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Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to 1963. Right after my coverage of the March on Washington I was approached by the editors of Time magazine, as well as representatives from the networks, all of whom were interested in hiring a black reporter for the very first time. I chose the offer

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 Then, of course, when he got back to New York, he got back on a Sunday. Newsweek was in the habit then of promoting, on the Sunday news, its lead Monday story. I

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

instrument, and he could not do it. Nor could any one of the other members of the staff. The guns part of it everybody agreed with, but the butter part made us look silly. I think, well, probably overall, to have a cover in a magazine like Newsweek of course
. military during the Korean War; a deal made to put LBJ on the cover of Newsweek; problems with the "guns and butter" report and a report on Marine morale; Downey Rice's work as an investigator; LBJ's influence on the Preparedness Subcommittee; the process

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the Vietnam issue? A: Again, this is not a subject on which I can speak with any expertise. I know that there were conflicts on Time magazine, for example, and I think to an extent in Newsweek, but I don't really know about that. I never have had

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh 9 office at Newsweek in New York, and Mrs. Johnson called up and suggested that I come and have a cozy evening, more or less alone, with them. F: This was while they were still living in the house? G: [It was] before they moved

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but whether he was a White House correspondent, I don't recall. But there were a lot of very well-known Newsweek-Time magazine sort of people who had known Kennedy. Hugh Sidey, for instance, was another one. Hugh had covered the Senate, so he knew Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, to Time magazine, which had a big house of its own and ample supporting staff, drivers, its own Telex operation and so on. The New York Times had only three staff reporters in 1966-1967. The New York Times, like most other newspapers, seemed to regard
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Bob Manning, who moved from the State Department to the White House as the coordinator of all Vietnam press policy. Bob then left shortly thereafter, about a month thereafter, for the editorship of the Atlantic magazine. That left me without a clear

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. And he was upset because of that criticism. He had some magazine reporters there--Jack Sutherland of the U.S. News, Chuck Roberts of Newsweek~ and myself, I guess he maybe had only those three. over to have lunch with him. He went The ritual started
Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

saying that Greenfield didn't have that authority? Z: Bob Manning left the government about the end of August or early September to become editor of the Atlantic Magazine. never got that letter Bob Manning did. Jim Greenfield One of the headaches we
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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in there. I was going to say, as an old news- paperman you were tending to favor the magazine people here. J: Perhaps. That's because it is a tough story and it is complicated and a magazine writer has a little more time to work up his piece, to gather his

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. At that time there were no more than half a dozen people engaged in the task force. G: When you were at Labor and were asked to write, or to do studies, what was it, to write speeches? T: There were speeches for Bill Wirtz; there were drafts of magazine

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

sixties when they brought Lansdale back out there as special team to win the war, and I had read a piece in done . I happened in the head of this to hear about this early on, Foreign Affairs magazine that Lansdale There was something, it seemed

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I think amazed me more than anything, the one thing I recall, the discussion was not on what we were going to be doing at the governor's conference. The President had a whole series of magazines like Time, Newsweek, et cetera and he had a series

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

prominence, so you were getting national writers, Time magazine and so forth, that wanted in-depth stories, Newsweek and so forth. But he stayed on the floor. I guess I compare it to how the Senate is today, but it was like a child of his, I guess, that you

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

very much if Johnson or anyone It/as monitori ng the New Yorker for him. Kennedy read it himsel f. The Ne\'1 Yorker, fond as I am of it, is not taken very seriously as a political magazine, and I don't think he'd much care. No, I never had that. I

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for a drink. Do you think they're not going to talk about it? Of course they're going to talk about it. It finally got to a Time magazine reporter. Of course, some of the press worked on it, too. I remember one in particular, a reporter whom I will not name

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by that report, he lost badly. It became apparent to everyone very quickly in Washington that the report did not have any substance to it and that he had used it as bait to get this cover on Newsweek magazine. G: Did LBJ do anything to recoup his standing

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the continuation of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, since we last talked, there has been published in Newsweek on March 10

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, the room for the kind of commentary you get in newspapers and the kind of critical judgments you can make in magazines. So I think television was not unkind to Johnson in that it transmitted to the country Johnson—for good or for bad, but it was Johnson

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

: I was interested; you earlier mentioned, I believe before the tape was on, that the White House decided to violate its own policy of task force secrecy by engineering some kind of leak from the- F: It was a leak to Newsweek. T: To Newsweek

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anything else. Another man that I would talk to is Bryson Rash, that I would give notes on what I thought. Newsweek. Another one was Sam Shaffer of Those were my three contacts. I met Holmes at the Metropolitan Club to tell him goodbye. said, "What

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and I'll have to say it the way it is because there were conflicting ideas about the President's birthplace. In fact, Time magazine came out with a picture of the President's birthplace on the cover, which was a board and batten three-room shack

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Post or Newsweek Where is he now, Washington Post? magazine last I heard of him. But Gerry Siegel was working on the Preparedness [Sub]committee at the time. So he told me he'd take him. Gerry said, "Sam, do you mind if I take this up with Senator

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the lights, and the austerity in the White House and so forth came to the eye of a very astute reporter, who had known of Okamoto's prowess, and he got him to talk, unwittingly, and quoted him in a Newsweek article. The same day that the magazine came out

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Time magazine that President Truman was very angry about. Johnson was very rough on the military, very rough on me at hearings, which he had a right to be. But he was unusually rough at this particular hearing. He would have a habit of saying, "I

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

been in the Senate one or two or three years when he got married. And their wedding was a great story in Life magazine. S he was absolutely the essence of romance and beauty, and spoken of as the most outstanding debutante of the year. And she had had

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of Forbes Magazine, including Bill Anderson, now a congressman from Tennessee, and Mrs. Arthur Goldberg and others. met all day long and I was invited to sit in. And we And the thing that struck me when I came out of the meeting was that these people

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Johnson standing up waving his arms over you? S: , , That picture got a lot of publicity around the country, Newsweek and a number of other magazines, because it was so typical of meetings we would have in the White House. B: What were

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

for The Nation. SL: What other •••.• ? Oh, The Nation, The Reporter, lately demised, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, what-- Did these reflect the editorial opinions of their various newspapers or magazines? M: If so, it was coincidental. G: Really? r~: Yes. If so~ it was coincidental. I can think of one or two cases where it had happened, but I think

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Magazine, on Califano. It was Pat Anderson or somebody. He had gone to Okamoto to try to get a picture of Califano and the President--the famous picture of Joe whispering in LBJ's ear at the cabinet table. The President found out about the story, and he

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