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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 4 There was a local reporter riding on the White House press bus. The only discussion I remember about possible crowd hostility
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : BARRY ZORTHIAN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Zorthian's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Zorthian, what were the state of press relations in Saigon when you arrived in 1964? Z: I will answer these questions, but let me add
  • State of press relations in Saigon in 1964; coordination between various elements of the mission; generation gap and press relations; psychological operations; integration of the press relations efforts; JUSPAO; understanding of the Vietnam
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • operating apparently under the notion that LBJ was going to run again. R: Yes. G: How were you brought into the campaign organization? I know you had worked in 1964. R: I can't remember exactly how it happened. I may have been pressing Johnson, you
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was, oh, sort of out to get Johnson? 0: I know you do . You get a lot in the press about that . Afterwards I never felt that while Jack was alive . I was really in my own shell of grief, and when all those things are written and you read them, do
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in '60, and then went for Johnson rather heavily in '64. In 1960 did you work with the business community at all? W: No. Of course, I was--I didn't because, again, I was in on trial so much of the time that I was very hard pressed to do anything
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to ,vork for him. never had a press man, you know. come over and see him. He t d So he called me and asked me if I would So I 'vent over and he asked me if I would like to go LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • jobs and errands for the President; advice for LBJ’s press relations; Bill Moyers; LBJ’s treatment of George Reedy; Jenkins held LBJ in respect but not afraid to disagree with him; 1964 campaign; Mississippi delegation; Mooney’s admiration of LBJ; Eric
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, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that point. You, in your book,* to a certain extent, and certainly in the opposition press, had expressed at least some fear that maybe part of the American mission in the Dominican Republic gave a nod to the anti-Bosch coup, either the Military Assistance
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Yarborough and Connally? HM: No. This had nothing to do with it. Goldwater had captured the fancy of the national press and from 1960 until the fall of '63 he got a very favorable national press. They would label him an unreconstructed rebel
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 5 "This is the way it is," he was willing to assume that that's the way it was. And, once he'd pressed you with "Are you really sure
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bachelors in Washington. We were We were assigned to Margery when she got back to the States, more [as] bodyguards in keeping the press away, and keeping her from dropping any more post cards, really, until we could decompress the situation. G: What
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a great genius in this field. And he was going to come down and for nothing, except for his expenses--the installation, donate his time, set up the East Room so that the President would look better in his press conferences because he felt that television
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the airport and arranged a press conference for hUn. That was my only contact with him. M: What did these big city northern mayors think about Johnson being the vice presidential candidate in 1960? C: I personally thought it was a very good choice, I
  • legislation; Senate vote on Medicare testifying on the hill; civil rights bill; duties as Secretary; expansion of Office of Aging; women in government; appointment by Secretary; birth control report; surgeon general's report on smoking; LBJ and the press
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was due to make a speech he called and said he was corning out, and I said, "Don't come. licked." We are going to get badly So he didn't come, and Kennedy did get the delegation. We fouled it up a little bit in the press, but he got it. went out to Los
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But it got a certain amount of press, and it was part of the discussion at least that went on among reviewers and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • were detached and became a member of the Task Force was to press for solutions to rural problems. Is that correct, or did you have a much broader kind of scope? S: Well, it was both. My first responsibility was to develop the rural side
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never talked about it in your presence? 10 Okay. Remember they had the Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City that spring and summer. There was a note in the press that Ralph Abernathy wanted to meet with you. why? Do you recall that? Do you
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • way and down the fire stairs in order to avoid the press, not to have them know that there was any kind of dickering going on, and walking into Jim's room and finding Earl Mazo of the Herald Tribune sitting there. He was the first one I ran into. He
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as we called them, is Ambassador John Bartlow Martin. He did this for Kennedy in 1960 and on a smaller scale for Johnson in '64--to go in and advance for the President, to meet with the local leaders and the press and the opinion makers to find out
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days that Johnson was still a this~ a press briefing? frustrated senator. M: No, I didn't. Did you see any evidence of that? I used to see the then-Vice President from time to time, and he was always willing to do anything he could to help us
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was obviously becoming closer and closer, I was the laughing stock to begin with of both the national press and the local sentiment in Wyoming, as a hopeless case-F: Yes, I remember your campaigning even penetrated into Texas. M: In fact, its penetration
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)