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Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the responsibility of the government to respond to public inquiry, and I felt that the press corps that covered the Department of State at that time, in addition to being day-to-day reporters, were people who by avocation were pretty good students of foreign policy
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that would be one aspect of it. Things were going well. G: Because you know there was speculation in the press-- K: Oh, yes. G: --that he was going to be coming back. K: Oh, yes. And there was speculation in the press, of course, that he was going
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the old Houston Press of me and Sam D. W. Low and Judge Andrews, who was then the senior man at Baker, Botts. [That's] one that I always enjoyed, and the Senator's picture in the background. At any rate I was publicly identified [with Johnson]; everybody