Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

36

Description:

An incident involving the press access to LBJ at the Ranch; Cassie Mackin; Doug Kiker; Marianne Means; Virginia "Ginny" Thrift; Walter Lippmann and Scotty Reston; Washington Whispers; comparing the number of press conferences held by LBJ and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus on a few Eastern newspapers vs. the rest of the country; anti-LBJ sentiment in the Wall Street Journal; Jack Anderson; LBJ leaking information to the press; Bob Kintner; attempting to organize a group of young people to support LBJ; Edward Hamilton; how the staff hierarchy changed when Walter Jenkins left; Dick Nelson; how the press treated George Reedy; Moyers becoming Press Secretary and keeping Laitin on his staff; Hal Pachios; Horace Busby; Jack Valenti’s interest in being press secretary and Ambassador to Rome; Marvin Watson; Bill Moyers connection to staff members in different agencies; Moyers’ relationship with Bobby Kennedy; Tom Johnson; the Moyers brothers going to be with their dying father; LBJ’s desire that the White House staff avoid any kind of personal publicity.

Contributor:

Laitin, Joseph

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Joseph Laitin

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details