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Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- of the then, I identified later as the Johnson men there. Woody was talking to the Senator. Then he said, "The Senator wants to talk to you, Jack." When I got on the phone, I probably had never had a private telephone conversation with Lyndon Johnson in 1960
- out to an airfield with others who were going down there. B: That would have been Sunday night when the violence was breaking out? P: That's right. So I went down, getting there about eight o'clock. I took up a station on the telephones
- a of tickets by getting on the telephone. I had not been with the Gov::rnor sufficiently long that I l-laS crass about those things. I l-laS very impressed ~vith the T,-lay he pulled that off. I think his attitude ,-las that he was going to let them put
- many people coming and going and coming and going. Did he talk to you about that? As far as just having a serious conversation of the whys and the wherefores and the pros and the cons, no, that never occurred. That wasn't his manner. He would
- 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
- Kennedy to visit Texas. So, I offered to assemble, just by telephone, some twelve or fifteen what you might call community leaders in Dallas. at the Adolphus Hotel. We assembled them I remember I was out to lunch and received a phone call --I believe
- was it was the first time I ever saw Senator Johnson's conversational capacity. I would say he started talking at nine-thirty or ten o'clock, and if anybody else in the room got in more than ten words in a row or five minutes in all within the two and a half hours
- to be a news conference. Anyway, the time was moving on and I had promised to have something for the noon newscast, so I decided I'd better call. Well, there was only one telephone at the Ranch, and it was in the Senator's den. wasan old-style telephone
- Biographical information; first meeting LBJ at the Ranch; Lady Bird’s kindness; breaking the story of JFK’s assassination; transferred to Washington in 1964; contacts and conversation with LBJ; LBJ’s operation to remove a polyp on his vocal chords
- 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
- --they went in on a mountain peak; then they were naturally excited about that moment, that type of conversation. So they go across and stand in Lafayette Park and began talking that they had such high hopes after the election, with Mr. Kennedy as President
- 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
- 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
- Oh, no! So Buddy got on the phone, and I've often thought of whoever in the world IIBuddy" might be. There was some young man in Texas and all of a sudden he was thrust into a telephone conversation with a strange man whom he had never met who
- 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
- knew he was being considered. F: Yes. S: And, I think, in conversations with him, no doubt, that was men- tioned, but as a matter of fact, the appointment came by phone. He was notified by phone; day. \'Je were at a meeting at Springfield
- to move down here in '47. I knew Byron. I had known him through the years. I went to work for the Star-Telegram in '34 and, of course, up until he left in '46 we had telephone communication. except-- I never did work with him, LBJ Presidential
- used? Y: No, not--well, you know, President Johnson was a very unusual fellow in a conversation. You'd go in with a specific item for the agenda but, depending on his most recent encounter or telephone call or something, you'd find yourself sort
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- you, and i t ' s a rather interesting incident, l think it lends some [insight]. The only time that I even remotely knew of a conversation with the Majority Leader was when at the end of the 1958 election, the Democrats had won that very large
- things on their own. The candidate may suspect it but he's more likely to think about something else. example, I've seen Johnson do this and other people do it. conversation he's had with somebody on some subject, he talked to him about it.lI
- HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 1,,1': I don't recall that we had any specific conversation about that. F: Did he discuss
- to know them pretty well. I got to know many of them damn good as a matter of fact, and that's one reason undoubtedly that when the 2nd ROK Corps got in trouble in June and July of 1953, General Taylor called me on the telephone about five or six o'clock
- . "Mr. Johnson's going to accept the vice presidency," I guess it was around noon I heard. No one was as stunned as I was. Matter of fact, I left town the next day. (Interruption - Telephone) M: You say you left town? S: That next day I left town
- , and also for evidential purposes. And this has never been considered illegal by our courts, where a party to the conversation consents to the transmission of the conversation. B: Even if the other parties have not? V: That's correct. B: I know
- to be offered the vice presidency. Anyhow, we talked. Now who made the [call]-F: This was in Los Angeles? T: Yes, this is in Los Angeles, and we talked. F: Personally or on the phone? T: On the telephone. morning. I was staying at another hotel
- it." Mr. Johnson was there the next morning, and, as I recall, the Senator had a little conversation with him and then sent him down to someone in the department. The outcome of it was, with other help that may have been registered, Mr. Johnson
- , and that \/as included in the speech. sa" the draft of the speech. to rr:e. I I It obviously came as a good deal of surprise irr:mediately rClr.cmbercd the conversation I had had with John Connally the:. previc s tem:K:r ",hen he told me that was a possibility
- always thought that he was one of the most fascinating talkers in a small group I've ever met. conversation totally. It's a monologue. F: It's high class monologue. W: ·It's high class monologue. mimics. Of course, he dominates the It's superb
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- was in the conversation with you but kind of listening [to them] . 0: Yes . They were sort of at the other side of the room . Or sometimes if Mr . Johnson wanted her, he'd say, "Bird, do you know so-and-so's Yet she would sit talking number," and she'd always have
- his own mind. There were some good meetings of the Cabinet on matters of legislation and things of that character. B: In your personal conversations with Mr. Kennedy, did he ask you for advice in areas other than specifically Commerce things? example
- . Johnson let us all be privy to the conversation of what he thought and what Mr. Truman thought, and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- there; she was at the Ranch. Was it her birthday? Was it an anniversary? G: No. N: Maybe he was just homesick, but he got the violinist in the phone booth with him and called Mrs. Johnson and he had the violinist serenade Lady Bird over the telephone. G
- being told what to do . was building up . And so this And I know that in conversations with Arosemena's cousin, who had been President before and had been overthrown, Carlos Julio . . . Frequently I'd be talking with him about the utilization
- enough about that to have anything substantive to tell you about it. G: Right. Were you very conversant with what I guess then-Colonel Lansdale was up to in regards to the North? I know the evacuation was going on at that time. J: Yes. No, I
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- a black man on as a member of the board of governors now, and there are far more employees than there were. It's hardly solved, but it's not the lily-white bastion it was in 1968 when we held our hearings. The New York Telephone Company, where we held our
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- had to take the oath of office that night around seven o'clock . F: That must have stopped the conversation? M: That did stop the conversation . F: Were you around? M: I was here . But I don't recall that particular time of it happening