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  • , 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
  • 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
  • stayed. I decided A few months later, I took advantage of a training course that Life magazine was offering to photographers towards the journalistic-type presentations that they have, and went to New York for nine weeks and got this thing tacked
  • helped Governor Connally when he prepared his story which ran in Life magazine. As you look over on that wall, you'll see the picture and the inscription there. It's a picture from Life magazine. M: Right. That's the one of John Connally standing
  • worked on for almost six or eight months leading up to the announcement and then later there was a magazine article on it in the New York Times and then later in my book, To Be Equal, which went into it more in detail. Mr. Johnson is mentioned in the book
  • an editorial writer at the Times. You go to the Sunday magazine and a hundred or so employees, and I understand, as of t o d a y , that there isn't a black in that part of the New York Times. I need not tell you but these are just vital ways of getting ideas
  • for some three or four years, the first permit for that channel was granted years and years before the station was ever built. F: Life magazine came out during the campaign of 1964 showing President Johnson's holdings and putting valuations on them. Did
  • be "first name" on this, I've known you so long. Tell us a little bit about how you came out of Texas and wound up in Washington. m.1: After I got out of the Uni versi ty of Texas I spent several years in Dallas as an editor of an editorial magazine
  • brokers, the intermediaries, at a time when mass media politics, particularly in California, were coming on strong. Kennedy had been using public relations, p6pular magazines, glamour and so forth like that, and Johnson was still thinking that there were
  • this hindsight that people try to put into history these days to prove that they were right. I was fascinated to read last night an article in Encounter magazine written by a man named Robert Elegant-G: He's a British journalist, I believe. H: --in which he
  • the table and hope that it goes by. at the time. I was inclined to speak out myself. I thought it was wrong The whole thing, you know, was developed by these two fellows that ran this Rampart Magazine up here who were inclined to produce the sensational
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
  • a little bit, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine, and before long, he encountered the priest coming out who had delivered the last rites. So, by the time I got to the press room, and he got to the press room with our reports, everybody pretty well believed
  • . D; Yes, very happily, they did. I remember the next week Life magazine had a centerfold and they had pictures of everybody laughing. They had all the senators, Humphrey, Kennedy, Johnson, Symington, all of them---l sti 11 have that copy of Li
  • ? S: None at all. F: What about the revelations on Bobby Baker? Did you get to see the Vice President's reaction to those? S: I think his reaction was one of disappointment. He, as everyone knows and as the newspaper and magazine articles very
  • as owners of the television and radio station in Texas employers of any of your union members? B: Yes . They are employers . an opportunity to correct . There was one story out that this gives me It was published widely in a magazine
  • Vice President Johnson was interest- ed in making the whole trip a success. He called me about four days before they were due to come down and wanted me to put together a magazine-program for the Austin dinner. It seems like something had happened
  • attributes-- R: That's right, she does. At the time I went to London after the first year, at the end of 1964 I went to London and was our bureau chief there and later went to Asia before coming back, there was a story in Time magazine,which
  • of the piece. And so the senator gleefully picked this up and said, "I have the review of your book written in this Communist magazine. Jim Crow? 'I Do you know LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson