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  • , newspaper people--there were days when we got along much better with the press than in the later years of the presidency--and Texans. Among them there was Albert Jackson, who actually ran the Dallas Times Herald. Mr. [Tom] Gooch--it was their family
  • was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
  • he needs your input and he needs your connections here in New York. You've got the best connections in the world. You're well acquainted at the New York Times, well acquainted at the Herald Tribune; have good friends there.” See, I had never had had
  • to be pretty cold-blooded about this. Yes, three minutes is more important to you on getting a story over on David Brinkley or Cronkite than two columns in the Birmingham News Age Herald. 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • before and that was that a local photographer was riding in the White House car. We had picked up a Dallas Times [Herald] photographer in Washington and, because he had been with us all the time, he rode in our car rather than in the local still car
  • The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
  • it in the Herald Tribune, but I didn't associate it with me. I mean, I never have sought any kind of office, any kind of political thing--any! show how he dealt. But I tell this to Now to prove it to you, when I went to see him and I told him, "Mr. President
  • happened on the Gulf of Tonkin. I really don't believe that that was a phony setup. The reason that many people do think it was phony is because later research, done mostly by that man who was bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, Dave Wise
  • one of these legis- lators from a rural county with only eleven thousand people couldn't care less what the ~liami Herald would say about him. The uglier thtngs they said, probably, the stronger it made his position in the little domain that he
  • Press-Herald was this beautiful picture of Lyndon Johnson and the Republican governor in a victory salute surrounded by this huge crowd. Isn't that a great story? Well, by the time we get down to the city hall steps where Johnson was to speak, Reed