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Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President asked the Vice President to make. M: I know Mr. Johnson later became so suspicious of the press, based partly on what he thought were unfriendly leaks by Kennedy people. Did this begin while President Kennedy was still alive? S: I didn't know
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in mind? At these April meetings was it somewhat of a free-for-all, or did he call on you and you and you and you? H: Yes, he went around the table and called on various individuals, so that he gave everyone an opportunity to speak. 7 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on of Eugene McCarthy and/or Senator Dodd who were the other two besides Humphrey who were rumored in the press as under consideration? C: Much of what I have to say is obviously just the expression of a personal opinion. It is my opinion that Senator Dodd
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of legislation. They will also needle us to clear reports that they want up there to meet their schedule, and will at times press us as well as the agencies to come up with what they consider the right answers on a particular piece of legislation. contact
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by going to Jack Valenti and work something out. But it was much harder because he'd be late, and you'd wait there an hour or so when he was supposedly free and he wouldn't be. be immediate. You knew it wouldn't He didn't have a system like President
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be tied in \lIJith what Nixon's doing now. It's going to be that. I notice that the press has a habit of calling it now the "era of Vietnam." in Vietnam. it. They don't call it the \'/ar I don't know whether that's a way of trying to soften LBJ
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • unsolicited outside letters? M: No, r think the main things were the comments in Women's Wear, which didn't give Mrs. Johnson very good press, saying that she was a typical LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was Sunday morning, and none of us were pressed for time. At that period of LBJ's life probably, I don't know how long that lasted. but he delighted in telling about his accomplishments and especially to his old friends. We were delighted to listen. G
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DOUGHERTY -- I -- 3 I thought then that I just wished to God that I were free to do that. F: Did
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trip to Texas. Did we mention this last time at all? M: Yes, we did. F: Yes. I think I felt then that the press coverage was so extensive of the trip that there was no particular need to rehearse where we went or what we did. If I'm repeating, we
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to continue exploding these devices and experimenting because the United States had refused to enter into a "no first use" agreement with China. And he said this publicly, under release by the New China Press Agency. Now, this struck me and several others
  • Talks with the Chinese about “no first use” agreement, Test Ban Treaty, offer to exchange medicine, scholars, etc.; attempts to break down formality with the Chinese, Senator Albert Gore divulging information to the press, LBJ’s building bridges
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He called me two or three days later and gave me the list of songs that he was going to sing, and I took the list of songs down to Liz Carpenter and she typed up the press release. The next thing I heard was a call from Walt Rostow with sort of a hint
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • House for this press conference. Abe said, "Look, you don't suppose he is going to lean on me some more about this." heard. I said, "Oh, I think you are off the hook from what I have II Well, I had a television set in here, which is now in the next
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and thought Mr. Moley should--but he [Hull] was an internationalist. He was a free-trader. While Moley was away, Mr. Hull got to Mr. Roosevelt and told Mr. Roosevelt that this was hurting him and it was the wrong thing. Then the usual game was always played
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a free hand by the Kennedy Administration? R: No, because, you see, what had really happened--it wasn't a question of giving a free hand, There was one very unfortunate thing. When the Space Act was passed, Eisenhower did not understand the section
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in those days. But people There was a feeling that Eastern Europe would have been entirely free is we hadn't signed the Yalta agreements. Eisenhower had to go along with it because otherwise he would have split the Republican Party irrevocably, and he
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • when he was vice president, I suppose more after he became president . In fact all of my life, since the early meeting in the thirties I've been in close relationship with President Johnson . I think he has felt that he was free to call and ask my
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, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , or seldom sat in I should say. L: Yes, he did I think. Quite frequently at the start, but to a lesser extent later on. F: Were they fairly free discussions? L: Yes, initially. F: They gradually got a little tired. Everybody has his own say? Were
  • landslide victory; attributes LBJ’s benevolence to political bribery; LeMay’s disdain for press; LeMay’s support for “conservative” leadership; fear that U.S. might be close to becoming a socialist or communist republic; Republican Party’s interest in LeMay
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , concluded that a telegram should be sent. In any event, as this evening continued to unfold, another matter came up. Press and network people were anxious to have a spokesman for the Kennedy side in the ballroom. I was a little intrigued to find
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, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • most people would have guessed that the city of Detroit was the last place that would have gone and yet it was one most violent. what went into keeping peace in New York. So I don' t really know I'd like to think that we influenced it, I don' t k
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and was in Moyers' office, which then \'/asn't the press office, if I remember it, it was in fact where Larry Temple later was. next to the Oval Office. M: I don't think he was press secretary by that time, was he? R: I don't know. He was running the campaign
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a nice occasion it was, that kind of thing. G: You mentioned the picketing. Why was he so concerned about the picketing? Was it because of the press coverage of it or was it just a personal--? K: I don't want to overdo his concern because he
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Horowitz -- I H: I think there was. I think there was. was nibbling away at it all the time. -~ 7 Because I remember the press Even when the bill was finally sent up
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • agriculture; that only the western states with less than twenty-five inches, and in m.any cases only six and eight and ten inches of rain, were the ones that had to have federal assistance in the terms of an interest-free loan to develop their agriculture
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • people in the party that would have some impact, I suppose, on the delegates when they got to the convention if the delegates should become free agents. Under the Wisconsin law they were bound, as I recall it, on the first vote, but after that were free
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the world. So it clearly was a useful thing, certainly useful for the 001 people, and the brighter, the more imaginative operators soon discovered that in effect they were getting a free hand who had a good bit of academic training that was relevant
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , the pressures really went on. The Republican Policy Committee did not take a position on it. Ordinarily, this leaves Republicans free to vote for us. But the Republican Crime Committee came out opposed to the plan. The main Republican strategy was to defeat
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the right way to go, which caused a real rift between the President and Humphrey in the end. G: Let me ask you to elaborate on that. Humphrey was quoted, of course, as--well, not only his public statements but even what appeared to be leaks to the press
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the time you left Vietnam and came back here, there was discussion in the press about an alleged disagreement between you and, particularly, Army commanders regarding the necessity of concentrating on destroying the Viet Cong infrastructure
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • made a lot of bucks off that. How did you control the commission members themselves from talking to the press? EG: They were a remarkable group of people. When we reached that midpoint and set that target of January 1964 that group was 120 per cent
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • state do in a case like that? S: I started smoking. F: Are you talking about literally or smoking inwardly? S: I would occasionally light up a cigarette in a press conference. really smoke, didn't before, and don't now. No. F: Incidentally
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • press which he has deserved perhaps, a sturdy fellow. Asian leader. But Thieu may turn out to be the great And I say that because of the last year the change that has occurred in this man--I was in Vietnam working with him and his cabinet people
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , particularly political, having to do with South Vietnam. Also, quite frequently George Christian, the press secretary, would be there, and also Tom Johnson or somebody like that to take notes. Occasionally Vice President Humphrey would attend
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Were there any unusual circumstances connected with your own appointment? W: No. M: No business about keeping it from the press, this type of thing? W: No. M: Did he give you any special instructions at that time as to what he expected ESSA
  • ; hiring; coordination of ESSA with private research; international characteristics; activities of ESSA; LBJ's interest in weather function of ESSA; environment the most pressing problem in the future