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Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The best I ever saw him was when he got mad at that press conference that day and took that thing up in his hand and went to ripping and snorting the way he had done for all the years I'd known him. F: And nobody wrote that speech for him! You had
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could stay home without-- G: This one is regarded as being one of the best ones. J: Really? G: Yes. It really got a lot of play in the press. He was evidently in rare form. Do you recall him talking about it? J: No. About the only one that I can
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to generate more liberal governmental procedures. The press began to talk about the corruption and the abuses and so forth, and the ambassador's role would have to be to try to move the government towards better imagery in that respect. This then put him
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the press has reported but I had had occasion to meet Abe Fortas and I liked Abe Fortas. I 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these regional and state advisory councils, and we'd go from state to state--Mitchell [and] myself; George Shultz was very helpful in it--and we would appeal to the leadership, the press, the media, the publishers, the large banks, and the private sector, to help
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • MG: Pierre Salinger? SG: Yes, Pierre--were working closely together, and then ultimately that sorted out over a period of time. So there was no chance whatsoever that the Ball ploy would work. The thing that has always amused me is that the press
Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in this country. I wondered if it were overplayed in the American press, or if it was a problem here. The feeling being that, you know, he was backing out on his support, and he very quickly countered that. That made no great impression? B: No, no. I mean, I
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • was in may very well have had something to do with his reaction to the portrait. H: Everything was ganging up on him. The public, press wasn't good; his public relations were lousy. He had had this operation which was causing him more pain and trouble
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the White House the press releases had been given out on it. That's when Senator Vandenberg made his statement which I have always remembered. He said, "You know, it would be a great thing to be called on for the take-off and not just the crash landing
  • of California in 1958, the 1960 presidential campaign. Johnson as Vice-President, Senator Everett Dirksen as Senate Minority Leader, LBJ’s reaction to the press.
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the general investigation? F: Yes. S: Oh, no, there was something coming up all the time, somebody coming and going. F: Of course, the press played it up pretty pointedly. You must have had a lot of trouble, as so many people did, in their wanting
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In the latter forties. of the Admirals. II Senator Johnson was of great assistance to the fledgling Air Force. Cochran~ We had what the press called the "Revolt That was a personal attack on Jackie General Vandenberg and myself engineered by some people who
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in any way except through the newspapers? T: I followed the entire situation as best I could. little you can't follow in the American press. And there's very Of course, you get plenty of contradictory bits of so-called information about many events
Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • objectives. On one occasion, and precisely during the meeting of the Central American presidents with President Johnson at San Salvador, almost a year ago, at the beginning of July 1968, at a press conference held only by the Central American presidents
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of fact, what we did was, when I flew down to the ranch for the January 1st press briefing so that the President would sign off on it--it was January 1st and no work was done that day--when I flew back the first place I went was the Archives, and I
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • press relations on part of that trip. B: How did the Harte chain come down in the election? H: They came out all the way for Johnson. The Harte chain, the indi- vidual editors always had a great deal of leeway and Harte, perhaps in this race
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never talked about it in your presence? 10 Okay. Remember they had the Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City that spring and summer. There was a note in the press that Ralph Abernathy wanted to meet with you. why? Do you recall that? Do you
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, 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, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to distribute it to the members the next day. By working closely with the Senate staff, and with the President using every chance he had to press for the enactment of that bill, we began to make progress in the Senate. Now, one of our drawbacks, serious
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 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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • up here on Connecticut. I've forgotten what it was--right above Dupont Circle-- Johnson, as a young congressman, was pressing Rayburn to put another young Texas congressman on a particular committee in which there was a vacancy. He brought it right
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . Then, he began the endless rounds -- looking for.a job. L'ltimnt!"ly he fOllnd a snaIl utility company. 'rhc on~ d~press;on -- part time -- with a local deE'pen(>d -- l:lonth by l!'onth. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • fairly obvious, when crowds sack the USIS library that doesn't get you very good press with the Foreign Relations Committee. N: Absolutely. G: Was it possible to explain this to the Egyptians in any way that would make any difference? N: I think
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --this was the biggest thing in his life--and he was very, very involved in it. The day before the Saturday meeting I was sent a copy of the press release from the Department of Interior, announcing the action for the following day. I called Stew up and I said, "We
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)