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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-04-10 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Is that the Walter of the McCarren-Walter Act? P: He's dead now, yes. And I have some association, having luncheon with them when they were back on leave. Again, I can't remember the details. F: Did he make any special effort to woo you as a newspaper man
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there no hint of this from the White House--that didn't surprise me at all, I didn't expect any and there wasn't--but the truly surprising thing to me was that there was no hint of this in the press, and at this time President Johnson had many detractors
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • the portrait in the White House. The President was away at the time, and it was unfinished so I didn't want hinl to see it anyway, nor Mrs. Johnson either. But he had arranged to have it shown to some of the people on the White House Historical Association
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • was in may very well have had something to do with his reaction to the portrait. H: Everything was ganging up on him. The public, press wasn't good; his public relations were lousy. He had had this operation which was causing him more pain and trouble