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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in years past, and then Lyndon did have, generally, good relations with the press most of the time, although he sometimes complained. G: There was a memo I think in your diary to the effect that you urged him not to be peevish about the newspaper stories
  • ; how the campaign stops and speeches were planned; LBJ's ability to mimic Coke Stevenson; press coverage of LBJ's campaign; LBJ's strengths and advantages over Coke Stevenson; Mrs. Johnson's life as a political wife; cities and towns LBJ visited in June
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the President's view. I later learned that my answer at that time caused considerable consternation in some quarters in the White House and in the State Department. M: That was my next question. That's about the time the press began its reporting which
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • unsuccessfully. Powell did not return his calls. I asked Martin King to call Adam, since Powell was not returning my calls either at this point. Powell had, by the way, held a press conference at which he had said) among other things, "You know, the question
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • say that I always felt, first, a hostility toward, and then maybe a frustration, and then maybe just a sadness that the people from the national press corps, could not identify with Lyndon Johnson's love of land. Somehow to them it was vulgar to own
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think he had any other button but a Fresca button. G: Really? But on his desk in his office didn't he have--? B: The only button that I remember is the Fresca button on the cabinet table, that when he pressed it, it rang in the kitchens
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did not press him to make those hard decisions during an election year. Some people, Bob McNamara would probably say, it is not possible to say how far this is still his view, but there was a time that he felt that the most serious problem in those few
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • victory in the United States because of the way it was reported by our press. I remember saying and reporting to the President a few days after Tet that this had been a major setback and I was fearful that it would turn out to be a psychological victory
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , "Tomorrow I'm presenting your name to the Arrangements Committee," or something like that, or the National Conunittee, "to have you serve as temporary chairman and keynoter. In other words, you're it. The press release will be made in Washington." "Fine
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • himself very accessible to them, on his own motion. B: This brings up the whole relationship of Johnson and the press. Would you agree with what has been a good deal of public criticism that Mr. Johnson does not understand the press and cannot live
  • Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on that one. Anyhow, that was the way that was and then, as you know, later after that, the President went up to a meeting, I think it was the Associated Press editors, in a couple of weeks, repeated the same thing right smack on the record; and then later
  • -Proliferation Treaty; DeGaulle; American economic encroachment; effects of détente on NATO; Harmel exercise; INTERIM REPORT; press; institution of war.
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the courts. I said in advance over a nationwide "Meet the Press" that I would abide by the results; that we did not advocate defiance of the law, we advocated only that a case involving the governor be adjudicated at that level, with the governor as a party
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- II -- 7 military failure, but thanks to the bloody press it turned into a political success. Had
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh with all the people speculating privately and in columns and "Meet the Press" and so forth that Johnson would be certainly a man that the party would look at. and checking it. B: I couldn't pinpoint the date without going back I'd say
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Yarborough and Connally? HM: No. This had nothing to do with it. Goldwater had captured the fancy of the national press and from 1960 until the fall of '63 he got a very favorable national press. They would label him an unreconstructed rebel
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • what they called the bull pen which was the big large room in the basement of the Biltmore Hotel where all the politics took effect, and every day at noon the press had arranged for press conferences. So everybody else had spoken and so I got out
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • he was criticized sharply by the press and by the more-or-Iess hawkish people and by the military for not hitting the military targets in the capital city of North Vietnam. He explained to me that this was a tire plant that sat right in the middle
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hundred people, who lived in the area; and there was some organized opposition to it on a small basis. I remember we debated before the press in Spanish--because not many of them spoke English--what the issues were and why we thought we should make
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be an observable-to-the-press presence in the White House on a regular basis. That's first and foremost. Then there's an understanding that the chairman of the party does have access to the president. He is a spokesman for the president in the political area
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Bolling -- I -- 8 could be with the press, both in terms of columnists and editors . He was a positive genius with them, despite his reputation with reporters . influential . He had a very close friend in Phil Graham, who was And he had demonstrated
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the statehouse. And since the age of media-handouts--press releases--had not yet reached the Capitol, reporting the statehouse was a full time job. As a foot- note to journalism, Kennedy and myself possibly speeded along the age of handouts at the Capitol
  • Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 5 "This is the way it is," he was willing to assume that that's the way it was. And, once he'd pressed you with "Are you really sure
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -­ I -­ 9 B: When Sam Rayburn called a press conference and announced that he thought Lyndon Baines Johnson should be the next president of the United States, and in effect put Lyndon in the race for the presidential nomination. G: Why was Byron
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and I held a press conference and I, because of my familiarity of being from a state that had the most Indian people and Indian reservations--that I might be my own Indian commissioner. F: As a young Congressman, had you dealt much with Indian
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Yes he had. He had discovered me because I had attended a governors' conference once at Salt Lake [City], Utah, and the press was having a conference for a few governors. And they called me first one morning and asked me if I would submit
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during this period? J: I didn't, and I saw him frequently. (Interruption) G: We're talking about the [John] Chadwick press conference. J: I didn't realize it was Chadwick, but I knew that he had had a press conference because he had told us
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but he still won the support of the reporters. Do you remember anything like that? J: Well, I know he sure did try to. This, I guess, was the high tide for us in our press relations, because they were always good, as I remember. There was very little
  • Looney and Tom Miller; LBJ smoking; final campaign stops in Houston and Johnson City; LBJ's handshakes; LBJ's relationship with Jesse Jones; LBJ's relationship with the press in 1941; campaign finances; waiting for the election returns in Austin
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Hill, in terms of pressing for legislation, did you notice a change after Johnson assumed office? C: Well, Johnson was much more aggressive than Jack Kennedy. On the surface he was. Again, a problem here is enough time didn't go by for everything
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , if they got in any trouble with the local PTA they could say, "Well, the Vice President said in Austin--," which was one of the things I had hoped for. We got good press coverage, I might add. KTBC, as you would guess, Channel 7, covered it. M: One of our
  • the National Parks Advisory Board; Stewart Udall; meeting Mrs. Johnson at the White House to discuss Big Bend National Park; traveling to Big Bend with Mrs. Johnson; the press at Big Bend; Judith Axler Turner; instituting a White House historical program
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the intention of a correction, but I did want him to know that in the next issue of the publication he might correct it. F: During the period when Joe McCarthy was spreading charges around, of course one of the charges was that the press encouraged him and gave
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very good, in a lot of respects, but they are very good at controlling public opinion as the press, the news media, keep the passions of the population under control, ~/hich parliamentary government in Greece had been shown very weak on. They're
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of what we think is good security and what we think is bad security as it pertains to that individual. M: Mr. Johnson, as President, got into the press sometimes unfavorably because of his occasional flare-up at the Secret Service, people who were
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press because many of them are in the Georgetown set. In fact, my current wife is a member of the press and covered the White House for Life Magazine. She happens to be a good friend of the President's but that brings you into contact with a lot
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bachelors in Washington. We were We were assigned to Margery when she got back to the States, more [as] bodyguards in keeping the press away, and keeping her from dropping any more post cards, really, until we could decompress the situation. G: What
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there no hint of this from the White House--that didn't surprise me at all, I didn't expect any and there wasn't--but the truly surprising thing to me was that there was no hint of this in the press, and at this time President Johnson had many detractors
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pressing for joint action in resolving the crisis in the Middle East, Kosygin seems to have been more interested in Vietnam. Was this your--? K: Yes, very much so. Vietnam occupied much more time than the Middle East G: People have talked and written
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the press down there. You'll see an account of this in the New York Times, on the front page actually. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • using some of our appropriated money; and I caught the devil for it from the press. F: They don't like them bright and shiny? c: They sure don't. Mrs. They like them weathered and dirty. I don't recall Johnson ever expressing an opinion
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for leadership in this problem? In othe~ words, they'd like for the commission to show a strong hand? W: No. In one of my half-a-dozen going-away press conferences when I left the commission, I was asked at each one of them the same series of questions like
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a good deal of the press: Tex Easley, who covered a lot of the Texas papers; Drew Pearson, who was, I think, friend, sometimes formidable enemy, but 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • and letters to high school graduates; John and Nellie Connally's wedding; LBJ's respiratory problems; friends in the press and the Johnsons' widening circle of friends.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXX -- 7 G: The press speculated that the administration was taking a tough position on the steel increase now, early in January, in order