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Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That was not unique to journalism. I think that the entire U.S. command structure had exactly the same problems. You would discover, for instance, that young agency [CIA] or State Department or military people at the district level or lower had a pretty shrewd
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2. feature article, The Wall Street Journal had a long side column, and Life magazine devoted about twenty pages to a young president
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the statehouse. And since the age of media-handouts--press releases--had not yet reached the Capitol, reporting the statehouse was a full time job. As a foot- note to journalism, Kennedy and myself possibly speeded along the age of handouts at the Capitol
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during the time he was at Sam Houston, the group that included: Edna Dato, Jake Kamin, Myrtle Lee Robbins, Ellie Jones, Gene Latimer. Through particularly Edna Dato, who later was the one to get me into journalism, I got to know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of which was the Winston-Salem Journal. I first went there in 1951, and the executive editor of the Winston-Salem Journal at that time was Wallace Carroll. He left and went to Washington as the assistant chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • : And that sort of cemented your relationship with him? G: Yes. K: Did it antagonize Wayne Morse at all? G: Oh, yes. K: When Kennedy came into office as president, he had, I guess because of his Catholicism, become very hemmed in on the issue of providing
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was a member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, \'Jhich Nr. Vinson was chairman of then. I went to a small military prep school and junior college in Milledgeville and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959 with a degree in journalism. From
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL DA TE: May 30, 1969 G: This is an interview with Mr. Robert Sharon Allen, who is an author, reporter, and who has had a long, and I think, distinguished career. I'd like to begin by introducing you and providing for the tape
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • available to researchers the version Mr. Walker provided to us. However, due to the quantity of editing that Mr. Walker did, the tape recording will not be made available to researchers. Nicole Hartmann Hadad Archives Specialist 1/14/2014 1 LBJ
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a degree in journalism, though, . .from the University of Texas . She's a good writer, and she's just a smart person . I'm an old German .candle maker. G: Z: Well, this is a letter thanking you for a German candle . Yes, and for twenty years, see . We
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Therefore, I shifted to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, where by law they have to give that informati'on. But the Joint Atomic Energy Committee had turned into a tightly held club. Today I was just looking through the Wall Street Journal: much
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Bachelor of Journalism. She was a journalist, too. She was always interested in politics a little bit. G: Yes. Was she active at all in student politics there? T: No. I don't think so. She was more interested in state politics. [Voice in background
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • journals by the trucking people and the railroad people, and you'll find that we're criticized frequently-called shortsighted, backward in our thinking. The truck people will insinuate--they never say, but they'll insinuate that maybe we're oriented LBJ
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • they were both in the Department of Journalism, and they graduated together--but she had done her first two years at TCU, and then she transferred to the university, and I went to work. I got a job, and first off, I worked for--in the legislature when
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember Tobacco Road and how we laughed and pointed out each of the characters in our own little locality. (Laughter) G: She studied journalism at the university? P: She got her degree, a BA degree, and then she stayed a year longer and picked up
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in 1946, I went to work as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal , which was at that time a locally- � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • industry around. Oh no, this isn't unique to journalism. But I've seen it in two or three cases. In fact, we had the rule at CBS News that if anyone was having anything to do with somebody in government that they had to get off the air; they could
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • are notoriously slow in the way they pick up-M: So are historical journals, you're not alone. R: So are historical journals, that's right. But I would think that this piece has the detail that I don't have in my head. at the Congressional Record. But all
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the life of Lyndon Johnson and national politics? S: Well, it's a long story, Dr. Frantz, but I'll try to make it as short as possible. Ny primary interest in college was in journalism. F: Where was this? S: Hardin-Simmons University. And I
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • thought newspaper work was pretty soft compared to getting up at 1:30 every morning to milk, so I went from there. I came to The University of Texas, went to journalism school, and went to the University of Missouri briefly and ran out of money. Then we--I
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lived at that time. A bit of history, immaterial possibly. I'm a product of Austin public schools, the University [of Texas] class of 1934. I studied journalism and also government, minor on municipal government. In the middle of the Depression I
