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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Pollak -- IV -- 4 home rule, or did you just assume that that was impossible to begin with and start in on what became the new form of government? P: Yes. The home rule bill had been defeated in 1966. When I got to the White House, Horsky was at work
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that he got some money from Jewish contributors in New York. And Weisl, Balaban, and who knows who else communicated with Gerry Siegel and he provided Johnson with a lot of feeling for and understanding of the Jewish community's views on the Israeli
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and, of course, the great many foreign heads of state and heads~of government coming to the funeral. Of course, a situation like that, as far as the daily operation of the office is concerned, is not as drastic from a standpoint of our operating groups
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things he did was to send Dale out to buy a new herd bull, because they 3 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
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Some general items early in your tenure [as postmaster general]: first, one question regarding your
  • under O'Brien; how the Post Office Department dealt with mail fraud and obscenity; a threat to O'Brien's safety in New Jersey; the role of postal inspectors; the 1966 Chicago mail crisis; discrimination in the Post Office Department; changes in mail
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • into how you got started as a protagonist for better health. G: Well, very simply, I started out to go into the academic field. I went to New York University, undergraduate and graduate, and studied under Henry Steele Commager. The Depression came along
  • Biographical information; how Gorman got into journalism; how Gorman got involved in writing about conditions in mental hospitals; the Oklahoma State Mental Hospital; Gorman's work at the Daily Oklahoman; newspaper publisher, E.K. Gaylord's
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Department of Commerce, revised in the White House before going down, of course, and we took this to be the general intentions of the President in regard to this new organization. M: Where did the inititative for the reorganization originate? W: It's hard
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • graduated in '32, I took permanent work with the Forest Service. I worked for about 9 years in Arizona and New Mexico, Flagstaff and in Tucson, still in range experimental work and with a few details to Washington. Then I was transferred in '39
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like this. I had formed a friendship with him several years earlier when I was the editor of the Daily Texan, and at the end of my editorship he had called me down to KTBC and had offered me a job in the news room there. The year I was editor
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Symposium. As you said, it stems from a magazine that you were responsible for producing in New York many years ago. I am one of your fans who was there at the time. I was a young man in New York, and I remember quite well what a celebrity you were, and how
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Daily. You had all this problem with Women's Was this just the most obvious of the problems with the various magazines and other news media, or was Woman's Wear Daily a sort of a special case? C: We 11, i t was one of the problems, and one
  • Luci and Lynda; Luci’s wedding; trips to Marshall to be with her father; Lady Bird’s encouragement for Lynda to leave U.T.; Warrie Lyn Smith; categories of news; commercialization of the White House; Luci’s job with optometrist; Lynda’s motive
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Research Institute of America, again, one of these news services for big business executives like the Kiplinger Washington Letter. Toward the end of World War II, I went out to the Far East as a war correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, and I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE E. LEVINSON INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Levinson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 1 F: Larry, we haven't in previous interviews said much on the personal side. We've been strictly programmatic, you might
  • White House staff deciding what to do after LBJ's presidency; LBJ asking Levinson to move to Texas rather than work for Gulf and Western; LBJ's expectation of long-term loyalty; final Cabinet meeting; Levinson's decision to move to New York; where
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on. The riots continued through about the fourteenth. Governor Brown was in Greece. Efforts were made to get him back, and he came into New York and down 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh opponents in an election for president. F: Yes. H: But not in the daily routine--well, not routine
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than some, saw what it already meant to the people of our state ... and what it could mean in the future. The primary had scarcely begun when Downey withdrew from the race. Manchester Boddy, the owner and editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, my friend
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • only three lawyers in my class, one of whom was from Mississippi and another from New Mexico. At the same time there was a great shortage of lawyers due to drafting of lawyers in military service of the bar. Here I was with a relatively low average
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what Johnson's personal position was, but the position of KTBC's news department was I'm afraid a little biased in favor of Rainey, not the political campaign, but all the other stuff leading up to the political campaign . Were there any particular
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in geriatrics, would call in new freshmen congressmen and tell them some of the realities of life and say, lIyou have to be here at least six years, then they know who you are." And there's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The crowds turned out and they really throbbed to him. I remember the headline on the New York Daily News was "Veep Wows Them in Saigon." From a standpoint substantively, however, he sort of went overboard. You were asking me for examples of the sort
  • The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • all out because I never spent that much time in the White House. He was very fond of about my closest friend in Washington, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. I think probably, and I hope to goodness somebody does him. M: He's on our list
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . If the press depends upon the press secretary as their source of news, that means the press secretary can decide pretty well what they're going to know and what they aren't. And of course it's not quite like that. The White House--it is impossible to have
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE SID DAVIS INTERVIEWER Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Davis office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 S: Election day was the third. Well, I believe we were in New Orleans on the weekend before election day in 1964, and the President
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant­ to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • executive officer, as I told you in the first session, I came in just enough too late to be involved in the very early processes of the substantive divisions. So I was really handling more the daily paper, meaning paper like the thousands of letters
  • the program; Shriver juggling poverty programs and Peace Corps; Ruth Atkins and New Yorkers concerned about their school.
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • period? J: Well, I would say that the best reporting of the Vietnam situation has been by guys 1i.ke Bob Shaplen of the New Yorker; Sol Sanders, U.S. News and World Report; Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News-- M: You did get one newspaper
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • buzzed me and said Mrs. Johnson had called. She was inundated by mail on the subject of beautification. She'd had an interview with U.S. News and World Report, which I think had come out in either a December or January issue. In this she had particularly
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the campaign in 1948 when Coke Stevenson, at that time former-Governor Coke Stevenson, announced for the Senate race on New Year's day, 1948, it is my recollection that he did not say anything at all about Taft-Hartley. And at that time when he announced, W
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ." And old Charlie Schultz, the Budget Director, used to accuse the speech writers anyway of spending half his budget. He said, "You guys have spent a hundred million dollars just getting a news lead for a speech." I said, "Well, that's just what the man
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Of course [in 1966] you had big majorities: sixty-eight Democrats, thirty-two Republicans in the Senate
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the news almost daily, I'd like to emphasize in this interview your personal relations with Mr. Johnson, your government position, and your assessment of some of the milestones of his career, and a very important area--his press relations. Do you recall
  • on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Monday morning and went into New Orleans and spent the second night in Atlanta and were having breakfast somewhere in Atlanta Wednesday morning when we heard the ra9io had been counted out. was wonderful about it. F: ~eport that he So it was a sad
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • notes," "economic news notes." And it was about the last thing we did every night, sometimes it was 3 a.m., but we always got off our daily news note on the statistics of the day and what they meant. They were not designed really to advocate a policy