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Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that are involved in it as much as possible so it can get this free exchange of information and cooperation between the groups. So I think that if it were assigned to one department or another, it would tend to become lost and lose this important factor of opening

Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

parts of the government seem to be in excellent order. M: That's good to hear. I'm afraid the 6 W D W H Department doesn't have a very good press sometimes. B: 2 K well, the 6 W D W H Department never does. You just find out one thing. The 6 W D

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

a very good politician herself, which is a surprise to a good many people. Because it did appear at one point, a generation ago, that she was not going to be all that comfort with the press, but she seems to be--it's a transformation, don't you think? J

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

claim on the party for the nomination was Johnson. He has the qualities of a president, but I do not believe a man with his accent from that part of the country can be nominated, and therefore I feel free to make a try." M: Did that give you

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

isn't [inaudible]. All this stuff about I know the man. Now, he was a politician and shrewd, but he did not have to tell the press and the world what he intended to do and have his enemies destroy it before he got started. So a lot of the members

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

House Press Office. After my initial contact with Valenti, I was also working full-tirne--and by full time, I mean sixteen to eighteen hours a day--with Jack Valenti in the speech writing and speech management areas. Simultaneously we were attending

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Bethune thought of him was quite helpful to me. B: Was his reasoning that you quoted on not pressing for civil rights legislation convincing to you at that time? M: Well, no-- B: I ask because it sounds like something that you must have heard many

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] O'Brien -- Interview III -- 5 hadn't changed my practices. G: One of the press

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Corpus [Christi] to come up and then I planted five questions. I did this in the Sheriff's campaign when he opened it a few months ago. G: In which campaign? J: Sheriff [Raymond] Frank. He's a good friend of mine. He had a press conference so I

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

should He'd clear it and then I'd tell them off record, hush hush, come in the back door, don't talk to tne press, and we'd have a meeting. Or a bill signing. When the bills that we were involved in [were passed], you would have a signing ceremony

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

days that Johnson was still a this~ a press briefing? frustrated senator. M: No, I didn't. Did you see any evidence of that? I used to see the then-Vice President from time to time, and he was always willing to do anything he could to help us

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at home, and they practiced medicine at home; their income was at home. They only got enough to go down there one round trip a year, and when I went down there it was $8,000 a year, plus one round-trip. Now they have a free trip home to wherever they're

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

veterans, offering free schooling and good loans on homes and businesses. But there was a nasty buildup of anger against Truman, particularly in Texas. I do not know how nationwide it was, but down here they were very mad at him. Tidelands a major reason

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

getting references not only to the fact that he was a representative in front of the press, but that he wrote political memos to the Senator. J: He did. And he joined us I just can't remember exactly when. But Lyndon was very proud of him and was always

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-known journalists later on: Neil Sheehan from the New York Times, who was by then chief of the Associated Press in Saigon, and many of the very famous journalists who became well-known after the coup of Mr. Diem, [David] Halberstam, and so forth. G: D

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 18 activities in the name of the President. that way. States. As Majority Leader it wasn't It made no difference who was the President of the United He was free to agree or disagree, criticize or commend. And as Vice

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and they were all coming around expressing their sorrow to me because of my identity with the candidates for so long. It was a tragedy. Dallas got a lot of unfavorable publicity and comments from the eastern press about it, but it was one of those things

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Democratic [National] Convention in Houston. W: Yes. G: Do you know how he got there or anything like that? W: He got a press pass, which I think got him in free. Whether he hitchhiked or got a ride with somebody, I'm not sure how he got

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--I was a free wheeling spirit around the department. I never intended to be there because I had worked for Freeman in Minnesota. I would just as soon have been somewhere else because I didn't want to be known just as Freeman's boy. I remember talking

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. M: Did you have fairly free access to the President, when you needed to see him? B: Oh, yes, sure . I never had any problem . I felt about the President pretty much the way I felt about Dean Rusk, and I didn't call him or go see him very often

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

treat- ment, because every free country gets MFN, as we call it. Congress, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 A: Yes, there would be one other general class, and that would be the big, bright, brash press conference type that he would ordinarily hold in the East Room. They would invite a lot

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was a politician . She made all the meetings, she made the speakings, she made the Democratic Executive Committee meetings, and the various subdivisions of it ; she made them all . She was well known, she was well liked in the press, and she did a lot for him

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

little opposition. I myself began to show up occasionally in the newspapers. Isabel Shelton wrote a very nice article about me. I got better than I deserved, I think, from the press in general, and almost never ran head on into them. However

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

narrowness in some areas et cetera, is that when they [haveJ. finally commu nized this world and completely made a corporation out of it, there'll always be some Baptist congregation out there going its own free way and following its own individual rules

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the press conference here at the Manned Spacecraft Center we flew up to the Ranch and had a meeting with him at that time, and a very, very nice one as a matter of fact. It was sort of [an] informal meeting . We received our medals, that was Buzz Aldrin

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

] as a free agent, and I think probably did more good, because I didn't have--I wasn't under charge to do it. Then, we began to have a few personal contacts. I talked to him a couple of times on the phone. Once I tried to get Bill--we were back in Austin

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the United States can work his will with the Congress. When the president is successful, then the press says, well, the Congress is a rubber stamp. When the president isn't successful, well, he can't seem to provide leadership, and the Congress would follow

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would you work as an advance man in these areas? What would be the process? J: Well, there are different types of people. You got to be an advance man primarily because you were available free without somebody paying. cation of an advance man

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

go back. In part because Bill Kelly had gotten it so well structured and organized, he was able to survive, if you will, in that hot seat subsequently. Then Bill Kelly, of course, was free, you might say, because Berry was back. And just

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

endorse- ments. G: I'm sure the Chronicle did; I'd forgotten about the Post. S: Endorsed Coke you mean? G: Yes. S: The Post could possibly--and the Press was an active newspaper at that time, and I'm rather certain the Press did not endorse Johnson

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

they were there. They didn't like the fact we kept pressing them to, "Let's go up and get these people." G: Did you appeal Colonel Lowndes' decision not to send the relief force? L: Oh, hell yes. I did to Westmoreland, and I also did to Abrams, but I

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

drove slowly while he discussed the whole matter with me. He had felt that what we ought to do was to get to the press at once with the suggestion that they not run any story about Walter Jenkins until they had more facts. F: At this stage

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

operating on the assumption that they were getting a free ride, which was unacceptable; it was unacceptable to Lyndon Johnson. So immediately we reviewed all the practices of all those companies, and we never had made a distinction about their requirements

Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

finally over a period of time were able to persuade some of the leaders of the medical profession and, secondly, persuade our congressmen. Because many of the congressmen were pressed pretty hard by their own constituents in the medical profession

Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that . that I ask limit you . Incidentally don't let the questions If you want to ramble around and talk about any experience that you have had with Hubert Humphrey, feel free to do that as well . W: Well, since the Vice President has had the heavier

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or trying to avoid our responsibilities. It's a little like civil rights in the Kennedy period. You can get nice stories about your effort in the liberal press and that's lovely. In the midst of failure you're called a hero for trying, but the fact

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

cross section of that. I think we provided a vehicle for people to talk out their problems. We did not provide a vehicle for Pat JvIoynihan, and that's what most of the press criticism related t o , Pat having many, many press contacts. The point