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Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in his office with Mr. Paul Ringler, the principal editorial writer of The Milwaukee Journal. In this interview some of his habits certainly were evident. One thing was that he intended to convince Mr. Ringler absolutely and completely. It's very
  • LBJ's 1958 interview with Paul Ringler of the Milwaukee Journal; LBJ's practice of making telephone calls while people were in his office; Senator LBJ's ability to get information from people on the telephone; LBJ's tactics to gain Senate passage
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, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Professor Reedy's office, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tape l of R: He got it [majority whip] primarily through Senator Richard Russell. You see, what had happened
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 I wandered all the way through the morgue at the Milwaukee Journal in Milwaukee ; the Madison Capital Times in Madison . I interviewed fifty - seventy-five people in the State of Wisconsin who theoretically had knowledge about
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Reedy's office, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 3 G: --with the idea that we can go back and backtrack and cover some more of the legislative issues at a different
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rauh--III--IO It's a famous day. The Wall Street Journal had the story. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 16 W: Rent supplement and rent certificates. These various ideas have been around in the literature and in proposals for some years. There was an article in the Yale Law School Journal a year or so ago that traces it back to the Chamber
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and successively you have worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the United Press Association, Christian Science Monitor, the International News Service and as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. You were co-author
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on education, we would make an effort to invite the number one education writers--and many women are in this specialized field of journalism--education writers-­ somebody from the St. Louis Post Dispatch or somebody with the NEA Journal. 19 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Reedy s office, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1 Tape 1 of 6 R: --successful leader. G: Let•s start with that. R: Okay. G: 1955 you were talking about. R
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you to Mr. Johnson when he was majority leader? N: I became the Senate correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in September of 1958. Previous to that, I had been with the Associated Press, and I had not been close to Johnson at all with the AP
Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know she was just very smart in everything, but she introduced me to journalism and I'm sorry that I didn't take it as a freshman. Because LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 18, 1969 B: This is the interview with David E. Lilienthal. Sir, to begin at the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? You mention in your journals meeting him at the time he was assigned
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Not really. I can see her kind of and remember her being there in the home and I met her, but I don't recall her. G: There's an indication that LBJ favored the establishment of a school of journalism there at Southwest Texas. Did he ever talk about
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but once that bridge was crossed there's no need in going back over it. G: You were active in the honorary journalism fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi. You were secretary of that, I guess. J: Probably. It was a matter of no importance. But I did decide
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • became the number-one reporter and everybody else kind of looked around for their own stories. It was not an organized process. Time magazine works it a little [differently], because it's group journalism. [At] Time magazine, the bureau chief is assigning
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Bird was taking journalism, she could be, you know, like what's her name with the Washington Post. And in that way Aunt Effie certainly was ahead of her time, I think. Her dream was not of Bird marrying and having a family. Bird to have a real career
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , his English was bilingual, very colloquial, and I did not have to tell him very much. fellow named Dinh Trinh Chinh was minister for a while. Another He had been educated at the University of Missouri journalism school, so he knew some. But most
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and nieces. My father and my uncle and I felt for a long time, primarily through my own wish, that I [should] go into journalism. I had taken quite a few journalism courses while I was at the University of Texas. tion. My majors there were journalism
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and nieces. My father and my uncle and I felt for a long time, primarily through my own wish, that I [should] go into journalism. I had taken quite a few journalism courses while I was at the University of Texas. tion. My majors there were journalism
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and tell them, IIAll rightll--and he did do James Henry on the TV station the same way-"if you run one ad with him, you'll never run another ad in the Longview News and Journal." unpopular. Just such stuff as that. He was very In fact, I was trying
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the University of Texas in journalism. WPA offered me a job of handling public relations for the state of Texas for the agency at a salary of about double what my newspaper salary was. So I went, with some trepidation that I was leaving direct newspapering
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , you know, "Fine. I'd like to have you work on the staff." I had been working for Charlie Green, who was the editor of the [Austin] American Statesman, and before that I had been working in journalism and for the journalism director at North Texas
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • father's knee when his daddy was talking to some important person. But his knowledge of government and politics was way ahead of most of us. G: Did he ever try to ·promote the creation of a journalism school there at San Marcos? W: Yes, according
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was an enthusiastic In fact, that book there says that Lyndon asked Tom about starting a course in journalism so we'd learn how to write, we need to. Of course that was right down Tom's alley. He said, "Well, get some of your old friends that'll take the course
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . At the time that I was his clerk, I was his only law clerk. B: That was in 1949 and 1950? W: That was in the 1949 term, right. I had been editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and had come down along with other candidates from all over to be interviewed
Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • went back to college to get an extra degree. It was in writing, you know. like newspaper writing. I have forgotten the name of it. MR. CATER: Journalism ? MRS. COOPER: Journalism . She took journalism . That is the only thing I know of. She also
Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to travel all over the world. I thought perhaps--she could just write the most beautiful themes and beautiful stories. I had thought at one time perhaps she'd choose journalism as her major but I don't know what her major really was dcwn in Austin, whether
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . at the Austin Club, a beautiful place, in Austin on Eighth \~olilans and San Antonio, the lovely house that's still there. I was living But Bird often visited me. Then when she got her first degree, her B.A. in journalism in 1933, that's when we went out
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as a combination sports editor and general assign- ments reporter and shortly thereafter had a letter from Paul Thompson at U .T . [University of Texas] journalism school asking me if I'd be interested in a fellowship . Took the fellowship in journalism
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then I'd go home and start over. I did that for twenty-one months and saved up a wee bit of money and went back to Chapel Hill and got a degree in journalism, A. B. in journalism. Journalism was handy because all they--they had more electives than any other
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Political Science Association. M: And you've published numerous articles in that journal, as I recall. R: I've published some in that journal and other journals. M: Now, to ask you a large question. There has been some talk that Lyndon Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • matter. But I don't remember Bird's ever cutting a class. G: Anything else on her favorite courses there? S: Well, I know journalism and history. ite. English history was her favor- I wish I could remember her professor's name, he was very well
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or--I'd throw the Wall Street Journal into that, too--that is just hasn't appeared anywhere. I think that is quite true, and it's unfortunate. If a reporter, a columnist, did not have an outlet in any of those papers, he just didn't exist. G: Yes. 16
  • on a few Eastern newspapers vs. the rest of the country; anti-LBJ sentiment in the Wall Street Journal; Jack Anderson; LBJ leaking information to the press; Bob Kintner; attempting to organize a group of young people to support LBJ; Edward Hamilton; how
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the statehouse. And since the age of media-handouts--press releases--had not yet reached the Capitol, reporting the statehouse was a full time job. As a foot- note to journalism, Kennedy and myself possibly speeded along the age of handouts at the Capitol
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be intuitive judgment. He didn't seem to arrive at his conclusions from data garnered from recent issues of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. But somehow he knew; he seemed to have read widely and picked up much by ear. And it was often fun being