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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was a great press coverage that after that vicious attack, here the man was at a state dinner. And as they were leaving the White House, the man's wife turned to her husband and said, liThe President danced with me three times tonight. Isn't that amazing

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Hilsman -- I -- 3 substantive or anything else. But after I resigned and was a critic, friends in the press tell me that Johnson tells a story about that evening that I just don't remember anything remotely like. I know it didn't happen the way he told

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

arrange transportation? M: You were entitled to it as long as you had a MACV press card. G: Is that right? M: And then what you did, you took your chances. You arrived at a given point with a MACV press card and went to, in effect, the booking desk

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

legislature. I remember he charged right into the Senate press gallery one day to hand out press releases, and believe me, the press is very stuffy about that. They do not like senators coming into the press gallery. Oh, Johnson may have intervened, but I

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the President asked the Vice President to make. M: I know Mr. Johnson later became so suspicious of the press, based partly on what he thought were unfriendly leaks by Kennedy people. Did this begin while President Kennedy was still alive? S: I didn't know

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to hit military targets and to keep to an absolute minimum civil an damage and civilian casualties. So that he would press very hard when targets were recommended that appeared to be near populated areas or were in populated areas as to what

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember doing a press briefing on how they were withholding capital spending. We suspended the investment tax credit. You ought to get the papers on that because that was quite a fight in the government. Fowler didn't want to do it. G: Okay. C: My point

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, the Presid ent held a press confer ence at the ranch, announ ced the progra m, read the messag e, Joe Califa no briefe d on some detail s. But they also announ ced that there would be a press confer ence at the Treasu ry at 1 or 1:30 that aftern oon. We

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stoughton -- I -- 10 would have a meeting with someone that the press did not need to know abouts but it was somebody important to the administration and to hims

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by the budget director, wno was then Percy Brundage. nand. It was too big a budget and was out of George Humphrey, the Treasury secretary, was outraged by it and he protested to the President. He had a press conference in which he said that if this budget

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think he had any other button but a Fresca button. G: Really? But on his desk in his office didn't he have--? B: The only button that I remember is the Fresca button on the cabinet table, that when he pressed it, it rang in the kitchens

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

victory in the United States because of the way it was reported by our press. I remember saying and reporting to the President a few days after Tet that this had been a major setback and I was fearful that it would turn out to be a psychological victory

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- II -- 7 military failure, but thanks to the bloody press it turned into a political success. Had

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/show/loh/oh with all the people speculating privately and in columns and "Meet the Press" and so forth that Johnson would be certainly a man that the party would look at. and checking it. B: I couldn't pinpoint the date without going back I'd say

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

he was criticized sharply by the press and by the more-or-Iess hawkish people and by the military for not hitting the military targets in the capital city of North Vietnam. He explained to me that this was a tire plant that sat right in the middle

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 5 "This is the way it is," he was willing to assume that that's the way it was. And, once he'd pressed you with "Are you really sure

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- I - 9 B: When Sam Rayburn called a press conference and announced that he thought Lyndon Baines Johnson should be the next president of the United States, and in effect put Lyndon in the race for the presidential nomination. G: Why was Byron

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and I held a press conference and I, because of my familiarity of being from a state that had the most Indian people and Indian reservations--that I might be my own Indian commissioner. F: As a young Congressman, had you dealt much with Indian

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

during this period? J: I didn't, and I saw him frequently. (Interruption) G: We're talking about the [John] Chadwick press conference. J: I didn't realize it was Chadwick, but I knew that he had had a press conference because he had told us

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but he still won the support of the reporters. Do you remember anything like that? J: Well, I know he sure did try to. This, I guess, was the high tide for us in our press relations, because they were always good, as I remember. There was very little
Looney and Tom Miller; LBJ smoking; final campaign stops in Houston and Johnson City; LBJ's handshakes; LBJ's relationship with Jesse Jones; LBJ's relationship with the press in 1941; campaign finances; waiting for the election returns in Austin

