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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the House. It was all right for the Washington Post to editorialize and press its position. Now reality faced us, and we felt that perhaps the Washington Post had an additional responsibility to be helpful in moving the legislation.So the result was that we
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to think if there were any outstanding-­ the funniest thing that I remember is trying to translate the menu of the dinner for the Texas press. Oh, boy, that was really something. Lopez Mateos' press secretary spoke beautiful English and of course
  • Mateos; LBJ’s presidential leanings in 1959; LBJ’s ambivalence during this period; western swing trip; the Washington campaign office; Senate’s interest in LBJ candidacy; comparison of LBJ’s and JFK’s voting records; LBJ and the press; liberals
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was happening. I was just so shocked when I came back here and I began to see what kind of coverage Tet had been given by the press. G: Would you contrast the coverage with what you were seeing in the cables and what you had seen personally? R: Well
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eisenhower and the attorney general during that time do you know? S: I don't know. G: Because it seems to me from just studying the press conferences that there were some degrees of coordination and communication. S: That could have been, and I don't
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • episode at the start, which Dick Ne\C.;tadt can tell you about in more detail. Some effort was made on Johnson's behalf and with his consent to allocate to him through executive order a grant of powers. and Johnson, once it was ignored, did not press
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the airport and arranged a press conference for hUn. That was my only contact with him. M: What did these big city northern mayors think about Johnson being the vice presidential candidate in 1960? C: I personally thought it was a very good choice, I
  • legislation; Senate vote on Medicare testifying on the hill; civil rights bill; duties as Secretary; expansion of Office of Aging; women in government; appointment by Secretary; birth control report; surgeon general's report on smoking; LBJ and the press
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this with the regular Senate dining room? B: Oh, in the regular Senate dining room you've got all the press to bother you. Another thing, see, if you used the secretary of the Senate's office, you don't have to be explaining to the press why you're there. If you
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the part of the Ecuadorians in getting the change made? B: I don't know. I never did know because we had agreed to do it. The Ecuadorians were actually pressing me to get our agreement to do it. F: So I never did find out why it didn't happen
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ., N.W., Washington, D.C. This is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. White, I want to begin our interview with a brief backgrounder on your very long journalistic career which began in 1927 with Associated Press. It was through AP that you first came
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of people. It's a conservative [organization] like the Americans for Democratic Action on the left. And the second way was in anti-communist seminars. Now, there was a little flurry and some news about that and some complaining in the press and arguing
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -pressed it very well in talking of· an appointment. He used ~ two of them as a matter of fact. "I want every guy n..'1.d I want his : LBJ Presidential Library •' . http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." He usually let me know a little bit in advance when we were going to have it all typed and mimeographed and ready for the press, and we had a very short time, and we were working quite mad on that. He went on the Senate floor, and it caused a lot
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before that. J: Well, we just didn't have anybody then, kind of passed it around. G: Was it primarily to write speeches or deal with the press? J: Both. G: Was Woodward supposed to do something different? J: He was sort of to be my assistant
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Houston [Johnson] recalled this same mood and that the staff would help encourage some press stories to the effect that his career was not over, that he could still run for the presidency, or something like that. J: Do you recall any of this effort
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • surgeon general of the United States and he was going to put his name up. He said, "Now, you fix up the press release. You and Don work it out. I've got to run over to the Senate and when you get through bring it by the floor and I'll take a look
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , "What do you think of that?" I said, "Nice picture." (Laughter) He was trying to embarrass me. I caught the devil. (Laughter) They really did give me a time. G: Who did that? HD: Well, mostly the press. G: Anybody in particular that you remember
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • are continually pressing him to make appointments to the advisory council and to act on the Heckscher report, and he seems as if he doesn't respond at that time and that there is not an interest on his part at that time. And I know that in March of that year he
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with me, placed great emphasis on the need for helping the people as well as for destroying the Viet Cong. He wanted rural electrification programs in Vietnam; he kept pressing for a whole series of developmental initiatives. Well, out of all
