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Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." 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
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
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, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Bundy, something like "as per our telephone conversation" in regard to that. C: Do you know anything about ,that? No, I don't. And Bundy, I don't know what his recollection of this was, but I was morally convinced
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He had been told by a very highly placed communist, it was from a highly placed communist source, this same story. M: He didn't say what nationality? S: He didn't say, but the implication of his conversation was that it was somebody from Vietnam
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with our Vietnamese counterparts in army, navy or air force. We had our differences, we had our arguments, but nothing to cause a person to be mad about it five minutes after the conversation ended. G: That reminds me of something you mentioned 1ast time
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • just happened to be in there talking to Jim. But as I recall the conversation, I had gone down there simply to see if they were seriously going to stay with it or if they were prepared to yield once the favorite son votes were cast-really a kind
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • down and converse. M: Was Mr. Johnson definitely in on all of the important meetings, as far as you know, on such a crisis as the Cuban Missile Crisis? D: Oh, very definitely, very definitely. President Kennedy was very strong about that, very
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • having a conversation with him was at a reception at which we were both present. Our paths just happened to cross, and we fell into a few minutes of talk. I found that it was very easy to talk to Mr. Johnson. I don't think we settled any earthshaking
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • down. Most of it was alone. At some point, I recall, Harry McPherson joined us in the conversation, but a good -- . )' LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that we have divorced completely from our program ideological considerations. That doesn't mean I haven't views. I couldn't help but overhearing parts of your telephone conversation a moment ago. I have had since t 59 four protracted working trips to South
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to me how that worked, and also tell me about any of your participation in Cabinet meetings or National Security Council meetings? M: Well, that of course worked several ways. Beginning at one end of the spectrum, I had frequent telephone calls
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Senate. Do you recall under what circumstances that happened? C: The first time I heard Lyndon Johnson's voice was on the telephone following my election to the Senate in 1956. I was having breakfast in my home, the old family residence in Boise
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So we had that type of conversation. He I said, "I think the first thing we have to do is to decide what the potential market is, then to decide how much capital we need to produce
Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 11-20]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • that he was contemplating proposing the opening of negotiations or conversations, or talks I think is the word that was very carefully used, with CommunistChina and proposing me as the U.S. representative, I accept. and would I was somewhatstartled
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to and including (interrupted for telephone call). time in 1967 to those programs. We devoted a lot of We looked for programs to create an urban-rural balance to stop the migration of rural people to the cities piling up in the ghettos. We looked
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recall it was one of the habits that Governor Harrlman always had to keep the Vice President abreast of foreign affairs. When we came back, he always telephoned him and gave him a report of what we had done. I remember that day he asked me to get hold
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said something to the effect that, "Yes, I've known of your program. It interests me. something like that. brief conversation, You know, I used to be a schoolteacher," He was obviously interested, but it was a very The real discussion
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of things including the political situation in 1966, which was an off-year congressional election. was no presidential race. There That's been almost ten years ago, and I can't really recall with too much specificity too much of those conversations. I
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I could do." M: Were you in Washington, D.C. at the time of the assassination? B: Yes, I was •. M: Did you have any immediate conversation with Mr. Johnson or members of his staff? B: No, none. I stayed pretty far away during that early
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • issue; Dick Russell had opposed statehood consistently all the time. Near the end of their conversation Bob asked him a principal question, "Lyndon"do you think Alaska will have statehood this year?" His answer was, "No. 1I And in Bob's handwriting below
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the President [Johnson], or the then-Vice President, during later conversations that night with McNamara told McNamara that he wanted me to be assigned permanently as his pilot. Well, just--and I'm getting to the story about LeMay here in just a moment
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • opportunity. There was a man with a camel, so you go over and handshake the camel driver and the picture was taken. Through the interpreter, there was a conversation. The invitation was graciously extended by Johnson, IICome to Washington. By one means
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was a telephone call from a gentleman named Sidney Weinberg, who is a good friend of Johnson's and also of Trowbridge. Sidney Weinberg had just come from a meeting of the Business Council down in Hot Springs, Virginia; and he said that he had been approached
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • or a mission LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 during this conversation? R
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to handle this flood of copy and improve the telephone service, because a lot of guys, if they had good telephone service they could call Tokyo and dictate, and their office in Tokyo could pick it up and transmit it to the United States. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • o'clock in the morning went back to see him again. Obviously there had been either a telephone call or a message from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him had supported the establishment of this commission, he told you to talk to Abe Fortas. L: Yes. He did, yes. G: Do you recall your conversation with Abe Fortas, and what he told you to do? L: Was it [Myer] Feldman again who was the counsel
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the Eisenhower Administration when the Republicans had charge of the Congress during the 83rd, I believe. I don't recall my first personal contact with the PreSident, that is, person to person conversations with him, unless it was when he was going into North
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Barnes--I --8 But John Connally--it was his first speech that he made, he made it by telephone after being in the car with Kennedy. guess that attracted a lot of attention. I But the story got on the front pages of all the papers
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew instantly who it was, and I stood up also. It was the President. He sat down in a little rocking chair there in Valenti's office, and we talked for more than an hour. Much of that conversation was devoted to the coming Republican
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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