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Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with credentials. And we started back--I even forget now who it was I '07as going to help him with. remember the conversation. in it. I just And the thing got resolved before I got involved I had to really kind of sneak in because I wasn't a part of the Dallas

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and also for evidential purposes. And this has never been considered illegal by our courts, where a party to the conversation consents to the transmission of the conversation. B: Even if the other parties have not? V: That's correct. B: I know

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it." Mr. Johnson was there the next morning, and, as I recall, the Senator had a little conversation with him and then sent him down to someone in the department. The outcome of it was, with other help that may have been registered, Mr. Johnson

Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Americans for Johnson-Humphrey, and I was presumed to rally rural consumers for President Johnson. In this capacity I made quite a number of telephone calls asking for support and for membership, asking individuals to join the committee, to allow

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Tully--I~-l2 Johnson? T: You answer phones a good deal of the day. the telephone and people know it. F: Because you know how he likes So they telephoned instead of writing. Did you work with Mrs. Johnson at all after she became either the vice

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

what is sometimes referred to as the mezzanine or the second floor is where our operations were set up. We had telephone hookups in Massachusetts with Mr. Kennedy's people from there, and we had some hookups statewide and some nationwide, where we could

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the White House and had, therefore, some very limited participation in conversations with the President. It was only after I was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs that I developed a more sensitive relationship--direct relationship

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. It is quite possible--as a matter of fact, a lot of business is done this way--for me to call Emminger of the Bundes Bank just on the telephone. I don't have to explain to him a lot of background; we've been in .. close

Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that is interested in the retention of national features, parks, the creation and enhancement of those features and the conversion into parks and preservation of natural beauty such as we find in the parks--both in the cities and in the rural areas. So

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BELEN -- I -- 2 P: When did you first become better acquainted with him? B: I had a telephone

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that Sarge Shriver was going to have to move over to the anti-poverty [program]. Sarge Shriver telephoned me some time later and asked me if he could come to Rochester and have lunch with me. Washington." I said, "No, I've got to be in We had lunch

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, yes. F: Introduced a resolution that President Truman was to reveal to Congress • •• Kansas ••• Missouri. the content of secret conversations he had with Prime Minister Attlee, and any talks that he had with anyone regarding Korea. And there were

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

didn't wake him up, let him sleep about two or three hours, and of course he needed the rest very bad. I always remember the table down there where he got massaged and he slept. Around a health club there's a good deal of conversation, you know

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conversations with [Ngo Dinh] Diem, who was then President of--or whatever the title was--of South Viet Nam. In countries like Sweden and Norway and Denmark and Finland and Iceland where you had mostly socialist governments or labor governments, he got along

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think he was at that time maybe in Johnson City, or maybe he was in San Marcos. He said he and his father were going to drive down that afternoon or evening to Corpus at Dick's suggestion by a telephone call, I think, previously made to Lyndon to talk

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

confront. On Tuesday afternoon I got a telephone call saying, "lId like you to do this,ll and I found m.ysel£ saying, "Yes, sir. 11 M: This was the President who called you? K: Yes. But I had said that because I was very closely involved

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as I recall it, when we passed the bill for the rural telephones, of which I was author. he at that time supported it in the Senate. author of it. Of course, Mr. Hill was the Senate You know, Lister was the long-time Senator--Mr. Johnson was brand

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as though it were still in the horse and buggy days, we all wanted to get out to telephones, but we had to stay there until he said everything he had on his mind about the Court. But it is a very good story--one of the outstanding stories of his day

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called

Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the Pearl Harbor situation which we refused to do . M: Let me clarify this . B: Yes . M: And they wanted you to join ranks with them? B : Join ranks with them. You had a telephone call from a Communist representative? They were willing to withdraw

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

always supported the efforts to have better farm programs. Rural electrification-- he was an early advocate and always a strong supporter of rural electrification, rural telephone program; the various credit programs of the Farmers Home Administration

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 businessmen.· Sandy's utter conversance with the textile import program and his obvious skill and attraction to the business men and the governors, I think, was perhaps

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. it's a girl's address, maybe something else. things. Maybe You get all sorts of But, anyway, we had some disobedience and one thing or another. Somewhere along there, the President called me on the telephone one day and talked to me about the fact

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://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 -6- Leader, why, he and I would talk over the telephone or see each other two

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

which many of the poor people do not realize exists and do not take advantage of them because they do not know how to go through the vast bureaucracy of the city government nor are they conversive with city hall. And this program is designed to bring

Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

more rational boundaries would be if they ran them through Anglophone areas and vice versa. Only a few years ago if you wanted to call from Lagos in Nigeria to Contonou in Dahomby less than a hundred miles away, you had to telephone London, r LBJ

Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a little bit and get you appointed here. Your name was put into the hopper--then how were you informed of the appointment? L: Oh, Secretary Weaver telephoned me and said I had been appointed. M: And how soon did you have to come to work? L: Oh

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

party the individual may have chosen, and to work for the election of that candidate ofthe majority view. That's true whether it's in a Democratic primary or whether it's in a Democratic convention. Conversely it's true for those that work within

Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

don't believe he at that time, at least, was fluent in Spanish. Oh, he would use some phrases, but I don't recall that he ever tried conversations with them or make speeches in Spanish. F: Was he more active personally down here in this campaign than

Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

year, and I received it that year from President Kennedy over in the Rose Garden in June. Of course, a ceremony like that is not an occasion for much conversation, but I did meet him and we spoke briefly at that time. P: On what occasion did you

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

selected? Why did you come up? F: Well, I think we have to attack this from a couple of angles. say, why did the White House offer me the job? First, let's It was the White House; it obviously was not the president who made the telephone call to me

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 but in one of his many untold acts of kindness, sent me down here in February of 1937. He just merely picked up the telephone and made a call