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Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • close. And to me it was an amazing meeting. The people who were in attendance were the President, FOR, Jr., John Sweeney and myself representing the federal part of the program, and the Governor of Kentucky, his press aide, and a man named John Wisdom
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in charge of the legislative program; he was in the Press Office, but it takes a while for those things to shake down and so he was operating under call, under directions, from the President. I'm operating under directions from the President. The President's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVIII -- 2 G: But he took the initiative, as you recall. C: Oh, he took the initiative and pressed very hard. G: Do you recall what he said in those phone conversations? C: No, I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the spectrum there continued our talking evenings with people like the Bill Douglases, the Bill Whites, Dick Russell. And a sizeable number of press people were a part of our life. Doris Fleeson, of the acid tongue and very perceptive eye. We got along
  • in Korea; LBJ's work to cut wasteful spending; press attention for his subcommittee work.
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • shouldn't take the time, but I like to tell the story, so I will. When that meeting was over--it was not open to the press at that time--a reporter from the Washington Post who has since died, a marvelous reporter called--with an E, a woman reporter, I'll
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Natural Gas Company for approximately a year. By this time it was fall of 1966. Then I got a call from a guy by the name of Bill Bates, who had been Senator Russell's press secretary since the mid-1950s. By the It/ay, he might be able to make
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was saying that. There were a couple of sources with deep misgivings about how the press and public were being misled, who were not in a position to tell anyone what happened, but to indicate their own disquiet, let's say, about whether the facts were all
  • Marder's career history covering foreign affairs; LBJ's foreign affairs-related experience as he entered the presidency; LBJ's credibility gap in the press; LBJ's tendency to exaggerate; Marder's August 1964 coverage of the Tonkin Gulf incident
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • very cautious speeches that were entirely suitable for a Senator from Texas.He was getting out of the speech writing business here in the White House, both because of his job as Press Secretary and because the kind of speeches that needed to be written
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • surprise when the appointment came through and people, you know, the public-C: Extremely critical. M: Why do you want a TV actress, ad woman, doing something like that? C: All right. everything. The press was very critical. Let' s go to the job
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Hickerson with Associated Press called from Dallas and insisted on an inter­ view with Senator Johnson. We got the lights on, and I and Woody at different times tried to tell him we'd talk to him in the morning, but Clayton was feeling 11 no pain" about
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and sure enough he wanted him up there. We got Sam to the plane that afternoon, and off he went to Washington. He wouldn't let Sam out of his sight that week. He kept Sam with him morning, noon and night. Saturday morning came when he had this press
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know who did it; I wasn't in Dallas and didn't have this kind of feel of the place. They stepped forward--it could have been Henry Wade or it could have been a judge, I guess--as the press term is, they empaneled a blue ribbon grand jury, all white
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • why they made this decision, but when they made this decision, we felt released from our commitment also. f,t: He didn't call you in and say, "Look, we're not--" H: He announced it to the press. M: That must have angered you. H: It did
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • generally asked by the press to react and generally were put in a position of either agreeing with the President's actions in Vietnam or not agreeing . And either position was difficult for them because I think both these men wanted to be good, loyal
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • believe she later resigned . Ba : Secretary Freeman has said just recently in his valedictory press conference, he indicated that he thought might have handled the Billie Sol Estes affair better--that is, handled the press relations better . Bi : Yes . We
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there that day listening to him later went into the service and became a helicopter pilot and worked for us at Sikorsky. G: Is that right? C: Yes. His name is Don Gordon [?]. He lives just out of Dallas. G: Did the press ever travel with him
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and then a whole bunch of other people. Ed Guthman was there. I remember Ed Guthman was having two regular press conferences a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and the national press was there in very great numbers, and this made it quite difficult
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • fingers in a printing press when I was thirteen. So I had newspapering ties in the family and so forth and after the fall quarter of my junior 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • because the OB is a terribly complex subject. It's complex, but once you get the hang of it, it's understandable, and as the press began to understand the issues and what was being talked about, I think that the reporting got better and better as time went
  • in the self-defense militia; press coverage of the lawsuit; Adam's view of the court proceedings and the jury's opinions; witness testimonies; the lawyers on the trial; the pre-trial briefs; weaknesses in both sides of the case; a witness who was not called
