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Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it as a rapid transit, mass transit, artery for automobiles and buses, permitting a pedestrian crossing over onto the mezzanines buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, free of traffic . of our This idea stuck, and we've incorporated it in our plans . This meant
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't get his paper like he wanted, so he called down to Mrs. Roberts and said, "You tell Gene to get :my papers out her':!, so I know I'll get ~ny papers." So about that time, Mr. Moyers fixed it where the press would take his papers out
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who were involved in a meeting, "If you don't like my decision, you should always feel free to go to Shriver." But I don't remember cases in which they did, although there must have been some. I don't remember being reversed, but then that may
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , headed by Sam Rayburn of Texas, in connection with the big financial bills for fiscal reform in the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] and the utility field which Roosevelt was pressing. I was particularly fascinated by the Texan contingent
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • name was Michael Drosnin. My first reaction was that I really didn't have the time to bother with Michael Drosnin. However, over some twenty years I had been courteous to the press and never failed to respond to an inquiry from a writer or a journalist
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • program starting but you're not going to be in it." Told him what it was. We selected seven cities. The press release was prepared announcing that suchand-such a program using planning grant money was going to be launched with these seven cities
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sees your four kids, my four kids, getting this extra help through Head Start and right across the street, his kids can't get into Head Start. The Head Start kid is getting free medical examinations, the Head Start kid is getting food, the Head Start
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • pressed by their depositors for money had to call those notes and say "we're making demand ." So the poor home owner didn't even know that this kind of a thing existed, he thought he could go on ad infinitum and pay his interest every six months
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • was with the Associated Press. He was Kleberg's secretary then. By that time he had become very well known. He was the only employee in Congress I ever knew who was widely known. I mean beyond the employees, because the other members saw him and they knew he had something
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things, and tidelands was assigned to McFarland so that Lyndon Johnson would be free to do what he wished. And it seemed to work very well. It could have been very embarrassing for Senator Johnson, but I don't think it ever became [so]. G: What
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --and when you go over to foreign countries, the CIA sort of works with the Secret Service--on the one hand; and George Christian and his advance press officers on the other hand; and Marvin Watson and just advance men on the third hand--could with little
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the position was at the time. about. That was a long time ago, we're talking I haven't had occasion to talk to NYA staff in years, so it presses me to recall. G: Anything else on the roadside parks? L: No, other than to say that they were highly
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] Castro assuming power in Cuba. Do you remember anything of that? J: Yes. I remember that he came to Washington, made a speech at the press club, was lionized. Everybody was talking about him, except I do not remember anything that Lyndon said
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • gone into the press thing and could have gone on the press side of it, you know, got with Stars and Stripes or done something else, but I didn't want to do that. I figured if you're in the war, you might have volunteered because you felt pretty angry
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is the same as a Cadillac now. Oaddy couldn't drive it, Mama couldn't, but they had to have a boy to drive it. His name is Guy Ames [?J. He drove Mama. you can call it a chauffeur if you want to. newspaper, you see. In other words, Also ran the press
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I think there were half a dozen names that were bandied about by the press as potential VP candidates. G: Were there any other southerners considered? O: I don't know of any. It's probably somewhat remote, but only because of his position and his
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ., Indep., D.-Ore.], a highly combative group of Democrats. And they were really superb at it.They could go on for forty-five minutes and give the press several columns of stories. And it made for good reading and a lot of fun. But when it came down
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . I've always been distressed that his humor did not show too much in television and press activities. But person to person it was, I always felt, a very incredible kind of wit that deserves a historical notation. For example, there he is, having taken
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • metals, like tin, and prices going sky high on everything we had to buy for the military, on passing the draft bill, on trying to find 4-F men or women who could replace men at desk jobs and free a lot of physically fit men for combat duty. A lot of grist
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • wrong. two or three years. This is an interesting example Jeeb had planned to stay another He wanted to see the supersonic program move and he was in the middle of very advanced decentralization efforts. Yet the misrepresentation by the trade press
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • House press office, it was decided that we would announce the program in Atlantic City. In that sense we sort of scooped the White House. But the tea went very well. It was attended by a very large representation of prominent women in America, a number
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was not neutral? H: The commission was not neutral because built into the commission itself was the requirement that there be on the Puerto Rican side representatives of the three status possibilities--statehood, independence, and free associated state
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Oklahoma: "I am a free man, an American, and a Democrat, in that order." Then he started listing: "I'm a father, I'm a son, I'm a taxpayer, I'm a consumer, in no fixed order." But I think those first three pretty well categorized him. G: Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that pretty much in stride. I have a recollection of Hackett legitimately feeling sort of squeezed out, of the juvenile delinquency people feeling squeezed out, of Kennedy trying to define a personal position in the campaign that sort of left him free
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • information center at Ely, Minnesota. F: I was present at the press conferences. Does she show the same kind of enthusiasm for these forest lands that her mother does? c: I'd have to answer that honestly. No, I don't think so. enthusiastic about some
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and you wouldn't be able to find him for two or three weeks, and then there'd be no telling where you would find him. F: You have got all the public press about his [Johnson's] great rages and 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and cornmittments, but we didn't have any long debate about it. M: Did he give you a chance to say yes. F: He just gave me a chance to say yes. M: Then immediately thereafter there was the press announcement. F: Within a matter of about five or six hours
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be written, the postcard could be written, but nothing would happen, because that has been the kind of immunization for us. Many more controversial and critical things occur weekly in the Peace Corps that we couldn't even sell to the press, but it's
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had long leg s, he'd cover lots of territory . He went all over every town, every community, and every hamlet shaking hands, "I'm Lyndon Johnson. I want to be your congressman . " He'd, look them in the eye . He liked to press the flesh, as he said
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Reedy's office, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You also described last time the circumstances of your assuming the role of press secretary. And you
  • Duties of the press secretary; LBJ’s misunderstanding of the press; LBJ’s secrecy as president; press pool; travelling with LBJ; LBJ’s friendliness toward the press; Eric Goldman; resignation of Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LOYD HACKLER INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL Place: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Mr. Loyd Hackler, formerly the assistant press secretary of the White House staff. I'd like to ask you to provide for the tape
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Korea; impressions of LBJ; press relations; staff operations; LBJ and RFK; McCarthy campaign; 3/31 speech
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that meeting? Z: Some of it. I don't remember whether I've given you this before or not, but if not, it dealt with the press in Vietnam and the coverage we were getting. Leonard was there as director of USIA, John was there as the new director
  • 1965 meeting with LBJ about press coverage in Vietnam; Frank Stanton; Arthur Sylvester; LBJ and the press; Walt Rostow; different interpretations of the situation in Vietnam; Bill Moyers; government response to press criticism; qualifications
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , she did about contributing to the volume? A: She did a great deal in the way of contributions toward this volume. For one thing, her personality and her relationship with the press in general has always been so pleasant t h a t you started out
  • and President Johnson; Woman's National Press Club Farwell dinner for Mrs. Johnson; parties for women's press
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's home in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with that anecdote that you were telling earlier [about] LBJ and the press. You mentioned that that was perhaps his
  • An incident involving the press access to LBJ at the Ranch; Cassie Mackin; Doug Kiker; Marianne Means; Virginia "Ginny" Thrift; Walter Lippmann and Scotty Reston; Washington Whispers; comparing the number of press conferences held by LBJ