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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Contributor > Davis, Sid, 1927 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and he was quite an interesting, complicated person. He admired other presidents. He loved to talk about Truman and he talked a lot about Roosevelt. He spoke admiringly of Eisenhower and their relationship. I was present many times when he would talk
  • in Selma, Alabama, and George Wallace; LBJ's commitment to civil rights issues; Davis visiting the White House; LBJ's openness with the press and problems that arose from his openness; LBJ and gift giving; President Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's optimism
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 14, 1959. They told me before I got to Washington that Khrushchev was coming to visit Eisenhower, who was then president and that they were going to send me out with Khrushchev. They gave me about three weeks' notice--I had been hired about
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the fading hours of the Eisenhower Administration, late 1959, early 1960. Eisenhower was facing his last year in office and there were these stories about news management, that Eisenhower was managing the news; Jim Hagerty, his press secretary, was managing
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)