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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ." 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
  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ? 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • : 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • used a pseudo [pseudonym], and he'd call in with a pseudo. He'd never use his own name; his pseudo was Juan Conelli, which was Connally. If you hear any recordings of telephone conversations, if there are any available, and there's a Juan Conelli
  • with immediately." Because there was no way that I could carry on this conversation with Mary McGrory. So I got rid of her and I closed the office door and buzzed Phyllis Maddock, now Nason, my long-time assistant. I said to her, "The President said he's naming me
  • to undertake an active role. It was more exploring what potential he had and how he might go about it. I recall particularly a small cottage alongside the railroad track, with a smaller cottage adjoining where his mother lived. It recalled conversations I had
  • reforms; McGovern's 1972 campaign financing; O'Brien's efforts to attack Richard Nixon; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) scandal; how O'Brien became chairman of the 1972 Democratic National Convention; Daley's reaction to his
  • light on the topic we are about to discuss. Also, on December 14, 1966, Mr. Rowe had a memo which says: Mr. Rowe telephoned George Christian, press secretary to the President, and repeated his conversation with Dudman. Christian the President had told
  • this. They There was a telephone conversation. The word was that the President would like to see Abel and me and have us tell him about this accomplishmente So we were escorted over into the White House and we waited in the Fish Room. Wirtz and Connor were with us as we waited
  • three of those things? E: Probably all three. Actually, I think, probably more by letter and by personal visit than anything else. I'm not very articulate, unfortunately, on the telephone and I don't really like to get too deep into telephone
  • relations with the business community. G: I notice, too, that you had a conversation with Don Cook with regard to this. C: You know he was a friend of the President's. I just can't remember what we talked about. I'm sure it was aluminum. (Interruption) Oh
  • and radio from here. It is possible, although I am not certain of it, that Edward R. Murrow was among those in attendance. Because as a House member, he commanded that kind of level of folks. Well, at this meeting, the Texas editors in my conversations
  • through a deep depression and money was in short supply. One day the telephone rang and it was LBJ. He said: "Glynn, don't you have a new car?" Glynn said that he did. "Where is it parked?" he wanted to know. Glynn told him it was parked right under our
  • ; Stegall's work transcribing Cabinet Room meeting recordings; Helen Markovich's transcription work; Stegall giving LBJ's telephone recordings to Harry Middleton of the LBJ Library in 1975; story about LBJ's request that Stegall figure depreciation on a bull
  • assignment for me, and it meant lots and lots of conversation sitting on the airplanes and the buses and every spare moment as we proceeded on the trip. The question that I found hardest to cope with which a number of them asked me was, "Why is the First Lady
  • to discuss this legislation, fair housing legislation. And the conversation was going around the table. The President would call on first one person for a reaction and then another person for a reaction. Then he stopped and he looked 1 LBJ Presidential
  • for the record because future research scholars may spend time looking for memoranda of conversation between me and my Presidents, which are simply not there. Finally, I had no mechanical means in my office at any time to record telephone conversations or other