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  • thing we did-­ you might try to find this in Shriver 's fil.es--we got up a list that .f irst · night of books and magazines and ali kinds of things that we suggested Shriver start reading immediately. on tha~ list, not just Oh, there might have been
  • , that He got special treatment all the time. British magazine was always about as objective as you could find. I didn't have the problems that General Westmoreland faced, or Abe. But I do recall when I was in II Field Force, we did have a real bad
  • on It would be convenient all the way around. So I went on to New York to the national convention of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. appointments there. I had some other Business Week magazine was going to run a feature article on me. I had
  • for the first time, and her gentleman friend, and Cissy Morrissey of Life magazine. This was the first time we had been in a helicopter with the President, and so I recall it as an exciting trip for us. When we arrived at Camp David it was our first glimpse
  • and on, and for a number of magazines. I also have a kind of distinction from most newspaper people. I 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • file on the things they published because I turned it over to them, and the news-I have got a complete file of all the newspapers. They got out a magazine occasionally. They got a whole series of books written by these correspondents on specific
  • are having some effect: the Baker and Estes scandals, Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes. You picked up an occasional comment relative to them. In that same category, Life magazine's fourteen million dollar estimation of your personal wealth. Well, there were
  • don't get way up in the air, and you just skim the top of the trees and it makes landing quicker. G: Time magazine did a story on the helicopter. (Interruption) I was asking you about the imitations of Coke Stevenson that Mr. Johnson did
  • . There was quite a strong anti-Johnson clique on Time magazine. Not in the Washington bureau, I think the Washington bureau by and large got along very well with him--Jim Mcconaughy and John Steele, who was a personal friend of mine. But in New York we got Otto
  • of kids in the inner cities of America. Well, I've been in that, I tell you, for five years in Chicago, the Board of Education, and I knew you did not go to them by advertising in Vogue magazine. You had to go to them through disc jockeys, billboards
  • . In the case of the other schools, we had our disappointments. Lynda wrote an article for Look magazine in 1966, for which she received an honorarium of $1,500. She told her mother that she would like to do a beautification project with her earnings, and we
  • remember going back to the first trip ..... the Landmarks and Landscapes trip-that Stan Wayman of Life Magazine and Ollie Atkins of the Saturday Evening Post, both photographers, came to me and said, "Could you possibly arrange for a stop so that Mrs
  • with some of the broadcasters--not all of them by any means. The great majority of broadcasters supported me very well, but it did get to be a rather agonizing experience when Broadcasting Magazine every week was trying·to tear up what we were trying to do
  • say, "Look, we need this, and we read in a trade magazine that you're developing this piece of equipment here
  • and normally not personal. reporters. I was with the mob of I was ons of the young press. M: You've indicated that he invited some down. B: No, no. Was he playing favorites? I think when somebody showed an interest--magazine writers particularly, I
  • on that considerably even after he became defense secretary, but yet you would hear or read these things in the national magazines and the New York Times, how "Clark Clifford is trying to lead a dovish position, a change in policy on the war." The public print just
  • proponents of the Wilderness Act, and also all the conservation hierarchy in the city. When I wasn't working in the office, I was spending my spare hours writing articles for the various conservation magazines. Little did I know that these would bring me
  • was in the Embassy in Cambodia as the attache, and his name was Peach, and Kraft had written this article in Time magazine. And I had not seen the arti- cle. He had interviewed Peach in It was really a devastating article. Cambodia, and Peach, who, by the way
  • , and I did pull together all the figures for the section on credit in the South. I think I had a draft of it, and it was rewritten by Jack Fischer, who was later editor of HarE~~~ magazine. He did a good He was in the government at the time. LBJ
  • of the piece. And so the senator gleefully picked this up and said, "I have the review of your book written in this Communist magazine. Jim Crow? 'I Do you know LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • produced here in Washington. Have you published any poetry? M: No, none except in the captive literary magazine of which I was an editor at Sewanee, I never published any. B: Then in 1956, I assume shortly after you got your law degree, you joined
  • isn't anything happening, and put you totally on the defensive. There was that general attitude and it wasn't the case. Neil McNeil up on the congressional side saw that a lot of things were happening, and he was dutifully reporting it to his magazine