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Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in advertising, radio, television, journalism, and so on, but a professional PR kind of an operation was something else. And when you get into the tax collection business, our Economists and School of Business people didn't seem to have a lot of enthusiasm

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was like, how often it met, what it did, what the purpose of it was? W: That Press Club at San Marcos? G: Yes. Was it made up of people that wanted to go into journalism, do you think? W: Probably. Because Lyndon persuaded Doc [Tom] Nichols to teach

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- III -- 14 know; I'll just have to kind of guess and put two and two together. She was a graduate in journalism at the University of Texas. Newspaper work and radio work are a little bit similar. He often said, in fact he would say it nearly every two

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of which was the Winston-Salem Journal. I first went there in 1951, and the executive editor of the Winston-Salem Journal at that time was Wallace Carroll. He left and went to Washington as the assistant chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

thought newspaper work was pretty soft compared to getting up at 1:30 every morning to milk, so I went from there. I came to The University of Texas, went to journalism school, and went to the University of Missouri briefly and ran out of money. Then we--I

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

lived at that time. A bit of history, immaterial possibly. I'm a product of Austin public schools, the University [of Texas] class of 1934. I studied journalism and also government, minor on municipal government. In the middle of the Depression I

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

are notoriously slow in the way they pick up-M: So are historical journals, you're not alone. R: So are historical journals, that's right. But I would think that this piece has the detail that I don't have in my head. at the Congressional Record. But all

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into the life of Lyndon Johnson and national politics? S: Well, it's a long story, Dr. Frantz, but I'll try to make it as short as possible. Ny primary interest in college was in journalism. F: Where was this? S: Hardin-Simmons University. And I

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was a member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, \'Jhich Nr. Vinson was chairman of then. I went to a small military prep school and junior college in Milledgeville and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959 with a degree in journalism. From

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be a matter of concern to the profession of journalism, the institution of journalism, in this country, is the pressures existing within the paper to make the front page, on the tendency, because of the importance of making the front page, to write a story

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think I should draw a distinction there, that while an awful lot of journalists I think were emotionally involved, I think a bare minimum of them, and I wouldn't know how to express it, let that intrude on their practice of journalism. I don't think

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, this was not any secret. There was no problem for them to determine a relationship had existed. Publications had printed the fact that I had opened an office in New York. In fact, I had run an ad in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times announcing

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

TORY COLLECTION L~D O . Eugene Patterson And ress 2855 Normandy Dr., N. W. Atlanta, Georgia Biographical information : Newspaper editor b. Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 15, 1923; student N. Ga. Coll., Dahlonega, 1940-42; A.B. in Journalism, U. Ga., 1943

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

they were both in the Department of Journalism, and they graduated together--but she had done her first two years at TCU, and then she transferred to the university, and I went to work. I got a job, and first off, I worked for--in the legislature when

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

himself never tried to move things one way or another? H: No, never. Bob's too good a newsman to do that--has too much regard I think for journalism. F: Now, how does NBC establish its policy? H: You know the Federal Communications Commission keeps

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

been a fifth one there. But I remember four of us got together and we were going to cut him up. One of the guys at the television station in Albuquerque, [one from] the Albuquerque Tribune, [one from] the Albuquerque Journal, and myself, I know we'd

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember Tobacco Road and how we laughed and pointed out each of the characters in our own little locality. (Laughter) G: She studied journalism at the university? P: She got her degree, a BA degree, and then she stayed a year longer and picked up

Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1946, I went to work as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal , which was at that time a locally- � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

here. C: Well, I was born in Oklahoma and was educated at the Unitersity of Tulsa. I received first a degree there in economics and later another degree in journalism, both of these being bachelor of arts degrees. Then I worked for newspapers

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

industry around. Oh no, this isn't unique to journalism. But I've seen it in two or three cases. In fact, we had the rule at CBS News that if anyone was having anything to do with somebody in government that they had to get off the air; they could

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a degree in journalism, though, . .from the University of Texas . She's a good writer, and she's just a smart person . I'm an old German .candle maker. G: Z: Well, this is a letter thanking you for a German candle . Yes, and for twenty years, see . We

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Therefore, I shifted to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, where by law they have to give that informati'on. But the Joint Atomic Energy Committee had turned into a tightly held club. Today I was just looking through the Wall Street Journal: much

Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)

in Austin and I went to colleg~ in Montgomery and we corresponded regularly. r.Je· wrote about: everything--ati.l our dreams and ambitions--life--love--politics--prohibition--and the like. She was taking Journalism. and wrote most interesting

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

supportive of him actively? Z: Yes,. all the way through. Yes. G: Did she prove to be an asset, and if so, how? Z: Yes, very much of an asset. She could talk for him. You see, she has a degree in journalism,. though, from the University of Texas

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

during the time he was at Sam Houston, the group that included: Edna Dato, Jake Kamin, Myrtle Lee Robbins, Ellie Jones, Gene Latimer. Through particularly Edna Dato, who later was the one to get me into journalism, I got to know Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Lowell Limpus, as a military historian, took the laws of Clausewitz and applied them to journalism, plain military tactics and politics also. vast change. At that time the news media was undergoing a very Captain [Robert] Patterson had started the News

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Bachelor of Journalism. She was a journalist, too. She was always interested in politics a little bit. G: Yes. Was she active at all in student politics there? T: No. I don't think so. She was more interested in state politics. [Voice in background

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

believe you also did some work for President Truman before that. Was it your bona fides as a journalist that got you started in the government? C: No, it was in pre-journalism days, having had nothing to do with journalism but with what I value above

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

., publisher of the Floresville Chronicle Journal and the Robstown Record, who is now deceased--and got acquainted with him. Introduced himself, and spent the night there. think they'd ever met before that, had they, Marion? Mrs. Keach, also in the ~oom) I

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was not unique to journalism. I think that the entire U.S. command structure had exactly the same problems. You would discover, for instance, that young agency [CIA] or State Department or military people at the district level or lower had a pretty shrewd

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the first combat troops to Vietnam, the marines, doing this and the instructions and he was explaining it, why he was that he had given these marines and so on . Well, it was very clear to me at the point that I was going back to daily journalism

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

consent, unanimous consent. Because at any step of the way, in the old way of doing things, somebody could stop the operation. stop it then. They could But the Senate rules were so encumbered by all the things you had to do, like reading the journal

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

-two years of it. C: Bill, I guess you know he's publisher of the Floresville Journal. F: And next morning he had breakfast with us. C: What year was that? F: I can't give you the exact year of that -- around 1930 somewhere -- 1931

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2. feature article, The Wall Street Journal had a long side column, and Life magazine devoted about twenty pages to a young president

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that I, for example, had supported it under Kennedy. I supported Eisenhower's part of it. I support it now, by the way, under Nixon. Therefore there was an undoubted effort generally to discredit in journalism those of us who stood up for this war. I know

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to give me a little of your background and how you came to get into government. F: I'd be glad to tell you that. As we get further into the interview I will be referring to journal notes I made while working for Mrs. Johnson at the White House

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

journals by the trucking people and the railroad people, and you'll find that we're criticized frequently-called shortsighted, backward in our thinking. The truck people will insinuate--they never say, but they'll insinuate that maybe we're oriented LBJ

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, would you outline briefly your background, your career, before you came to the White House staff? \oJ: I've always been in one way or another in journalism--publishing, writing, editing. H'flen I got out of the Air Force--and I ,,,as stationed