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- the night, and Johnson was going to see some people in Pittsburgh
the following day.
He was going to make a speech in Clarksville, West
Virginia the following night.
So he called us all to his room--all the press party--and he said,
"Now,1I he said, "when
- as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
- about specific
telecasts?
H:
I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary,
we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had
been said or shown.
F:
Do you remember what it was?
H:
I'm sure both
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- as the chairman would in some way limit the freedom of
action upon his part.
I didn't know what his policies were going to be,
but mine were public, and had been stated and restated and discussed at
press conferences and so forth.
Therefore, I felt
- ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
- pretty much today.
But even when he was
Vice President, of course, we weren't pressing him on legislative matters.
We did have a number of contacts with him.
Mu:
Did Mr. Kennedy use him for anything that involved organized labor--?
Me:
Not directly
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would have a meeting with someone that the press did not need to know
abouts but it was somebody important to the administration and to
hims
- back further, or whether to go ahead with something
on the order of a hundred and one, to two billion dollar range.
It
was President Johnson's view that if we pressed ahead, and particularly what he thought might be the political reaction to a budget