Word: callers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rockefeller did not die in his office but in his mid-Manhattan town house, at 13 West 54th Street. The phone call was made at 11:16, not at 10:15. And the caller was not an unknown woman but a quite familiar one to Rockefeller and his associates: Megan Marshack, 26, a research assistant who had been helping Rocky with various publishing projects and who lived just down the street in an apartment building at 25 West 54th Street...
...talk show hosts don't usually discuss the prospects for reform, or the details of corruption--everybody's more interested in Brill's solution to the Hoffa disappearance. On a radio talk show in Seattle, a caller maintained that Brill was wrong, that Hoffa was still alive. "Why, I was just down in Argentina this summer, and I was in a bar, and there was Jimmy Hoffa, belly up to the bar, sipping a beer and chatting with Adolph Hitler." Brill told the caller, "Hey, fella, I think you got a bigger story there than just Jimmy Hoffa...
When Johnson answered he rumbled, "Woman, do I have to send you a memo? I said no calls." Burns said she felt it was important that the caller talk with the President. Johnson accepted the call without further grumping...
...crank calls together so the angry citizens could rail at each other. One man called during Eisenhower's Administration and said he was HEW Secretary Arthur Flemming and wanted to talk to the President. Mary sensed something was wrong. She stalled, got Arthur Flemming and learned the caller was an impostor...
...getting rid of a pest on the phone: "My staff informs me an emergency call is waiting for me on the other line. Please forgive me, and put in writing the rest of your thoughts." She is less than enthusiastic about recorded music being piped in to entertain a caller who is put on hold...