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  • , but we did and just thoroughly enjoyed it. M: Was the conversation invariably on politics? B: Almost always. They would listen to Drew Pearson. Everyone had to stop talking until Drew Pearson had finished his broadcast, and then they would talk about
  • 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
  • three or four months after I came here that the decision was made on these two college presidencies. During the meantime I was travelling over the country meeting with National Education leaders and I had a telephone conversation every so often with Mr
  • ://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
  • , was consulted about the telegram. Indeed, we had a number of teletype conversations between Rio and Washington. They were mainly between George Ball and me, and George was on the other end of the telephone to the President while these were going on. We worked
  • on--just as a favor to me they'd been sitting on the story for three days and that time had just run out. His final comment was "Hell of a way to run a Department." And that was the last telephone conversation. F: Did he ever explain why he ad-libbed
  • , the continuing group, the carry-over group from administration to administration, which consists basically of a file room, a mail room, a correspondence section, telegraph and transportation services, a telephone room, an administrative office, a messenger
  • this information against Nixon? O: Actually, when this information finally developed into something assumed meaningful with the Anna Chennault situation, it was very late in the campaign. It was not brought to my attention. This is not general conversation
  • . We had any number of conversations, obviously, over the years, but I don't recall anything like that, and I have to assume that conversation was held in his office because it was recorded. G: It was a telephone conversation. O: Oh, was it? Yes, I
  • 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
  • a telephone. There are people here, secretaries, that say that he just grabbed the phone away from them while they were talking on the telephone, cut off the conversation, and dialed hi~ number! They were just in tears. boyfriend was on the line, I don't
  • ones are, he might very well call them on the telephone. If however, it doesn't really make any difference, then there would be no occasion for him to bother. Because if he did he might put them in his debt, or he would be in their debt either one
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XL -- 5 focused on the military expenditures, he says, " . . . temporarily restore the automobile and [certain] telephone excise tax [reductions
  • such an enormous lead that it looked like an almost impossibility. But he did win it. F: Did the two of you discuss strategy as how to trim down that lead? S: No. F: I realize that's a long time ago. S: Yes, but there's been a lot of conversation about
  • to consider Watergate from its beginning in chronological order and to discuss all its aspects: its motivation, its impact and its end result. The first realization I had that there was animosity toward me in the White House was a conversation with Rowland
  • ; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) case; O'Brien's June 1972 request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation look into the Watergate break-in and the response from Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen; O'Brien's correspondence
  • by Nixon, who discussed this with me as a result of a detailed conversation with the President-Elect. The Nixon Administration ran with it. I was asked by the President to co-chair a citizens' committee to carry on this advocacy. I considered it totally non
  • on water in the Northeast-F: You more or less set it up and let it resolve itself? C: --and if you looked at the steel or aluminum, you'd probably see fifty memos, to say nothing of telephone conversations. F: Did you personally go in the cities? C
  • wrong. I'm going to tell him thus and so." I'd figure it was just going to be a knock-down-drag-out between the President and Ramsey Clark. They'd get over in the Oval Office and sip coffee or Fresca or whatever, and have the most cordial conversation
  • influence on LBJ to be greater than it actually was; LBJ’s love of telephones; LBJ’s “earthy” language and storytelling ability; LBJ’s private nature; LBJ’s relationship with the press; night reading; keeping LBJ’s schedule.
  • contact from that time on. B: Immediately, as of that very night. This was difficult for both of us, but obviously necessary. I met him at his request. I telephoned first that afternoon to say to him what 7 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • out to an airfield with others who were going down there. B: That would have been Sunday night when the violence was breaking out? P: That's right. So I went down, getting there about eight o'clock. I took up a station on the telephones
  • at this point and more likely to spend an hour and a half on the telephone with him shooting the 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • . 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
  • back to conversations we had early on and the understanding between Bobby and Hubert. There hadn't been any meanness up to California involving Hubert. Hubert was playing the game as he should play it: let Gene and Bobby kick each other around. Hubert
  • and I have been friends for quite a number of years. And Senator Symington did arrange that meeting. This was my first close-up conversation with him [Johnson] about matters and I remember the content very vividly, but I don't remember too clearly
  • a of tickets by getting on the telephone. I had not been with the Gov::rnor sufficiently long that I l-laS crass about those things. I l-laS very impressed ~vith the T,-lay he pulled that off. I think his attitude ,-las that he was going to let them put
  • : 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
  • to be informed about but not bothering him on every aspect of the office. In turn, he was very affirmative about calling me from time to time either by telephone for conversation. Sometimes this might happen three or four or five times a day, depending upon
  • many people coming and going and coming and going. Did he talk to you about that? As far as just having a serious conversation of the whys and the wherefores and the pros and the cons, no, that never occurred. That wasn't his manner. He would
  • . A few days later Kay Graham telephoned. It's one of the very, very few conversations I ever had with her. She was open and direct and talked a thousand times easier on the telephone than she is able to do in person. I made note of the conversation mainly
  • of some of her conversations with Lyndon to which I was not privy at the time. made that direct remark to me. But I can't say he ever But we did talk prospectively. He wanted me to run for attorney general some day. to run for governor some day. run
  • office, and it certainly became the rallying place for a lot of inte~esting people. Well, it was simple enough for Lyndon and Mal- colm Bardwell, my husband I s secretary, to get together. many conversations. So, I remember And one day I was down
  • 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
  • the single room with the single cot I managed to get that single room most all the time, and later on--I didn't know Lady Bird very well except over the telephone when she'd call for me, when I was mayor of Pasadena, to get a crowd up for Lyndon and get