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Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in order to provide more stimulus to the economy. At one time Jim Tobin charted the activity at the New York desk in terms of when we held meetings. Every time we were about to hold a meeting, the activity, those purchases at the New York desk of U.S
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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 history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • - 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
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to go to Baylor University. I graduated in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts and a major in journalism and came up the street and went to work June 11, 1937, for the Waco News Tribune as a copy editor, and I have been with the paper ever since. M: You
Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • mate! M: You made this before? Z: Before the convention. Yes, sir. Even some of my friends--editors of the Milwaukee Journal--said I must have been smoking some kind of prohibitive drug--stating it was an unimaginable ticket. But I said
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , "Yes, I do." The President said, "Well, I knew that you'd be able to provide the package. You just saved me some money." We got out of the helicopter and A.W. was there to meet us in his car. We drove around looking for deer, and I think stopped
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Geylin. G-E-Y-L-I-N. M: I thought he was with the Wall Street Journal. Was he with the Post? l: Well, he may have been, but he's been at the Post as head of the editorial page several years. He had complained to me about the time the President went
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thing that we did was to provide that members' retirement, except for the formula of 2 1/2 per cent for each year of service, would include all of the general benefits that are a part of the retirement system for all federal employees . We came
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as promptly as possible and Humphrey and I were both concerned that we hadn't gotten the regional meetings going as of the fifteenth. Joe Napolitan reported on radio spots, five to fifteen minutes in length, ready to go out to local areas. We provide the spots
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that this could become a matter of public discussion and it could be reported in such a way that it would look devious. We had that occur. As I recall, it might have been the Wall Street Journal that made an effort to dig into these procedures and failed
  • was not popular; O'Brien's and JFK's relationships with Bryce Harlow and Dwight Eisenhower; congressmen using the navy or air force for travel and Sam Rayburn's opposition to these junkets; providing transportation to bring members of Congress back to Washington D
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Sigma Phi, which is an honor journalism sorority to which I had belonged in the University of Texas. This was a question-and-answer; the victim--the speaker--was asked questions by all the members of the sorority. This was in Fort Worth. I found
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of Science degree at Columbia. What was that in? M: Journalism. G: In 1955 you received a law degree at the University of California in Berkeley. From 1948 to 1952 you engaged in journalistic practice in Washington, D. C. and Los Angeles, is that right
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • me see. That would be his He'd already got himself set up It's just characteristic of Lyndon, I remember his providing me with offers of assistance, about keeping your fences up back home, doing this and doing that on various legislation. B: What
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the results, but, anyway, that was part of it. Another experiment we had in that period we never used before was the extensive use of radio. Coming out of journalism, the newspaper business, my interest basically was in print. But Howard Woods of St. Louis
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • saw my name in there--he was there for INS or Hearst--and he said, "Gee, if Beech is going to go, I got to go, too, or else I'll get a rocket from the New York Journal American "--or at least that's what I think he was thinking--and Jim Lucas . So
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in the School of Journalism. They took pride in her after he was elected. She was one of their girls who had made good by marrying this young congressman. So I'd hear her name around. She was more than an ordinary 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • provide for assured continuity that would have the appropriate people administer as they should, because they'd feel that you wouldn't be around and they'd still be there. And that affected you constantly, to the point where you turn your back on the whole