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Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said something that seemed to be supportive of the President's hopes or wishes on some aspect of policy, and he referred to it in a speech or a press conference or something, which irritated us consid­ erably. Because, after that, Pierre claimed
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • two very basic philosophies : one was that he didn't want any local press conferences, and the . ol - her -,was that he didn't want to make over three speeches a day. To tell a politician that he can only make three speeches, even if he says he
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And the President did include me in his group of assistants who were getting the top salary and took occasion to say kind things about oe to the press whenever he was talking about the staff. So it worked out exactly as he said it would. F: Do international air
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I think there were half a dozen names that were bandied about by the press as potential VP candidates. G: Were there any other southerners considered? O: I don't know of any. It's probably somewhat remote, but only because of his position and his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Was it evident at this point? J: I usually was pretty aware of who he knew beforehand. His letters, his stream of letters, were almost daily, and if I needed to do something, he could and did give me advice on how to do it. One of the most pressing things
  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the press seemed to be ready to believe that was the case, the whole thesis that this was warranted action if it kept up and increased, we thought was more accepted than it was, certainly in intellectual circles and so on . And in the face of the kind
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these things. Mrs. Kennedy, on the other hand, had a very, almost a biting sense of humor, which saved her and I think saved a lot of the staff sometimes when the press would zero in on some of the programs that Mrs. Kennedy was involved in, especially the so
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But when this unpleasantness began·happening after May 8, the press began to attack Diem. A great many·American officials began to think he was getting worse and worse. Some people~ including mYself, began to be worried lest he collapse, and then we
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • landslide victory; attributes LBJ’s benevolence to political bribery; LeMay’s disdain for press; LeMay’s support for “conservative” leadership; fear that U.S. might be close to becoming a socialist or communist republic; Republican Party’s interest in LeMay
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that commented on the national scene and that brought me to ~Iashington every now and then. F: What was that magazine? OM: Texas Heekly in Dallas, edited by Peter Molyneaux. I took two years' time out in 1935 and 1936 to head up the press publicityand
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the South. The mission--Ambassador [Ellsworth] Bunker and [Sam] Berger and Westmoreland and [Creighton] Abrams and so on there got together and pressed [Nguyen Van] Thieu to get going now; here you've got an emergency situation, because you've got a lot more
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , concluded that a telegram should be sent. In any event, as this evening continued to unfold, another matter came up. Press and network people were anxious to have a spokesman for the Kennedy side in the ballroom. I was a little intrigued to find
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You mean in terms of Kennedy? F: Yes, while Kennedy was still president. There was a lot of talk about it through the press. S: Oh, no. No, no. Johnson was very popular in Minnesota because Johnson was more of a farmer than was Kennedy. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • both on the Landrum-Griffin lawsthat they felt like that they were saying the right things, but they just weren't pressing, and that had they pressed, the LandrumGriffin law would have not been nearly as harsh and severe as it is . All of us who
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • power . As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for the press there demanding that we take stands on things that we really don't have anything to do with, those issues wouldn't come up . We'd be talking about revenue sharing, about welfare problems, school
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the camel driver now--as the I was on that trip. word that got into the press back here, when he visited. Really sounded as if they'd come straight frorn the Koran or something. C: Well, I think that they no doubt were dressed up a bit, but I think he
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • already been released by the press secretary, 01' Bill Moyers. M: And nobody said anything to you? C: And it had that it was the President's intention to nominate Lieutenant Colonel James Cross to be the new military aide to the President
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that he had a good deal of G: the French, that they didn't like him . B: Oh, no! Well, that was to be expected because the French did not-­ I remember this goes back to Hanoi days . they resented us . resented the American press there . They Nobody
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • house. So we moved into the Stonewall Motel. And we got the same rooms every trip. Who was it? UPI [United Press International], Ferd Kaufman was with UPI and he had two rooms because he had an awful lot of equipment and I'll never forget him, but he
  • trips; LBJ as passenger; flying under conditions that were not ideal; providing an adequate number of pilots for long trips; the logistics of transporting the president, staff, security personnel, and press in two planes on trips; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have to look at the consumer message to get it all, but one particularly intricate problem back in the 1967 task force was that there were several securities-law things that the Securities and Exchange Commission was pressing. The SEC is not technically
