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Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , for the record, S o m e background inform.ation on yourself. If you want to provide any additional details, please feel free. You were born in Kentucky, in Latonia. it? Is that the way you pronounce , A: Latonia, it's pronounced Latonia- - Latonia, Kentucky
  • of LBJ and JFK; LBJ and columnists; LBJ's press secretaries; LBJ and the press; Gene McCarthy; Bobby Kennedy; 1968 campaign; personal observations on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contact with him? B: Johnson was always one to play up to the press, particularly the Austin media. At that time I was working on the Austin Dispatch and was city editor, and so therefore he [knew me], although the Dispatch was not a real strong
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . Then, he began the endless rounds -- looking for.a job. L'ltimnt!"ly he fOllnd a snaIl utility company. 'rhc on~ d~press;on -- part time -- with a local deE'pen(>d -- l:lonth by l!'onth. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 12 Mrs. Maverick could tell you more about that than I could of the various ones. And Maury then was constantly making speeches to this group, or to press clubs--he went to New York to meet Dorothy Thompson and her group, and I
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . You're Arthur Goldschmidt and your current position is United States Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. G: No, I resigned that with the change of administration. M: Oh, you're out of that. G: Yes, I'm a free man
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I took some of my consternations over to George Christian, who was the press secretary at the time, who was present at the ranch in Australia when Mr . Johnson was tendered the offer of the kangaroos . George said he had enough to worry about ; he
  • LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was considering a redistricting bill for congressional districts, and the pattern for the 10th district was to extend it almost as far east as Houston. I went to the incumbent senator, Senator John Hornsby, and ex- pressed my opposition to it, the newspaper's
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • my standpoint, better and better. Did he talk to you any about specific votes or did he pretty well leave you free to go your own way? T: He would leave me very free. As a matter of fact, I do not remember his ever, ever just coming directly
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a whole lot. We went down to the They had these free concerts during the summer on the Potomac where they had this bandshell out on the river. There was really a lot to do for young people that didn't have very much economically. H: Did you find
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who were involved in a meeting, "If you don't like my decision, you should always feel free to go to Shriver." But I don't remember cases in which they did, although there must have been some. I don't remember being reversed, but then that may
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the position was at the time. about. That was a long time ago, we're talking I haven't had occasion to talk to NYA staff in years, so it presses me to recall. G: Anything else on the roadside parks? L: No, other than to say that they were highly
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had long leg s, he'd cover lots of territory . He went all over every town, every community, and every hamlet shaking hands, "I'm Lyndon Johnson. I want to be your congressman . " He'd, look them in the eye . He liked to press the flesh, as he said
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • us what his ideas were, the way he taught, et cetera? 0: Yes, first, I will describe his general appearance~ Dr. Greene was smaller than the average man; he was not too careful about his dress; he wasn't particular whether his pants were pressed
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -on NYA experience, he had announced a project in advance and had gotten the press there; it was maybe a roadside park project or something. All the media people showed up, but the youths didn't show up so the project fizzled out, at least on the first
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to a press conference. The press conference was going to be later that day. I was there for Defense, briefing him on various Defense issues. He kept interrupting the press conference to talk to somebody at the other end of the phone to persuade him to take
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • did. I worked on it with Tom Whitehead, who later left our paper and bought the Brenham Banner Press and was publisher of it and for all I know may still be. But any- way, we conducted the poll and we went all over the district--smaller towns
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • for the American-Statesman. I started as a capitol correspondent for the Galveston N~s, and then the Trans-Radio Press; that was a news service. Then I picked up another paper--this was [as] capitol correspondent, [the] Wichita Falls Post, which is no longer
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • haven't seen him for some time.--and others. And they got out literature on their own steam, maybe using some of the printing presses at the Normal--I'm not sure. bit. I had very little money; I contributed a little Lyndon traveled with me from time
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The Associated Press carried it all over I can still tell you the lead. The lead was, "The fate of 250,000 Texas schoolchildren rested today in the hands of veteran educator Pat Bullock and youthful Lyndon Baines Johnson." That was the lead on my story
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt- -27 on the enforcement of the desegregation of the Court. At that time, Whitney Young and a number of people were pressing very hard to put into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as they did
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was organ- izing a campus club, Young Democrats, and asked if I wouldn't be interested. Somehow or other he had gotten my name through Texas Press, Intercollegiate Press Association. But we did organize the first young Democratic club in Denton, County
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [It] said, "I have today named you National Youth Administrator for Colorado . commitments and incur no obligations . course, Aubrey Williams ." Make no So, of I was sought after by the press right away, and I couldn't give any answers as to what
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the Associated Press . They got along well with Governor Neff . thing . He came to their parties and all that sort of know him pretty well . So I got to you He was an interesting old boy, and as Lyndon's mother, said, he knew Lyndon's father I'm sure
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • They needed like this was a good thing . So we worked at it . G: Did he himself have close contacts with the press, with publishers or reporters? B: Well, knowing his attitude toward the necessity of having good public relations I feel sure he did
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . I don't know that he did much writing in that period. G: To what kind of groups did he speak? K: Luncheon clubs, chambers of commerce, state press association. I recall one talk that he made in San Antonio to the San Antonio Rotary Club. I said
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and had all the press come out there and everything, and no youth showed up for the first day. LG: Do you recall that? I don't know. I do not recall this, but in the early days that could certainly happen. MG: From then on he was very careful to make
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : What else did he do? M: Well, I don't really know. Yes, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he must have been handling news releases to the press and things of that nature, and contacts LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I had missed. During our visit in Washington, one of my friends--a former editor that I had worked for on the Oklahoma News--said, "Well, Franklin D. Roosevelt is going to have a press conference. Don't you want to come and hear it?" Of course, I
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)