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Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Particularly in participation of the poor in the program. H: That's right. And he just recently made a statement as a matter of fact along those lines that I just read in the press within the last couple of days. He said he felt that the Nixon
  • on OEO policy; contact between OEO and CEA; cost of living formula; OEO consulting with critics; Office of Public Affairs; press releases statement; view of quality of OEO Personnel; 1966 Shriver’s statement to Congress regarding abolishing poverty in ten
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : That's essentially correct. monographs. M: There are numerous articles and several I have two books now in press. What are these books in press? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -on NYA experience, he had announced a project in advance and had gotten the press there; it was maybe a roadside park project or something. All the media people showed up, but the youths didn't show up so the project fizzled out, at least on the first
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Carpenter was Mrs. Johnson's press secretary? Yes. I said, "Well, I haven't prepared any remarks, Liz, and I don't speak German, and I understand the Chancellor does." She said, "Well, just come on in and present the acts." So I immediately acquired
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: There was an organization called the Press Club, do you remember that? W: Yes, I remember something about that, but I had nothing to do with any of those things. G: Okay. I have a note here that LBJ went to Huntsville for the Texas Press
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to a press conference. The press conference was going to be later that day. I was there for Defense, briefing him on various Defense issues. He kept interrupting the press conference to talk to somebody at the other end of the phone to persuade him to take
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to him along the way; he knew what I was doing. G: Why did you include the surtax proposal when you weren't going to press for it? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the letter to the Lyndon Johnson Library. F: Was there any sort of tacit order that came down from on high that the staff were not to make any public reaction to the press on the book? C: Not that I remember. Now, it's quite possible
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 was very strongly for his selection as Vice President. I remember going on the floor of the convention in Los Angeles, [and] making a statement to the press that this showed the wisdom of our new President in selecting
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not indicate he was prepared to discuss it in detail with me. He let it hang there. If he'd discussed this in detail with me and I'd really focused on it, I would have pressed him hard to go. I think he knew that and he wasn't prepared. We went through
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Porter--I--10 G: Did you ever have any contact with one organization that got a lot of press coverage way down south and that was Father Hoa's Sea Swallows, I think they were called? P: I visited with Father Hoa quite
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • really had something to say or whether it was going to be a case in which I simply restated what has been said to them repeatedly, but we felt that it was worth taking a chance. I tried here to keep the press from building up my trip out there, and I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • made his peace with his own future. That nettle was scratching and hurting as he tried to swallow it and digest it. M: And the press descended on you at that point. J: Yes. M: And I imagine that that was--well, the Diary says that the President
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Sunday night and he had a little press conference on Friday. We had a drink in his private office off the Oval Office. He wanted us to argue with him as to whether he should or he shouldn't, and I think he had pretty well made up his mind then for certain
  • ; working with Marvin Watson; night reading; LBJ’s memory; LBJ’s humor; a Chinese employee of Ambassador Raul Castro who came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s and staff’s relationship with the press and privacy; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the problem. I had the feeling then, for the first time, that he would finally press for taxation. It would be interesting to have Wilbur's views about this. LBJ was convinced that Wilbur Mills would not permit a tax bill to go through his committee. I talked
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bowdler -- I -- 18 After we did this the people in the White House concerned with logistical problems, with the press, security, communications, just threw up their hands in holy horror and put a lot of pressure on Walt and me
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had stayed dow~ there all night that night, because this particular time we were running the paper on the presses. I had written a story about Lyndon in a satirical approach; I can't recall exactly what it was about except it may have involved
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • measure. But we did reserve the right, contrary to the opposition of the administration, to press for compensation for those structures that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Beautification Act; passage of the Act and resulting problems; evaluation of Secretary Boyd’s actions; Donald Thomas; Hubert Humphrey’s involvement in Highway Beautification Act; characterization of Tocker in the press; overview of his opinions regarding outdoor
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • know, I think it's important to trace back the origins of what came to be called the credibility gap problem of the Johnson Administration. It's important to trace that back to its origins in this budget trimming episode. The press concluded
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • met President Johnson. Actually my first meeting with him was at a Gridiron Club dinner in March, 1963. I was there with Paul Miller, who is now head of the Associated Press and head of Gannett newspapers and there was a little party after
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was, oh, sort of out to get Johnson? 0: I know you do . You get a lot in the press about that . Afterwards I never felt that while Jack was alive . I was really in my own shell of grief, and when all those things are written and you read them, do
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the specific things . I think it was something to do with the Vietnam War or the Middle East situation. M: This was the group that press sometimes refers to as the wise men or the elder statesmen or such names as that? B: Yes, but it wasn't official
