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Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then by happenstance in the trade the syndicates formed, that is, these writers who demonstrated they could sell papers in New York and perhaps Washington were syndicated throughout the country. And being a by-product, they were offered 50 per cent of the take
  • Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for clothes to be sent to Mrs. Johnson to Washington. We arranged to meet, and we delegated one member of our New York office staff to work with Mrs. Johnson, to take clothes to her to the hotel. We brought up clothes from manufacturers--samples--many
  • ; 7th Avenue wholesalers; Dallas Morning News’ notorious advertisement; Bruce Alger; re-establishing Dallas as a good place to live and work; Bronze Abstract Wall commissioned by Dallas Public Library; problem with having an official designer; Adele
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the real estate business, managing apartment houses in syndication in New York City. I had gotten into interpreting quite accidentally, at first for the Carnegie Foundation; subsequently the Young Women's Christian Association, the national board
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to my news bureau, I write a syndicated column which is syndicated nationally by Publishers Hall Syndicate, and that's owned by Marshall Field who owns the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News. F: So that you have a national audience? C: Yes
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was then with the New York Herald Tribune. Since then they've both become commentators on NBC. Kiker was always the nemesis of the President. It was my feeling that if LBJ had run for re-election that eventually Doug Kiker would become his press secretary
  • and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: As president? A: Yes. I did have one interview with him. Let's see, it was the time of the Detroit riots. When would that have been? Late 1967 I guess. I wanted to see him on some other subject, and I'd had my name in. I was in New York. I got
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the press he'd say, "I have this report here from the best people we have in the U.S. government showing we're making progress in the pacification and so on, and here is this New York Times article. Now they can't both be accurate. people
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of comparison, New York City has about twenty-eight thousand policemen, so the thing that we have to remember is that law enforcement in this country is a matter of local initiative and local resources. The Safe Streets Act recognizes, however
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVI EWEE: THOMAS G. HICKER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Wickerls office, Washington Bureau, New York Times Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, I know you came out of Hamlet, North Carolina, which I think is a very happy place to have been born
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was another. M: Did any of them ever do it? N: No. The only successful effort came in connection with our Johnson book. It was rather widely syndicated in newspapers in installments. The [New York] World Journal Tribune, short-lived, was started in 1966
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall it, a week or ten days, LBJ found out that Kilduff was going up to New York for the weekend, I think it was. This is typical LBJ. He told Reedy he wanted him to take the weekend off, he was tired and needed a rest. He knew that that was going
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • into how you got started as a protagonist for better health. G: Well, very simply, I started out to go into the academic field. I went to New York University, undergraduate and graduate, and studied under Henry Steele Commager. The Depression came along
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the electorate in Texas and point out to me that in substance, Texas, because of the way in which it was settled was as big a melting pot as New York, and that particularly he had always been able to have the support of the Negro and the Mexicans. His problem
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York, and whatever we wanted to put on was usually paraphrased out of the newspaper, and we put on very little news of that kind. There was just no press as we know it today. one thing. So it was a one-on- My friend from the Houston Press, who was my
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beginning. Then later Bill White was of course with the New York Times many years, and then a syndicated columnist. As Lyndon and his aspirations grew beyond being a senator to being a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and I guess we had lunch. And I was very stubborn about this, and I called NBC in New York and found that the man who was the president of NBC at the time, named Robert Kintner, who later went to work for the President as the secretary of the cabinet
  • on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • to call on him--it was one of the first times that I really got to know him--when he was recuperating from his heart attack down on the Ranch. A story had appeared in the New York Times that he was at work building a southern conservative coalition
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the service and started as a news correspondent here at the National Press Building. That was June 12, 1944. F: That was right at D-Day in Normandy, wasn't it? M: That's right, that's right. She was nine days old when I started working here in the Press
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to Washington from your home state in Texas, and you worked with them until 1945. From 1945 to 1958 you were with the New York Times and rose to the position of chief congressional correspondent. In 1958 you left to become nationally syndicated. Your column
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ' bellow would roar out suddenly, "And what about eggs!" and then he'd tell his story. A grand newsman in those days, long dead and forgotten, was Lemuel Spears, a New York Times correspondent. men Mr. Ochs himself hired. was concerned. Lem Spears was one
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it straight. I remember that Kennedy was very bitter at reporters like David Halberstam with the New York Ti mes, who \'lere tell i ng another versi on of what was goi ng on in Saigon. And I think that this is where this credibility gap gained momentum
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was elected speaker [of the Little Congress], I ran and was defeated. It goes on and says what I wanted to do was to be in charge of entertainment to New York. Here's what happened. for speaker. In 1937 my name was put in the pot to run Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • never really told him what I thought about it, which is very simple. The trouble with Johnson and Viet Nam was that he was too clever by half. He had 150,000 troops on the ground before the New York Times admitted we were in a major war, literally
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on this before the President made the statement." fine. Let him be heard. to New York." Sam. Where is he?" I said, "Well, that's "He inmediately took a train "Cecil, had he planned that before?" "I don't know, I did hear him call Marvin and say that he
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a syndicated colwmi.st. r thought I would just .begin by introducing you and then at the end of that, you can add whatever you'd like to it. You were born in 1924 in New York City. In 1947 you received a B.A. I from U.C.L.A. and in 1948 received a Master
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to give the South a chance to live with the new decision of the Supreme Court, I think Senator Russell would have been drafted for the presidency and would have been president. But I think that was the biggest political blunder in my lifetime, because
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , he would wait until the last moment before he would personally authorize the wheat shipments . As a result, the Indians found it very hard to maintain a rationing estimate, because they couldn't know what to count on . The American Embassy in New
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it arose myself through the New York Times and specifically through Mr. James Reston. I recall this instant quite well. It was early in the President's Administration. He was preparing to go before the United Nations, and Mr. Reston apparently in getting
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and stay in the Waldorf­ Astoria Hotel in New York City"--how the Waldorf got into it I don't know! Well, he didn't think too much of it at the time, but later on after we returned to the United States we got an almost panicky cablegram from the American
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . Levine, I'd like to begin by providing a little biographical background information that I have. Then if you feel there are any gaps, please feel free to fill in. Originally you're from Brooklyn, New York, as I understand it. You attended the Brooklyn
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . This happened on two specific occasions, I can recall, concerning Vietnam mail. Such newspapers as the New York Times and the Washington Post also became quite interested in late '66 and early '67 on the specifics of Vietnam mail. They wanted to know
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reporter many years ago. When I was in Swathmore, Pennsylvania, I worked for the Philadelphia papers part time, but I drifted into political reporting when I was here in Washington. F: By the time the New Deal came on, you were established as a syndicated
  • news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests