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Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was pretty strongly entrenched in Jim Wells County. G: Who else do you think was implicated? Who else would have had to be involved? R: Well, in Mangen's story, the Associated Press man Mangen--I've forgotten his first name--he says others were
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The best I ever saw him was when he got mad at that press conference that day and took that thing up in his hand and went to ripping and snorting the way he had done for all the years I'd known him. F: And nobody wrote that speech for him! You had
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • understood his problem, I was appreciative of his problems and he knew that I supported him. I never once went over his head to the Congress or the press or to anybody in the administration with respect to decisions that he had made. P: Did the press ever
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course, had been a public power I think he was a little inclined personally to feel the other way about the nuclear energy. issue out of it with himself. But he never did make an I remember a press conference he held after the election in 1954, when
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Planning, and she has just returned to Brookings about ten days ago; and finally, Jacob A. Stockfish, Director, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury department. The composition of this group has never appeared in the press, and is highly confidential
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I was walking down the hallway in the press gallery one time and some--one of the young men in somebody's office came out and said, "I thought this would interest you," and it was a memo that she sent to the conference people in the Senate saying, "I
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [It] said, "I have today named you National Youth Administrator for Colorado . commitments and incur no obligations . course, Aubrey Williams ." Make no So, of I was sought after by the press right away, and I couldn't give any answers as to what
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of feeling, Mr. Vann Kennedy, who was then here with the United Press, was secretary of the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, I asked Mr. Kennedy to take those certificates as they came in--a lot of them came to me and I forwarded them to him
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . For example, we don't advertise in the local press ; we don't buy spot commercials on rural television and radio stations . We do, however, believe that doing good work in a community is perhaps our best advertisement . Neighbor-to-neighbor, man-to-man
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would not run. Why I didn't set up one here, I don't know, but I had them set up a press conference for me in Dallas; I jumped on the plane to Dallas, got off the plane in Dallas and held a press conference and announced. That was in December, as I
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The President was at the Ranch by that time. A group of us came over to the Cabinet Room to hear a closed-wire press conference held at the Ranch with Mr. Califano and others 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the old Houston Press of me and Sam D. W. Low and Judge Andrews, who was then the senior man at Baker, Botts. [That's] one that I always enjoyed, and the Senator's picture in the background. At any rate I was publicly identified [with Johnson]; everybody
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mad. It was that kind of thing. But, in any case, go ahead. G: Was the press there when he made that speech, "blood on their hands" reference? C: Yes, the press was there. It was an open session. And unless I'm mistaken it was in the paper. I can't
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • made some comments that got in the press or something of that sort. So Vice President Johnson just took him with him. And on the way back, Vice President Johnson got the attention of the entire party and said some very nice things about Mr. Rooney
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • awfully much concern over domestic expenditures and the printing presses. I remember it was not popular, and it wouldn't have been. G: In 1967 Senator Dodd--Tom Dodd--was censured for misuse of his office and public funds. Tell me about that from your
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the press has reported but I had had occasion to meet Abe Fortas and I liked Abe Fortas. I 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at American University. Oddly enough I suppose most people if they saw any account of it had forgotten it. But I believe a clerk to a Senator saw it in the press and it was only a small squib, and clipped it out and mounted it no doubt in his notebook
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these regional and state advisory councils, and we'd go from state to state--Mitchell [and] myself; George Shultz was very helpful in it--and we would appeal to the leadership, the press, the media, the publishers, the large banks, and the private sector, to help
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • MG: Pierre Salinger? SG: Yes, Pierre--were working closely together, and then ultimately that sorted out over a period of time. So there was no chance whatsoever that the Ball ploy would work. The thing that has always amused me is that the press
Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • was in may very well have had something to do with his reaction to the portrait. H: Everything was ganging up on him. The public, press wasn't good; his public relations were lousy. He had had this operation which was causing him more pain and trouble
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the White House the press releases had been given out on it. That's when Senator Vandenberg made his statement which I have always remembered. He said, "You know, it would be a great thing to be called on for the take-off and not just the crash landing
  • of California in 1958, the 1960 presidential campaign. Johnson as Vice-President, Senator Everett Dirksen as Senate Minority Leader, LBJ’s reaction to the press.
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But it got a certain amount of press, and it was part of the discussion at least that went on among reviewers and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , "Okay, automatic pilot, take control." So it freezes your attitude, and now you start a climb. Now, you have to make throttle adjustments. And now you get to about a thousand feet, and you say, "Okay--" press another button--"level off." And you make
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In the latter forties. of the Admirals. II Senator Johnson was of great assistance to the fledgling Air Force. Cochran~ We had what the press called the "Revolt That was a personal attack on Jackie General Vandenberg and myself engineered by some people who
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in any way except through the newspapers? T: I followed the entire situation as best I could. little you can't follow in the American press. And there's very Of course, you get plenty of contradictory bits of so-called information about many events
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • be later on in 1969. I have, and this has been made available to the press, affidavits from all three members of the commission that no person was ever pressured to give money to this fund; and that no money had been given by anybody who did business
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never talked about it in your presence? 10 Okay. Remember they had the Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City that spring and summer. There was a note in the press that Ralph Abernathy wanted to meet with you. why? Do you recall that? Do you
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • things he did in this was appointing John Gardner as Secretary of HEW, because this was a person in whom private industry, the professions, the educators had enormous confidence. And despite the press of other problems in Vietnam, in particular
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 M: He left it up to us. I think he was pressed
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In fact early in 1952, I met some of the press as I was leaving the Senate Agriculture Committee. a Friday afternoon. There were three or four newsmen and I didn't even know who they were. They wanted to know if I didn't have a good story for them
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to distribute it to the members the next day. By working closely with the Senate staff, and with the President using every chance he had to press for the enactment of that bill, we began to make progress in the Senate. Now, one of our drawbacks, serious
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like this not adding anything, not letting amendments be included. Then the third part of the report said here are the things that we got into it through report language. I am hard pressed to recall all of the things that were in there. However, one
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for the members, but it isn't the question of convenience to the members. It's the safety and the welfare of the people that should be the primary objective. B: Did Mr. Johnson press for the legislation to ,make those terms? C: No, he did not. B: Did you
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the legislative efforts. I suppose there would be concern that in any hearings I might press forward with my own view that these proposals were quite inadequate and that we still needed an immediate income tax increase; corporate and personal. (Interruption) C
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • way and down the fire stairs in order to avoid the press, not to have them know that there was any kind of dickering going on, and walking into Jim's room and finding Earl Mazo of the Herald Tribune sitting there. He was the first one I ran into. He
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Was the line as tightly drawn between the so-called doves and the so-called hawks as the press made it appear, or were more people a little bit more--? T: I think there were not inflexible doves, inflexible hawks, that clear dichotomy. I think there were
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • glass, pressed glass I suppose it's called, and I think I sort of helped her a bit in cataloguing it. I'm really not exactly sure what I did. And perhaps I ran some errands for her. I remember asking her some questions. It was interesting to hear her