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Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in his mind too, because Bill certainly demonstrated conclusively that you can be an extremely successful press secretary without ever having had any experience in journalism at all. I mean, my feeling is that Bill Moyers was the best presidential press

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--I just don't remember. Edgar Cahn I may I would have thought of him because he and his wife had written that long piece in the Yale Law Journal that was one of the basic documents. G: Was it assumed during this period that Sargent Shriver would

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson City. That Lady Bird, with her journalism degree, could buy the newspaper and she could run the newspaper, and he would like to have an insurance company. And he said that lots of times to me. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Carolina, because he had been a liberal light in the South, and he was considered the most progressive of the southern governors. I also chose several people to receive our customary awards, either for achievement in journalism or achievement in the civil

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? I'm thinking about the fact that in general I do not believe that the TET offensive and its stalling has ever been portrayed as a failure. T: It hasn't been adequately so. A few papers editorialized on it, I think, like the Wall Street Journal

Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is probably still around Washington. He was running the Fund for Investigative Journalism for some time, may still be. G: Well, was Anderson's office then sort of your headquarters for the pro-Medicare-- W: For the action in the Senate. He was the major

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

billboard company in East Texas, and I tried my best to stay out of it. I was sure that any day that apostle of the new journalism, Drew Pearson, would write that Lyndon Johnson had on his staff a fellow who's connected with the billboard interests. So I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Wall Street Journal that in the aluminum industry there were hints of antitrust action, review of rates charged for federally produced electricity, IRS [Internal Revenue Service] audits of tax returns and studies to substitute other materials

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

story. I went to Chicago when I was eighteen years old because my father wouldn't let me go to the School of Journalism at Columbia. In those days they had an undergraduate School of Journalism, and I had--why, I have no idea because I didn't know

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that I went out to California and was a free-lance writer for the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, various other newspapers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and so forth. Then I gradually got into electronic journalism and did a lot of radio work. 1 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of journalism degree in February I worked on the Austin American-Statescan, a full-time job while I was in the University. I was in Austin fifteen years old when the President won his first race, when President Johnson won his first race. ever knew him until

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a lot of money. So we had a number of meetings on them. But this could not be kept quiet. I have no idea who talked, but I'm sure that a lot of people said small things, and so a very careful reporter for the Wall Street Journal was able to put together

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

than three towns, and we'd stop at five to eight of them a day, that I didn't run into somebody working on a local paper, usually a weekly, that I'd been in journalism school with. I got from seeing those people whom I had known at university and seeing

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a Texan? H: I was born in San Antonio, and I grew up here in Austin. lJhen my family moved here, I was just a little fellow, about seven or eight years old. F: When did you join the Dallas News? H: 1916, on the old Dallas Journal, which

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No. (Laughter) (Interruption) G: Did LBJ ever express an interest in setting up a school of journalism there at San Marcos? J: Not that I know of. G: Tell me about his work for President Evans. What did he do, in essence? J. Whatever President Evans

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

courtship via the U.S. mails. Lady Bird was a journalism major while at the University of Texas and he dedicated to these daily letters the same meticulous detail he gave to every to-drawer project. He would frequently read a sentence and ask me whether

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the engineers in the nation. I have as a part of another story that I frequently tell--I for many years carried in my wallet a clipping out of the Wall Street Journal which reminisced, I will say, about the difficulty of decision of people entering

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hoc things which I don't remember now: wrote an article for the ABA Journal, gave a speech to this group or that group. thing. There was a lot of that kind of In terms of projects, I remember one of them was to go through all of the government

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that this was so. So we zeroed in-- two or three of us at least, Dick Fryklund, who was with the Washington Evening Star, and Dan Henkin, who ,vas editor of the Army-Navy-Air Force Journal, and myself--zeroed in on Cy as someone who knew very well what was going

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I worked under Cecil Horne, who was head of the journalism department; that's what I studied in Tech. I enjoyed being at Texas Tech. I had been to four other schools before I got there, because during the Depression you would go to school until

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

campaign when I was working for the United Mine Workers, I helped by writing speeches. Journal. I worked on the United Mine Workers I did the women's page, and I was the editor's secretary, and I helped write the speeches. We were also what would now

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Are you talking about Harris-Blair? G: Yes. S: Well, I'll hunt for the other one, then. ES: Do you have any record of where Lyndon was made a member of Pi Gamma l~u? G: Yes. Now, that was a journalism [club], is that right? ES: That was history

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went back to the newspapering business, and I think it's probably the finest thing that ever happened to me. I've certainly enjoyed my fifty-plus years in journalism, and Mr. Johnson obviously enjoyed his many years that led eventually

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that particular course, Journalism 312 or whatever. It got to the point where certain factions of the college, of the student group, didn't feel that the students were getting enough recognition or enough acknowledgement, and so there was a little turmoil

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Enquirer called CHINFO [Chief of Information], and they said, "Hey, the whole story is out there. What you got was released and there it is. There ain't no more." They advised me that if I got any inquiries from any of those journals to refer it to CHINFO's

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he could ever do if he'd take this subcommittee. So I told him a story about how I'd been with Governor Cox in Atlanta after he'd had a readership test on the Atlanta Journal. He kept telling me it cost twenty five thousand dollars to have

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was telling him--I've forgotten how it came up--about some of my problems with the Southwest newspapers particularly, the Shreveport Journal, and President Johnson remarked, "You know that is an area which has the most right-wing isolationist people

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought it would be very nice to live in a small town--he didn't necessarily say live in Austin; I remember he said a smaller town one time--and own the newspaper, buy the newspaper. With Lady Bird's degree in journalism that would be right up her alley

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to do with the food program. But I cannot be sure, because, hell, this has been twenty-five years ago and I didn't know there was going to be a bright, young Texan here talking about it twenty-five years later. I didn't keep a journal about it. I

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. either, five or ten dollars a week . We didn't pay very much Homer Olsen would work for us . We published a daily oil journal up there, a mimeographed oil company report that we had to have extra help for, for the mechanical work of getting it out

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knowledge and Stevenson's knowledge and you sort of bred them together, if maybe those two great minds might get us out of this abyss that we're in now. Because I recently read in the Wall Street Journal where that if you continue to spend--I'm talking

Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. President. What is the problem.?" The problem was that he planned to announce the next day that Fowler would succeed Dillon and was worried about the editorial reactions in the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Business Week, as well he should

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in all papers except the Atlanta Constitution and the Journal, my hometown papers. So it appeared in the front page of my hometown newspapers in relatively large print, "Rear Admiral So-and-so has said" the following things and so forth. So he taught me

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

questions on, I'll bring them out as we go along or I'll bring them up at the end. Would you like to continue from the point where we were? F: Yes. Now, I'm following through the journal notes that I kept intermittently at the time I was at the White

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the Wall Street Journal called and said, "What do you think of the merger?" And I said, "What merger?" He said, "The merger of the Departments of Commerce and Labor that the President is about to announce." And I said, "You're out of your cotton-picking

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)