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- convention in Chicago. I was not a delegate to the convention, but I went. He took me, and this was my first national convention. In those days it was much, much easier to get credentials. I had some kind of assistant secretary's badge or something and got
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- pets always, particularly when Luci was in the White House, from mice to--well, everything, it seemed to me. And we tried to answer them, because there is a curiosity about them, and it's one way to get in the Chicago Tribune favorably, almost
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- is a former newspaper reporter for the Dallas News, Chicago Tribune, but at that time he was working for the United States Information Agency. He said, "That's all right." Of course, that Saturday, July 2, he called me about at noon, about one o'clock
- in and opened up a paper in opposition. They opened up the Tribune and built a building where the Railroad Commission is on 10th Street. the editor. William Travis, I believe, was Lyndon formed a friendship with Silver Dollar West and the other West a t
- twenty miles off Tokyo at the end of the war. I then quite quickly turned around and went over to the Nuremberg Trials at the request of Francis Biddle, in which I was called technical advisor to the Nuremberg Tribunal. But what I was many years later
- , perhaps my dearest friend, has lately written a book called, Political Animals. name is Walter Trohan. His He was the chief correspondent here for the Chicago Tribune for a great many years, and there's some damned interesting stuff about Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger
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- everybody about it, and the Chicago Tribune did, and they damn near got their ass in jail. And they should've. But all the questions from the Congress, all the questions from the media, the answers sometimes are well known, but they are given
- , yes. Yes, there was Alex Hurd~ acts~ and this-- the chancellor of Vanderbilt, [he] was the chairman; Walter Thayer, then president of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the stalwarts of the Republican hierarchy on the Eastern Seaboard
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- family in Oakland, his father had been congressman way back in about 1910, and they had this very fine newspaper, the Tribune, which has gone downhill afterwards. Warren got out of the army in 1919, and he had sixty bucks in his pocket, which
- Tribune. From 1935 until 1939 you From 1941 until 1947, and then again from 1949 to 1951, you were an administrative analyst with the Bureau of the Budget. Between those two terms, from 1947 to 1949, you were the director of management control
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- it on your tape about the man who bought the paper every day, bought the Chicago Tribune every day and paid his nickel, stood at the newsstand, read the headlines, put the paper 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
- correspondents, had been on the wire services, had worked for papers like the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, would come through our office anywhere from one to any number a day. They just wanted to work for just something to eat for that day
- The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
- , that their strength--because Duval County after all was a pretty small county as far as population goes--their strength lay in being able to produce a large bloc of votes, same kind of thing that made the Irish in New York and Poles in Chicago [powerful]. They didn't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in Republican terms. But the Republican Party in the state was controlled by Colonel [Robert R.] McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. By God, you weren't going to get the statewide Republican nomination unless you were kosher with Colonel McCormick, and Dirksen
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- happened on the Gulf of Tonkin. I really don't believe that that was a phony setup. The reason that many people do think it was phony is because later research, done mostly by that man who was bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, Dave Wise
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was a reporter for the Austin Tribune. HS: Okay. R: The two were at the bus stop. A: They both met you at the bus stop. R: Yes. I had never met Eichenbaum, except I had been in touch with him for maybe a couple two, three years. I carried that letter from
- of Engineers; how Rosenthal first heard of the Novys; meeting Louis Novy; looking for work at the Austin Tribune; working as an independent photographer; a photograph taken by Rosenthal that was found in the LBJ Library holdings; Rosenthal family friend
- Tribune , went down to see his new home and said they had a bar in his home approxi mately twenty feet long or so . He called Jenk Jones, in my � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- , in the then existing Herald-Tribune, I said, "For all I know, I can Herald-Tribune tomorrow saying, 'President Refuses t:o See Pa.rents of Missing Civil Rights Workers.' a case of whether we want to ask. them to come in. for invitations. It isn't They have asked
