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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
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Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, but we did and just thoroughly enjoyed it. M: Was the conversation invariably on politics? B: Almost always. They would listen to Drew Pearson. Everyone had to stop talking until Drew Pearson had finished his broadcast, and then they would talk about

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at this point and more likely to spend an hour and a half on the telephone with him shooting the 2 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, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

of some of her conversations with Lyndon to which I was not privy at the time. made that direct remark to me. But I can't say he ever But we did talk prospectively. He wanted me to run for attorney general some day. to run for governor some day. run

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

back to Washington, and the only reason I was suggested was that they felt that I could talk to Lyndon Johnson who was, at that time, the majority leader of the Senate. got in town. I telephoned him when I He said held come by and pick me up at eight

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

toward Senator Kennedy's candidacy? S: None at all from either party. I saw Senator Kennedy only once in that period, in April or May--had a long conversation with him at his house. I worked with his staff people a great deal on the telephone

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that in conversation over the telephone from Chicago, and he told Wallace, and Wallace came around to my office in the Congress Hotel where I was staying, and he was very much disturbed. He said he thought I was a friend of his, and I told him I was, but that didn't

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Then what happened about 1960? J: Well, I got a telephone call from Senator Johnson one day, and he told me that his right to run for the Senate and as Vice President had been challenged in the federal court in Austin; and that he wanted me to represent

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

these affairs small enough for you to have an opportunity to have conversation? K: Oh, no. The state dinners were those great things out in the Rose Garden and in the White House, things like that. No, I had no conversation except the ones on the telephone

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

be primarily a means to an end for political purposes? M: None at all. The only conversations I've ever had with the President about the work of that bureau, or for that matter I may say with Secretary Rusk, were on the general subject and the very difficult

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

conversation I had with Mr. Johnson was in 1961, just before I was assigned to Mexico or shortly after--I'm not sure which, whether it was before or after. We talked at that time about what the problems were in LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

by telephone, and it was made at a time when, as I recall it, Dr . Hornig for one reason or other was out of the country. And as soon as Dr . Hornig became available he also telephoned me and I came over and discussed the matter sometime within a few days

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

be replaced, Go: Have you had much contact with the President since then in 1966? Gu: No, not a lot. Telephone conversations occasionally regarding flights when he wanted someone picked up at a point and delivered to a point. He has always been very nice

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. HICKENLOOPER Interviewer: Paige E. Mulhollan September 19, 1968 M: Senator Hickenlooper, I'd like for you as a man who has been in the Senate for 25 years, if you can, to recall for me first conversations and acquaintances that you made with Mr. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the President, who had been listening in on the conversation with Mrs. Johnson, chimed in and I could tell that he was pleased over LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the audience. He was quite cordial, An Embassy official who spoke Vietnamese accompanied me, but when I met the Archbishop, I learned that he spoke Italian. It was therefore easy for us to converse as we both had studied in Italy. I also enjoyed

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the things that are most on his mind, the latest telephone conversations from the White House and the State Department. If there are decisions to be made that he is going back over to the White House to participate in, he will ask our advice

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with this and then built the most extraordinary series of conversations with people at all levels in this Department, in the Defense Department, in our Embassies abroad, in foreign embassies; they went to Warsaw; they went to Ottawa; they went to London; I suppose

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

? D: Well, you remember at the outset of our conversation, I said I thought I could give you some human interest stories about the President, so let me back up. Over a period of many, many months, the period that I refer to as supplying goodies

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to get this done at the office with the telephone and other things, I took it home and worked on it nights to get it completed. P: It was all by hand? F: All by hand, yes. It isn't completed yet but it is in the process anyhow, and I want

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with my appointment were with the Attorney Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth of June and there began a series of conversations between us. B: Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

the fraternity house at the University after the war. There was a lot of Homer Rainey conversation and liberalism was beginning to rear its head. B: Homer Rainey was the president of the University? W: That's right. He was the president

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

the campaign lasted about 5 weeks and about the third week we began to see daylight because all of these other people were pretty good men. G: Mr. Wild, one of the President's old friends has told us that in the first conversation with Hr. Johnson you said

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

getting a little upset here and there, if you are going to still call the shots as you see them. I don't know if I mentioned last time my conversation with the President before my Senate confirmation? B: I don't recall specifically. You'd better repeat

Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

know firsthand how my name came to the attention of Mr. Clark and Mr. Christopher. My first knowledge that I was under consideration came from a telephone call from Warren Christopher, the Deputy Attorney General, in early October 1967 to determine

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in February of that year. Towards the late spring or early summer as the project was about at its conclusion, I discovered by a personal conversation with the then Deputy Director of OEO, Mr. Bernie Boutin that Mr. Boutin was extremely unhappy in his job

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

upon the President in private conversations with the press. Of course, he disliked the President intensely--he had for many years--and made no secret about it to anybody but the President. And since Bill was never overly scrupulous about the truth

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

of thorn may see. ves : .bxor . it was ire was dam.Yes, - ;. Do you remdraber what kind of a car in those days'? a Ford Phaeton, as they called then then. Do ;-o=a remember much of that conversation Ices, tho many young a?4t:d, or rather he did most

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was not strong enough really. M: What persuaded your husband to run again in 1964? T: Well, I think the demand because--he said on the telephone you can get more work done and the things that are needed to be done even by your telephoning more than some new

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in a telephone? M: No. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Sometimes he's alone. We have a phone here which is plugged in, and if he gets a call I'll ask him if he wants to speak to the person or would they rather wait while he's relaxing, and if he

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for about one-half hour and I found him quite inspiring. He said he was quite anxious for me to take the job and I was absolutely flattered and naturally accepted. B: What goes on in a conversation like that to inspire you? R: To begin with, I was 34

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CLIFTON C. CARTER--4 I was operating my 7-Up plant in Bryan at that time, and I remember his saying he was sitting there drinking a 7-Up as he called me. P: What did he say in the conversation? C: Do you remember? You

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

actually did this. I don't know that there was much that transpired between this December conversation and the 1st of January. But when I was in New York I had a call from Ralph Dungan, who was apparently working on personnel matters, asking me if I would

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