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  • courtship via the U.S. mails. Lady Bird was a journalism major while at the University of Texas and he dedicated to these daily letters the same meticulous detail he gave to every to-drawer project. He would frequently read a sentence and ask me whether
  • that this was so. So we zeroed in-- two or three of us at least, Dick Fryklund, who was with the Washington Evening Star, and Dan Henkin, who ,vas editor of the Army-Navy-Air Force Journal, and myself--zeroed in on Cy as someone who knew very well what was going
  • campaign when I was working for the United Mine Workers, I helped by writing speeches. Journal. I worked on the United Mine Workers I did the women's page, and I was the editor's secretary, and I helped write the speeches. We were also what would now
  • was telling him--I've forgotten how it came up--about some of my problems with the Southwest newspapers particularly, the Shreveport Journal, and President Johnson remarked, "You know that is an area which has the most right-wing isolationist people
  • the Wall Street Journal called and said, "What do you think of the merger?" And I said, "What merger?" He said, "The merger of the Departments of Commerce and Labor that the President is about to announce." And I said, "You're out of your cotton-picking
  • resignation as State NYA Director. A telegram was sent to Washington. My resignation was also submitted, not only to NYA, but also to the University of Texas where parttime I was teaching a first-year journalism course. My NYA resignation was accepted
  • , it really gets scrutinized and gone over and torn to pieces by his colleagues and it's published in journals where LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • by way of any private decision of what he would do in the future . M: And you need to deal with what I think one of the better accounts of the whole affair, the one by Philip Geyelin of the Wall Street Journal /Lyndon B . Johnson and the World , 1966
  • of my law clerks spend a lot of time going back over the old journals of the Supreme Court to see what civil rights cases the Court had not taken where it should have. And we just found that in those days--particularly after the civil rights cases were
  • to write a letter apologizing for the pejorative nature of the term, which was published in the American Metals Industry Journal in the course of time. But we were worried about having a copper price in which there were formal sales at thirty-six cents
  • could and when you had time? C: Oh, I re a d the available papers that were time l y. Of course, that was just the Washington p apers and the New York Time s an d the Sun and th e Wall Street Journal. Th ey we re the only one s that you coul d real
  • : This is November 22, 1968; we are talking with Gordon Fulcher, the publisher of an East Texas newspaper at Atlanta. Tell us about what newspaper it is that you publish now, Gordon. GF: I publish the Atlanta Citizens Journal, a weekly newspaper, in Atlanta, Cass
  • saying it was because of the association with Westinghouse and commercial people weren't welcome in the news department. Then they also said I had no background in journalism which was very true. They failed to point out to me that I was woman, which