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Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /oh Bunshaft -- I -- 2 1 you know, who's carrying on . To me, it seemed to be . I visualized when this thing was finished and he was in there that the press would crucify him for sort of hanging on to something that wasn't his . M: Yes, I can see
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , it was not a very easy thing for them to get all these fleabitten emigrants. emigrate. Of course, the better class Pole just didn't That's all there was to it. And they'd have to issue these visas all day long, and they were always being pressed--one thing
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was the I do not know what Lyndon's part in it was, but I do know that at that time in the most intricate kind of manner I was handling all of the press, and to the extent it was not managing the news but managing the spotlight. nip and tuck. It was Sam
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 A: Yes, there would be one other general class, and that would be the big, bright, brash press conference type that he would ordinarily hold in the East Room. They would invite a lot
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in one of those pictures you've got-and had been Freeman's press man or whatever you [call it], spokesman. I got old Rod to prepare a reply and I kept trying to get hold of Sarge. The switchboard said they couldn't find him, and they said there wasn't
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 a good friend of the newspaper publisher in the area, Mr. [Eugene] Pulliam, and it seemed to me that my press
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with incomes of over $200,000 who didn't pay any taxes at all. I don't think the American people are going to stand for this much longer." This was a great cause celebre, and it ran in the press and it ran allover the place--just ran and ran and ran. F
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of 1958 that he went to see Lyndon Johnson to talk to him about it. iss~e He asked him ir-he would a press statement, saying that he had talked with Bob about statehood ~ and woul d he make any statement at all that \'/asn' t contrary. He didn't need
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to broaden the base of representa­ tion on that Community Action board to afford the target areas an opportunity to be represented . I remember the press tried to needle Mr . Shriver about the fact that there were only two Negroes on the initial Community
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a politician . She made all the meetings, she made the speakings, she made the Democratic Executive Committee meetings, and the various subdivisions of it ; she made them all . She was well known, she was well liked in the press, and she did a lot for him
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was familiar with this. I had been in the game by then for over thirty years. I had started out--I'd been in the same rut for an awful long time, working on utility problems and reading news in the press and what not. So it helps an awful lot if you know
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • little opposition. I myself began to show up occasionally in the newspapers. Isabel Shelton wrote a very nice article about me. I got better than I deserved, I think, from the press in general, and almost never ran head on into them. However
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that. F: Were you aware personally of a dissatisfaction on John Gardner's part with the President? That is, did Gardner, as the press indicated, feel that he had not had sufficient support? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Mr. Kennedy's administration. that the idea was originally mine. Warren believes Now whether that's true or not, -~ I'd make no point of that. If someone thinks that it originated in the mind of someone else, I wouldn't press the claim
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the press conference here at the Manned Spacecraft Center we flew up to the Ranch and had a meeting with him at that time, and a very, very nice one as a matter of fact. It was sort of [an] informal meeting . We received our medals, that was Buzz Aldrin
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • communicated to U Thant. Of course, I can re ca ll th at pe riod. It was always very, very di ffi cu lt because it is very di ffi cu lt to catch up with the press in th is regard. Every one of al l so rts of ind ivi du als would presumably pick up th is kind
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . I've always been distressed that his humor did not show too much in television and press activities. But person to person it was, I always felt, a very incredible kind of wit that deserves a historical notation. For example, there he is, having taken
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . J: Because he was walking into an elevator--this I remember hearing him tell--when a press man-- G: Bill White. J: --came up to him and said, "What do you think?" G: Well, when did you first see him after that? Do you recall? J: No, I don't
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • compatible and pretty good friends other than politically in your thinking? A: Oh, I think so. I mean, of course, the press made a great deal about that. Many articles were written that Johnson didn't give Humphrey in the beginning the kind of support
  • to get involved in political organizations; financial stability of UPO; negative press for LBJ; Anderson's visits to the Ranch; LBJ agreeing to be JFK's vice presidential running mate; LBJ's civil rights speeches; Mack Hatter's political work in Texas
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • wrong. two or three years. This is an interesting example Jeeb had planned to stay another He wanted to see the supersonic program move and he was in the middle of very advanced decentralization efforts. Yet the misrepresentation by the trade press
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press stories and the kind of questions I'd get from people on working for Mr. Johnson, hard taskmaster, all kins of strange personal extremes. I never encountered that. I had a great deal of respect for the President both as a person and as President
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that is really productive long term but the effect is enormous. MG: You mentioned the whole range of projects. In some of your memos there is a theme there that you ought to present more of the successful programs to the President's attention and the press
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the offices of journalists, fellows sitting in green visors, and to the boys working the press, and talking quietly with people in small lunch groups. He was not as good as some of the other gentlemen standing at a podium talking to a thousand people
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that require exposure to the press, exposure to the people. A lot of foreign service work is not public work and doesn't necessarily produce people that do such work well. I think that they cross their fingers, no matter who gets that job, in hopes
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , such as budget-which I didn't handle--and press relations which George Christian handled before he left--with those exceptions most of the ultimate responsibility on the other matters relative to the Governor's office rested with rne insofar as the Governor
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was that the press and the pseudosociologists and psychologists made this a definition of the Negro. I think this explains why many civil rights groups came to reject it because it became the explanation, rather than an explanation, of the problems of Negroes. I
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on Saturday morning with the other appointees and Mrs. Johnson. As we arrived the President was holding a press conference at which he announced our appointments and we spent the rest of the morning with the President, had lunch with him and Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the Press Club? LBJ 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 Richards -- I R: Yes, I
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And I was standing next to Johnson when [Sen. John G.] Tower confronted him and stood and blocked his way for fifteen or twenty minutes, you know, demanding--and the press just grinding away-F: Do you think Alger organized that? S: He was key
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : You couldn't do much really except deplore? S: That's right. What were we going to say to a joint session? So then he had me--that was on Saturday--he had Christian announce to the press that we would defer the joint session. or Tuesday. We'd
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • memory is the first time, as a matter of fact, that he was there. You don't want all of these occasions, do you? As I remember the first time he came it was a communion service and in the [Episcopal] Church press some months before, there had been
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was obviously becoming closer and closer, I was the laughing stock to begin with of both the national press and the local sentiment in Wyoming, as a hopeless case-F: Yes, I remember your campaigning even penetrated into Texas. M: In fact, its penetration
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was not and notified Lester Hyman, the Democratic state chairman, that he wasn't. Larry O'Brien still was Postmaster General and two years later decided that he was going to resign as a delegate and told the press to that effect. The next morning I got to my office