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the first combat troops to Vietnam, the marines, doing this and the instructions and he was explaining it, why he was that he had given these marines and so on . Well, it was very clear to me at the point that I was going back to daily journalism
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • problem. And a decision [was reached] in 1964 that there was an urban crisis; but [there was] an inability to focus on a great, bold, new, dramatic program to respond to it. The 1964 Task Force provided a highly sophisticated analysis of the main
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but the main thing is what about all this stuff in the paper," because there had been a lot of sort of yellow journalism going in there. He said, '~ell, without commenting on any of its truth or falsehood, the fact is that this is Boing to make his
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , the dean of the School of Social Work--now there's a dean that was not excluded, perhaps because Social Work was less, you know, a smaller school and was not so demanding. I don't know. It included Dewitt Reddick in journalism. It included Don Goodall, who
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 I wandered all the way through the morgue at the Milwaukee Journal in Milwaukee ; the Madison Capital Times in Madison . I interviewed fifty - seventy-five people in the State of Wisconsin who theoretically had knowledge about
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • instance where they paid a GI to be filmed cutting the ears off of a dead VC. This sort of journalism wasn't something that anybody can be proud of. But all in all, I'd say that the press called the shots as their publishers saw them, and some were very
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in his mind too, because Bill certainly demonstrated conclusively that you can be an extremely successful press secretary without ever having had any experience in journalism at all. I mean, my feeling is that Bill Moyers was the best presidential press
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson City. That Lady Bird, with her journalism degree, could buy the newspaper and she could run the newspaper, and he would like to have an insurance company. And he said that lots of times to me. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Carolina, because he had been a liberal light in the South, and he was considered the most progressive of the southern governors. I also chose several people to receive our customary awards, either for achievement in journalism or achievement in the civil
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? I'm thinking about the fact that in general I do not believe that the TET offensive and its stalling has ever been portrayed as a failure. T: It hasn't been adequately so. A few papers editorialized on it, I think, like the Wall Street Journal
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • billboard company in East Texas, and I tried my best to stay out of it. I was sure that any day that apostle of the new journalism, Drew Pearson, would write that Lyndon Johnson had on his staff a fellow who's connected with the billboard interests. So I
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the engineers in the nation. I have as a part of another story that I frequently tell--I for many years carried in my wallet a clipping out of the Wall Street Journal which reminisced, I will say, about the difficulty of decision of people entering
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Are you talking about Harris-Blair? G: Yes. S: Well, I'll hunt for the other one, then. ES: Do you have any record of where Lyndon was made a member of Pi Gamma l~u? G: Yes. Now, that was a journalism [club], is that right? ES: That was history
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • business. If a man can't look you in the eye he's not telling you the truth, or something of that. That's an old Texas adage that was quoted to me. I'm not sure that that's accurate. I tried in my approach to provide him with as good dermatological care
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [They] pulled together to provide Freeman some filtering and some staff work in the economic area, the staff economist group. You've heard of the staff economist group. G: Do you want to tell me what it is. R: I don't know that it's still there. You've
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to give me a little of your background and how you came to get into government. F: I'd be glad to tell you that. As we get further into the interview I will be referring to journal notes I made while working for Mrs. Johnson at the White House
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • interviewed--this Erwin Knoll and Jule Withover-- K: Yes, An arti~le which appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review called ''Maxinrum Feasib Ie Publicity." G: Right. This article implied that there was a cause and effect relationship between
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with a country that has as little established press traditions as Vietnam. There were, perhaps, two or three cases, maybe more, maybe a half dozen, where visas were refused. But even in providing visas, the Vietnam government was amazingly responsive
  • Survey (HES); the censorship issue; lifting Ev Martin's (Newsweek) credentials; Oriana Falacci; overall performance of the press in Vietnam; the Caravelle Bar issue; individual journalists characterized; TV journalism; Morley Safer; LBJ and the press
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the liberal journals of opinion. So I discovered the Nation and the New Republic in college and began to be interested in seeing the country come out of the Depression, so that the opportunities of many people were enlarged. (Interruption) M: Now, you were