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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, 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, 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, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • 12, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: BILLY GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Monroe Billington PLACE: Interview was conducted over the telephone Tape 1 of 1 B: Why don't you just talk a little bit about the time you first had contact with President Johnson? G: Well
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: CYNTHIA WILSON INTERVIEWER: Lewis Gould PLACE: Via telephone from LBJ Library to Ms. Wilson's office Tape 1 of 1, side 1 G: Why don't you start out by just telling us something about your own background, education
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • ? My first contact with President Johnson was during a telephone conversation. It was an amusing situation. It occurred during the Christmas holidays in 1960. I was calling President-designate Kennedy and found him in Florida. I was calling to clear
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . In giving this history of Wilson County to my niece, I pointed out that Charles Deason, my daddy's older brother, was quite a community leader. I guess today we would call him an activist but he was instrumental in getting the first rural telephone line
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • , and the whole atmosphere was entirely different. In those days a lot of our mail was from people who were trying to get hospitalization or veterans benefits out of World War I. So we would talk to people all day long who came in the office, on the telephone
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • i: ;• on the telephone and we called the State superi~~endents in, four at :.! a time. Our first effort, you remember, was dir~cted at the sevente.en t , •· i ;i southern States maintaining dual school systems.;! We called in Jack q Tubb from
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, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • figure that he was. He crune into public life as [Joseph] McCarthy's counsel and then he was [John] McClellan's counsel and then he tapped Martin Luther King's telephone wire. I said, "Piss on Mennen Williams." He said, "You know they'll embarrass you
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jack Broudy (Item)
  • Conversation with Samuel Halperin; "The Federal Government's Remaining Role in Education"
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • second-guess de Gaulle on the contents of a mano a mano conversation on the first day out is overstretching, even Lyndon. Anyway, at least that kind of "I'll show them" [attitude] is a part of it. It's not the only part, not the largest part
Oral history transcript, Harry Schreiber, 1964, interview 1 (I) (Item)
  • , and came back. I think he flew with Harold Pease. Did he say who he flew with ••• was it Pease? I: I don't remember. Can you remember any of his reactions, or conversation on his part, what frame of mind he seemed to be in. S: Oh, he
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)
  • '• ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] ! ,, - : I 12 More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ,. ) ­ /, \ ( .. I And now to give this conversation a balance
  • Conversation on "The "Federal Government's Remaining Role in Education;"
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • remember, then, I see. So you may have had conversations-- B: I could easily have; I don't remember them. D: Obviously I have to consult that documentary record and see what's there, as to what--but I was struck by-- B: There's nothing here; that's
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • conversations they had with reporters during the day. He was always very interested, very concerned in media treatment of him. One of the problems really of working for· him was that he needed five hours of. sleep a n.ight and that was all. nap
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • order. D: Oh, well, that was a lot of fun. Horace and Whiteside always argued about who was number one and number two. I didn't know there was an argument about nine and ten. R: It's led a lot of conversation. Number eleven Harvey Payne, one of our
Oral history transcript, W. Stanley Kruger, interview S-I, 8/13/1968 (Item)