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  • into Chicago and going into St. Louis and going into Cleveland and going into Pittsburgh you saw the change and the enthusiasm. of how Dewey was doing. So I also kept track The thing that really [convinced me] . was the comparison in Salt Lake, where Dewey
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Binion, who was a lawyer for the Houston Post and KPRC, would come up and we'd be writing a speech, and held say, "Roy, I've got to look the speech over. it and pass on it. II Hurry up and finish the damn thing so I can see Well, we'd give it to him
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Gardner covered the Senate campaign But I'm positive and I believe he covered LBJ, is correct, and possibly Bob Johnson for the Houston Post , I believe those two . remember a specific people don't a UPI reporter being there . I am certain
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Shortly after Charles and I were married in Austin we went to live in South America, where he had been living when he graduated. And someone in South America brought to my attention the Saturday Evening Post, which did a whole series of things about George
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the Fort Worth Record-T: Fort Worth Record in 1906, I was 16 years old. M: 1906, right. And in 1912-1913 you came to Washington and worked for the Washington Post. You have been an editor and owner of newspapers. In 1917 you became the Washington
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • --Auxiliary it was to be then--started, and my father was quite interested in it. It was he who wanted me to go, and judging by the news reports I wasn't too keen on it. I never got excited about it. Finally Papa went to the post office and got the papers
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that it was the place, I would mark the site with streamers of yellow crepe paper here on a fence post or somewhere. Yellow is more visible from the air; that's why we used the yellow paper. And then the next thing we'd do, we'd go to the newspaper and we would place
  • . D: It was days before-- F: ~fuere this? did you set up your office; where was your listening post for all of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • for only VHF channel in Austin; JFK assassination; ICC Commissioner; change in LBJ after his heart attack; post-Presidential visit to Ranch; LBJ as a very sentimental man
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 10 Mc: Did you have any occasion to sori of deal with Mr. Johnson or his staff in relation to what was happening back with your constituencies-post offices and things like that? F: On occasions I did. Usually my dealings
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Clements [?J, who later went with the Associated Press, was with the Houston Post. Let me see . . . . G: Did you ever travel with Stevenson in that campaign? M: Yes. G: Could you contrast the style of getting around? M: Oh, yes. Well, Stevenson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • into it, and they did start to operate, but they had--you know, they were subsidized by the post office. So it's kind of hard to come up with a number. I would have to guess when it was all boiled down, it was maybe between three and four hundred dollars an hour
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with the Johnsons s and Johnson asked me to be the swing man on getting Texas reporters to travel with him on the vice presidential campaign. So I got vari- ous newspapers--Star Telegram, Houston Post, let's see, who else, the Harte-Hanks papers--to agree to send
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , to which post he had succeeded after being appointed receiver of an Insull company that had a half finished dam on the Colorado River. I was very impressed by Wirtz, as well as by Johnson, and I always later in my life considered Wirtz to be probably
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • at Uvalde. John Garner's son, you know. Multi-mil- lionaire who could pitch in $50,000 or whatever he wanted to. couldn't. Roth So that was pretty typical of the things that he did. And then did I tell you the story about Wilton and the post office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it myself, but in many instances, Lyndon was very thoughtful. John Connally would call the affected Congressman and say, "Well, so-and-so department has just anno1.ID.ced a new post office or a new reclamation project, It something like that. He'd say
  • , and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post