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Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
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, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [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
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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.
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
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, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about his conversations 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 5
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Did Morse feel that he was politically vulnerable in accepting this post and did he resist the President's-- C: He agreed during that phone conversation. I don't know how long that phone conversation lasted. He tried to get--I don't know when
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Senators frequently, telephone calls, for example, frequent conversations, frequent briefings, this type of thing? B: I'm sure this happened. I've heard a lot about it. I did not ever receive one call from the President of the United States asking me
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the eee camps where Johnson may have gotten the news indirectly. P: That could have happened, and inc identa lly, Mrs. Carr, accord ing to a lawyer who told me, would telephone long distance and give the news if she got it in time to do
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • suppose things went on by private telephone conversations and so on, but certainly the written record indicates nothing but the most routine kinds of support that any cabinet officer would interpret as leaving the matter pretty much up to his own
  • , one on one conversation at the LBJ Ranch. Appointment as Ambassador to Poland, appointment of Fred Belen, swearing in ceremonies, relationship with LBj, Post Office summer program for hiring youth, Nathan (Nick) Katz, Albert H. Quie, LBJ’s good
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • permission, I had a great many conversations with Senator Johnson and with the Armed Services Committee on the happenings of this conference in Geneva . M: These were official conversations or social, private [ones]? A: They were private conversations
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the conversation between you and him? R: It wasn't a conversation; it was a desperate, last-minute letter that I sent to him saying essentially what I have said to you. "This is the situation . . " LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , many senators would make telephone calls on behalf of constituents. It is a normal procedure. It has always gone on, and I suspect always will. I don't think there is anything wrong about it. If the inquiry related to a proceeding or an investigation
Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • explained, ,,,hy, then, he was there ready to make a reply or go into conversation. And if they didn't, why, there ,vasn't any need for him to waste any more time; and he'd just dash on to the next place. That impressed me very much, to think he (would
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Murphy -- II -- 2 took a number of birthday gifts for President Truman. that very much. He appreciated President Johnson also called President Truman on the telephone from time to time to tell him some of the things that he was planning
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XII -~ 10 But in that article one of the things that really fascinated him was the telephone in the back yard down in Austin. Johnson had that house at that point
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