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Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Heller rather than I . M: In 1962 you moved over to the AID. That caused some comment in the press at the time, that was known as the nastiest job in the government based on its part performance. Is it a fair question to ask you why you would take
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • any number of statements arty number of times to the press that he was running that convention . As far as you know then, the stories about Lyndon Johnson behind the scenes are false? B: I just didn't see it at all . M: In your social connections
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Was the line as tightly drawn between the so-called doves and the so-called hawks as the press made it appear, or were more people a little bit more--? T: I think there were not inflexible doves, inflexible hawks, that clear dichotomy. I think there were
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • glass, pressed glass I suppose it's called, and I think I sort of helped her a bit in cataloguing it. I'm really not exactly sure what I did. And perhaps I ran some errands for her. I remember asking her some questions. It was interesting to hear her
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it, and Yarborough walked out. They had a big parade, walked out of the convention hall. Well, at any rate, it was a hangover from the Fort Worth convention. G: Again with the Daniel people being in control? W: Yes. Yarborough had a press conference the next
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the last two years instead of just the last year. I made a decision, having graduated with a major in history and a minor in philosophy in June of 1933, to continue on for another year, because I didn't have anything pressing that I needed to go home and do
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • : Yes, yes, yes. How could you not? In fact, that very day Lyndon had had a press conference that had some very difficult questions that made him angry, he probably responded to poorly. Well, I think at some point at the cost of taking more time
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • serious movement? K: I've read about it in the press but-- F: Allowing for the fact that people discuss all possibilities. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, 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, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was afraid that to you any he finally think and he promoted you? Mr. Clark ever Johnson was aware of the kinds £!!B.have on this. in the press to his appointment, Did he ever indicate and I never complained. I think, in any-- Department rather
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • notice on the President's [Diary]--we had the meeting with the chiefs, and then--I love this--"Meanwhile Governor Averell Harriman flew"--this is when we were meeting with the chiefs--"flew to Austin to meet with the press, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krim
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an hour, half an hour, and then went out and I guess called the press into the Cabinet Room. We issued the statement and he made a statement along LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • files of accepted desegregation plans. We believe Mr. Barry has been preparing strong protests against OE." I don't know how [Bill] Moyers got that with Moyers telling Cater to look into this very carefully. This is just a press statement. Some other
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were encountering and the support we were losing on the Hill across the board as we pressed hard for school desegregation and civil rights generally. In the Civil Rights Act, there was a provision which said that desegregation meant assignment without
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • gone into the press thing and could have gone on the press side of it, you know, got with Stars and Stripes or done something else, but I didn't want to do that. I figured if you're in the war, you might have volunteered because you felt pretty angry
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is the same as a Cadillac now. Oaddy couldn't drive it, Mama couldn't, but they had to have a boy to drive it. His name is Guy Ames [?J. He drove Mama. you can call it a chauffeur if you want to. newspaper, you see. In other words, Also ran the press
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the climate was unsavory. up. There was rumbling of revolutions. Sun Yat-sen was coming My father and mother were quite close to Sun Yat-sen and many other important people of the revolution through the diplomatic corps and also through a press gentleman
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • evening ." But he culti­ vated the press very assiduously . G: Even then? B: Oh, very much so, very, very much so . G: HQV( B: Well, one example would be that Lyndon was very friendly with the so? people in .Senator .Tom .Conna.lljr-t s ;office
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , very interesting sort of way, in which we were talking largely about the functions of the United States Congress, the press wanted to interview us afterwards on radio. Well, I ducked it; I didn't want it; I said "coming from part of the country I did
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Eleanor Roosevelt than some of the other first ladies, like Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Truman, who just kind [of] were in back. He always was pressing Mrs. Johnson to get into some thing that she would enjoy and take leadership in. Of course, she did select
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • drove slowly while he discussed the whole matter with me. He had felt that what we ought to do was to get to the press at once with the suggestion that they not run any story about Walter Jenkins until they had more facts. F: At this stage
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the press. You must remember a little piece of political background. There was a senator in Georgia at that time named Richard Russell. Richard Russell had been the foremost opponent of Jack Kennedy in the Senate, and in the lame duck period between being
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Wardlaw, who'd been up there to see about getting some money from the National Historical Publications Commission. Frank Wardlaw is the director of the University of Texas Press. And nothing happened. I was on a take it or leave it basis. I had enough
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that bank and paying off the depositors. And this infuriated Saxon. G: Is that right? B: Just absolutely infuriated him. Because the press was out there and they would catch me doing my job and everything else. But before that happened--now you back
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the process. Lyndon Johnson probably had more control over the press than any president since that time. He knew exactly who to call in on what issue and exactly how it would get leaked, and he knew when to delegate his leaking, too. Presidents leak to get
  • parents to a state dinner; negotiating the details of Paris peace talks with the North Vietnamese; Hubert Humphrey's lack of involvement in Vietnam peace talks; leaking information to the press; LBJ's secrecy; the issue of a ten per cent federal income
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , the under secretary, had a keen interest in this, and a very strong personal interest. And he was pressing as hard as I was to get this machinery functioning. And he had good suggestions and ideas and outreach at the higher levels. That was helpful
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this award. K: Each year at the Women's National Press Club, for many years an award has been given to an outstanding woman. On this particular occasion, President Johnson was to be the speaker. It's a dinner honoring Mrs. Roosevelt and the women who
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Phu had taKen place while I was away and there were other things like that going on in the press, but I was very busy. I'd been over in the Philippines, and had gone through a very, very tough time there througn 1952. Then I'd gotten back here
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Press. G: Do you think that might have had an influence on her decision to go to journalism school? Yes It ((lul d heve bepn, b('cdllse those pear"1 P. we)'e i nteres ted and on top of everyth; n9, every topi c of the day and ~
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • two o'clock that morning-he carried the press with him, and they was sitting around him inquiring about this and talking about that, and it was two o'clock in the morning. I told one of the press persons, a secretary, to tell him that I wasn't
Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • finally over a period of time were able to persuade some of the leaders of the medical profession and, secondly, persuade our congressmen. Because many of the congressmen were pressed pretty hard by their own constituents in the medical profession
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the White House." I said, "Why?" He said, "I can't tell you." So I was able to find a place for my wife and kids to stay at a motel, and the FBI got my suit pressed for me, got on the airplane, landed at Andrews Air Force Base, arrived at the White House
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • group of people could do a better substantive job in private without the harassment of the press, interest groups, and without worrying about haw they look if they're the lone dissenter, without having to explain their stand publicly. P: Were there any
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the press about s orne action that we are thinking of taking with reference to some country, making a loan, something of this sort, or we are going to make a loan or we aren't going to make a loan- -this kind of thing. Often enough, as far as we could
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, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)