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Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://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 Rauh--III--IO It's a famous day. The Wall Street Journal had the story. Johnson

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that I, for example, had supported it under Kennedy. I supported Eisenhower's part of it. I support it now, by the way, under Nixon. Therefore there was an undoubted effort generally to discredit in journalism those of us who stood up for this war. I know

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

along with the tax cut, where the tax cut was supposed to provide an incentive for business production expansion, and so on, which was therefore to have an effect of creating more jobs. So that the theory was that because of the tax cut you created

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

journals. We I received informal presentations from all of the interested parties, including consumers groups, and based upon the investigation and the informal hearings that we had, I reached the conclusion and made the recommendation to Fred Vinson

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

discussing the Women's Speakers Bureau and the involvement of some members of the administration as far as nonpolitical activities in speechmaking around the country. I'd like to turn this back over to you with your journal and continue as we had, with you

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

questions on, I'll bring them out as we go along or I'll bring them up at the end. Would you like to continue from the point where we were? F: Yes. Now, I'm following through the journal notes that I kept intermittently at the time I was at the White

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to represent other employers, that was perfectly all right provided it did not conflict with my activities for Dallas and that I had the time to undertake them. F: So both of you have been somewhat mixed up in Washington life from Frankl in Roosevelt down

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

than three towns, and we'd stop at five to eight of them a day, that I didn't run into somebody working on a local paper, usually a weekly, that I'd been in journalism school with. I got from seeing those people whom I had known at university and seeing

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a Texan? H: I was born in San Antonio, and I grew up here in Austin. lJhen my family moved here, I was just a little fellow, about seven or eight years old. F: When did you join the Dallas News? H: 1916, on the old Dallas Journal, which

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No. (Laughter) (Interruption) G: Did LBJ ever express an interest in setting up a school of journalism there at San Marcos? J: Not that I know of. G: Tell me about his work for President Evans. What did he do, in essence? J. Whatever President Evans

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hoc things which I don't remember now: wrote an article for the ABA Journal, gave a speech to this group or that group. thing. There was a lot of that kind of In terms of projects, I remember one of them was to go through all of the government

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I worked under Cecil Horne, who was head of the journalism department; that's what I studied in Tech. I enjoyed being at Texas Tech. I had been to four other schools before I got there, because during the Depression you would go to school until

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went back to the newspapering business, and I think it's probably the finest thing that ever happened to me. I've certainly enjoyed my fifty-plus years in journalism, and Mr. Johnson obviously enjoyed his many years that led eventually

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that particular course, Journalism 312 or whatever. It got to the point where certain factions of the college, of the student group, didn't feel that the students were getting enough recognition or enough acknowledgement, and so there was a little turmoil

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he could ever do if he'd take this subcommittee. So I told him a story about how I'd been with Governor Cox in Atlanta after he'd had a readership test on the Atlanta Journal. He kept telling me it cost twenty five thousand dollars to have

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought it would be very nice to live in a small town--he didn't necessarily say live in Austin; I remember he said a smaller town one time--and own the newspaper, buy the newspaper. With Lady Bird's degree in journalism that would be right up her alley

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. either, five or ten dollars a week . We didn't pay very much Homer Olsen would work for us . We published a daily oil journal up there, a mimeographed oil company report that we had to have extra help for, for the mechanical work of getting it out

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knowledge and Stevenson's knowledge and you sort of bred them together, if maybe those two great minds might get us out of this abyss that we're in now. Because I recently read in the Wall Street Journal where that if you continue to spend--I'm talking

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that I went out to California and was a free-lance writer for the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, various other newspapers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and so forth. Then I gradually got into electronic journalism and did a lot of radio work. 1 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of journalism degree in February I worked on the Austin American-Statescan, a full-time job while I was in the University. I was in Austin fifteen years old when the President won his first race, when President Johnson won his first race. ever knew him until

Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the right course, and anxious to provide new ways and new opportunities for people that had been cut off from opportunities, this black movement that came along created in me more and more sympathy, and more and more involvement. and more and more

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, would you outline briefly your background, your career, before you came to the White House staff? \oJ: I've always been in one way or another in journalism--publishing, writing, editing. H'flen I got out of the Air Force--and I ,,,as stationed

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to provide an education. Find jobs for people, and that's how the Job Corps got going and that's how he promoted these programs, so he concentrated primarily on the meat and potatoes. And while I think environment was a part of his life, I don't remember any

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

but techni ca lly attached to the Department of State. M: Did you have any contact with ~tr. Johnson personally prior to the time he was president, in your journalism days? J: Before he was president? M: Before he was vice president even. J: No, I

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that existed in determining whether you wanted to go VHF or UHF, and the article that someone can find in the Wall Street Journal along in this 1954-55 period indicated the problems, the reasons why selection of a spectrum was a problem. We moved along toward

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Institutes of Health, and today's date is April 18,1969. Dr. Marston, I would like to ask you to begin this interview by providing for the record your own background, which would involve I guess some of your appointments, your professional training, how you

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/loh/oh minute Charlie, lIve got something that I want to show you." 2 And he went into the little room next door, the office of his private secretary, and picked up a copy of a newspaper--I think it was the Wall Street Journal--that had on the front

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a choice--does it provide more peace of mind to get a few things done than to sit and worry and stew about the problem? So many of my decisions over the years have been based on my intimate knowledge of this particular man's personality. 9 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/show/loh/oh Sidey -- I -- 8 r~1: That why he used-- S: --provided the horsepower up there. And I really do. I don't think Sam's health failed--well, it did fairly shortly, it was only two or three years later. M: It was 1962 he died. S: 1962

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the heart attack, and then I thought for a while, perhaps, that he would be permanently sensitive to this, but it was interesting to me that despite the little clues that I found in this journal that I kept, he got over his concern. I remember certain

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

said to me that he was getting to be an old man and he'd·never live to see it, but me, being a young police offi cer, chances are I'd have to work with Negro police, and I should be prepared to provide some of the leadership, which·was a great help

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

aggressively, as much l think to provide a lesson to the Admlntstrntioa 7 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

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Russians want us to have the ABM-that's the defense of the Hudson Institute Foreign Affairs Journal. to make us feel good about it--because the Russians like us to build defensive systems; nevertheless, the effect of Gror:-:yko's speech is to soften

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

correspondent, who practically lived in that building. He never went out in the field in his entire ten years in Vietnam. He'd go in there, and they'd provide him with the home-towners; they'd provide him with the communiqués, and he'd then go to the briefing

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

most of the time we were and are throwing these youngsters out. We're throwing them out because the system is not flexible enough to provide them with learning experiences and education suited to their needs. Hence they are unprepared for this society

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on education, we would make an effort to invite the number one education writers--and many women are in this specialized field of journalism--education writers- somebody from the St. Louis Post Dispatch or somebody with the NEA Journal. 19 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)