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Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • he had to do. He felt that he had to work on the inside--this was related with Kennedy and with Johnson--and he wanted to be free to say whatever he felt very strongly, but that once there was a public commitment, that he would support it. He also
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the public papers of President Kennedy. There is no question that he felt very strongly that it was vital to the security of the United States that Southeast Asia be maintained as a free area, that it not be allowed to be overrun by the Communists
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • done anything in particular to whip up a crowd, or had it just come naturally? V: It had really come naturally. We had done the usual thing of trying to make sure that the press knew about it and that they were coming in early, to let out
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were left to a free vote of the Senate, that is a secret ballot of the Senate, amongst the three, Hubert Humphrey would be the nominee. He made it very clear he didn't agree with Hubert Humphrey, that would not be his choice because of their political
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • gets rediscovered by the press about once 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
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • and was summoned to his office. He told me of Senator Johnson's call and wanted me to know if I ever needed anything, feel free to call him. I assured him everything was OK and I was very happy in my job. I was amazed that LBJ would take time from his busy schedule
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . And that while he has taken half-way measures to concede to the Communists, to test them out and see whether they respond happily from his standpoint, he has also kind of relied on half-way measures as far as giving the military a free hand to go
  • ; African affairs; Rostow and Dean Rusk; reaction to LBJ joining JFK’s ticket; SJRes 12 Amendment; 3/31 announcement; comparison of LBJ to other Presidents; LBJ’s weaknesses; the press.
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this with the regular Senate dining room? B: Oh, in the regular Senate dining room you've got all the press to bother you. Another thing, see, if you used the secretary of the Senate's office, you don't have to be explaining to the press why you're there. If you
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the context of it. R: You know, the thing that I think Johnson was the most serious about was doing something about education. His real desire was really to make education absolutely free all the way up I think to the Ph.D. level, if he had known
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- IV -- 15 men;, they said, "Here is a chance to pay off a political favor." And we had pressed upon us one thoroughly unqualified former English teacher in a high
  • decisions regarding Hatch Act amendments; debate over whether a federal employee should be allowed to be a precinct chairman; the Commission's draft report being leaked to the press; legislation resulting from the Commission's work; John Macy's involvement
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was paying rent where I was and this was going to be a free situation. The President wasn't going to charge us any rent. G: How long did you live there? H: I lived there from this Christmas of 1927 until the fall of 1929, the late summer of 1929
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in the first car and I was about three or four cars-because whenever there was an official ceremony like this the press people had to be up forward. Liz Carpenter was up forward, etc., and I always stayed out of the way. Oh, about eight miles out we began
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the presses. I thought for a while they might go ahead; we tried recasting the first and last chapters. It still didn't quite fit with--to their satisfaction. And, within two or three weeks, they cancelled the publication altogether. G: I'm
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • pressed for money, I had collected for all but, I think, three tickets the night of the dinner . The State Chairman and the Chairman of the Central Committee were so pressed for money they collected hourly . I am told through some of my friends in Texas
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : This is common in politics. But now there I was---I don't know why, and maybe it has been to my advantage, but the press has always written more about me than I deserved or warranted, and a lot of times I didn't understand why. That dinner attracted too much
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on. After Goodwin left, he [Moyers] was less and less successful as Presidential Press Secretary, I think in part because Bill had adopted a method of operation that included an awful lot of backgrounding on what the President was really doing, and most
  • Bill Moyers’ departure from the staff; letter from Bill Moyers; source of press leaks; memorandum to the President; LBJ’s reaction; impatience with the situation; conduit between LBJ and outstanding critics in the Congress; visit to Vietnam; conduit
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in their mind they already knew what you were going to answer, and I think still did in later years . If you gave them a different answer you really got pressed on why . [than what they expected], then They both were tremendous egotists . They both were very
  • Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , they got title to the land. The idea was that when people graduated from the Opportunity Homesteads program, they would wind up with their home free and clear or maybe a small portion of it might still be carried as a debt to be repaid over a long period
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson, that was a little bit too free-flowing; [he] moved toward more system, not back to the elaborate Eisenhower system, but I think more NSC system, more NSC meetings. And then of course there was the Tuesday lunch, which was informal, as suited his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the position of agriculture, to enrich the life of the community, to free men and women from the heavy drudgery of the home and farm, this generating plant was erected in cooperation with the federal government by farmers and ranchers of the Hill Country
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Union, I don't think either of these countries are quite as evil. I think you could have more free speech in Greece at the time of the junta than you possibly could have in the Soviet Union. G: How was Johnson's anger relayed to you? A: Only through
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Russell Long. I know that after I got on the Committee I found it at once easier to gain a sounding board in many segments of the press, particularly the very creditable newspaper and television outlets that treated with foreign policy on a high level
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Jones -- III -- 14 when he says to call a cabinet officer, to do it, and anytime I needed to get him to come in personally and not to Juanita Roberts or someone else. He wanted to deal directly. So access to him was always free
  • influence on LBJ to be greater than it actually was; LBJ’s love of telephones; LBJ’s “earthy” language and storytelling ability; LBJ’s private nature; LBJ’s relationship with the press; night reading; keeping LBJ’s schedule.
