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Nay 13, 1969
F:
This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New
York on Hay 13, 1969.
The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right?
W:
Yes, sir.
F:
Tell us a little
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
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May 12, 1969
This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May
12, 1969.
The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon
B. Johnson, that is you
- 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
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
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INTERVIEWEE:
ROBERT BASKIN
INTERVIEWER:
JOE B. FRANTZ
PLACE:
Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas
Tape 1 of 1
F:
Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as
well go on there.
Lyndon Johnson?
B:
Briefly, when
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
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through the years he was a photographer, too, in his early
days.
He worked with the New York Times, and he worked in
th~
Seattle Post-Intelligencer s so he was photo oriented and knew the
value of pictures.
He was a real sharp editor and knew pictures
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- that they had indirect control of where a missile could
reach Washington or New York and not reach Moscow.
So the situation
was somewhat different.
Furthermore, the bulk of opinion was that what we were witnessing
in the build-up in the summer of 1962
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- every accommodation that you could get
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
You could have a radio, you
could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have
everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway,
a good
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- a
LBJ Presidential Library
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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talk in New York a few days
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new
board.
The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera-
tions of the federal government.
B:
Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in
those
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)