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the Hill, in terms of pressing for legislation, did you notice a change after Johnson assumed office? C: Well, Johnson was much more aggressive than Jack Kennedy. On the surface he was. Again, a problem here is enough time didn't go by for everything

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very good, in a lot of respects, but they are very good at controlling public opinion as the press, the news media, keep the passions of the population under control, ~/hich parliamentary government in Greece had been shown very weak on. They're

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of what we think is good security and what we think is bad security as it pertains to that individual. M: Mr. Johnson, as President, got into the press sometimes unfavorably because of his occasional flare-up at the Secret Service, people who were

Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the press down there. You'll see an account of this in the New York Times, on the front page actually. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Ackley and Schultze are pressing for an immediate tax increase. McNamara then comes in--the situation was sort of--everybody knew you were going to have increased military expenditures, but McNamara comes in because he was worried about his own

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Rayburn had gone to Bonham. The telephone rang, and he was on the line. He said he just wanted to let me know in case anybody up at the press gallery might be interested that he had just called the Bonham Daily Favorite and had announced that he

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anything to say about [whether he] might run against Lyndon in 1954. He didn't. G: Did LBJ feel that Shivers might consider running? There was an awful lot of-- J: --talk about it. No, I don't think he ever did. But he was aware that the press

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't think. Maybe he did. But he was pressing Johnson and Johnson couldn't hide, couldn't run. He had nobody around him except me and what kind of support am I? Nothing I could say, anyway. Well, Malik thought he was scoring points. Somewhere I have all

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be called the public relations office or the press office. It was a tremendously exciting time, and the Roosevelt victory in '36 was of great satisfaction in the Mine Workers office. My political activity then was confined to writing speeches for some
; personal anecdotes of knowing the Johnsons early in his Washington career; LBJ interacting with strangers; socializing with the Johnsons while LBJ was in the Senate; LBJ’s relationship with the press; LBJ’s work as Majority Leader; Senator Richard Russell

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Federal Woman's Award winners. I met him personally when we were taken to the White House to meet the President. There was a press briefing, and the President introduced us to the press. That was my first actual opportunity to shake hands with him

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of this was ever by chance. Yo u weren't flying from, say, Weatherford to Graham and just suddenly realize that's Peaster down there or something like that. M: No, no. It was all planned and programmed. And then the press followed in another car or cars so we

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

back." "By god, it just shows you can't believe everything you see in the press. He didn't look like a nigger to me." Anyway, he didn't think there was anything wrong with that. So I said good bye to him, and I went over to my office, and about a half

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

actually started to Warsaw, as one press account had it a year ago. And I don't think we'll know until war's end and considerably after whether this was really a tragically missed opportunity or not. M: What about the ones then following that--the other

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you and I could sitting out here half a day." G: Did the press continue to have an interest in him out here once he was no longer president? S: I think so because--he decided that he was going to have his own milk and eggs here on the Ranch. We were
to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be unpleasant with the Congress or with the press or something of this kind so that he ought to know he's going to have some dirt thrown at him for doing this. But in fact the decision has already been made, maybe made by some prior occurrence, by some prior

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Quadriad, or we'll lay them out to Martin, and let's see what he-- G: The statement to the press was fairly conciliatory, though. C: Compared to the earlier draft. I did send the President a draft of a much tougher statement that said

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to surround it and know every angle and what have you, number one. Number two, it obviously helped bring that kind of intellectual economic community along once you went and have them supporting you in the press and in their parties and what have you

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://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 Califano -- XLVI -- 3 Almost from the time--the fall out. We took flak in the press

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

" was in Roosevelt's press statement when he released the report. VFD: That wasn't in the report itself. Cliff wrote a brilliant piece, I thought, on credit, saying that the South was the paradox of the nation. CJD: This part was edited out, but the a wastepaper

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