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • was to the Big Bend National Park and of course, over and over to the Grand Tetons. S: Oh how I loved that! Did you delight in subjecting the press to this? And making them all go down on the rafts? J: Well, actually, I think they came to regard it as quite
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going on in the press, what 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/loh/oh Califano
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • movement and the legislation. But it's increasingly clear to me that we really left Morse out there to hang out and dry. G: This is a UPI [United Press International] dispatch, July 28. How was the administration able to facilitate the travel of government
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the press. I saw that, and 1 talked 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/loh/oh
  • ; Rather’s comments on LBJ’s choice of advisors; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries: Reedy, Moyers and Christian; LBJ’s role pertaining to Kosygin and Middle East; LBJ as a role model to rather in gathering all information available and representing hard
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • though. G: And he also had a press conference at the air base in Massachusetts and apparently another one the next morning-- R: Yes. G: --at the Kennedy home. Anything on a decision at that point on what role in the campaign LBJ would play or what
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the sidelines. He never takes a very active He did make it very clear to many people, the press and others, that he felt this way. It was carried in the press at the time that Senator Johnson was his choice, and he stuck with this for quite a long time
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • O'Brien -- Interview XXI -- 2 G: LBJ issued some uncharacteristically harsh public statements on this matter. Do you recall those and the reasons? O: He took the opportunity at a nationally televised press conference to somewhat berate the Congress
  • to LBJ; O'Brien's suggestion that RFK and LBJ meet to discuss their differences; LBJ's accusation that O'Brien told the press LBJ would not enter any primaries; accusations and suspicions that O'Brien would return to work for the Kennedys; O'Brien's
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Was the fallout that serious? B: I think it was. I think it made it very hard to get attention on everything else, that judgments tended to be colored by the Vietnamese situation. For example, we pressed the British so hard to stay in line on Vietnam, and I'm
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • much want to, there has got to be a reasonable climate in our relationships, or it will never be possible." And I think he got that, in fact. G: Let me ask you a question I always ask, and that concerns the press. Was there a press policy
  • ; Nasser's ignorance of American government; Battle's relationship with the press; information leaks; the Arab understanding of breaking diplomatic relations; Nasser's goals for Egypt and his increased recognition among world leaders; the state of Egypt
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in '60, and then went for Johnson rather heavily in '64. In 1960 did you work with the business community at all? W: No. Of course, I was--I didn't because, again, I was in on trial so much of the time that I was very hard pressed to do anything
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . This was in the fall of 1963, shortly before President Kennedy was killed. And curiously enough, I had been pressing for several weeks for that kind of a proposal and my senior colleague from South Dakota led the opposition to it --Senator Mundt. M: GM: M: GM: I
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that I was talking to the late Oliver Carmichael who was president of Alabama and he was complimenting Texas on escaping some of the difficulties that they didn't escape at the University of Alabama. from the press. I told him that we had good
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because that was one of the other things that I had been told to do, was to be sure that I wrote a full biography for the press. I did this with great care and then showed it to Pierre Salinger, who made a few changes, and then it was pretty much given
  • Alsop; Bureau Chief duties; the Tet offensive; print journalists and TV reporters; Braestrup’s theory of LBJ’s approach to Vietnam; LBJ’s credibility gap; the “Five O’clock Follies: the JUSPAO; Barry Zorthian; press leaks and obtaining accurate
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • did. I worked on it with Tom Whitehead, who later left our paper and bought the Brenham Banner Press and was publisher of it and for all I know may still be. But any- way, we conducted the poll and we went all over the district--smaller towns
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Because I think it was the first stop on the railroad outside the metropolitan area. Also, it was close enough to Washington that all the local press and the foreign press could come to be in rural America, is my impression of it. As you know, Culpeper
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to ,vork for him. never had a press man, you know. come over and see him. He t d So he called me and asked me if I would So I 'vent over and he asked me if I would like to go LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • jobs and errands for the President; advice for LBJ’s press relations; Bill Moyers; LBJ’s treatment of George Reedy; Jenkins held LBJ in respect but not afraid to disagree with him; 1964 campaign; Mississippi delegation; Mooney’s admiration of LBJ; Eric
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was part of the reason that he resigned from the military. And that's just a part of the John Vann story that I'm sure Neil will cover, chapter and verse. G: What were press relations like in those early days, 1962, 1963 and so on? Let's start off
  • Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter Braestrup
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • wanted him not to feel embarrassed about the hometown folks because a lot of the press hadn't been very flattering to the Hill Country people as such. It seemed as though they, at first when he was vice president, the press would seek out "hillbillies
  • by brining foreign dignitaries to the Ranch, Fredericksburg and Stonewall; press coverage of the small towns around the Ranch; a member of the press falling into a vat of pest prevention solution for goats at the Weinheimer Ranch; the story of LBJ throwing