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Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by them. They became our first-rate sources, and the pessimism and the doubts that fed into that press corps came first and foremost not from dissident Vietnamese politicians, as people later claimed, or this political group or that group in Saigon
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson would hole up in an air conditioned hotel. (Tape 1 of 2, Side 2) C: And Horace Busby would give them press releases which they would use, and they didn't have to go out to the rally. I was under orders not to take a press release; I had
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and it was what appeared to be an exciting group that was shaping up. G: What were you asked to do? T: Well, specifically I was asked to keep the press off Shriver's back. I had been a newspaperman, and Pat knew this, and I'm told that that's the way Moynihan
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him. G: Let me ask you about the Texas press during that campaign. J: The Texas press in Washington? G: No, the newspapers in Texas, the big dailies. Did they tend to support Stevenson as opposed to Johnson or vice versa? J: The big
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was handled. That done, I may have even--I guess I wouldn't have--I may have even read him that part of the memo. In any case, that done, we were set for the press conference. I guess I was enough concerned about Connor that I did tell the President I didn't
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was mapping it out. I remember the phone calls we made. The press, of course, followed by car on the ground, and Mr. Johnson's newspaperman on the campaign staff came along in a car along with a secretary. G: Was that Buck Hood or somebody else? R: Well, I
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lovely girl and she apparently was known very well to President Kennedy, but yet as far as having any experience as a press secretary or assistant press secretary was concerned, had not had any experience. President Johnson called me into his office one
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' meeting in Chicago. He checked the time element [?]. The Secret Service wasn't prepared; the press hadn't been informed, and he didn't know he was going to do it till just that morning. So LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at that time was General William E. DePuy, and General DePuy was quite interested in pacification as an element of the overall strategy. I would be hard pressed to remember exactly the date of Hop Tac, but it was sometime in late 1964 or very early 1965
  • to improved the placement of new chiefs and staff; dealing with questions from the press; how Jack Cushman dealt with the press; Montague's role in planning the Hop Tac operation and why it was unsuccessful; General Westmoreland's request for an estimate
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know. G: Do you have any recollection of the convention? You didn't go to the--? E: No, I didn't go to any of the conventions. G: Or the selection of the vice president, of Kefauver--? E: No, I didn't. (Interruption) G: --press, both
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : That was when Chancellor Erhard was here at that time. I think that was about the last it surfaced in the press. L: Yes, I think that's right. The Chancellor was here also in 1966--Chancellor Erhard was, I recall. M: That's one of the issues on which
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the press, including a cartoon that appeared in the Post on November 28 where the cartoonist depicted Mr. Macy as really a representative in a casting office looking for talent. I proceeded to organize the personnel function. months. This took a couple
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in January of 1946, became a campus stringer for Associated Press during that semester, was offered a full-time job right after that semester ended, took it and went to work I think it was July 1 of 1946 for AP . That got me into covering state government
  • Biographical information; first coverage of LBJ in 1946; personal evaluations of various Texas Capitol Press reporters; Stuart Long; reporters' preference for candidates at the time; LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senate; the helicopter; on the road
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 17, 1968 F: This is an interview with Mr. Charles K . Boatner, the Director of Press Information for the Department of Interior, in his office in Washington, December 17, 1968
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Wilbur Mills. C: Wilbur Mills and the President. This is a meeting with Wilbur Mills and the President and myself, in the President's office, in the Oval Office as I recall. It was in connection with Mills' pressing for some restriction on spending
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , liking, being amused by, were very strong between me and Tony, my younger brother, who was himself eight years older than me. M: Because you were involved in a national campaign at that time, was there a lot of press there when your--at the funeral? J
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • know. They'd believe what they hear. There was a lot of speculation--I'm not sure when it begins, but from very early times--about advisers engaging in combat. We were constantly, I understand, having to reassure the press that this was not the case
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • magazine went to press on Sunday night, but they did most of their editing through Saturday. He knew that correspondents had to file overnight Thursday, so that the editors in New York got the raw copy on Friday morning. zine's night. Now, I want you
  • Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , and President Johnson was president at that time, and I thought it would just be an outrage for the city of Austin to have a Republican mayor, with Lyndon Johnson and all the Washington press coming to Johnson City and Austin. I reminded the President that I had
  • Long as mayor pro tem, 1967-1969; appointed to World Population Commission by LBJ; Stuart Long’s appointment to National Water Pollution Commission; liberals; Senator Ralph Yarborough; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ’s press relations; Stuart Long’s letters
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • while I was there issues were being discussed with either Mr. Valenti or Mr. Watson or some of the press officers, Mr. [George] Christian, Mr. [George] Reedy. I remember them being present and animated discussions going on while we were busily doing what