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The introduction to the report or each part of the report? B: To the report. And then he would write a press release based on the report. Those reports had an excellent reputation over there. We'd take then over to the press gallery. Of course, the press gallery
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The President was having a press And he called up, and it was the first time I had 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
  • Vietnam; 6% surcharge; Wilbur Mills; Emile VanLennap; Chairman Mahon; IRS; Sheldon Cohen; Stan Surrey; Henry Ford; Sidney Weinberg; gold rush; financing difficulty; Paul Volcker; Ed Snyder; Heller-Pechman plan; Presidential press conference
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 no aircraft in the world equipped like his aircraft is. Go: Do you also make provisions for the press to fly with the President? Gu: No, not unless they charter one of our aircraft. We get into this by the press not being given
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • announce the next day--Sunday, February 14, where he was on one of those "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press" programs--that he was going to campaign for Humphrey in Wisconsin. In other words we would give him the District of Columbia and he would help
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- X -- 7 G: Yes, the fact that the Democrats delayed it. R: It could well be, although I think that the more pressing reason really was that nobody could see a clear-cut need for having
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pushing was the other way, that the senator sometimes just couldn't go along. So he always had to be acquainted with those and I don't think he ever, as far as I know, pressed a senator to do something which he knew would have a severe backlash in his
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in and said, "I am going to oppose the President for the first time," or something like that. He said, "I'm going to give you a press release before I can change my mind that says I am going to oppose the Supreme Court-packing bill." He said, "Then I'm
  • ; friction between LBJ and Senator Connally; LBJ and FDR; Parker’s move to Denver and return to Washington; Senator Connally and FDR; issuing press releases; circumstances of Connally’s support of LBJ in the 1942 Senate race; Connally and the appointment
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • increase should serve to point that out where in his chalk talk to the press on the blackboard, he outlined what the problem was--that his $25 billion deficit was intolerable, that the choices then were either to borrow most of that deficit, to borrow
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no significance that I know of . Lyndon was somewhat, I think, frightened is not quite the word, but skittish about the Austin press . He would urge me to talk to the boys up at the Capitol and in effect develop a better image for him, for Lyndon, among
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • everybody It was very nice . Then a press conference after church in Fredericksburg . And with that, when I got back here the next day, it was easier to get things done on organization . So, we worked on that through Christmas and he sent my name up
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when he pressed me to come down. G: My impression is that one of the big mistakes he felt like he had made, in retrospect, was not getting his own team in. S: Oh, I'd say that was almost fundamental to the problems he had, because when I went
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the American press as cruel. And in terms of--and we were using tear gas to put down demonstrations which the Communists were inspiring in South Vietnam. The point that Moyers made in the meeting I notice, you know, let's talk about the throat slitting
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I may been--when we handed the message out, I had to brief the press and I may have been stuck talking to the press because I notice that neither Moyers nor I are listed as traveling up there. But I just don't remember. I know I was in the Speaker's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the proper tombstones. Mrs. Johnson also loved to go looking for antiques, particularly early American pressed glass. And every now and then she would buy something so big, like a piece of furniture with a rounded glass front, which was much used, and almost
  • of a restroom; a 1956 birthday party for LBJ with several senators in attendance; LBJ's relationship with Senator William Fulbright; socializing with Walter Lippmann and other members of the press; the National Guard presence in Arkansas to allow desegregation
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • seeking to respond to the general desire for settlement as expressed in the convention. Friends in the hall and whole delegations with whom I had spoken during the course of the week had made clear that this was an urgent, pressing issue with them; we were
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and told him that the President had been shot --on the plane--and he said that they had just had word from one of the press services and what was the situation. I told him all I knew. He said they were going to come into Hickam Field and he would call me
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were going to tell me something. W: He had the press interviews there. We went into Austin and I went into Austin with Mrs. Johnson to go to the beauty parlor. It was quite exciting for me. I had never lived with a person of their caliber before and I
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • George Washington From 1960 until 1965 you acted as legal assistant and press secretary to Senator J. William Fulbright, and in May of 1965 until February of 1967 you became Mr. John L. Sweeney's special assistant. Mr. Sweeney was the first federal co
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that just wanted to talk and wanted to take some literature and we'd give them literature. and we worked hard. It was a fun job, I mean, we seemed to be awful busy up there with these drop-in people. G: Did you work at all with the press? E: Very