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Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the television statement, but they had already issued the advanced copies to the press. They were already gone. They couldn't make corrections. So a very few of the newspaper chains used the advance copy, but they didn't get mu~h notice. It was the official
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a speech in Japan that seemed to be contrary to what Johnson was saying in his campaign speeches. The press made it a big thing. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You mean in terms of Kennedy? F: Yes, while Kennedy was still president. There was a lot of talk about it through the press. S: Oh, no. No, no. Johnson was very popular in Minnesota because Johnson was more of a farmer than was Kennedy. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • . We used to use We used it like from Washington to Detroit when he had just an out-and-back without too many people involved. We used it a good deal. I suspect that the President flew on that Jetstar, during the course of his Presidency, fifty
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the President's view. I later learned that my answer at that time caused considerable consternation in some quarters in the White House and in the State Department. M: That was my next question. That's about the time the press began its reporting which
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh B. Abell -- Interview I -- 11 wanted to be on hand for anything she needed to do with the Vice President, but in any free time that she had
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the middle of the whole thing. I think it's interesting to note that fifteen years ago we were controlling grains and dairy in this country, for all that we say that we're free traders and said it back then. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Candidates ," and it was so difficult to get speakers even to debate Republican speakers on a national hookup of free time, that I had to fill in some of those myself. I enjoyed terrifically debating people like Sherman Adams, who was the campaign manager
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • something like the Korean settlement, with a genuine demilitarized zone and the Communists on the North and the free Vietnamese on the South, with some guarantees of our troops remaining there. This, I think, was what he was hoping for, praying for, up
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, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • were detached and became a member of the Task Force was to press for solutions to rural problems. Is that correct, or did you have a much broader kind of scope? S: Well, it was both. My first responsibility was to develop the rural side
  • in the Budget Bureau; Sargent Shriver; Sundquist’s participation in the War on Poverty task force; department representatives vs. free agents in the task force; how Shriver became head of the task force and later the OEO; the concept of community action
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was purely by chance. Helen Bird, as the daughter of an Episcopal minister, could, I'm sure, get a very favorable rate there. I don't know what they did for daughters of ministers; I hope to heavens they let them in free. The tuition, however, was fairly high
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • through. She helped us get sales in the White House. You see, never before had anything been sold in the White House to the public. Everybody would come in free. Well, the only way the guidebook would be a success to get the money to buy things
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • relationship with President; George Reedy; Charlie Murphy; press relations; Walt Rostow; cycle of politics; poverty program; Sargent Shriver; transition experiences
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- VIII -- 16 G: There were some other instances, problems with the press. There was a Marshall McNeil story about Admiral [Robert] Carney that enraged Johnson. quoted. R: I guess
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they could do. G: Was LBJ apprised of this situation later? A: No, no. No, no. We never told him about that. It really wasn't a thing we would tell him about. It was just laughable to the Secret Service that heard it. Well, the press around it heard
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press stories and the kind of questions I'd get from people on working for Mr. Johnson, hard taskmaster, all kins of strange personal extremes. I never encountered that. I had a great deal of respect for the President both as a person and as President
  • of LBJ as a strong advocate of free trade; hearings on the Quota Bills.
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the offices of journalists, fellows sitting in green visors, and to the boys working the press, and talking quietly with people in small lunch groups. He was not as good as some of the other gentlemen standing at a podium talking to a thousand people
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that require exposure to the press, exposure to the people. A lot of foreign service work is not public work and doesn't necessarily produce people that do such work well. I think that they cross their fingers, no matter who gets that job, in hopes
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was obviously becoming closer and closer, I was the laughing stock to begin with of both the national press and the local sentiment in Wyoming, as a hopeless case-F: Yes, I remember your campaigning even penetrated into Texas. M: In fact, its penetration
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But he had not yet moved over to be press secretary, I don't believe, at that time. George Reedy was still there. Shortly after Bill Moyers moved to press secretary, George Reedy left and Marvin Watson then became my boss. This was the summer of 1965. G
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the armory, they had partitions which were higher than one's head, and what the press merely did was to bring up chairs to the partition and look over the partition. everything that was going on. They could see I kicked one United Press reporter out
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , their stereotype that they were trying to get operating programs to operate on was the inner city, black poor. This, of course, heightened after Watts and Detroit and 14th Street. G: Now, in the 1964 legislation you had the addition of indemnity payments
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Was it evident at this point? J: I usually was pretty aware of who he knew beforehand. His letters, his stream of letters, were almost daily, and if I needed to do something, he could and did give me advice on how to do it. One of the most pressing things
  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , very interesting sort of way, in which we were talking largely about the functions of the United States Congress, the press wanted to interview us afterwards on radio. Well, I ducked it; I didn't want it; I said "coming from part of the country I did
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • overregulated. G: You're saying all of these-- B: All of these various regulations and proposals he had were designed to free up the banking system, especially the national banking system, and to give them an edge over the banks in the Federal Reserve System
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Phu had taKen place while I was away and there were other things like that going on in the press, but I was very busy. I'd been over in the Philippines, and had gone through a very, very tough time there througn 1952. Then I'd gotten back here
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the press about s orne action that we are thinking of taking with reference to some country, making a loan, something of this sort, or we are going to make a loan or we aren't going to make a loan- -this kind of thing. Often enough, as far as we could
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't remember him giving Pearson information? W: Not through any way that I found out. I had no indication. I was very much interested to learn the press release methods that were in use in Washington at the time, and I suppose still where copies
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it is today--given in the early summer of 1956 at the Mayflower Hotel for Senator George. Kerr of Oklahoma. We got free tickets to it from Senator [Robert] That's what sticks in my mind about Senator George and his relationship
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • McGill represented the press; and one of the Menninger brothers. [Karl] One of the elderly Menningers represented something, but he didn't believe in cities (I'm not sure whether they got the right Menninger). Anyway, he kept coming in appropriately
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • right around the time of the Super Bowl. I definitely remember it now, because we had a little television set upstairs in one of the press offices, and I think out of one corner of my eye I was watching either Oakland or Green Bay up on this little
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • feasts. Ice Cold .\~atermelon. 11 We would advertise· in the newspaper "Free .And that brought the crowdo· We had them in . the four ·sections of the ·city. And it was fine· because, with Gene. ·Autry and the watermelons and the closing spirit
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /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
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the deanship. That is, he never tried to guide the development of the School--no, that's wrongly put; I think he did do that--but he did not try to press the committee to recommend anything about the structure, organization, functions. But he did press
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that point. You, in your book,* to a certain extent, and certainly in the opposition press, had expressed at least some fear that maybe part of the American mission in the Dominican Republic gave a nod to the anti-Bosch coup, either the Military Assistance
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • approach underscores that. He was at one point going to announce me without any notice to me in a press conference. [He] told me later on that was his intention that morning at the press conference in the East Room, but during the prior evening Dean Rusk