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Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . I don't know that he did much writing in that period. G: To what kind of groups did he speak? K: Luncheon clubs, chambers of commerce, state press association. I recall one talk that he made in San Antonio to the San Antonio Rotary Club. I said
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (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 19 M: The press reported some outbursts by Mr
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I answered an interviewer a while back and I got quoted in the press that I would have to say, "No," if the President asked for a personal record. I said
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , at the beginning we will start off generally with putting them in order of precedence and then before the final list is made for the press releases, then it is thoroughly checked because occasionally you will find that one person will be out of line here
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that in many ways, but under our system that's no sin. But I thought, as I made clear, that he went too far in those changes. But I want to be fair to him. F: We'll get to that again later, but one of the things that he was criticized for by the press
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of this but he thought that the other young man was far into 'the job that actually there was a news release that he had received it . I don't believe that the news release was that he had received it, in the sense that NYA had formally put out a press release
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • his telephone and went on strike for a few days. G: There was another occasion I guess where the President had to be flown to the Mayo Clinic I think with gallstones. T: Something. G: And didn't want it known to the press. Do you recall
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think Woody was involved. I didn't handle He knew some of the people Mr. [Raymond] Buck was the lawyer for the airline and was a very good friend of ours, political and personal. At any rate, we wanted, whenever press people were checking up on who
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • directly involved in that? That is, did you get any word from the President to press this case? V: I didn't. I'm sure that the Attorney General kept the President fully advised as to our involvement. You'll recall the tragic aftermath of that killing
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Administration, trying organized crime cases, and had around this time reached the point where I thought I wanted to leave. I didn't know what I wanted to do and was looking about for what the next step would be. Just around that time there was some press
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and had all the press come out there and everything, and no youth showed up for the first day. LG: Do you recall that? I don't know. I do not recall this, but in the early days that could certainly happen. MG: From then on he was very careful to make
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be tied in \lIJith what Nixon's doing now. It's going to be that. I notice that the press has a habit of calling it now the "era of Vietnam." in Vietnam. it. They don't call it the \'/ar I don't know whether that's a way of trying to soften LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • care to play president- ranking? H: Well I remember one time, I think I was asked on "Meet the Press," (television interview program), or something, how I would rate the presidents as politicians. And I said, "Well, as I go back over it, " and you
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . years. I promised to let The three months dragged on for about ten When Jackson went to work for the Associated Press in Washing- ton, I asked him if he wouldn't like to come to Corpus Christi. said he would. He He is now the editor of the Corpus
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • pleased. F: So he really did on this one pretty much let us go and wait and see. Throughout you maintained confidentiality. If I had depended on press reports I'd never know you existed. H: That's right. We maintained it, and this was in part also
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is somewhat low now, one day people will look at what he has done and will begin to realize just what an enormous accomplishment he has led this country through during his Administration. I think that so much of our communications and the press -- I think
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the press at the Fairmont Hotel in January of 1973. It just so happened that my wife and I were both going to be in the area, and they asked if I could drop by and see him at the hotel. Well, he was late arriving, but Warren Woodward, a very close friend
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came. whether it was the press, Secret Service, security. I don't know It could have been anyone of them. G: Did he reminisce about King during this period? Did he talk about [him]? R: No. He and Mr. King were not--I didn't get a sense
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : There was a center set up downtown, a communications center, and they put in telephones, and reporters would be there when President Johnson happened to be here and was going to have a press conference. They used that as headquarters, anyway, when he was in Texas
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that this was a situation where I was sort of in between the two men. There had been some tension between the two men at some of the meetings of the committee. I frequently felt that Robert Kennedy was unduly pressing on the Vice President, demanding results out
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • jurisdiction. This was a little upsetting. I never heard any- thing about this and if the press had seen it I think they would have played it up. But we stayed outside and talked and wondered and so on. And then finally I believe Thornberry and Brooks
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • unsolicited outside letters? M: No, r think the main things were the comments in Women's Wear, which didn't give Mrs. Johnson very good press, saying that she was a typical LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : What else did he do? M: Well, I don't really know. Yes, I'm sure he did. I'm sure he must have been handling news releases to the press and things of that nature, and contacts LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /loh/oh 10 people concerned, was that the Secret Service people who had supervision over the White House police tried several times to get people from the Metropolitan Police Department assigned into the White House. Of course we were pressed
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Democratic Party machinery of Texas for Eisenhower, the Republican, Mr. Rayburn and Johnson decided that they must take the Democratic machinery away from Allan. F: Yes. P: They revealed their plans to me in Washington on an occasion and pressed me
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which issues charters for corporations, had had the MAP application for a week or more, had not done anything with it. It was clear if we were going to fund that program--the next Monday or Tuesday as we'd planned to do and to announce it at a press
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and they were all coming around expressing their sorrow to me because of my identity with the candidates for so long. It was a tragedy. Dallas got a lot of unfavorable publicity and comments from the eastern press about it, but it was one of those things
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Democratic [National] Convention in Houston. W: Yes. G: Do you know how he got there or anything like that? W: He got a press pass, which I think got him in free. Whether he hitchhiked or got a ride with somebody, I'm not sure how he got
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was Sunday morning, and none of us were pressed for time. At that period of LBJ's life probably, I don't know how long that lasted. but he delighted in telling about his accomplishments and especially to his old friends. We were delighted to listen. G
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and departments resent OEO? B: It was so reported very much in the press and elsewhere. We know of the Willard Wirtz LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thing to do and get him to do it. I think the press, oh, starting not so long after Mr. McNamara took office, began to try to make something of what they conceived to be not wholly happy relations between McNamara and Congress, or some members
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. G: Was that how dire it was? O: Yes, we were through. The last three weeks of the campaign would have been whatever the press reported. While Nixon had a tremendous media package in place for the last three weeks. He had started his media
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or the Texas press or something like that, they wouldn't have invited him. It's just remotely possible that he could have been asked to come to dinner some night when they were having four or five other guests. But I don't believe that it ever happened. G
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it would be a catastrophe." Bright woman, Phi Beta Kappa from University of Minnesota, staid person, was in the room in Philadelphia when Hubert Humphrey made his big civil rights speech. But thirty minutes later I'm back in my office and here comes a press
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • them from this capricious and unwise action. The second phase, if the first phase didn't succeed, was to go to the foreign press and complain 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • they were quite happy with it . or mission outside the realm of the Department of Transportation? example, a steel price rise, or B: oil For price rise . Well, only to the extent that on several occasions he asked me to have a press conference or put