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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : BARRY ZORTHIAN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Zorthian's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Zorthian, what were the state of press relations in Saigon when you arrived in 1964? Z: I will answer these questions, but let me add
  • State of press relations in Saigon in 1964; coordination between various elements of the mission; generation gap and press relations; psychological operations; integration of the press relations efforts; JUSPAO; understanding of the Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you to Mr. Johnson when he was majority leader? N: I became the Senate correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in September of 1958. Previous to that, I had been with the Associated Press, and I had not been close to Johnson at all with the AP
  • Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the interior, [is] about the developments over the designation of some park lands in the very final days of the administration. I think there have been some reported stories in the press about some friction that developed between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Udall over
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 11, 1968 B: This is the interview with George E. Christian, the press secretary for Mr. Johnson. Mr. Christian, to start with, what were th.:: your appointment to this job? i rcumstances
  • Career; White House personnel; press operation; transition difficulties; Vietnam negotiations; LBJ’s contemplation of not running for reelection in 1968.
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the primary press advance work. Actually in New York I was doing more than the press advance; I did the whole advance, even to the point of picking out the scene of the meeting and arranging all the details. I'll say this for Bill Moyers, he had a great deal
  • Advancing LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; Laitin’s falling out with LBJ; Bob Fleming as Deputy Press Secretary; trip to Mexico with LBJ; Christmas trip to Rome; Colonel James Swindal; trying to be anonymous in Rome while advancing LBJ’s arrival
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh GOULD LINCOLN--IO P: All right. in now. I'd like to get into the area that you are very closely involved And that's press relations. In the previous interview, you spoke of Mr. Johnson during his Senate years as being "frank
  • with the Kennedys; press relations; criticism of LBJ; news media contributed to LBJ’s loss of popularity; previous Presidents’ handling of the press; Supreme Court Packing Bill; JFK’s formal format; impact of television on politics, campaigning and government
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • does. I mean you and I would do it if we were in the same circumstances, though. So I don't see anything wrong with it. He'd always known how to use people in the Senate and make them do his will. He thought that the press could be persuaded to follow
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because he was signing legislation like it was an assembly line and, as a matter of fact, he was so proud of that, that he put up a display case in the White House press room, with a hundred pens and a description of each bill that each of the pen was used
  • regarding Vietnam; LBJ's efforts to keep the budget under $100 billion; LBJ's credibility gap and LBJ's claim that his grandfather fought at the Alamo; LBJ's visits to Australia; Bobby Baker; George Reedy, Bill Moyers, and George Christian as press
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Zorthian. J: Well, I can't with honesty say I know or that this is the way it was. really don't know. Yes. I I'd just be guessing. G: Fine. J: Barry was an activist, and I think he felt that the role of the press in information and so on was more
  • McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . And none of this had really happened for black reporters. In that day and time, you could count on both hands the number of black reporters working for the mainstream media. G: There was a significant black press and I guess that’s where most
  • How Terry got a job at the Washington Post; shaking hands with Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus; early encounters with LBJ; Capitol Press Club; awarding LBJ for civil rights work; LBJ giving scholarship money to a black college student in 1963; job
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • saw eye to eye. F: Did you see much of Johnson in his Senate years, back here in Austin? K: Not a whole lot, periodically-- F: Did he come around the press room any? K: Yes, he would do that every now and then just on a hand-shaking tour. F
  • Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HotS e his relations with the press are composed, first of all, of his prior relationships. As Jack Kennedy once said in a press conference when Charlie Bartlett was being assaulted for a piece he and Stu Alsop had written in the Saturday Evening
  • LBJ and his relations with the press
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • explode. F: That was enough of that. Mc: Yes. This was very curious to me. As the trip went on, he had a good press to begin with, and then when he got to Rovaniemi in Finland--this was after several days of very, very strenuous travel, crossing
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a segregationist and try to uphold some principle that's long outmoded and overruled. (Interruption) G: Okay. I was asking you about Bill Moyers' replacement of George Reedy as presidential press secretary. J: When I came on board and was around a while
  • judges to appoint; Bill Moyers replacing George Reedy as press secretary; Reedy's contention that LBJ was isolated from accurate information; Bill Moyers' personality; the credibility gap; George Christian as press secretary; Thurgood Marshall's
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • four or five of us in. logue. It was just fascinating. It was an eve~ing of Johnson mono- Then I covered him for a while in the 1964 campaign and in the second term I think, so only on fairly public occasions, press conferences. Very few press
  • Biographical information; 1957 Civil Rights Act; Presidency; LBJ's relations with the press; Eric Goldman; anti-communism; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 20, 1968 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mr. Reedy. Sir, what part did you play in the election campaign of 1964? R: I was the press secretary. B: Did that involve any particular problems
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • went out. Then we went back and we began working up you know a press kit, press statement, White House press announcements, and then talking back and forth about these remaining problems. It rocked along and I then had the idea, because
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about specific telecasts? H: I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary, we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had been said or shown. F: Do you remember what it was? H: I'm sure both
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • speeches. It did not attract any kind of superlatives from the press, no one leaped on it, because it did not have a structure at that time. It was just a phrase. F: Excuse me a minute, Jack, but had you before then tried to find some sort of a tag
  • House' speech; LBJ and the press; LBJ’s television appearances; Festival of the Arts; Eric Goldman; Dwight MacDonald; Charlton Heston.
