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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • asked him for an imaginative reporter Dave had recommended me. I got to know Johnson reasonably well, and by that time the committee work was so heavy that the United Press had committees divided up. My committees were the Armed Services Committee
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . It suggests a fickleness to me that shouldn't occur . M: Do you think the press image which has sometimes been not very favorable to the President has been important in lessening his popularity? B: I think it has been a factor . M: Do you think the press
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I never will forget what Lyndon Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up. He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia. Harry Byrd was for Nixon. But I had been in business
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • could notice the tension between the two from time to time, but it wasn't so marked that it marred the hearings in any way. M: No, those hearings got very good press by-and-large, as I recall. What about the impression that you had regarding Mr
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HUBBARD -- I -- 7 you should go out of the way not to let the press knowwhat was going on? H: No, nothing
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Hickerson with Associated Press called from Dallas and insisted on an inter­ view with Senator Johnson. We got the lights on, and I and Woody at different times tried to tell him we'd talk to him in the morning, but Clayton was feeling 11 no pain" about
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • appeared. I believe I was invited out to the Ranch while he was vice president for dinner once. Maybe when--yes, that's true, with some members of the press. I know what it was. He had just finished his tour of India, and it was a--he was in a rare mood. He
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • to that. As a matter of fact, my main problem with the Congress was that we were constantly pressing for lower levels of expenditure than they were willing to approve. You saw it in the argument over conventional versus nuclear power. You saw it in the argument over
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the United States can work his will with the Congress. When the president is successful, then the press says, well, the Congress is a rubber stamp. When the president isn't successful, well, he can't seem to provide leadership, and the Congress would follow
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and sure enough he wanted him up there. We got Sam to the plane that afternoon, and off he went to Washington. He wouldn't let Sam out of his sight that week. He kept Sam with him morning, noon and night. Saturday morning came when he had this press
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know who did it; I wasn't in Dallas and didn't have this kind of feel of the place. They stepped forward--it could have been Henry Wade or it could have been a judge, I guess--as the press term is, they empaneled a blue ribbon grand jury, all white
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • why they made this decision, but when they made this decision, we felt released from our commitment also. f,t: He didn't call you in and say, "Look, we're not--" H: He announced it to the press. M: That must have angered you. H: It did
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • block, and then the latest signatures, we put them back on the presses, and we can change that for each edition. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • House Press Office. After my initial contact with Valenti, I was also working full-tirne--and by full time, I mean sixteen to eighteen hours a day--with Jack Valenti in the speech writing and speech management areas. Simultaneously we were attending
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Bethune thought of him was quite helpful to me. B: Was his reasoning that you quoted on not pressing for civil rights legislation convincing to you at that time? M: Well, no-- B: I ask because it sounds like something that you must have heard many
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and reported to a meeting of our state cabinet after that. The press carried the story. I don't have the clippings from it. I satd at that time some very strong things about him and the quality of hts leadership in the Senate, the fact that he should figure
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • generally asked by the press to react and generally were put in a position of either agreeing with the President's actions in Vietnam or not agreeing . And either position was difficult for them because I think both these men wanted to be good, loyal
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • believe she later resigned . Ba : Secretary Freeman has said just recently in his valedictory press conference, he indicated that he thought might have handled the Billie Sol Estes affair better--that is, handled the press relations better . Bi : Yes . We
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they were there. They didn't like the fact we kept pressing them to, "Let's go up and get these people." G: Did you appeal Colonel Lowndes' decision not to send the relief force? L: Oh, hell yes. I did to Westmoreland, and I also did to Abrams, but I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that it could be promoted. I must say, in those days Lyndon had good press relations. He worked at good press relations. He had many friends in the press: Charlie Green, Buck Hood, Lorraine Barnes, Gordon Fulcher in Austin. He and the Mayor, Tom Miller, would
