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Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • activity through computer capability; CIA; Robert Komer and pacification; the Tet Offensive; Westmoreland press briefing after Tet; the media; infiltration; the importance of Cambodia; Sihanouk; problem of interpretation of intelligence; body counts; Sam
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • should He'd clear it and then I'd tell them off record, hush hush, come in the back door, don't talk to tne press, and we'd have a meeting. Or a bill signing. When the bills that we were involved in [were passed], you would have a signing ceremony
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Narch 30, the Presice.nt ?r::::ss conference out on the la,vn in the Rose; Carden. I ve:ry '.;1211 because I \"ont to my daughter's school and fIe" a kit e with her that morning, and he had called my office, apparently just t, ~)2 at th. press co
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --and when you go over to foreign countries, the CIA sort of works with the Secret Service--on the one hand; and George Christian and his advance press officers on the other hand; and Marvin Watson and just advance men on the third hand--could with little
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • But we're going to have the chairman of the Armed Forces Committee of the House and Senate over. We're going to have Burke Marshall who is going to explain his report--and we're going to have the fellow who was the press secretary for President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the So much so that even before inauguration we were clear that in a sense Walter Heller and Jim Tobin particularly at the council ivere going to be pressing for domestic things, and I was going to have to be saying, despite the wish I might also have
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on to name this subcommittee, he looked up and down the rostrum of the members, and he named me and here I'd been on only a few weeks. Of course. it was a great surprise. The press made a great deal of it and called me the "Vice_ Admiral" because I
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the position was at the time. about. That was a long time ago, we're talking I haven't had occasion to talk to NYA staff in years, so it presses me to recall. G: Anything else on the roadside parks? L: No, other than to say that they were highly
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days that Johnson was still a this~ a press briefing? frustrated senator. M: No, I didn't. Did you see any evidence of that? I used to see the then-Vice President from time to time, and he was always willing to do anything he could to help us
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • handling. You write a letter to an associate, or you may make a reference to someone which is not unkind but may be true, but you don't want it misinterpreted or to get out to the press. You could say so-and-so is a great guy, but he has this weakness
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and was inadequate to the pressing urban problems of the District; that we had to do something, and that the reorgani.zati on pl an waul d achieve these improvements. Erlenborn and Edwards in the hearings judged the plan on its merits LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, because we didn't want to jar the place too much, was to look at informational materials and speeches and memoranda and press releases and get a feel for the office. Then we continued that and we thought that they had manpower problems, but as we got more
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that and he made very effective, constructive use of the press in behalf of Kleberg. G: I have a note here that he took a job as House doorkeeper at one point. W: I think it must have been before I had met him, because I don't have any memory of that. G
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- II -- 21 up in Shansi [Shanxi] when he came in from Peking to see what was going on with these caravan trails and so on. And he gave this dinner for me and there were people there from the press and the civilians
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was a most satisfying joy to me that they liked, appreciated, respected each other so much. G: When Aunt Effie would visit for these extended periods, would she become part of the working family, the household? Would she be pressed into service to help
  • , 1944; press support for LBJ; LBJ's work in the 1944 election; Mrs. Johnson's trip to New Hampshire to christen the U.S.S. Tench; family members hospitalized in the summer of 1944; the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; LBJ winning his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] Castro assuming power in Cuba. Do you remember anything of that? J: Yes. I remember that he came to Washington, made a speech at the press club, was lionized. Everybody was talking about him, except I do not remember anything that Lyndon said
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the staff’s backgrounds; friction among staff mambers; Jacobsen’s opinions on the press; assessment of specific LBJ staffers; who had influence on LBJ’s decisions; LBJ’s temper; LBJ’s 'earthy' language; LBJ’s power of persuasion; the credibility gap; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • proposals for the Job Corps was that it would be run primarily by the Defense Department, and that we would use the army to set up training camps and we would use military bulldozers and spades and shovels and drill presses and so on as the equipment, and we
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • it was a summer camp for children project that was begun and then there was some public outcry, at least in the press, and there was supposed to be a communist couple that ran the camp-- I've forgotten the exact details--but anyway the end result was that OEO cut
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what we really had in mind, but I constantly worked with Dirksen. I remember when I was on "Meet the Press" in about the first part of March, late February, when the Civil Rights Bill had come on down. I was made manager of the bill. They said to me
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course I heard the rumors, read about them. some that got in the press. weighed it. There were But I never thought that he seriously I may be wrong, but I never saw any indication that he really wanted to go into state politics. G: Did you ever hear
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • decided that they were wrong, the people who had made charges, that they weren't justified. G: Was there a tendency among members on that subcoll'ITlittee to leak things to the press? For example, you had [Estes] Kefauver on the coll'ITlittee, and he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there was a good deal of press speculation that Shivers was going to run. J: Yes. Well, he always ran scared. He always tried to be prepared. He always tried to keep himself so strong that he could withstand whoever took out after him, and I don't think he went
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 5 decided, after quite a while of seeing the fair, we would slip away and see our old friend, Bill White, who had been transferred by the Associated Press to New York. [He] lived in one of those huge apartment
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • getting references not only to the fact that he was a representative in front of the press, but that he wrote political memos to the Senator. J: He did. And he joined us I just can't remember exactly when. But Lyndon was very proud of him and was always
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on of Eugene McCarthy and/or Senator Dodd who were the other two besides Humphrey who were rumored in the press as under consideration? C: Much of what I have to say is obviously just the expression of a personal opinion. It is my opinion that Senator Dodd
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into action. F: I well remember Harry Truman's delightfully forthright statement when he took the atom bomb out of the military control and put it into civilian, he didn't want some dashing lieutenant colonel making a reputation out of pressing a button. So
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -known journalists later on: Neil Sheehan from the New York Times, who was by then chief of the Associated Press in Saigon, and many of the very famous journalists who became well-known after the coup of Mr. Diem, [David] Halberstam, and so forth. G: D
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he say it to, I wonder? A: He said it to a group of Jewish leaders. G: Did he? A: Yes. It certainly got in the press. It certainly was spoken of in the Jewish community, but let me say another thing. As I look back on it, though
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to question Mr. Johnson's credibility on any issue from the time I first knew him until he left the White House--not once! He was telling the truth. I don't know what they meant by the credibility gap, because what he was saying to the press, to the public
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of attention in the press; they proposed programs which--most of which have now become the law. I don't remember specifically what they were, but they were pretty active. B: They were generally on the liberal side. Bo: That's correct. Most of them. B
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of legislation. They will also needle us to clear reports that they want up there to meet their schedule, and will at times press us as well as the agencies to come up with what they consider the right answers on a particular piece of legislation. contact
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 up the President and tell him I hoped that he would reconsider and change his mind and I said, "No, I'm in no condition to talk to him." So my wife was really shaken. She likes Lyndon Johnson. N: Did you try to press him