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- still wanted to get the statement out and make it public, we could. And we did. At that point he had a press conference on a number of other matters, and during the press conference said he thought this was a bad suggestion, probably unconstitutional
- with people that Lyndon Johnson would be a fine president. F: Did he talk with you about it? H: Yes, he did. So he had that idea. Again, under the way that President Eisenhower worked wherever he went there was press, so wherever there was press
- leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik
- 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
- , or assistants to-- F: Who is Professor Livingston? W: He's apparently a great expert in military management problems at Harvard; he's not the sort of man that a Senator would know, but he gave extremely valuable testimony. F: Were you free to go back
- ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
- 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
- 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 commerce for transportation, to permit U.S. ship operators to buy foreign ships. airlines are free in this regard. The Any time they want they can buy a Caravel or a BAC 111, but in the maritime area a U.S. operator cannot buy a foreign ship without
- systems. Prior to the time the decision is made, I think the Director has felt free to voice his own opinion from an arms control point of view, whether we should deploy ABM's or whether we shouldn't. Generally speaking Mr. Foster, the head
- /loh/oh COOK -- I -- 3 that hostilities could be brought to a conclusion at the earliest possible time. B: Were you given pretty much of a free hand in directing the affairs of the committee? Which is another way to ask: how active was Mr. Johnson
- a great genius in this field. And he was going to come down and for nothing, except for his expenses--the installation, donate his time, set up the East Room so that the President would look better in his press conferences because he felt that television
- ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
- home and become a teacher and a practitioner, what the results would be for democracy and free enterprise are LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
- 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
- --Senator Johnson go? M: In the fall of 1955, I was playing golf one day, on a Sunday. Governor Stevenson called me off the golf course [and] said that President Eisenhower had had a heart attack, and the press was LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- of when there were two very extensive budgetary things . Those were important budgets, the question of anti-ballistic missile system came up as it has every year since the late fifties . Army pressed strongly for it . We didn't think it was ready
- that in many ways, but under our system that's no sin. But I thought, as I made clear, that he went too far in those changes. But I want to be fair to him. F: We'll get to that again later, but one of the things that he was criticized for by the press
- . It was a fact-finding comrr.ittee really. F: Were you given a free hand in naming your assistants? W: Yes, sir. F: No political pressures then? W: None wha~ver. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- 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
- any sort of intimations in those days of the sort of later at least alleged manipulation of the press that Johnson attempted from time to time? B: Well, he wanted to tell you his story. There's no question about that. He wanted to persuade you, he
- 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
- this as unlikely. B: There was no talk that the deputy position just might be just a temporary stepping stone to acting or the administrator position? P: No, although there was a little speculation to this effect in the press at that time, but I didn't pay any
- was there no hint of this from the White House--that didn't surprise me at all, I didn't expect any and there wasn't--but the truly surprising thing to me was that there was no hint of this in the press, and at this time President Johnson had many detractors
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was not excited about the Sputnik, about the Soviet Union. He just said we weren't in a race. a press conference and said we weren't in a race. said that it was just a hunk of iron. [James] Hagerty h~d One of the admirals I think because it was down- played
- It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- , of course, as Press Secretary for President Johnson--inherited from the Kennedy Administration . B: Did you consult with President Johnson on this? I can't remember . You know, my candidate for the United States Senate then was Allan Cranston . F: Who
- the White House the press releases had been given out on it. That's when Senator Vandenberg made his statement which I have always remembered. He said, "You know, it would be a great thing to be called on for the take-off and not just the crash landing
- of California in 1958, the 1960 presidential campaign. Johnson as Vice-President, Senator Everett Dirksen as Senate Minority Leader, LBJ’s reaction to the press.
- : In the latter forties. of the Admirals. II Senator Johnson was of great assistance to the fledgling Air Force. Cochran~ We had what the press called the "Revolt That was a personal attack on Jackie General Vandenberg and myself engineered by some people who
- and drowned them, there was a great deal of material in the press about bad treatment of the recruits by the services and so forth. To make a long story short, we had a letter from a man in San Antonio whose grandson had been inducted, and he claimed
- a little bit, and I put my hands on his back and pressed with the fingertips on both sides. It seemed to me that it was the sort of thing the doctor had told me about. and have a doctor. any doctor. So I said to him to go to a hospital And he was sort
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of the press at the Fairmont Hotel in January of 1973. It just so happened that my wife and I were both going to be in the area, and they asked if I could drop by and see him at the hotel. Well, he was late arriving, but Warren Woodward, a very close friend