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Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- I -- 2 brushing straw off my shoulders as I get on the press plane. I had never been on a press plane
  • Coverage of 1959 Khrushchev visit; Khrushchev's dislike of the press; Mesta Machine Tool Company tour; JFK's choice of LBJ as VP; reflections on JFK's trip to Texas in 1963 and the days following the assassination; experience as a witness to LBJ's
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." But aside from that I don't think there is anything that's not in the press. There was a program; they kept it, and it worked. There was absolutely nothing there except what was in the papers. I remember it well. It's not a question of my having forgotten
  • ; LBJ's frustration with press coverage of his trip; LBJ's meeting with Greek prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis; LBJ's trip to Italy; meeting the Pope; LBJ's ability to relate to poor people; Reedy's work and LBJ's actions during the Cuban missile
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Committee of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. B: A varied background. Do you want to add for the record here your authorship? You've written a legal textbook, haven't you? G: I've written two books. One is Foundation Press' textbook
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would call the "State of the District" letter. The Department of Agriculture issued a lot of little bulletins, a couple of hundred as I remember, and a citizen could send in and check the list and get I believe it was five of them free. If you wanted any
  • and letters to high school graduates; John and Nellie Connally's wedding; LBJ's respiratory problems; friends in the press and the Johnsons' widening circle of friends.
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember, by George Reedy who was then working as--I" don't know what George's actual title was at that time, but he did most of what a press secretary would do for a senator. F: Yes. W: So he introduced me to Senator Johnson, and Senator Johnson
  • Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No, but he made it quite clear in the 1960 campaign at the time of the fourth debate. There was talk in the press about a fourth debate, and at that time, my idea was that once 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the President had decided at that moment that he would try to squeeze in some time and held sit for the portrait that lid asked them to make, the first official portrait he needed to get going on the presses and hanging in government buildings. I came over 1i ke
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Council meeting. But there was never any doubt that on that major problem there was informal, intimate, off-the-record, nonreportable conversation, and give-and-take exchange. You can say that this didn't come free. It did mean that the President
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the news almost daily, I'd like to emphasize in this interview your personal relations with Mr. Johnson, your government position, and your assessment of some of the milestones of his career, and a very important area--his press relations. Do you recall
  • organization workings, policy problems, determining how to portray America to radio listeners; LBJ’s lack of involvement, USIA, recommended changes. Chancellor’s comments on 1964 convention, LBJ’s relationship with the press, how LBJ’s career as a legislator
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Hilsman -- I -- 3 substantive or anything else. But after I resigned and was a critic, friends in the press tell me that Johnson tells a story about that evening that I just don't remember anything remotely like. I know it didn't happen the way he told
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- 4 M: But we had gone so far as to seek some international volunteers? You mentioned England and the Netherlands had agreed? R: That's right. We were talking about that with other governments. M: When hostilities did break out, the earliest press
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to make an appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the Solicitor General at the same time, and he thought he would have a press conference and announce it all. When I talked to him, when I recovered from my shock, I said, "Well, I think that I'll accept
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 8 of a western artist who painted the expanses, the landscapes of the West. B: All except one of Peter Hurd's pictures. R: Well, I'm not convinced that this was really as serious a matter as it was made out by the press. I think
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the around-the-world flight, and we sure put them to a good purpose. Afterwards, of course, there was absolute commotion, The West Wing began to fill very rapidly with staffers and friends and associates. phones never stopped ringing. The The press
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some candle-pieces to hide some blemishes there in the background, and then we had to get identical chairs. All of these arrangements were fascinating. I recall in the meantime I was keeping Bill Moyers, who was the press secretary and the man I
  • Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ treated
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • our Ambassadors abroad to go to the host government to get oral agrements in order that the announcement could be made immediately and the name go to the Senate without any delay. Now, part of this was his desire to avoid leaks to the press during
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . W: I became a housewife, yes, but a very committed housewife as far as Washington was concerned . I was fascinated, followed the press very closely, very interested in what Bill was writing, very interested in the personalities there . I felt
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted to publicize it. It did result, as I've recounted, in this press conference. I think he felt relieved. I have no idea about the reaction of the advisers who had been negative at Miami. But George McGovern was perhaps pressured by his wife, Eleanor
  • involvement in the McGovern campaign; O'Brien's efforts to increase order and coordination in the campaign; encouraging McGovern to identify himself as a Democrat and to publicize the work of the Democratic Party; press reports that O'Brien was leaving
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , or assistants to-- F: Who is Professor Livingston? W: He's apparently a great expert in military management problems at Harvard; he's not the sort of man that a Senator would know, but he gave extremely valuable testimony. F: Were you free to go back