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ward -- I -- 12 I remember that stuck in everybody's mind--and this was the type of thing that turned the press off on him--Dave Cheavens
  • 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He really wanted to--he pressed hard : something of substance that I can do, something of real "Is there importance � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • h im up on it. The n we had a f l ap . th e event . on this . We had some di sagreements ov er press cove ra ge of This c a used some real problems . He a nd Liz didn ' t s ee eye- to- eye She naturally wante d full pre ss coverage , and h e
  • East Wing press corps; Liz Carpenter; White House reporters; press accreditation; LBJ’s relationship with the press; LBJ-Udall controversy; cabinet members; MLK and RFK assassinations.
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • any sort of intimations in those days of the sort of later at least alleged manipulation of the press that Johnson attempted from time to time? B: Well, he wanted to tell you his story. There's no question about that. He wanted to persuade you, he
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • already dug in and had put himself in charge of the press relations and was acting as the voice of the agency. So I came down in a rather difficult position of having a deputy already established, and having to take over a department that had been
  • Biographical information; Shrivers; Holmes Brown; James Kelleher; John Brademus; Mr. Boutin; Mr. Loftus; press relations; Marshall Peck; Paul Weeks; Erwin Knoll; Joe Kershaw; "The Year Toward Tomorrow;" yearly Congressional approval; lack of White
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and the Far East in 1966, I guess it was. M: This is the only time you traveled actually in the press party. A: Right. M: Did you get the impression on that occasion, this was when he was meeting with. the chiefs of state of all the Asian states
  • LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , [George] Christian, the press secretary, or whoever was the press secretary, had to see him every day. In periods of domestic crises of one kind or another, or during that late September to March period I'd see him all the time because-(Interruption) M
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interested, and giving them a chance of feeling they were on the inside. It was done in the evening so they could have an opportunity to call their press friends if they wanted to or call the interest groups they'd want to and get credit for giving them
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in February or March, and I think I was made deputy assistant secretary in May. M: Right. In that position, where you were dealing with the press--this, of course, is before Mr. Johnson's, I guess, really bad trouble with the press began, so you had
  • ; goals for South Vietnam; reasons for LBJ’s unpopularity; flaws in LBJ’s handling of the press; inept press corps handling Vietnamese War; incorrect editing of press dispatches; LBJ’s abilities as a diplomat; peace negotiations 1966-1968; 1968 Paris peace
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Gittinger INTERVIEWEE: FERD KAUFMAN (with Ida Kaufman) DATE: November 6, 1997 PLACE: Mr. Kaufman's residence, Richardson, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: How long had you been working for AP? K: I went to work for the Associated Press in--gosh, I think
  • ; interactions with Secret Service agents regarding Kaufman's efforts to follow LBJ; LBJ's opinion of press attention; touring the Ranch house; a seventy-fifth birthday party for LBJ at the Ranch after his death; the telephone system at the Ranch; the lack
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wanting to know about some public matters. You remember, I suppose people have told you this, that he is supposed to have cancelled appointments after it had leaked out somewhere through the press. I've heard it. Did you ever hear of that? I have
  • ;’ Ted Dealy; Bobby Baker, LBJ’s right hand man; Sam Houston Johnson; eastern press; Ralph Yarborough; retiring in 1958.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "The foreign aid bill." He said, "Oh." He was then trying to leave, go down the hall to the East Room for a press conference. Not all press conferences were held in the East Room but this one was. So everybody left, and I went to my office. It hit me when I got
  • that civil rights and Medicare legislation were inevitable, as opposed to education legislation such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; LBJ's decision to make O'Brien the postmaster general of the U.S. and a press conference at the LBJ Ranch
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for voting for the Taft-Hartley. So labor was opposed to him. P: When Coke Stevenson came up here, Lyndon tipped me off and I arranged a press conference for Coke Stevenson and had a question asked of him by one of my assistants about the Taft-Hartley Act
  • news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • out in your mind during his Senate days as to hi s press rel ati ons or to the events that he was involved in? B: I thought his press relations were rather brilliant myself. I think that to any man less critical of the way he was treated
  • Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Press indicates that you'd received no advanced word from Bethlehem [Steel Corporation] regarding their five
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 2 take care of the press . Dr . Tkach, Colonel
  • -Fort Worth with JFK; travel arrangements with LBJ; press relations
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tried to prepare the press by getting as much material as we could on the visitor, because most of President Johnson's visitors were people not very well known in Washington. Only occasionally you got a Peron or a Harold Wilson. -:'. Particularly
  • Heads of State visits; press corps shift to San Antonio; LBJ’s interest in Texas politics; LBJ State Park; Connally-Yarborough feud; McNamara resignation; Clark Clifford; division with Willard Wirtz; cabinet officers and White House staff members
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • years and that was natural they called me Tex there. So then when I came to Washington with the Associated Press in March, 1937, why, again they called me Tex. Then in fact for about thirty years while I was with the AP I had· this weekly column
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the presidency. Although my coverage down- town of the White House was limited directly or continuously to the last eight months of his presidential term, when I left the United Press International, which was a successor organization to INS and took charge
  • with Republican leadership; relationship with Senate and White House press; relations with HHH; hot and cold staff relationship
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with that, but the public relations officer, who was Major General [Winant] Sidle, said, "Well, you've got to think about this, General Abrams, that the press is going to say that now that Westmoreland is gone, you're changing his strategy, and you're going to get a lot
  • ; General Abrams; the press; Robert Komer; comparison of McChristian and Davidson; opinion of VC; Tet and predictions of its occurrence
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 SIEGEL II -- 18 with the press, Mr. Johnson's esteem
  • ; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s