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Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

about Africa where some 10 per cent of our population originated. M: And a great deal of what is known ain't so. Have you been particularly pressed for many more grants and aids in this area since this has grown up? K: Well, we've actually tried

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did not plan to fill every vacancy on every federal judge- ship; that these were ones that for one reason or anotrer needed to be filled because of the press of business in the various courts; and that he 'Wa~ted Hr. Nixon to know that he wasn't just

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the same room at Salado, Texas, that the very well known Liz Carpenter--who was Mrs. Johnson's press secretary--was bOrn in. lineage. Both of them came from distinguished Texas But I was the son of a Marine officer who, together with my mother, lived

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of conscious use of budget expenditures and tax policy for economic stabilization, for full employment and related policies. M: Okay~ would you use that phrase that you just gave as a definition of the "new economics"? H: The "new economics," as the press

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was among those that was persistent in pressing the case that this was a justifiable thing for his class, perhaps in civics, to do. At any rate, he let them go to this trial. G: Did they ever indicate what trial it was? R: No, I don't know. On another

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there. And during that time I was trying to minimize the bad effect on Japanese-American relations, and I did this primarily in terms of pleading with the Japanese press to give fair balance in their reporting. Because what they were doing covering South Vietnam

Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was pretty strongly entrenched in Jim Wells County. G: Who else do you think was implicated? Who else would have had to be involved? R: Well, in Mangen's story, the Associated Press man Mangen--I've forgotten his first name--he says others were

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The best I ever saw him was when he got mad at that press conference that day and took that thing up in his hand and went to ripping and snorting the way he had done for all the years I'd known him. F: And nobody wrote that speech for him! You had

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the campaign you handled his electronic media, I thi:n.k. M: His radio and television, yes. G: I kn6w of the one occasion in New York when there was a joint appearance. What did you do there to set that up? Well, let me give you the background. The press

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the press which finally killed it. before we had consulted the Germans. M: And this hurt him politically? Mc: Yes, it hurt him politically. M: What about Erhard? It was done It caught Schroeder by surprise. There were two meetings with Mr. Johnson

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

understood his problem, I was appreciative of his problems and he knew that I supported him. I never once went over his head to the Congress or the press or to anybody in the administration with respect to decisions that he had made. P: Did the press ever

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, of course, had been a public power I think he was a little inclined personally to feel the other way about the nuclear energy. issue out of it with himself. But he never did make an I remember a press conference he held after the election in 1954, when

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

budget commitment at a press conference in August or September '61 . Dillon called him the next day and told him that we'd upset foreign bankers and urged him to clarify what he meant and reaffirm his determination . Walter, who had been delighted

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Planning, and she has just returned to Brookings about ten days ago; and finally, Jacob A. Stockfish, Director, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury department. The composition of this group has never appeared in the press, and is highly confidential

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

weeks after the assassination trying to press my policies with regard to Germany; specifically, recognition of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

scolded me for not following that trade. G: Was there a set time after class that students would go to the journalism office and work on the paper? W: Yes, I think so. I think we went pretty regularly on certain [days], depending on how pressed we

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I was walking down the hallway in the press gallery one time and some--one of the young men in somebody's office came out and said, "I thought this would interest you," and it was a memo that she sent to the conference people in the Senate saying, "I

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. [It] said, "I have today named you National Youth Administrator for Colorado . commitments and incur no obligations . course, Aubrey Williams ." Make no So, of I was sought after by the press right away, and I couldn't give any answers as to what

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of feeling, Mr. Vann Kennedy, who was then here with the United Press, was secretary of the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, I asked Mr. Kennedy to take those certificates as they came in--a lot of them came to me and I forwarded them to him

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

? C: Well, conceivably, a couple of reasons. Number one, I suppose, the fact that he was considered the conservative in the race. The most conservative. P: No liberal press in Texas at this period? C: Well, Mr. Johnson was supported by Frank

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. what the important things in our economy were. He knew One of his first speeches as president was at a time where we were under stress following the assassination. As usual, after the speech senators and con- gressmen were interviewed by the press

Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that the consumer would be heard. And you can't really do both of these things. You can't really have the ear of the President if five minutes later you're going to invite the press in and tell the press what you've told the President. man. You can't be both

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. For example, we don't advertise in the local press ; we don't buy spot commercials on rural television and radio stations . We do, however, believe that doing good work in a community is perhaps our best advertisement . Neighbor-to-neighbor, man-to-man

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

would not run. Why I didn't set up one here, I don't know, but I had them set up a press conference for me in Dallas; I jumped on the plane to Dallas, got off the plane in Dallas and held a press conference and announced. That was in December, as I

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, the last thing in the world you want to do is look like you're trying to control it. I can just see the story now, not in the Post, but in some other disagreeable paper. 'President Attempts to Nuzzle Press. 1 And we've got two stories now, one about

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. The President was at the Ranch by that time. A group of us came over to the Cabinet Room to hear a closed-wire press conference held at the Ranch with Mr. Califano and others 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could stay home without-- G: This one is regarded as being one of the best ones. J: Really? G: Yes. It really got a lot of play in the press. He was evidently in rare form. Do you recall him talking about it? J: No. About the only one that I can

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mad. It was that kind of thing. But, in any case, go ahead. G: Was the press there when he made that speech, "blood on their hands" reference? C: Yes, the press was there. It was an open session. And unless I'm mistaken it was in the paper. I can't

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

made some comments that got in the press or something of that sort. So Vice President Johnson just took him with him. And on the way back, Vice President Johnson got the attention of the entire party and said some very nice things about Mr. Rooney

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/show/loh/oh Jones -- Interview I -- 15 for those who needed it--the indigent. They pressed so hard for this that Mr. Mills and his colleagues adopted this also as a part of the program, but did not discard the Social Security aspects of it, the end

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to generate more liberal governmental procedures. The press began to talk about the corruption and the abuses and so forth, and the ambassador's role would have to be to try to move the government towards better imagery in that respect. This then put him

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

awfully much concern over domestic expenditures and the printing presses. I remember it was not popular, and it wouldn't have been. G: In 1967 Senator Dodd--Tom Dodd--was censured for misuse of his office and public funds. Tell me about that from your

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the press has reported but I had had occasion to meet Abe Fortas and I liked Abe Fortas. I 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at American University. Oddly enough I suppose most people if they saw any account of it had forgotten it. But I believe a clerk to a Senator saw it in the press and it was only a small squib, and clipped it out and mounted it no doubt in his notebook

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these regional and state advisory councils, and we'd go from state to state--Mitchell [and] myself; George Shultz was very helpful in it--and we would appeal to the leadership, the press, the media, the publishers, the large banks, and the private sector, to help

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

MG: Pierre Salinger? SG: Yes, Pierre--were working closely together, and then ultimately that sorted out over a period of time. So there was no chance whatsoever that the Ball ploy would work. The thing that has always amused me is that the press

Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in this country. I wondered if it were overplayed in the American press, or if it was a problem here. The feeling being that, you know, he was backing out on his support, and he very quickly countered that. That made no great impression? B: No, no. I mean, I

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)