- -May. H: Yes. F: The war crimes trial had ended just before you got there, right? H: The Russell Tribunal--the so-called Russell Tribunal. F: Right. Did that leave some kind of a situation for you to walk into? How did, for instance, Prime
- Building of LBJ Library; Heath named Swedish Ambassador in March, confirmed April 1967; Russell Tribunal; three groups in Sweden: hard-core ant-Americans, Communists, pro-Americans; race and Vietnam both issues in Sweden; experiences of Tanzanian
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- was another. M: Did any of them ever do it? N: No. The only successful effort came in connection with our Johnson book. It was rather widely syndicated in newspapers in installments. The [New York] World Journal Tribune, short-lived, was started in 1966
- . was vigorously opposed to jus cogens, the Article 50 that I have just described to you, and to anything that had not involved the international court of justice as a settlement tribunal or adjudicating tribunal in the case that nothing could be settled. France
Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to go to Mexico and use my Spanish; [I've] forgotten it now. But we'd work in the journalism school together, B Hall, and I worked for the Austin American and also for the [Waco] News-Tribune later. I wrote a weekly column for the--"University Life
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , and no press ever really much likes the president. Even Jack Kennedy wasn't an entire exception. You remember the phrase "managed news" arose under the Kennedy Administration. And you remember it was Jack Kennedy who cancelled the New York Herald Tribune
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SAZ MANERO -- I -- 16 news from all the passengers in the trip from Rome to Paris. That evening I was looking for the Herald-Tribune in Paris as soon as it came out~ sometime around ten-thirty or eleven. I bought
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 'Burke is a wise man, but he is wise too soon.' The average man will not bear this. Politicians, as has been said, live in the repute of the commonality. They may appeal to posterity, but of what use is posterity? Years before that tribunal comes
- , tell these people we are newspaper reporters and we are making a survey of the house." We walked into a house which wreaked with urine. I told them I was with the Philadelphia newspaper the Philadelphia Tribune, which is a black paper, and they said
- ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Abram -- Interview II -- 13 which the North Vietnamese would have swallowed the South Vietnamese, held no elections. As far as UN tribunals to which people could petition
- been a fifth one there. But I remember four of us got together and we were going to cut him up. One of the guys at the television station in Albuquerque, [one from] the Albuquerque Tribune, [one from] the Albuquerque Journal, and myself, I know we'd
- important person, so he got an immense amount of attention in Utah. Television wasn't quite as big then as it's become later, but I well remember that after his Saturday speech, the first page of the Salt Lake Tribune, which is the large newspaper
- Tribune, and it looked to us- -we were on a freighter- -it looked to all of us on the freighter as if Mr. Johnson was the only person in the United States who did understand how far behind we were, how hard it was for us to catch up. He was the leader
- phrases about Olds that I can recall was Charlie Francis, who was never at a loss for words, who said something about, "If every cutthroat and thief is entitled to be judged by a fair and judicious tribunal, it certainly looks like a business that produces
- in Austin, the Austin Tribune. He built the Tribune Tower. Then he also had a radio station there. The paper owned KNOW, or Marsh did. I've forgotten the precise date, but the Johnsons, with this money that Mrs. Johnson had inherited from one of her bachelor
- tribunal--visiting North Vietnam. They were from the communist countries, and he toured the country with them but in his tapes or his statements he would say, "I'm not a member of the tribunal." But he was with them; his statements cooperated with them
- in the coffee shop of the hotel in Fort Worth. F: Texas. W: The Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. What is it, the . . . ? I remember sitting there with John Connally and somebody from his staff, and Doug Kiker, who was then at the Herald Tribune, and Bo Byers, I
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was in the newspaper business, but I almost got fired from working for him, because I was working on the old Austin Tribune. G: It seems to have been more common in those days for members of the press to sign on with campaigns. B: Oh, yes. Yes
- of affection on our part. But I don't know. I know that his great close friend-- G: Harold Young. J: --Harold Young was an intimate and protégé of Wallace's, and I expect that would have colored Charles' thinking. That tribunal that got together
- -- 23 for Hiroshima. Mike Cowles understood that. In fact, I did one thing which for a long time preyed on my mind; I was actually filled with guilt although I had been right to do it. Helen Reid, owner of the New York Herald Tribune, once presided over