly recent controversy, or revived controversy, in connection with the Oxford affair; precisely, what went on in the telephone conversations between Robert Kennedy and Governor Barnett of Mississippi. It was, I believe, the Justice Department's point
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was there discussion of how this would alter the political arrangements? Here a major figure and certainly a major adversary of the President's was taken out of the picture. B: You know, there were certainly conversations as to how this was going to affect Hubert
  • office was organized; Bonanno's regular duties for LBJ; methods people used to get LBJ's attention; how LBJ used private telephone lines to contact people directly; how most telephone calls were made from the White House; the Diary Backup file; Bonanno
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there to be introduced to President Johnson, I can only assume, because maybe someone had the idea that I was a possible candidate for one of the top jobs in the agency. I had a brief conversation with President Johnson, and then I went in as an observer to a National
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • meeting, which are the only two personal meetings I have had with him--I did have a conversation with him on the telephone one time, which I will get to later, I had forgotten to mention that--he asked me how things were going out there, what
  • Biographical information; meetings with LBJ; BPA; confirmation; cabinet meetings; telephone conversation with LBJ regarding the riot in DC; Park Police and DC riot; March on the Pentagon; Resurrection City permit; closing down Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • say is he never mentioned that to me. were never at great length. Now, our conversations As I recall, after talking with him on the telephone, I visited him a couple of times later on in his office. Our relationship was not so close that he would