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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-02-26 (remove)
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  • what they called the bull pen which was the big large room in the basement of the Biltmore Hotel where all the politics took effect, and every day at noon the press had arranged for press conferences. So everybody else had spoken and so I got out
  • of these gridiron programs that the press puts on. The two participants were Senator Johnson and myself. We had a good time and put on a pretty good show for them, I guess. Then when I went back to Washington, I was walking in the Senate floor one morning
  • press relations on part of that trip. B: How did the Harte chain come down in the election? H: They came out all the way for Johnson. The Harte chain, the indi- vidual editors always had a great deal of leeway and Harte, perhaps in this race
  • could get him to reconsider this decision, and the proclamation was just being signed and ready to be released. He was in the Cabinet Room with his key civil rights advisers--that's probably where McPherson was--and the members of the press