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- , and was inadequate to the pressing urban problems of the District; that we had to do something, and that the reorgani.zati on pl an waul d achieve these improvements. Erlenborn and Edwards in the hearings judged the plan on its merits LBJ Presidential Library http
- left out Detroit. Incidentally, we now have a task force in Detroit. B: Do you get involved in political considerations in selecting these? V: Not at all. B: It's not considered? V: No. B: Chicago, for example. Mayor Daley's prominence
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- about a matter he hcd . Their relationsh·ip, I thought, couldn 't be better. The press rea11y spent al 1 that t i me try ing to separate the two of them, and who >'as the second mos t powerful man in Hashington , and then they started to put Bobby
- 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
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- wouldn't say Khanh leveled with him on the preparation--but whom Khanh sought out the minute the fat was in the fire, yes. G: You don't recall the name, do you? F: I don't, but it's a matter of public record. time. It was in the press at the LBJ
- hung around in Doug Kiker's office--he was the director of press for the Peace Corps--watching TV. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
- and Austin; going to work for Press Secretary Bill Moyers; advancing a meeting between LBJ and the Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, at Campobello; LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; recording conversations between LBJ and the press office; LBJ’s
- Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- I -- 2 brushing straw off my shoulders as I get on the press plane. I had never been on a press plane
- Coverage of 1959 Khrushchev visit; Khrushchev's dislike of the press; Mesta Machine Tool Company tour; JFK's choice of LBJ as VP; reflections on JFK's trip to Texas in 1963 and the days following the assassination; experience as a witness to LBJ's
- remember, by George Reedy who was then working as--I" don't know what George's actual title was at that time, but he did most of what a press secretary would do for a senator. F: Yes. W: So he introduced me to Senator Johnson, and Senator Johnson
- Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
- Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 4 There was a local reporter riding on the White House press bus. The only discussion I remember about possible crowd hostility
- ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
- --disagreement, within the embassy, and that the embassy was not leaking like a sieve, although when you have that sort of disagreement, the likelihood of leaks, I suppose, increases. What was the status of our relations with the press in Saigon at this time? F
- Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , it has been said for vice presidential possibilities in a geographic balance of the ticket. W: Only through the press reports on that. Of course, by that time I had met on a personal basis Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, and by then I must admit that I
- into the hotel after this action by the hotel authorities. F: It was tremendously convenient for a young man working on the Hill. P: As I remember, the first month or so they gave me my room rent free. After that, I paid a very nominal sum, and as I remember
- with us at the Mansion overnight--and he kind of felt that, at least I got the feeling that he thought that the Vietnam issue was the big issue. F: Did Humphrey ever talk to you about his problem as a candidate and sort of getting free of the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ONASSIS -- I -- 1 2 every single moment of free time going out--and that that was the way it was gotten
- completely free of any-- M: I don't know. I doubt that it was. I remember there was Some charges made LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: -8http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY
- jobs and errands for the President; advice for LBJ’s press relations; Bill Moyers; LBJ’s treatment of George Reedy; Jenkins held LBJ in respect but not afraid to disagree with him; 1964 campaign; Mississippi delegation; Mooney’s admiration of LBJ; Eric
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stoughton -- I -- 10 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
- he had to do. He felt that he had to work on the inside--this was related with Kennedy and with Johnson--and he wanted to be free to say whatever he felt very strongly, but that once there was a public commitment, that he would support it. He also
- done anything in particular to whip up a crowd, or had it just come naturally? V: It had really come naturally. We had done the usual thing of trying to make sure that the press knew about it and that they were coming in early, to let out
- gets rediscovered by the press about once LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show
- that to the operators? K: Not as much I believe as Mrs. Johnson would like for him to show. F: I see. K: From the standpoint of a general manager, I would say the working conditions of the station are ideal. F: He has given you a free rein through the years
- of what we think is good security and what we think is bad security as it pertains to that individual. M: Mr. Johnson, as President, got into the press sometimes unfavorably because of his occasional flare-up at the Secret Service, people who were
- ? s: No. We simply had to stand up when our name was called, and afterwards talk to some of the press privately. But we had no part of the press LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- and a strong-willed man, was too hard a sell from a political viewpoint, too much pressing. I was too naive, green, I guess insecure, and 1et IS say I was overwhelmed, but I was not overwhelmed sold. I was sort of overwhelmed wanting to say to pull back
- Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
- 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
- . of South American Affairs at the time . F: Well, I won't pursue that . I was Director of the Office I must say it came as quite a shock . That's not part of this project . It did, incidently, get me a free trip to Chile, which I always appre ciated
- free to come down here and look into the facts. They generally came in pairs; I remember one group, there were three of them altogether. Once several came at the same time, including Ford, and this was before the Warren visit. assisted us a great
- : Let me ask this: did you work before C: Yes, I had a cleaning and pressing business, and prior to that time then,~too? I worked in a battery manufacturing plant. M: Of course, that was in the Depression, too, and things were pretty tough. LBJ
- to the White House." I said, "Why?" He said, "I can't tell you." So I was able to find a place for my wife and kids to stay at a motel, and the FBI got my suit pressed for me, got on the airplane, landed at Andrews Air Force Base, arrived at the White House
- be a future colleague of yours? M: Well, not necessarily, but I was impressed with his drive, his ambition, his constant absorption with political matters. It was his whole life,more or less. F: Kleberg just gave him a free hand? M: Yes, Kleberg gave him
- impression that the White House tried to let the new D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct supervision from the White House? M: From what I could see of the operation of District government, certainly the mayor gave me a very free
- been some talk about Lyndon Johnson's style of campaigning, as he called it, "pressing the flesh", sort of barnstorming and going from town to town, that this is out of style, and it's no longer necessary to campaign like that. And so I was interested
- , maybe they won't, but it will be free to operate as an independent nation that will resist outside pressures from any source . That's an awful lot . If you can help assure independence for one-sixth of mankind who live in India, you've done a great
- was sought, cbviously he would give that. lIit's a mistake to push a man into a race. But he said that He ought to decide for himself." So he didn't try pushing Joe Kilgore in the race, but he did want the situation to be such ",here Joe: had a free
- was the recipient of the Spingarn Medal which is a medal given by the NAACP for outstanding performance by a Negro, and I was going to go to Atlanta to receive the award. knew I would have to meet the press. I What I said to the President was that I wanted
- , Narch 30, the Presice.nt ?r::::ss conference out on the la,vn in the Rose; Carden. I ve:ry '.;1211 because I \"ont to my daughter's school and fIe" a kit e with her that morning, and he had called my office, apparently just t, ~)2 at th. press co
- 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
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- in this society as they ought to to read the black press when the Kerner Commission Report came out. It was said that the President ignored the Kerner Commission, didn't like it, didn't like what it was dOing. What he didn't like was certain ways
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- with a But they're human beings too so those frictions sometimes came up. F: Did you press for cease-and-desist power? A: Oh, yes. years. And so did Johnson. And we didn't get it. It just didn't come through. A couple of Then as I left-- F: Was this a kind
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- cross section of that. I think we provided a vehicle for people to talk out their problems. We did not provide a vehicle for Pat JvIoynihan, and that's what most of the press criticism related t o , Pat having many, many press contacts. The point
- a good deal more candor and writing it in a more free and open style when it came over from the State Department, whose interest was primarily in the substance--and which wrote in that peculiar form that I've never been able to comprehend. F: Did