Discover Our Collections


  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)

1206 results

  • it, and Yarborough walked out. They had a big parade, walked out of the convention hall. Well, at any rate, it was a hangover from the Fort Worth convention. G: Again with the Daniel people being in control? W: Yes. Yarborough had a press conference the next
  • : Yes, yes, yes. How could you not? In fact, that very day Lyndon had had a press conference that had some very difficult questions that made him angry, he probably responded to poorly. Well, I think at some point at the cost of taking more time
  • serious movement? K: I've read about it in the press but-- F: Allowing for the fact that people discuss all possibilities. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • notice on the President's [Diary]--we had the meeting with the chiefs, and then--I love this--"Meanwhile Governor Averell Harriman flew"--this is when we were meeting with the chiefs--"flew to Austin to meet with the press, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krim
  • an hour, half an hour, and then went out and I guess called the press into the Cabinet Room. We issued the statement and he made a statement along LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Eleanor Roosevelt than some of the other first ladies, like Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Truman, who just kind [of] were in back. He always was pressing Mrs. Johnson to get into some thing that she would enjoy and take leadership in. Of course, she did select
  • of the process. Lyndon Johnson probably had more control over the press than any president since that time. He knew exactly who to call in on what issue and exactly how it would get leaked, and he knew when to delegate his leaking, too. Presidents leak to get
  • parents to a state dinner; negotiating the details of Paris peace talks with the North Vietnamese; Hubert Humphrey's lack of involvement in Vietnam peace talks; leaking information to the press; LBJ's secrecy; the issue of a ten per cent federal income
  • two o'clock that morning-he carried the press with him, and they was sitting around him inquiring about this and talking about that, and it was two o'clock in the morning. I told one of the press persons, a secretary, to tell him that I wasn't
  • , as we called them, is Ambassador John Bartlow Martin. He did this for Kennedy in 1960 and on a smaller scale for Johnson in '64--to go in and advance for the President, to meet with the local leaders and the press and the opinion makers to find out
  • in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication
  • . This was a fact. So did Mary Lasker. And so Mrs. Roosevelt said, "Dorothy Schiff should never have attacked him on civil rights." Because she understood also -- she knew enough about it -- that he was doing his level best. F: But the liberal press
  • up here on Connecticut. I've forgotten what it was--right above Dupont Circle-- Johnson, as a young congressman, was pressing Rayburn to put another young Texas congressman on a particular committee in which there was a vacancy. He brought it right
  • that he was extremely busy and hard-pressed with the many difficult problems, and I remember particularly well his arrival there. He flew up from Washington and came over from the airport by helicopter and landed at our field and we had an automobile
  • important that he carry it. So he spent almost all, if not the entire day on election day here in this county, riding the precincts, going from one precinct to another, cheering the supporters, meeting people,"pressing the flesh~' as he LBJ
  • a press conference down at the Driskill Hotel and became a candidate for the Senate. And, of course, all of us were working full time but we found several hours a day ..... some of the boys went into the campaign full time. I didn't, but that reminds me
  • fairly obvious, when crowds sack the USIS library that doesn't get you very good press with the Foreign Relations Committee. N: Absolutely. G: Was it possible to explain this to the Egyptians in any way that would make any difference? N: I think
  • in the right wing press upon him based upon whatever kind of scurrilous information they had. I've seen some of those attacks. They never prevented him from serving in very sensitive and demanding positions such as that with Mr. McNamara over in the Defense
  • and drowned them, there was a great deal of material in the press about bad treatment of the recruits by the services and so forth. To make a long story short, we had a letter from a man in San Antonio whose grandson had been inducted, and he claimed
  • . Bruce did not He would attend the meeting; then rush out and find the press, and tell them something that had been said in the delegation meeting. So it wasn't because he was a Republican. It was because he had no real regard for the gentlemen's
  • they were going to speculate that. Z: Of course. I denied it, but once it's made in the press, the denial is never read. M: How did he proceed to get the vast amount of legislation passed in 1964 and 1965? Z: I think over the years, as Senate leader
  • very many of them go on national press and say, "This man and agency is out of control, and therefore by the rules of Harvard Business School he ought to be fired." You just make a political assessment. M: Could the Budget Bureau go into the FBI
  • for the Associated Press . They got along well with Governor Neff . thing . He came to their parties and all that sort of know him pretty well . So I got to you He was an interesting old boy, and as Lyndon's mother, said, he knew Lyndon's father I'm sure
  • . Is this something that the Johnson Administration initiated and pressed fonvard or is this an initiative that came from the international financial community or what were the circumstances? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • autographed, of course, and they appeared in the offices of all of our people around the world . Many of them were reproduced in the local travel press and sometimes in the public press of the countries in which they operated . This kind of a thing adds
  • -1959. I thought that Senator Johnson and Senator Jackson and others were pressing too much on the missile gap thing and I said something that was more frank than you would say, thinking it wouldn't be published about these people. F: To a reporter? U
  • was thinking of giving up the Senate leadership. Did he ever mention that to you? W: No, not particularly. I don't know why he would want to give it up. If he ever talked to me about giving it up, I don't remember. G: This was just press speculation so
  • . But he got over that hump. Then Weaver held a press conference in which somebody asked him, "Do you want to be secretary of housing and urban development?" and Weaver said, "Yes," which created a whole raft of stories sometime in December. F: Did he? C
  • to it so the press has things to write about. I think it's effective. P: And in the case of having the First Lady doing it too? J: When you've got a first lady like Mrs. Johnson, I think it's very effective. P: Are there any other events that stand
  • on that campus with the Press Club and the Harris Blairs and the Schoolmasters' and the White Stars. Why was this the case? D: Well, of course, I didn't come in contact with too many of the clubs because my activities were just surrounded by the summer session
  • . But meanwhile the governors and the mayors and the county people were getting quite angry. They were complaining in their conferences and in public and in the press that they were being left out on the planning, the staging, the execution. They were just being
  • with that, he agreed to co-author a book with Lady Bird called Wildflowers Across America, which as you know is a real classic, published by Abbeville Press. Carlton was a steadfast member of the board until he died, which was about four or five years later. He
  • a bad column from Doris Fleeson, asking, "What's this all about?" She'd been in the press gallery. It w as sad, this destruction of a human being, no pleasure, regardless of anything else, to see a man just fall apart; and watch his friends desert him
  • it--the press asked me about Dean Rusk and Bob McNamara--also Bobby Kennedy who had been mentioned. have that they didn't have! What did I I said, "I have the invaluable quality of dispensability." P: Did you see any reasoning behing this? Of course, you
  • then, because after the luncheon was over she was driven right back to Washington. But I spoke with her before, you know, at the small reception and got to chat with her for just a moment. Of course there were just scads and scads of the press there and lots
  • . I don't think he would have been re-elected, and I think he felt he would not be re-elected. M: Is that the reason--? G: And he had been subjected to a lot of abuse by the press and people LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • in at the last minute and saved the day. So we had two or three of them that saved the day when they were certifying. But I think, when it was all told, that they did have votes enough that they weren't worried about it. B: How did the press handle this issue
  • - Probably he issued one to the press which Ray Lee wrote. couldn't have done anything about it. He But things were bound to be a bit subdued because the candidate was unavailable. G: Did you use the radio much to campaign? W: Yes, he was on a few