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  • of my law clerks spend a lot of time going back over the old journals of the Supreme Court to see what civil rights cases the Court had not taken where it should have. And we just found that in those days--particularly after the civil rights cases were
  • to write a letter apologizing for the pejorative nature of the term, which was published in the American Metals Industry Journal in the course of time. But we were worried about having a copper price in which there were formal sales at thirty-six cents
  • Survey (HES); the censorship issue; lifting Ev Martin's (Newsweek) credentials; Oriana Falacci; overall performance of the press in Vietnam; the Caravelle Bar issue; individual journalists characterized; TV journalism; Morley Safer; LBJ and the press
  • discussing the Women's Speakers Bureau and the involvement of some members of the administration as far as nonpolitical activities in speechmaking around the country. I'd like to turn this back over to you with your journal and continue as we had, with you
  • , 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
  • ' knitting journals and anything. But JUSPAO had consciously made a decision early in the war that if you said and had a letter from a publication that was periodically published, you got accredited. And this inserted an awful lot of peripherals. A lot
  • line of action because he felt that this action was completely without justification insofar as Lewis Strauss was concerned. F: In 1960 one of the French journals, Humanice stated that you had stated that a French army group was going to assassinate
  • force,. and the newspapers·•. Do you share that ·opinion, too, with the newspapers, the Journal' and the Constitution? J: Well, I don't think there's any question: about it. a very .important part of ·the power structure~ The news media is. Maybe
  • 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
  • , and the President took a whole armload of records, which were the records that had been turned over to Judge Ireland Graves. It must have been a stack a foot high of books, ledgers, accounts, journals, income tax returns and everything else, and he carried them out
  • : Is that the much later trip you referred to? A: That was the trip in 1966. It turned out that just about that time somebody from the Wall Street Journal decided to write a long article about the Post Office Department, and one of the questions in the article
  • at what I like to call the intersection of two disciplines. One of those disciplines is diplomacy and the other is journalism. Where these disciplines intersect there are going to be sparks, and there's going to be conflict. Every once in awhile it gets
  • could and when you had time? C: Oh, I re a d the available papers that were time l y. Of course, that was just the Washington p apers and the New York Time s an d the Sun and th e Wall Street Journal. Th ey we re the only one s that you coul d real
  • Ljndon Johnson's friends also. For example, Charlie Guy, the editor of the newspaper, the Avalanche Journal in Lubbock, became a very dear friend of mine. While he and I were not always of the same philosophy, especially regarding labor, we did enjoy
  • : This is November 22, 1968; we are talking with Gordon Fulcher, the publisher of an East Texas newspaper at Atlanta. Tell us about what newspaper it is that you publish now, Gordon. GF: I publish the Atlanta Citizens Journal, a weekly newspaper, in Atlanta, Cass
  • , that was the personnel setup. here to the Library. Frank, of course, came down I have since had two jobs, one at Virginia Poly- technic Institute as head of their PR photo operation, and right now I'm teaching photo journalism at Rochester Institute of Technology. MG
  • it up in a medical journal; and any.doctor that reads it can automatically do it. What you needed was a system for this. So we wrote a piece of legislation which was introduced in the Congress in about 19 days and in 9 months was law, called
  • the Russians want us to have the ABM-that's the defense of the Hudson Institute Foreign Affairs Journal. to make us feel good about it--because the Russians like us to build defensive systems; nevertheless, the effect of Gror:-:yko's speech is to soften
  • and its fellow travelers in journalism, and everyone got edgier and more tense. If you sat down to dinner and someone made some stupid comment about the press, there was likely to be a very quick rejoinder. I think it is true that by the end of my tour I
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 5 in Texas journalism [helped]. Mind you, Stuart didn't know me from toad hop; he had just sort of taken me into tow. F: He had heard of Houston. (Laughter) R
  • , of the Wall Street Journal, who later became under Nixon or Ford assistant secretary of defense on public relations or deputy assistant on public information, wrote a story called liThe Guided leak." The policy was quite clear to do this sort of thing
  • : 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
  • 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
  • saying it was because of the association with Westinghouse and commercial people weren't welcome in the news department. Then they also said I had no background in journalism which was very true. They failed to point out to me that I was woman, which
  • 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
  • Stanton, who was a dear friend of Senator Johnson's, and Mr. Bill Paley had been awarded a scroll at the University o f Arizona from the Walter Cronkite School of Radio and TV Journalism. were the first recipients. So they I guess somebody gave a lot
  • 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