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Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • was in may very well have had something to do with his reaction to the portrait. H: Everything was ganging up on him. The public, press wasn't good; his public relations were lousy. He had had this operation which was causing him more pain and trouble
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Board of Corrmissioners at that time, HUD and others working with us. By Tuesday we were ready to have a press conference on it at the White House. G: And the other elements were--you mentioned Tobriner from D.C. K: Yes. LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the White House the press releases had been given out on it. That's when Senator Vandenberg made his statement which I have always remembered. He said, "You know, it would be a great thing to be called on for the take-off and not just the crash landing
  • of California in 1958, the 1960 presidential campaign. Johnson as Vice-President, Senator Everett Dirksen as Senate Minority Leader, LBJ’s reaction to the press.
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, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , in denying that there was a majority opinion in the country that was demending that we pullout of Vietnam. M: This was not the case. The press talked about a credibility gap, but they were talking about public knowledge. Do you think that he kept
Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , "Okay, automatic pilot, take control." So it freezes your attitude, and now you start a climb. Now, you have to make throttle adjustments. And now you get to about a thousand feet, and you say, "Okay--" press another button--"level off." And you make
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the general investigation? F: Yes. S: Oh, no, there was something coming up all the time, somebody coming and going. F: Of course, the press played it up pretty pointedly. You must have had a lot of trouble, as so many people did, in their wanting
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, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In the latter forties. of the Admirals. II Senator Johnson was of great assistance to the fledgling Air Force. Cochran~ We had what the press called the "Revolt That was a personal attack on Jackie General Vandenberg and myself engineered by some people who
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in any way except through the newspapers? T: I followed the entire situation as best I could. little you can't follow in the American press. And there's very Of course, you get plenty of contradictory bits of so-called information about many events
Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • objectives. On one occasion, and precisely during the meeting of the Central American presidents with President Johnson at San Salvador, almost a year ago, at the beginning of July 1968, at a press conference held only by the Central American presidents
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of fact, what we did was, when I flew down to the ranch for the January 1st press briefing so that the President would sign off on it--it was January 1st and no work was done that day--when I flew back the first place I went was the Archives, and I
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • press relations on part of that trip. B: How did the Harte chain come down in the election? H: They came out all the way for Johnson. The Harte chain, the indi- vidual editors always had a great deal of leeway and Harte, perhaps in this race
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • development, but that was not part of Head Start's doing. The media kept pressing, you see, what do we know about IQ points and all, and we used to joke about how much it costs to raise the nation's IQ level one point and things of that sort, because we
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • be later on in 1969. I have, and this has been made available to the press, affidavits from all three members of the commission that no person was ever pressured to give money to this fund; and that no money had been given by anybody who did business
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, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • things he did in this was appointing John Gardner as Secretary of HEW, because this was a person in whom private industry, the professions, the educators had enormous confidence. And despite the press of other problems in Vietnam, in particular
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you would call it "pressing the flesh." hands with people. He enjoyed He just loved to shake He liked to be right in the middle of a crowd. I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • political mechanism is closely associated with the dairy industry. And Mr. Mills, there- fore, pressed for certain types of adjustment to the pricing and support activity of that industry, which, again, was my responsibility. LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 M: He left it up to us. I think he was pressed
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In fact early in 1952, I met some of the press as I was leaving the Senate Agriculture Committee. a Friday afternoon. There were three or four newsmen and I didn't even know who they were. They wanted to know if I didn't have a good story for them
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and MacArthur gave him frank advice and Joe leaked it to the press and it insulted Truman because it didn't agree with Truman's position so Truman fired him. One of Truman's major mistakes. He didn't need to fire him, but again he didn't blow up. He kept his
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to distribute it to the members the next day. By working closely with the Senate staff, and with the President using every chance he had to press for the enactment of that bill, we began to make progress in the Senate. Now, one of our drawbacks, serious
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • had a terrible way with Lyndon Johnson. On the first of April there was general acclaim in the press, news media. The President had gotten out of the race, a rare act of self-restraint and courage and this proud man said he would not run again and so
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like this not adding anything, not letting amendments be included. Then the third part of the report said here are the things that we got into it through report language. I am hard pressed to recall all of the things that were in there. However, one
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mills -- II -- 3 which was a pretty strong endorsement of it, I thought. I thought the time had come to pass it. I don't think we could have passed it in 1961. I told Kennedy that, and he agreed, I guess. He never did really press me about it. G: Did
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . The department at that time was not inclined to press for this, nor indeed was the Congress. But with Fogarty's death, actually the first day of the opening session of the last Congress that met in 1967, there was an upsurge of interest in trying to find some way
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to write a speech about this, and I agreed to do it . I heard that he wanted to give it at the Associated Press dinner in April, I think, '66 or '67, but I got through with it too late and missed my chance . It could have been a good speech though
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for the members, but it isn't the question of convenience to the members. It's the safety and the welfare of the people that should be the primary objective. B: Did Mr. Johnson press for the legislation to ,make those terms? C: No, he did not. B: Did you
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the legislative efforts. I suppose there would be concern that in any hearings I might press forward with my own view that these proposals were quite inadequate and that we still needed an immediate income tax increase; corporate and personal. (Interruption) C
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Let me ask this: did you work before C: Yes, I had a cleaning and pressing business, and prior to that time then,~too? I worked in a battery manufacturing plant. M: Of course, that was in the Depression, too, and things were pretty tough. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
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, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was vice president of Green Thumb, we got a considerable increase. the business of why it started and so on. puts out a press release. I was going about Then the Labor Department The next morning the first caller was Bella Abzug and she wanted