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to continue exploding these devices and experimenting because the United States had refused to enter into a "no first use" agreement with China. And he said this publicly, under release by the New China Press Agency. Now, this struck me and several others
  • Talks with the Chinese about “no first use” agreement, Test Ban Treaty, offer to exchange medicine, scholars, etc.; attempts to break down formality with the Chinese, Senator Albert Gore divulging information to the press, LBJ’s building bridges
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . It was the right decision. I noticed Mr. Reagan did not press too hard to eliminate it this time. But there's a strange viewpoint toward education. Something as big monetarily, manpower-wise, product-wise, and so important, to be always the object of ridicule. I
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ginsburg -- IV -- 25 refused to do. It was Bantam Press. I wanted to get copies of the report out on the streets as quickly as possible. I spoke, of course, first with the Government Printing Office
  • of the black power movement from the Commission; why some cities, such as St. Louis, had no rioting; publishing the Commission's report commercially; finalizing the report and press coverage of its release; disbanding the Commission; comparing the problems
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He called me two or three days later and gave me the list of songs that he was going to sing, and I took the list of songs down to Liz Carpenter and she typed up the press release. The next thing I heard was a call from Walt Rostow with sort of a hint
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • differ in their political philosophy? For example, would you say Rayburn was more liberal than LBJ or vice versa? B: On some things, yes. Well, no, in the way I saw the two men there wasn't a great deal of difference. Of course, the press, they tried
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ! The sequence is the President suggested that we refer this to the state department and ask them to look into it. Secretary Rusk was away at the time and so Mr. Katzenbach did the initial review. When the story broke in the press, the President immediately
Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was that that escape clause action would be put aside and the Japanese issue--or we had a joint press release actually--the voluntary arrangement covering all this cotton textile shipments to the United States for a five year period, with built-in growth. Stanley
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that probably I should have revealed and wanted to reveal largely because it might explain some things that the press often wondered about and people speculated about. Although I guess I got more Presidential appointments to commissions and other matters than
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on with the White House, and this was written up by Mary McGrogry, who was a columnist in the local press. Mary, I guess, was there--I aon't know. Anyway, she wrote it up, the implication being quite clear that Mr. Eisenhower was all clear in his mind
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it now in the press. I have seen a marked change within the last two years in the general acceptance of the fact that ?rms control is a very important part of the national policy decision level, and is getting more and more attention paid
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • well acquainted with the Johnson family. A lot of the stories that come out in the press about Johnson and elsewhere indicate that this was a poor family. Now is that true? TF: No, that isn't true. I mean they were poor, but everyone was poor. WF
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • against. They did get rid of Mr. Yarmolinsky. He was transferred, and I think the press did the North Carolina delegation a great injustice in that process. ship. close. But we were forthright. We were open with the leader- We stated how we felt
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with no mention of this feature. But the press, of course, was very much interested in what we were doing. So it was decided that there should be some little statement communique put out. President Kennedy took Rusk, McNamara, Taylor, After the meeting, Bundy
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~orge Reedy used to write things for him and statements that he'd give to the press; and also Gerry Siegel on legislation--as a lawyer. He got some very bright people around him, and it was a very nice family group. F: How were senators chosen
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • could de- pend upon your treating in confidence anything I tell you." I said, "Well, Jimmy's right about that. Just what do you mean?" He said, "Well, you've asked me what is my basic political philosophy about the pressing questions." He proceeded
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the comndttee and take it over. Well, we were in the doghouse with the press and a lot of other people in the country at the time, many of whom wanted to--of course, among the press wanted something to write about, to stir up something. And they did! M
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that, and he said--actually he wasn't there but he had one of his assistants read his speech for hinr-"I am now in a position from certain statements I have made on national TV and to the press of looking as if I may lead the state into a secession again. All
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • together at President Kennedy's briefing sessions before his press conference. M: This is in the Cabinet Room? H: No, Kennedy used to have briefing sessions, starting in about mid1961--at least I became a part of the group at that time--at 8:45 a.m
  • JFK oral history project; first contact with LBJ; JFK press briefing breakfasts; biographical information; LBJ as VP; SST; 1961 Berlin Crisis; JFK assassination; transition; Eliot Janeway; poverty program; tax cut; Christmas meeting at the Ranch