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • at the White House at a press briefing preceding the introduction of the bill this morning." He said, "Go talk to Jonathan Moore," who was the Secretary's executive assistant. So I went and talked to Jonathan Moore and explained the situation and said
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it, and it looked as though we were home free. And in the ninth week, or tenth week, of this particular--what was for me an ordeal, because I was very much afraid it was going to pop out in the press and be a really embarrassing thing for the Secretary
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ." in there dealing with nuclear free zones in certain places. But that got eliminated due to the objection of Max Taylor, Chairman then of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and my acquiescence in that on the ground that it was better to have them present this as an agreed
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to figure out, and she helped a good bit. F: Now, she's got a longtime interfamily relationship. Was she free and easy with the Vice President, or did the office come between them? C: No, she was completely free and easy, much more so with him as vice
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on and so on. It just developed in a very natural way to the point where we forecast that there would be a Chinese nuclear explosion within a reasonable period of time. This was covered very fairly, accurately, honestly by the press, and by the time
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to contradict that impression . At the time that you went to Saigon with Mr. Rostow, there were rumors that there was trouble in the country team. carrying stories. The press was There were beginning to be hints that all was not well between Ambassador
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Texas politics since the hillbilly band and the free barbecue." G: Do you recall how you first learned of the idea and what your reaction was? J: I don't remember really, but I clearly remember standing in the backyard at Dillman and seeing it go
  • ; how the campaign stops and speeches were planned; LBJ's ability to mimic Coke Stevenson; press coverage of LBJ's campaign; LBJ's strengths and advantages over Coke Stevenson; Mrs. Johnson's life as a political wife; cities and towns LBJ visited in June
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because that was one of the other things that I had been told to do, was to be sure that I wrote a full biography for the press. I did this with great care and then showed it to Pierre Salinger, who made a few changes, and then it was pretty much given
  • Alsop; Bureau Chief duties; the Tet offensive; print journalists and TV reporters; Braestrup’s theory of LBJ’s approach to Vietnam; LBJ’s credibility gap; the “Five O’clock Follies: the JUSPAO; Barry Zorthian; press leaks and obtaining accurate
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come from all over. Special trains had come in early that morning from Detroit and Chicago and New York, and so on. They demonstrated on the Capitol steps. them but they stood there chanting, 11 We were ordered to move 1 shall not, I shall
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that to the operators? K: Not as much I believe as Mrs. Johnson would like for him to show. F: I see. K: From the standpoint of a general manager, I would say the working conditions of the station are ideal. F: He has given you a free rein through the years
Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . They bombarded a small Turkish village with heavy artillery, and they went in and killed some people, looted the place. F: As part of the ambassadorial community, were you free to go anywhere you wanted to? T: Oh, yes. F: There wasn't any problem
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of what we think is good security and what we think is bad security as it pertains to that individual. M: Mr. Johnson, as President, got into the press sometimes unfavorably because of his occasional flare-up at the Secret Service, people who were
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krimer -- I -- 9 At the luncheon, I was seated behind and between, which is a miserable situation for an interpreter to be in, but probably the most effective, in terms of a free flow
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXX -- 7 G: The press speculated that the administration was taking a tough position on the steel increase now, early in January, in order
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Ackley and Schultze are pressing for an immediate tax increase. McNamara then comes in--the situation was sort of--everybody knew you were going to have increased military expenditures, but McNamara comes in because he was worried about his own
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ! The sequence is the President suggested that we refer this to the state department and ask them to look into it. Secretary Rusk was away at the time and so Mr. Katzenbach did the initial review. When the story broke in the press, the President immediately
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Defense Department and saying, "Look, I've got this report. Is there any truth to it? Check it out," he was, Mr. Johnson said, so anxious to grab the headlines that he hurriedly called a press conference and made the announcement. Well, of course, this hit