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Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

: 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

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-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

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

- 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

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