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Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the press afterwards that various 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and with that engine sitting behind you, it sounded just like a 20 millimeter going off behind you. So you clear your tail a couple of times, which got me too far behind Jones to be effective as a wing man, and so I still pressed on and finally got the engine
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that would be pressing him the hardest. G: Do you remember that at all? R: Well, I remember it now that you've reminded me of it. G: And that John Connally had the petition or the filing papers and one thing and another? R: Well, he might have been
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and other things were more important and more pressing . M: Did the sort of latent opposition that you mentioned might have existed in the State Department ever surface and come up against this? B: Yes, within the State Department there were sort of two
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a little bit, and I put my hands on his back and pressed with the fingertips on both sides. It seemed to me that it was the sort of thing the doctor had told me about. and have a doctor. any doctor. So I said to him to go to a hospital And he was sort
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • They needed like this was a good thing . So we worked at it . G: Did he himself have close contacts with the press, with publishers or reporters? B: Well, knowing his attitude toward the necessity of having good public relations I feel sure he did
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • advantage following the TET offensive, that we could have hurt them more and could have severely limited their ability to wage war against us. F: Do you think that there's some sort of almost stubborn refusal to see some things on the part of the press
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. What we--at least what I--in the office knew was when he got called up to active duty that he initiated this himself. I also knew-G: Initiated? W: His getting called up to active duty. He volunteered, told the press that he wanted to go on active
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , unanimously incidentally, despite threats of filibusters and what have you. I have no idea what it took to do that but I'm sure it took something. But right around the time he goes to work on the board for what was then--the press was calling it a thirty
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and Director of CIA, and beginning at some point, the President's press adviser. G: Tom Johnson, I think. 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , allowing for the fact that as Senate majority leader he can't? J: His relations with the press have always been one of his problems, as I'm sure he recognized better than anyone else. He went back and forth from being extremely friendly to them, perhaps
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VIII -- 14 J: Well, I wrote an article, a press release, for the weekly papers I didn't think Lyndon would sign. He [Morse] came down here
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . it caused trouble, as it should have. A stupid thing to do, and And while this was done at the campus level, it quickly got into the press and to the governor's office and the board of regents, and I was in the midst of that, including eliminating
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • activity through computer capability; CIA; Robert Komer and pacification; the Tet Offensive; Westmoreland press briefing after Tet; the media; infiltration; the importance of Cambodia; Sihanouk; problem of interpretation of intelligence; body counts; Sam
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • But we're going to have the chairman of the Armed Forces Committee of the House and Senate over. We're going to have Burke Marshall who is going to explain his report--and we're going to have the fellow who was the press secretary for President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • handling. You write a letter to an associate, or you may make a reference to someone which is not unkind but may be true, but you don't want it misinterpreted or to get out to the press. You could say so-and-so is a great guy, but he has this weakness
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that and he made very effective, constructive use of the press in behalf of Kleberg. G: I have a note here that he took a job as House doorkeeper at one point. W: I think it must have been before I had met him, because I don't have any memory of that. G
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was a most satisfying joy to me that they liked, appreciated, respected each other so much. G: When Aunt Effie would visit for these extended periods, would she become part of the working family, the household? Would she be pressed into service to help
  • , 1944; press support for LBJ; LBJ's work in the 1944 election; Mrs. Johnson's trip to New Hampshire to christen the U.S.S. Tench; family members hospitalized in the summer of 1944; the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; LBJ winning his
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the staff’s backgrounds; friction among staff mambers; Jacobsen’s opinions on the press; assessment of specific LBJ staffers; who had influence on LBJ’s decisions; LBJ’s temper; LBJ’s 'earthy' language; LBJ’s power of persuasion; the credibility gap; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • proposals for the Job Corps was that it would be run primarily by the Defense Department, and that we would use the army to set up training camps and we would use military bulldozers and spades and shovels and drill presses and so on as the equipment, and we
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what we really had in mind, but I constantly worked with Dirksen. I remember when I was on "Meet the Press" in about the first part of March, late February, when the Civil Rights Bill had come on down. I was made manager of the bill. They said to me
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • decided that they were wrong, the people who had made charges, that they weren't justified. G: Was there a tendency among members on that subcoll'ITlittee to leak things to the press? For example, you had [Estes] Kefauver on the coll'ITlittee, and he
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to question Mr. Johnson's credibility on any issue from the time I first knew him until he left the White House--not once! He was telling the truth. I don't know what they meant by the credibility gap, because what he was saying to the press, to the public
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of attention in the press; they proposed programs which--most of which have now become the law. I don't remember specifically what they were, but they were pretty active. B: They were generally on the liberal side. Bo: That's correct. Most of them. B
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . I don't know that he did much writing in that period. G: To what kind of groups did he speak? K: Luncheon clubs, chambers of commerce, state press association. I recall one talk that he made in San Antonio to the San Antonio Rotary Club. I said
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I answered an interviewer a while back and I got quoted in the press that I would have to say, "No," if the President asked for a personal record. I said
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , at the beginning we will start off generally with putting them in order of precedence and then before the final list is made for the press releases, then it is thoroughly checked because occasionally you will find that one person will be out of line here
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of this but he thought that the other young man was far into 'the job that actually there was a news release that he had received it . I don't believe that the news release was that he had received it, in the sense that NYA had formally put out a press release
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • his telephone and went on strike for a few days. G: There was another occasion I guess where the President had to be flown to the Mayo Clinic I think with gallstones. T: Something. G: And didn't want it known to the press. Do you recall
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think Woody was involved. I didn't handle He knew some of the people Mr. [Raymond] Buck was the lawyer for the airline and was a very good friend of ours, political and personal. At any rate, we wanted, whenever press people were checking up on who
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Administration, trying organized crime cases, and had around this time reached the point where I thought I wanted to leave. I didn't know what I wanted to do and was looking about for what the next step would be. Just around that time there was some press
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and had all the press come out there and everything, and no youth showed up for the first day. LG: Do you recall that? I don't know. I do not recall this, but in the early days that could certainly happen. MG: From then on he was very careful to make
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • care to play president- ranking? H: Well I remember one time, I think I was asked on "Meet the Press," (television interview program), or something, how I would rate the presidents as politicians. And I said, "Well, as I go back over it, " and you
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . years. I promised to let The three months dragged on for about ten When Jackson went to work for the Associated Press in Washing- ton, I asked him if he wouldn't like to come to Corpus Christi. said he would. He He is now the editor of the Corpus
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is somewhat low now, one day people will look at what he has done and will begin to realize just what an enormous accomplishment he has led this country through during his Administration. I think that so much of our communications and the press -- I think
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the press at the Fairmont Hotel in January of 1973. It just so happened that my wife and I were both going to be in the area, and they asked if I could drop by and see him at the hotel. Well, he was late arriving, but Warren Woodward, a very close friend