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the hardest ones to do. L: Yes. I guess probably anything that was real, real tough, like Detroit, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 4 There was a local reporter riding on the White House press bus. The only discussion I remember about possible crowd hostility
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thing to do and get him to do it. I think the press, oh, starting not so long after Mr. McNamara took office, began to try to make something of what they conceived to be not wholly happy relations between McNamara and Congress, or some members
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , it's the Corcoran of the sword." While I was there Dubinsky talked of the Depression, quoting Jay Lovestone. He said, "Look, I'm all right, but you people had better take a look at Detroit. With that new young union there Detroit is flat on its back
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I arranged meetings with a number of big city mayors [including, among others, Dick Daly in Chicago, John Collins in Boston, Dick Lee in New Haven, Jerry Cavanagh in Detroit, and the mayor of Pittsburgh] offering to approve CRP financing
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , or maybe two or three, and it will be refined a little bit the next year, and ultimately something will come of it, but you don't always get the right answer the first time around but keep going back at it. Urban finance is a particularly pressing problem
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be striking that very night--Thursday, March 30--and the railroad unions were free to strike on that Friday night. I guess the railroads then in their own way got some injunction that prevented the railroad strike from taking place from a small union. We got
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and our national affairs, illustrations and that sort of thing will be in my sermons. On occasions, when I have referred to Viet Nam or to some other problem and the President happened to be in church, I was accused by the press that I had inserted
Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : Well, it was a "free-for-all" and ••••• there was to be no run-off in it, and I thought possibly with so many people running from Travis County that I might have a chance to pile up a pretty good vote from Williamson County and maybe then from
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • association. F: I don't know lowell Limpus. C: Lowell Limpus is now dead, but Lowell Limpus was night city editor and military expert of the News, and it is my opinion that out of that genesis came much of the Roosevelt Administration, at least press-wise
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • decided that we would have to go from day to day, because we exhausted every possibility of ever getting anyone to speak for the whole group. F: We're getting ahead of the chronological story, but I don't think it matters. Did the press have a free sort
  • Leadership Conference's (SCLC) interaction with the press; communication problems within SCLC; racial tension at Resurrection City; lack of coordination and organizational problems at the demonstration; Ralph Abernathy; the terms of the Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --disagreement, within the embassy, and that the embassy was not leaking like a sieve, although when you have that sort of disagreement, the likelihood of leaks, I suppose, increases. What was the status of our relations with the press in Saigon at this time? F
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ] as long as we have the freedom that we have. our standpoint, this never was a major issue. And from The press would debate, argue, interpret, and put their interpretation on the figures. G: I was thinking specifically of the poverty program. The face
  • Folklore of LBJ; statistics and the press; George Christian; 1968 campaign; Moyers
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in agreement, whereas by the time I was DOl the whole position had changed, and we still had to fight with those two guys but not much of anybody else. Once I was DOl I had pretty much a free hand to propagate our view, as the senior analyst. Well, at any
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Although I think I ended up briefing the press on the issue, and therefore backing off from that I believe my side of the issue was that we should continue the deferment for married men. We had a little debate in the Oval Office LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • every day and I even begin to realize it in watching it unfold in the press, was simply that it was the best way in the Johnson Administration to underline a success story. The hardest thing to do is to get the success story told. F: How did you
  • incident; Lady Bird served fruit and vegetables of Texas to visiting guests; Lady Bird was LBJ’s goodwill ambassador; Lady Bird flew in the same plane as the press; logistical problems of getting stories in; Lady Bird’s gift for phrase-making; White House
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been there, the practice of the Office of Education. I give John Gardner a great deal of credit for being willing to live with this informal arrangement in which I was free to duck in and out of the White House, the Bureau of the Budget, and make
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the check for the defense of the free world. You see, these countries had been occupied earlier, and we didn't have much of a foreign exchange problem. When you stop what you might call the occupation and begin to do this on a cooperative and allied
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of Boston, Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Wagner of New York, when he was mayor, then would come and testify; men like Beverly Brierley of Nashville who is now the president of the National League of Cities, Jerry Cavanagh of Detroit, and there was another
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sort of a broad, general commentary. Otherwise, everything that you need to know is in there. You might ask Ed Welsh. G: Okay, this is a memorandum from you to the Vice President dated January 12, 1963, with regard to press stories. R: Press
  • in other military tactics, such as rocket power and supersonic speeds; Robert Kennedy's presidential aspirations in 1963; LBJ's reaction to criticism in the press; assumptions in 1963 about President Kennedy's political future; Barry Goldwater's chances
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , for the record, S o m e background inform.ation on yourself. If you want to provide any additional details, please feel free. You were born in Kentucky, in Latonia. it? Is that the way you pronounce , A: Latonia, it's pronounced Latonia- - Latonia, Kentucky
  • of LBJ and JFK; LBJ and columnists; LBJ's press secretaries; LBJ and the press; Gene McCarthy; Bobby Kennedy; 1968 campaign; personal observations on LBJ