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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Date > 1969-05-08 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on up until midnight and send it over to the usher's office to be sent up and put on his bedside table. M: Did he use the telephone as much as he has the reputation? In the books and so forth they say the telephone is one of his chief instruments. C
  • use of telephone; nature of LBJ’s mind; capacity to remember; LBJ’s energy; talking to relax; sense of humor and temper; LBJ as a decision maker; effect of the Vietnam War on domestic policy; relationship to communication media; virtues as a chief
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • backing among the Mc: ~ress and a good many influential and well-to-do people. In =.:-:y occasion of his being up for election, did you have any conversations with him regarding getting more support for his candidacy? F: The only time that could have
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • uncanny ability to call people by name and to introduce them to her other friends and tell little interesting anecdotes about them, which would get a conversation started, even in a mausoleum. The then-majority leader stood at the head of the receiving
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • upset with him when he did that. As I have heard the conversation retold, Johnson just said, "Well, he's the best man qualified for it." So he selected Symington. If there were any other reasons for that other than that statement, I don't know vlhat