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Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Administration was concerned was certainly Viet Nam. He had also, for a variety of reasons, gotten into an increasingly difficult situation with part of the press, and particularly the eastern based press, and this is another story in 1 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the responsibility of the government to respond to public inquiry, and I felt that the press corps that covered the Department of State at that time, in addition to being day-to-day reporters, were people who by avocation were pretty good students of foreign policy
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Presid ent Johnso n's free trade view LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B.tion Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History Collec Tape Index continu ation sheet Page or estima ted time
  • Balance of payments issue; Balance of Payments Advisory Committee; a visit to LBJ at the Ranch; the Office of Foreign Direct Investments; Trowbridge's retirement and C. R. Smith; Charles E. Fiero; staffing problems; LBJ's free-trade views; textile
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
  • liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the kind of county that needs the program. K: That's right. The same thing would be true of New York and Los Angeles and Detroit, various others of these large industrial centers. M: That's interesting. You know Mr. Johnson's current critics, some
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Well, we had all sorts of problems with it. In the first place, an airline cannot haul anybody free-for-nothing without all sorts of special permits; and we had to go to the International Aviation Association, or whatever they call it, and get
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , with John Kennedy. K: Before John Kennedy announced. I am sure that I was at that point influenced by that comment of Nixon's and I accepted it at face value; I'm sure I did. A group of us had dinner in the National Press Club, one of the rooms
  • Nixon’s assessment of LBJ in the late 1950’s; JFK’s selection of LBJ as a running mate; LBJ’s failure to understand or relate to the press; attempts to manipulate the press; press’ attitude toward LBJ; Vice-Presidential trip to India and the Far
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • those are problems that you had to learn, and learn the hard way as we went along. And I hope we've learned them. G: Did Washington give you pretty much of a free hand in the conduct of press relations out there? B: Yes. Yes. In fact, that was true
  • Vietnam enemy inflitration through Laos and Cambodia and pros and cons of U.S. invasion to cut supply lines; Bunker's conviction concerning censorship of the press; LBJ's 3/31/1968 decision not to seek re-election; bombing pause; U.S. plans to train
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of a government. G: What were your relations with the press like? Did you know any reporters? S: Oh, yes. They obviously sought me out, and from time to time they used to walk home with me, which was my only free time to talk to them. [Laughter] Well, like any
  • in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1963; weaknesses in the Hamlet Evaluation System and other status reports from Vietnam; Stilwell's impressions of press coverage of the Vietnam War and specifically that of David Halberstam; the U.S. government's failure
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • who, I believe, sort of took Sherman Adams' place ; and I talked to Dave Kendall, who was special counsel to the President ; and I talked to Romer McFee, who was Dave Kendall's assistant . And they wanted to know if I believed in the free enterprise
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • indirect contact? F: I had no personal contact, and really no indirect contact. I formed my own image of him by the press and by his voting record. B: May I ask what that was sir? F: Well, my image was not good of Mr. Johnson then. He had, at least up
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years, which had steadily deteriorated. Before my arrival he had of course had the infamous Russell Tribunal. F: Now, you had also at that time a Swedish Committee for Free Asia; you had a Stockholm attorney who offered to defend the United States
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: LESLIE CARPENTER INTERVIEW'Eji: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Mr. Carpenter, tell us briefly about your own career, how you happen to be where you are at this time. I know you
  • Press relations
  • and the media; LBJ's press secretaries: Moyers, Christian
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and everything, he freezes. And the man that comes across when sitting in a room like this doesn't come across unless you sort of unleash him as they did once with a press conference where he just started pacing back and forth on a free mike. But as President
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor
  • Rights Commission; a discussion with LBJ about the press; LBJ meets with observers of the 1967 elections in Vietnam, a staged affair; Civil Rights Commission-Justice Department relations, especially under RFK; LBJ ignores the Civil Rights Commission
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the elite. Now these are my words, not his, and they would vary from town to town, and he could be relied on to sort of feel out his audience and use the necessary words for each individual town. There was a problem, however, with the press
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Moyers, who was President Johnson's press secretary, ber in the process of interviewing for that article, and I remem- sometime in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Biographical information; preparation for covering Vietnam; reflections on McNamara; the Caravelle Hotel; recollections of Thich Tri Quang; the Buddhist movement and the Ky government; press policy in Vietnam; opinion of Ky; elections in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The mainland is there. Communist China is there." But he was denying the reality that Free China was also there and his man [Zbigniew] Brzezinski put it--"We're ending the fiction that Taiwan controls the mainland." But he didn't add on to complete the sentence
  • Kai-shek on Taiwan's economic and industrial success; the Free China Fund/Committee for a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until it met certain qualifications; the Chinese Nationalist Air Force representative misusing
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with people that Lyndon Johnson would be a fine president. F: Did he talk with you about it? H: Yes, he did. So he had that idea. Again, under the way that President Eisenhower worked wherever he went there was press, so wherever there was press
  • leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • in the country. Now the president had been elected by Congress. Congress was working. The press was free of censorship. The courts were granting habeas corpus. So there was no basic reason to feel that the country was not really democratically governed. G: I'm
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Reedy stayed with him all through the vice presidency and up until he needed that operation on his foot-becoming press secretary. Then he was away for a while, and then he \'/ent back in, you know, the last year. Jim Rowe was always coming back
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The mainland is there. Communist China is there." But he was denying the reality that Free China was also there and his man [Zbigniew] Brzezinski put it--"We're ending the fiction that Taiwan controls the mainland." But he didn't add on to complete the sentence
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , really. The American public and the press doesn't, I don't think. So therefore the public should learn much about it, what a war of national liberation is all about. That's a technique that the Soviets developed a long time ago. They've perfected
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • graduated from Harvard in 1961, and free-lanced for a while--traveled for a year and then free-lanced writing a book about the travels-­ then went into the Marine Corps for a brief period, came out and rewrote the book, worked for the Washington Post
  • ; department's speech drafts; review of speeches; "Rose Garden rubbish;" LBJ's sensitivity to press reaction to speeches' LBJ's relationship with the press; joke specialist on staff; LBJ as am accomplished storyteller and raconteur; LBJ's speech referring to his
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the chairman would in some way limit the freedom of action upon his part. I didn't know what his policies were going to be, but mine were public, and had been stated and restated and discussed at press conferences and so forth. Therefore, I felt
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't say Khanh leveled with him on the preparation--but whom Khanh sought out the minute the fat was in the fire, yes. G: You don't recall the name, do you? F: I don't, but it's a matter of public record. time. It was in the press at the LBJ
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Secretary Connor on a visit there which he made to speak to the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Export Expansion Council; and having lived in Puerto Rico, I went with Mr. and Mrs. Connor. And during that trip, I asked him about press
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • meetings and that sort of thing. As a matter of fact, in the press room we had heard that there were complaints after a while from some of the cabinet members about the difficulty of having to go to Texas to have a meeting, because they'd have to get up
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going on in the press, what 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 Califano
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. JORDEN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Jorden's residence, McLean, Virginia Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let's begin by my asking you by what process you got picked to go to Paris to be the resident press man
  • to the press in the Paris negotiations; information leaks during Paris talks; private talks held in Paris; Madame Anna Chennault; results of the Paris talks after the Nixon administration was in power; writing for The Vantage Point; LBJ in retirement.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That is, as I don't have to tell you, the President does--and the whole family-­ live in a fish bowl, and yet some things are theirs. C: Well, that was constantly the tightrope that a press secretary to a first lady walks, because the first lady
  • Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I got a job working for Esther Tufty. F: Who's she? C: Well, she's a newspaperwoman. F: How do you spell Tufty? C: T-u-f-t-y. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, known as the Duchess. I'd beaten the paths around the National Press Building, really
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , whereas Eisenhower's line was free trade -- and he held the line rather successfully. H: Yes. F: And Johnson has always been a free trade advocate. I expect he's the most"free trade" of the Presidents we've had. in this century. Did you ever work
  • First awareness of LBJ; administrator of Marshall Plan; UN Development Program; Joe McCarthy attack; free trade; representative to UN assembly; Bunche mission; civil liberties; campaign expenditures; foreign aid; International Peace Corps; advisory
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was, and I was aware that he was a supporter of the administration, that he had been identified with it. M: You went off to work for the New York Times, I believe, for a little while. W: I was a Washington correspondent to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
  • Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there was a need at that time for me to issue a press release. Throughout the years of his political life, the press had been extremely curious about my affairs, the President's business affairs, and those of almost everyone who touched his life, for instance
  • Biographical information; press release regarding financial affairs of the Johnson family upon LBJ's death (released by Thomas); management of Mr. Taylor's estate (Lady Bird's father); LBJ as a good businessman; KTBC; LBJ's faith in banks; ownership
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Vice He didn't have the manpower to. conventio~ I saw in Los Angeles, when he arrived there ~nd] had a couple of press conferences in the delegate-wooing period before the balloting. I remember that two or three of us tried to pressure him
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in, maybe twenty people, in this suite and said that he had this offer and that he wanted to let us know before the press knew it because we were his good friends. So to the few of us there he explained that he had had this offer, and that he felt
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hung around in Doug Kiker's office--he was the director of press for the Peace Corps--watching TV. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • and Austin; going to work for Press Secretary Bill Moyers; advancing a meeting between LBJ and the Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, at Campobello; LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; recording conversations between LBJ and the press office; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , they do consider the free press one of the mainstays of 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
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that you played a role in that. R: Oh, yes, quite a role. I organized all of the press coverage, and more than that, I helped in the setting-up of the Texas visit. Adenauer's security chief--I've forgotten his name now, a German professor--spoke very good