  • bladder surgery scar; a 1967 skin cancer publicity incident; Dr. Edmunc Klein; Dr. Peter Harvath and the use of 5-fluorouracil; a skin cancer on LBJ’s foot; LBJ’s devotion to the Presidency and his family; press overreaction to Narva’s treatment on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of business in this case? A: Yes, in some degree socially. M: What about his press relations in those days? very good. A: I seem to recall they were Is that your recollection? They were very good in the sense that he was much admired, but he
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , is that right? V: Yes. G: Tell me first to describe the--how many cars were there on the train? V: I have no idea. G: Was the press in one area, do you think? V: I can't answer that. I just don't know. The press is usually sort of in one--you know
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to start off by asking you, if I figured it right, you worked for the AP [Associated Press] for twenty-one years, is that right? M: Yes, twenty years. G: That's a long time for a wire service. My impression of a wire service kind of a job was, you
  • McArthur's work for the Associated Press; the difference between working for a wire service and a daily/weekly publication; Mrs. Eva Kim McArthur's work as Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's secretary; Bunker's attitude toward McArthur's and Eva's
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Did you ever work on press releases, or was that handled entirely by the press office? H: If they were shorthanded and you were caught in the halls on a Saturday morning, or something, and they said, "Do you have anything to do?" "No." LBJ
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with the press?" He said, "Screw 'em." precise, he said "Fuck 'em." (Laughter) (Laughter) No, to be more And I said, "Well, you know, not all of them are communists, Graham." (Laughter) He said, "Well, maybe not. forth. too. But the rest of them are dupes
  • Graham Martin; question of origin of the insurgency; Laos and the Laos Accords; General Trapnell; Averell Harriman; Pop Buell; division of American opinion on Diem; Buddhist troubles; the immolations; press corps; coup that overthrew Diem; Henry
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • opportunities, a lot of that. You were beginning to garner some press. It was early but national press, a handful, decided to take a peek, but it wasn't a great national story. G: What did you do to neutralize the opposition of the Indianapolis Star? O
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1917 in Chicago-­ R: East Chicago, Indiana--it's in a different state. B: And became the United Press' Congressional correspondent in 1938--from '38 to '41--in Air Force service, 1942-45; and then again after the war from '46 to '51 with UP
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Professor Reedy's office, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tape 1 of 2 G: Before we get into a lot of the issues in 1954, there is enough of a talking point here on the press
  • Senate activities and LBJ; LBJ and the press, 1954
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had come to an end and he thought he might as well resign. Well, I briefed the press--! think it was me--on what had hap­ pened, right afterward, and I told the thing fairly straight. Now unfortunately, this was one case where Johnson overstressed
  • LBJ and Senate activities, 1958; hearings resumed; LBJ and the press; LBJ and the telephone; jury trial amendment; LBJ and the Hill Country; LBJ and foreign trips; LBJ's accomplishments; LBJ personal considerations, 1959-1960; Texas issues; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the coin of the sagging-zone defense is that sometimes you must grab the ball and run with it. An example of this is the personnel interchange program, where unless our office had taken the initiative in pressing the program, it simply would have been
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was Louis Martin's presence hush-hush as far as the press was concerned? Why did you caution to--? C: Where is that? G: It's in that March sixteenth memo. No, I'm sorry. Maybe it's a different-- C: --From the press. We invited them up. This really
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • us what his ideas were, the way he taught, et cetera? 0: Yes, first, I will describe his general appearance~ Dr. Greene was smaller than the average man; he was not too careful about his dress; he wasn't particular whether his pants were pressed
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Particularly in participation of the poor in the program. H: That's right. And he just recently made a statement as a matter of fact along those lines that I just read in the press within the last couple of days. He said he felt that the Nixon
  • on OEO policy; contact between OEO and CEA; cost of living formula; OEO consulting with critics; Office of Public Affairs; press releases statement; view of quality of OEO Personnel; 1966 Shriver’s statement to Congress regarding abolishing poverty in ten
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : That's essentially correct. monographs. M: There are numerous articles and several I have two books now in press. What are these books in press? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -on NYA experience, he had announced a project in advance and had gotten the press there; it was maybe a roadside park project or something. All the media people showed up, but the youths didn't show up so the project fizzled out, at least on the first
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Carpenter was Mrs. Johnson's press secretary? Yes. I said, "Well, I haven't prepared any remarks, Liz, and I don't speak German, and I understand the Chancellor does." She said, "Well, just come on in and present the acts." So I immediately acquired
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: There was an organization called the Press Club, do you remember that? W: Yes, I remember something about that, but I had nothing to do with any of those things. G: Okay. I have a note here that LBJ went to Huntsville for the Texas Press
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to a press conference. The press conference was going to be later that day. I was there for Defense, briefing him on various Defense issues. He kept interrupting the press conference to talk to somebody at the other end of the phone to persuade him to take
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to him along the way; he knew what I was doing. G: Why did you include the surtax proposal when you weren't going to press for it? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories