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Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not excited about the Sputnik, about the Soviet Union. He just said we weren't in a race. a press conference and said we weren't in a race. said that it was just a hunk of iron. [James] Hagerty h~d One of the admirals I think because it was down- played
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • if nobody else was there but me. B: Was that an innovation of yours? H: Oh, absolutely. People never dreamed of starting anything like that and never dreamed of having a secretary that was there at 8:30. B: I believe that you had regular press
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to go--which I did. I had issued a Johnson-support statement, as acting chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, like everybody else. on something like this. The press always tries to get an angle I don't think John Kennedy had been dead twenty-four
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that the military aid program was designed primarily to build up our strength in Europe. I know that at the same time the Korean War was under way, so that this was in 1950 that I'm talking about. General [Douglas] MacArthur was pressing hard for more air power
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to back up here and break the war out in parts, too. let's go to the advisory war, the war during which time the First~ American role was solely advisory. was very, very small. The press corps at that time The number of people who were either perma
  • Biographical information; reporting from Vietnam; press in the advisory war; Diem regime; correspondents’ activities; networks of sources and information; view of Vietnam; Buddhist-Catholic strife; Hoa My; rural-urban dichotomy; factions; Nguyen
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , because the minute you do that, they'll change the code. G: Is that the impeccable and highly secret source that Mr. McNamara referred to? M: Sure. G: Okay. It was intercepted radio traffic, is that the nature of the thing? M: Yes. But the press
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of these gridiron programs that the press puts on. The two participants were Senator Johnson and myself. We had a good time and put on a pretty good show for them, I guess. Then when I went back to Washington, I was walking in the Senate floor one morning
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of finagling going on and Son'le of those counties. 0 There was ver just south of us in San Augustine I\;one of the press has ever printed that to ITly knowledge. G: Other Johnson caITlpaign workers in that cam.paign have indicated that they were counted
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because of opposition I believe principally in the House committee headed by Wilbur Mills. After he made his announcement, he put a full court press on to get this done, and Mills insisted that it had to be coupled with a substantial cutback in the social
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was happening. I was just so shocked when I came back here and I began to see what kind of coverage Tet had been given by the press. G: Would you contrast the coverage with what you were seeing in the cables and what you had seen personally? R: Well
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eisenhower and the attorney general during that time do you know? S: I don't know. G: Because it seems to me from just studying the press conferences that there were some degrees of coordination and communication. S: That could have been, and I don't
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • episode at the start, which Dick Ne\C.;tadt can tell you about in more detail. Some effort was made on Johnson's behalf and with his consent to allocate to him through executive order a grant of powers. and Johnson, once it was ignored, did not press
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ., N.W., Washington, D.C. This is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. White, I want to begin our interview with a brief backgrounder on your very long journalistic career which began in 1927 with Associated Press. It was through AP that you first came
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of people. It's a conservative [organization] like the Americans for Democratic Action on the left. And the second way was in anti-communist seminars. Now, there was a little flurry and some news about that and some complaining in the press and arguing
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -pressed it very well in talking of· an appointment. He used ~ two of them as a matter of fact. "I want every guy n..'1.d I want his : LBJ Presidential Library •' . http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." He usually let me know a little bit in advance when we were going to have it all typed and mimeographed and ready for the press, and we had a very short time, and we were working quite mad on that. He went on the Senate floor, and it caused a lot
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before that. J: Well, we just didn't have anybody then, kind of passed it around. G: Was it primarily to write speeches or deal with the press? J: Both. G: Was Woodward supposed to do something different? J: He was sort of to be my assistant
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Houston [Johnson] recalled this same mood and that the staff would help encourage some press stories to the effect that his career was not over, that he could still run for the presidency, or something like that. J: Do you recall any of this effort
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • surgeon general of the United States and he was going to put his name up. He said, "Now, you fix up the press release. You and Don work it out. I've got to run over to the Senate and when you get through bring it by the floor and I'll take a look
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , "What do you think of that?" I said, "Nice picture." (Laughter) He was trying to embarrass me. I caught the devil. (Laughter) They really did give me a time. G: Who did that? HD: Well, mostly the press. G: Anybody in particular that you remember
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before he died. I And I put that on the press, released it out of Dallas and Paul Bolton read it on KTBC and then went into a long lecture on the laws of libel and slander. wasn't saying it, I'd simply quoted the Moody speech. t100dy. But I Let them
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Press Club here. And the person making [the presentation?], just casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch, mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, and a member
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was assisting me, who I mentioned a little while ago, he told me of a magnificent old man in the city of Memphis of great wealth, who had the previous week made an offer in the press, an offer born frankly of ignorance of just what he was talking about. He
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, because I thought he was just a young boy that was bragging about his good relations with the President. But I remembered very distinctly at the time that the impression I had from Mrs. Johnsdn from the press, from seeing her photographs in press
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The Associated Press carried it all over I can still tell you the lead. The lead was, "The fate of 250,000 Texas schoolchildren rested today in the hands of veteran educator Pat Bullock and youthful Lyndon Baines Johnson." That was the lead on my story
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -­ XVI -­ 17 be Stu Symington; I didn 1 t press him at the time. But what he said
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was in that meeting and how his task was to question about such acquisitions. To follow that through, perhaps more specifically, it was pub- licized in the press that Udall had an argument with Lyndon Johnson the very last moments of the administration, and I
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the room to him. That made it [easy]. Sometimes he would just get right on the phone to that person, or if it was someone calling from the press gallery, he'd say, "Tell him to come on down." It made it very easy to work in that respect. It was confining
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ANITA WINTERS, with occasional comments by Melvin Winters INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Anita Winters' residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side l G: I wanted to ask a question about the press coming in to LBJ's home country
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was abroad in Europe and Asia--the trip in which he stopped off in Paris and had some discussions there with some French authorities. F: Is this the one that the press played up so? K: That's right. F: It's earlier, but it's worth having. K
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guidance for [Bill] Moyers for the press. G: This was actually before Fowler indicated that he'd changed his position. C: That's right. Yes, it was. He was really--I think this belongs here. And then this is September 2--better give me September, Marcel
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to watch the Senator work with either Secretary Dulles or Herter? C: Senator Johnson you're speaking of1 F: Yes. G: No, I have noth ing direct on that that I could offer. r: As far as the press was concerned, Senator Johnson did not show his hand
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt- -27 on the enforcement of the desegregation of the Court. At that time, Whitney Young and a number of people were pressing very hard to put into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as they did
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • decision which intrigued the President. G: I have a note that he took the press on a four-and-a-half [hour] tour of his various ranches during that trip. Were you along, do you recall? O: No, I wasn't. G: You seem to have maintained a policy
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said something that seemed to be supportive of the President's hopes or wishes on some aspect of policy, and he referred to it in a speech or a press conference or something, which irritated us consid­ erably. Because, after that, Pierre claimed
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • two very basic philosophies : one was that he didn't want any local press conferences, and the . ol - her -,was that he didn't want to make over three speeches a day. To tell a politician that he can only make three speeches, even if he says he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the press seemed to be ready to believe that was the case, the whole thesis that this was warranted action if it kept up and increased, we thought was more accepted than it was, certainly in intellectual circles and so on . And in the face of the kind
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these things. Mrs. Kennedy, on the other hand, had a very, almost a biting sense of humor, which saved her and I think saved a lot of the staff sometimes when the press would zero in on some of the programs that Mrs. Kennedy was involved in, especially the so