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before he died. I And I put that on the press, released it out of Dallas and Paul Bolton read it on KTBC and then went into a long lecture on the laws of libel and slander. wasn't saying it, I'd simply quoted the Moody speech. t100dy. But I Let them
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , partly because our own economy has expanded to such an extent and partly because we have been pressing for, and indeed ourselves offering tariff advantages to the LDCs, the less developed countries. F: In the spring, our spring of 1965
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is violence. We're up against that situation constantly to-day. I remember when our first hundred million dollar program was approved by the United Nations Development Programme Governing Council I called a press conference. We gave some details of what we
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Press Club here. And the person making [the presentation?], just casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch, mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, and a member
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was assisting me, who I mentioned a little while ago, he told me of a magnificent old man in the city of Memphis of great wealth, who had the previous week made an offer in the press, an offer born frankly of ignorance of just what he was talking about. He
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • didn't say. But we talked for a long ttme. There was ·he, my wi fe, Jim Ronan, the state chai rman·, and Chri s Vlahoplus, my press secretary, and we had quite a-F: How do you spell that last name? S: V-L-A-H-O-P-L-U-S. He was my press secretary
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • retaliation, but that back at the Associated Press 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, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, because I thought he was just a young boy that was bragging about his good relations with the President. But I remembered very distinctly at the time that the impression I had from Mrs. Johnsdn from the press, from seeing her photographs in press
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The Associated Press carried it all over I can still tell you the lead. The lead was, "The fate of 250,000 Texas schoolchildren rested today in the hands of veteran educator Pat Bullock and youthful Lyndon Baines Johnson." That was the lead on my story
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • trust. They treated him as a usurper. Now I understand that the Honorable--wait a minute now, I'm getting old--who's the press secretary to-­ F: [Pierre] Salinger. C: No, the press secretary to Lady Bird. F: Oh. Liz Carpenter. C: Liz's book
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said anything to me about it, never did. And I wondered if he was going to, sometime or another. Had he done it, I'd have said, "All right, you do it. You do it." G: LBJ went public with a series of press conferences-­ M: Oh, yes. G: --I guess
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was in that meeting and how his task was to question about such acquisitions. To follow that through, perhaps more specifically, it was pub- licized in the press that Udall had an argument with Lyndon Johnson the very last moments of the administration, and I
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I took some of my consternations over to George Christian, who was the press secretary at the time, who was present at the ranch in Australia when Mr . Johnson was tendered the offer of the kangaroos . George said he had enough to worry about ; he
  • LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the room to him. That made it [easy]. Sometimes he would just get right on the phone to that person, or if it was someone calling from the press gallery, he'd say, "Tell him to come on down." It made it very easy to work in that respect. It was confining
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ANITA WINTERS, with occasional comments by Melvin Winters INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Anita Winters' residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side l G: I wanted to ask a question about the press coming in to LBJ's home country
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was abroad in Europe and Asia--the trip in which he stopped off in Paris and had some discussions there with some French authorities. F: Is this the one that the press played up so? K: That's right. F: It's earlier, but it's worth having. K
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 12 Well, [in] any case, we got, by and large, good press with the businessmen. God, Max would die if he. . . . This is two reports later, but the last sentence says, "Frankel said
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guidance for [Bill] Moyers for the press. G: This was actually before Fowler indicated that he'd changed his position. C: That's right. Yes, it was. He was really--I think this belongs here. And then this is September 2--better give me September, Marcel
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he read it as. . . . But Johnson, as he indicated at his press conference, was opposed to compulsory arbitration. And then finally, on May 3 he . . . G: Anything on that meeting with Fortas, Fahy, Morse, et cetera on the second, May 2? C: No, let
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to watch the Senator work with either Secretary Dulles or Herter? C: Senator Johnson you're speaking of1 F: Yes. G: No, I have noth ing direct on that that I could offer. r: As far as the press was concerned, Senator Johnson did not show his hand