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  • ." 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • and Rayburn also talked over the telephone quite a bit, many times I thought on procedural matters, keeping each other abreast of some little development in their respective branches of the Congress. Then Johnson was a frequent visitor to the Board
  • was going to be with us, and all that sort of stuff. said, "Aw, don't bel ieve it. He's just a big bunch of stuff. telling you the truth," and all that. They He's not About a week or so later I got a telephone call from the Majority Leader saying
  • that in conversation over the telephone from Chicago, and he told Wallace, and Wallace came around to my office in the Congress Hotel where I was staying, and he was very much disturbed. He said he thought I was a friend of his, and I told him I was, but that didn't
  • 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
  • : Then what happened about 1960? J: Well, I got a telephone call from Senator Johnson one day, and he told me that his right to run for the Senate and as Vice President had been challenged in the federal court in Austin; and that he wanted me to represent
  • --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
  • conversation and mainly telling stories, some political and some family. He enjoyed kidding people that he was close to. G: We're going to use 1960 as a watershed here. Can you describe some of your travel s with him before 1960? W: Yes. My first
  • 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
  • conversation at dinner, I said that I had seen the President for the first time in a year and a half that night and that I had been stuck in the White House thinking I was going to be late. And he said, "What do you mean you don't see him?" I said, "He has
  • to Texas? And when did you start in the construction business? B: I came back for my health . My brother Herman asked me if I--in the conversation it developed that he had received a contract for a lot of bridges from the flood of 1921 . He had to do
  • never did get to any of the ball games . In fact-­ F: What kind of spectator did he make? B: He was a spectator for the first event usually, and then by the second event he was out looking up a telephone to call somebody to get back to his real hobby
  • 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
  • by the lapels of your coat and say, this bill? '~at are you going to do about Let's get it out." But knowing his attitude on progress and on aviation and all, I don't think we had too much conversation. that he was for it. It was always in his program which
  • mean hotel. Kennedy was nominated. just to say goodnight. I went back to see Johnson, Then I went back to my hotel to get a good night's sleep, and he woke me up on the telephone and said, "Kennedy is coming down here in a few minutes," or ten
  • . "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
  • apartment and came in, whereupon we all arose and I introduced Lyndon to Mr . Carter. Lyndon immediately engaged him in the intense conversation of which he is most capable and proficient . After standing and talking for about thirty minutes before letting
  • , and I could feel we organized, as far as the labor group goes, I think one of the very best campaigns on the telephone. first telephone banks. That was one of the That is where we first got women started in doing this, and it paid off. But along
  • 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
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 F: Did that come by telegram or telephone? B: Came by telephone and Coke and Bob Murphy and I were riding together. I was riding in the car with them; that was Coke's campaign
  • as do law students. So I helped him with his campaign. F: In what ways did you help him? H: Oh, I rang doorbellsistuffed envelopesi called people on the telephone; just helped out any way I could. F: Did you confine yourself to work in this Austin
  • a conversation on the telephone. did come back not long after that. Secretary Dulles on the Formosa Straits. Administration in Congress. And I was in a conference with I supported the Eisenhower I don't recall--. It seems like there was some language
  • of the great movie producers of the time, that threw the man out of his office who was trying to sell him Vitaphone or the talking pictures, and he said, "Nobody wants to have a lot of conversation, the movies are good enough." Me The mention of your hometown
  • did not seem to realize at the start of our conversation that the Congress would have the control over the jurisdiction of the federal courts that it actually does exert or may exert. We were taking some of this away from the courts and investing
  • or messages, that came to him every day in order, whether a telephone call or telegram, whether direct to him or through the Secretary of State, the decision that he made and brought me right up to the moment. He said--and it took him thirty minutes
  • was practicing law, I became very interested in Democratic Party politics. In 1948 I became especially interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate. (blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call) Of course, I was aligned
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] of that conversation. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--12 My recollection is very hazy, because I
  • campaign manager. I particularly remember my conversation with him because I was pretty tired and I \'JaS swimming pool. staying at a Holiday Inn in Raleigh because they had a I was lying out by the swimming pool. We had a downtown hotel office
  • at that-- V: Not really. I think there were some--in reconstructing that conversation, I think it was fairly clear what job they were talking about, but there were no specifics. B: And then when did a specific offer come? V: A few days after that. I
  • of South Carolina. We went down to talk with the President, and President Roosevelt always took charge of the conversation. He was well briefed on the cotton situation, and he took advantage of the opportunity to give us a complete briefing
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- I -- 28 After several conversations with the President, he did call such a meeting. Dr. Shannon and the individual Institute heads were stunned that they were supposed to get specific results, like lowering
  • getting a secretary. M: Do you know what had persuaded Representative Kleberg to select Mr. Johnson? Was it Miller's recommendation? T: It had a great deal to do with it. But as Kleberg said himself, he liked the letter he wrote or the conversation he