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there that day listening to him later went into the service and became a helicopter pilot and worked for us at Sikorsky. G: Is that right? C: Yes. His name is Don Gordon [?]. He lives just out of Dallas. G: Did the press ever travel with him
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and then a whole bunch of other people. Ed Guthman was there. I remember Ed Guthman was having two regular press conferences a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and the national press was there in very great numbers, and this made it quite difficult
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • fingers in a printing press when I was thirteen. So I had newspapering ties in the family and so forth and after the fall quarter of my junior 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And of course the conservative press, [Rowland] Evans and [Robert] Novak, they gave it hell. They didn't like Johnson anyway, and they sort of set the tone. The press, anything you ever know about yourself and see the press reports on, even in the best papers
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • because the OB is a terribly complex subject. It's complex, but once you get the hang of it, it's understandable, and as the press began to understand the issues and what was being talked about, I think that the reporting got better and better as time went
  • in the self-defense militia; press coverage of the lawsuit; Adam's view of the court proceedings and the jury's opinions; witness testimonies; the lawyers on the trial; the pre-trial briefs; weaknesses in both sides of the case; a witness who was not called
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the right way to go, which caused a real rift between the President and Humphrey in the end. G: Let me ask you to elaborate on that. Humphrey was quoted, of course, as--well, not only his public statements but even what appeared to be leaks to the press
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The introduction to the report or each part of the report? B: To the report. And then he would write a press release based on the report. Those reports had an excellent reputation over there. We'd take then over to the press gallery. Of course, the press gallery
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the same kind of John got it from talking to the press; he'd talk to Halberstam and Sheehan. I didn't make complaints. I was complaining--not complaining, I was telling him what was a fact, and he was shouting back at me so loud that they could hear him
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The President was having a press And he called up, and it was the first time I had 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
  • Vietnam; 6% surcharge; Wilbur Mills; Emile VanLennap; Chairman Mahon; IRS; Sheldon Cohen; Stan Surrey; Henry Ford; Sidney Weinberg; gold rush; financing difficulty; Paul Volcker; Ed Snyder; Heller-Pechman plan; Presidential press conference
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the time you left Vietnam and came back here, there was discussion in the press about an alleged disagreement between you and, particularly, Army commanders regarding the necessity of concentrating on destroying the Viet Cong infrastructure
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • gets rediscovered by the press about once 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
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 no aircraft in the world equipped like his aircraft is. Go: Do you also make provisions for the press to fly with the President? Gu: No, not unless they charter one of our aircraft. We get into this by the press not being given
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • made a lot of bucks off that. How did you control the commission members themselves from talking to the press? EG: They were a remarkable group of people. When we reached that midpoint and set that target of January 1964 that group was 120 per cent
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • announce the next day--Sunday, February 14, where he was on one of those "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press" programs--that he was going to campaign for Humphrey in Wisconsin. In other words we would give him the District of Columbia and he would help
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- X -- 7 G: Yes, the fact that the Democrats delayed it. R: It could well be, although I think that the more pressing reason really was that nobody could see a clear-cut need for having
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • state do in a case like that? S: I started smoking. F: Are you talking about literally or smoking inwardly? S: I would occasionally light up a cigarette in a press conference. really smoke, didn't before, and don't now. No. F: Incidentally
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • press which he has deserved perhaps, a sturdy fellow. Asian leader. But Thieu may turn out to be the great And I say that because of the last year the change that has occurred in this man--I was in Vietnam working with him and his cabinet people
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pushing was the other way, that the senator sometimes just couldn't go along. So he always had to be acquainted with those and I don't think he ever, as far as I know, pressed a senator to do something which he knew would have a severe backlash in his
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in and said, "I am going to oppose the President for the first time," or something like that. He said, "I'm going to give you a press release before I can change my mind that says I am going to oppose the Supreme Court-packing bill." He said, "Then I'm
  • ; friction between LBJ and Senator Connally; LBJ and FDR; Parker’s move to Denver and return to Washington; Senator Connally and FDR; issuing press releases; circumstances of Connally’s support of LBJ in the 1942 Senate race; Connally and the appointment