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Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came. whether it was the press, Secret Service, security. I don't know It could have been anyone of them. G: Did he reminisce about King during this period? Did he talk about [him]? R: No. He and Mr. King were not--I didn't get a sense
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : There was a center set up downtown, a communications center, and they put in telephones, and reporters would be there when President Johnson happened to be here and was going to have a press conference. They used that as headquarters, anyway, when he was in Texas
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that this was a situation where I was sort of in between the two men. There had been some tension between the two men at some of the meetings of the committee. I frequently felt that Robert Kennedy was unduly pressing on the Vice President, demanding results out
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and I were the only carry-over members for the second He pressed me and finally convinced me that I was being carried over for the purpose, that they did want a school man to be a source of continuity within the task force. Even at that time I
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : What else did he do? M: Well, I don't really know. Yes, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he must have been handling news releases to the press and things of that nature, and contacts LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Democratic Party machinery of Texas for Eisenhower, the Republican, Mr. Rayburn and Johnson decided that they must take the Democratic machinery away from Allan. F: Yes. P: They revealed their plans to me in Washington on an occasion and pressed me
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which issues charters for corporations, had had the MAP application for a week or more, had not done anything with it. It was clear if we were going to fund that program--the next Monday or Tuesday as we'd planned to do and to announce it at a press
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and departments resent OEO? B: It was so reported very much in the press and elsewhere. We know of the Willard Wirtz LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. G: Was that how dire it was? O: Yes, we were through. The last three weeks of the campaign would have been whatever the press reported. While Nixon had a tremendous media package in place for the last three weeks. He had started his media
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or the Texas press or something like that, they wouldn't have invited him. It's just remotely possible that he could have been asked to come to dinner some night when they were having four or five other guests. But I don't believe that it ever happened. G
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • them from this capricious and unwise action. The second phase, if the first phase didn't succeed, was to go to the foreign press and complain 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /oh Bunshaft -- I -- 2 1 you know, who's carrying on . To me, it seemed to be . I visualized when this thing was finished and he was in there that the press would crucify him for sort of hanging on to something that wasn't his . M: Yes, I can see
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in one of those pictures you've got-and had been Freeman's press man or whatever you [call it], spokesman. I got old Rod to prepare a reply and I kept trying to get hold of Sarge. The switchboard said they couldn't find him, and they said there wasn't
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 a good friend of the newspaper publisher in the area, Mr. [Eugene] Pulliam, and it seemed to me that my press
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with incomes of over $200,000 who didn't pay any taxes at all. I don't think the American people are going to stand for this much longer." This was a great cause celebre, and it ran in the press and it ran allover the place--just ran and ran and ran. F
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of 1958 that he went to see Lyndon Johnson to talk to him about it. iss~e He asked him ir-he would a press statement, saying that he had talked with Bob about statehood ~ and woul d he make any statement at all that \'/asn' t contrary. He didn't need
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to broaden the base of representa­ tion on that Community Action board to afford the target areas an opportunity to be represented . I remember the press tried to needle Mr . Shriver about the fact that there were only two Negroes on the initial Community
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was familiar with this. I had been in the game by then for over thirty years. I had started out--I'd been in the same rut for an awful long time, working on utility problems and reading news in the press and what not. So it helps an awful lot if you know
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that. F: Were you aware personally of a dissatisfaction on John Gardner's part with the President? That is, did Gardner, as the press indicated, feel that he had not had sufficient support? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • communicated to U Thant. Of course, I can re ca ll th at pe riod. It was always very, very di ffi cu lt because it is very di ffi cu lt to catch up with the press in th is regard. Every one of al l so rts of ind ivi du als would presumably pick up th is kind
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . J: Because he was walking into an elevator--this I remember hearing him tell--when a press man-- G: Bill White. J: --came up to him and said, "What do you think?" G: Well, when did you first see him after that? Do you recall? J: No, I don't
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • compatible and pretty good friends other than politically in your thinking? A: Oh, I think so. I mean, of course, the press made a great deal about that. Many articles were written that Johnson didn't give Humphrey in the beginning the kind of support
  • to get involved in political organizations; financial stability of UPO; negative press for LBJ; Anderson's visits to the Ranch; LBJ agreeing to be JFK's vice presidential running mate; LBJ's civil rights speeches; Mack Hatter's political work in Texas
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And I was standing next to Johnson when [Sen. John G.] Tower confronted him and stood and blocked his way for fifteen or twenty minutes, you know, demanding--and the press just grinding away-F: Do you think Alger organized that? S: He was key
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You couldn't do much really except deplore? S: That's right. What were we going to say to a joint session? So then he had me--that was on Saturday--he had Christian announce to the press that we would defer the joint session. or Tuesday. We'd
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • memory is the first time, as a matter of fact, that he was there. You don't want all of these occasions, do you? As I remember the first time he came it was a communion service and in the [Episcopal] Church press some months before, there had been
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • frankly John Kennedy and the administration were sensitive to the oft-repeated complaint, particularly I'd say in the Sons of Italy gatherings, and the minority language press, that he had put his Cabinet together without any Italians, or without any Poles
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember it all. But her sponsorship gave us a big kickoff, so we announced it right there--I think it was in what they used to call the Gold Room, it was a big press conference thing--at the White House. That got us off to a flying start. To revert just
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . There were some people who came on occasion that could not resist a tendency to go out and talk to the press, mouth off about what It did not necessarily help them. they thought was going to happen . Sometimes people knew who those folks were, sometimes
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cannon -- I -- 12 G: I think it was January 31 or February 1; the press conference was the first. C: It was a Saturday
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • unethical. People didn't know that because this press group, particularly the television crowd, would keep playing that up by just a word or two here and there, and just kept dropping coconuts on the heads they stopped, you see. ever~vhere And actually
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; LBJ's congressional work style; LBJ trying to get on the Appropriations Committee; LBJ's use of charm; LBJ forcing staff members to stretch their abilities; FDR's third term campaign; Connally's wedding; LBJ's 1940's senatorial campaign; press relations
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? What On the one hand, the President had said and the members of Congress had said--the President had said in a press conference just before the referendum that this is a farm program now; that if the farmers do not take this, why they won't get
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- IV -- 7 "Mefo" [M. E. ] Foster, who at that time was quite a power in the sense of swaying public opinion through the Houston Press. G: How did he do this? W: No. Did he know Foster before