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Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh T . O'Neill--I-- 8 she was young . Herald . She later went to work for the Boston As a matter of fact, she's Mrs . John Finney now . John writes for the New York Times
- of the byline that they read . F: B: Did you tend to travel separately or did you gang up? Some of us traveled separately, some traveled together . Most of the time Acheson of the Times Herald rode with me, I can't recall his first name . F: B: F: B: F: B
- and all--But somewhere I think the story will somehow come out that it was not true. Now, I was in Dallas the night it occurred. The Washington representative of the Times-Herald telephoned Mr. Felix McKnight of the Times-Herald and said Mr. McKnight
- with at that Convention. I made many friends over the country, and I have been pleased with what happened there at that convention. F: Let's talk about your own career for a moment. In 1963, you were heralded by the newspapers and by general sentiment as the person
- myself. I did check I wrote a letter I remember it was at a time when Peter Marshall was quite a popular and widely heralded minister. He would have been in that period somewhat like Billy Graham today. And Mrs. Peter Marshall had come to Dallas
- The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
- one of these legis- lators from a rural county with only eleven thousand people couldn't care less what the ~liami Herald would say about him. The uglier thtngs they said, probably, the stronger it made his position in the little domain that he