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  • the heart attack, and then I thought for a while, perhaps, that he would be permanently sensitive to this, but it was interesting to me that despite the little clues that I found in this journal that I kept, he got over his concern. I remember certain
  • to Richard Nixon. Df·i: That is true. F: When did you first get to know Johnson? OM: I actually met Mrs. Johnson a considerable time before I did the President. He were schoolmates at the University of Texas together and in the journalism school
  • instance where they paid a GI to be filmed cutting the ears off of a dead VC. This sort of journalism wasn't something that anybody can be proud of. But all in all, I'd say that the press called the shots as their publishers saw them, and some were very
  • doing that manual typing myself . But in '41, you see, I was in journalism school, just scratching my way through college . It was a very interesting tour . F: Trying to pick up an extra,fifty cents here and there . B: But 1948 is when I really
  • in the liberal journals of opinion. So I discovered the Nation and the New Republic in college and began to be interested in seeing the country come out of the Depression, so that the opportunities of many people were enlarged. (Interruption) M: Now, you were
  • , I was really out of touch with the mainstream of academic economics. I wasn't reading the journals, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • with arthritis as time went on, but with that cheerful able manner, and Clyde Rembert who handled their TV branch of the business. They both worked for Mr. Tom Gooch, who was a legendary figure in Texas journalism, and who had given sizeable segments of his paper
  • : Not at that time, no. Senator Wirtz was from Seguin, but he was not a factor in my life at that time. In the latter part of 1935 or 1936 I was in the University, and through Mr. Sam Fore, who was the publisher of the Floresville Chronicle-Journal, I applied
  • -- D: Yes. G: --with the objective of helping him project on television. Did you get a sense of how, whether Kintner helped at all? D: Well, I don't remember--I remember Kintner being there, but that was a different school of journalism, too
  • movie roles. He was known as Big Boy Wi lliarns. C: Yes. F· Very ugly person. C: But then, like so many girls who were coming here in the war-time, I got a job. Always played, you know, the outlaw. I had come with a journalism degree in hand
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] . --25-­ of calling her and saying, "The AJ' and the UP have to know this." Having been a journalism student
  • was there to answer any questions that they had about Ole Miss or about the state of Mississippi. I guess for hours I talked with all these different people, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, the publisher of Newsweek, the publisher of Time, Life, all
  • but techni ca lly attached to the Department of State. M: Did you have any contact with ~tr. Johnson personally prior to the time he was president, in your journalism days? J: Before he was president? M: Before he was vice president even. J: No, I
  • interviewed--this Erwin Knoll and Jule Withover-- K: Yes, An arti~le which appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review called ''Maxinrum Feasib Ie Publicity." G: Right. This article implied that there was a cause and effect relationship between
  • - third of November, I was on a television program with Martin Agronsky, Elie Abel, who is now head of Columbia School of Journalism, and Sander Vanocur, who has left NBC and is with Public Broadcasting. And they were talking about what kind of a president
  • . buys a bunch of TransAmerica. So he goes out into the market and Now TransAmerica price, this projected earning figure, had already been put out there into the Wall Street Journal and everybody in the world knew about it. So I guess he thought he'd
  • that existed in determining whether you wanted to go VHF or UHF, and the article that someone can find in the Wall Street Journal along in this 1954-55 period indicated the problems, the reasons why selection of a spectrum was a problem. We moved along toward
  • appeared in the t~all II I don't know. Street Journal on Tuesday another third of the picture. II Then another ~..,hich had When Wednesday morning's New York Times hit the street with the remaining portion of the bill, virtually
  • , but the main thing is what about all this stuff in the paper," because there had been a lot of sort of yellow journalism going in there. He said, '~ell, without commenting on any of its truth or falsehood, the fact is that this is Boing to make his
  • it was from the Journal American. There was a poll taken to see how many people knew who was the vice president, and how many people knew Goldwater, and someone else -- I don't remember who it was. Just a small percentage knew who was the vice president
  • resignation as State NYA Director. A telegram was sent to Washington. My resignation was also submitted, not only to NYA, but also to the University of Texas where parttime I was teaching a first-year journalism course. My NYA resignation was accepted
  • board of the Journal of Medical Education, and then was elected to the executive council of the AMC during a period of time when it was seeking a direction in terms of its role in medical education and the very major changes that medical education seemed
  • Journal tearing down their five-tower line, and I thought maybe I was heading for disaster and I was worried and spending my time up there rather than in Texas. I wasn't around here, except I was reading and I was familiar with what was going
  • . papers. them. Then I went from God, I have forgotten the man who owned those He had two papers, and I was the managing editor of both of But I had been hired to be the managing editor of the Jackson- ville Journal, which was owned by the same outfit
  • /loh/oh minute Charlie, lIve got something that I want to show you." 2 And he went into the little room next door, the office of his private secretary, and picked up a copy of a newspaper--I think it was the Wall Street Journal--that had on the front
  • journals. We I received informal presentations from all of the interested parties, including consumers groups, and based upon the investigation and the informal hearings that we had, I reached the conclusion and made the recommendation to Fred Vinson
  • all the summers I was there, and I don't--somehow I must have had some impression tnat this was different by thinking that he had been editor in the summer. G: I gather he wanted Southwest Texas to have a journalism school and they didn't. P
  • , it really gets scrutinized and gone over and torn to pieces by his colleagues and it's published in journals where LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • , the dean of the School of Social Work--now there's a dean that was not excluded, perhaps because Social Work was less, you know, a smaller school and was not so demanding. I don't know. It included Dewitt Reddick in journalism. It included Don Goodall, who
  • of "This is not the kind of journalism that we want." I was amazed at the willingness of the guys to say, "Well, we're going to be fair; we will run it as it is. We'll be objective." So this was the sort of an off-the-record commitment that I got from the keys to the Negro
  • to Schell about this? R: No. G: Do you have any idea what his purpose was, other than journalism? R: I can't imagine. Well, I can imagine. I don't know. G: Speaking of Ben Suc, what happened to those people? Were you able to follow up on what
  • office, and Harold was with me, and Novy was quite interested, to a degree. And then I told him about newspaper and journalism and photography, which I was pretty good at. Novy just took the phone, called the editor of the Tribune, competing
  • and with a friendship that he extended to.them. Well, when it didn't work, from time to tim&- it didn't you know--this, again, you just can't gene.ralize, but I know that he felt .. like a Caesar .· . be~rayed when one of the journal~sts who he thought
  • by way of any private decision of what he would do in the future . M: And you need to deal with what I think one of the better accounts of the whole affair, the one by Philip Geyelin of the Wall Street Journal /Lyndon B . Johnson and the World , 1966