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Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all those books about how if you always told the truth you'd be all right. So lid say, "Oh, no sir, I don't have to go to bed till eight o'clock." And one time I was brash enough--I was in a conversation with the Speaker, it was maybe at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • that matter :came up, atld he got on the telephone. He called the Pentagon, and he didn't 'ask them, he ordered them to send a plane and get that boy and bring him up here to Arlington National Cemetery and bury him with full military honors. And they did
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . They had the telephone campaign underway with our leader. ·so I bypassed this and told Mr. Johnson as we :olled in~o town that we didn't put out the · handbills in this community because I _thought the best thing to do 10 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . the room now. in. Fin all y the Senat or says, "You tel 1 him I am in I' 11 tal k to him . 11 Of course by that time, I was done So I handed him the phone and he talked to Clayton a little bit. It wasn't a pleasant conversation but he finally talked
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for a fact. I am certain in my own mind and from conversations I've heard that he was insistent and he was, if not solely, almost solely responsible for the selection of Mr. Connally as secretary of the navyo he ought to have Cabinet level. As vice