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Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the natural resources of Vietnam?" And there is one school of thought, which I think is represented by some of the left wing press, that says that really what we're doing in Vietnam is protecting American business interests--that we've got some kind

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on-- they put me on the Committee on Rules, and I had to get off, because you couldn't have two committees. F: Is the Rules Committee as powerful as the press plays it in its ability to control legislation? H: It's very different from the House, you see

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] were perhaps the same people--too distant. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Fortunately--this is disgressing a second--the unfriendly portions of the press in Sweden never did find

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was '55. M: That anticipates sort of a general line of thought that I think might be important. How thoroughly in your opinion did Johnson dominate, as Leader, the Senate? The press made him out to be the great dominant figure through this period. R

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

around me. F: ~ I would think it would be invaluable because among other things you'd know what buttons to press at the White House, or what goes and what doesn't, even allowing for the difference in presidents. R: Yes. And there are still some

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was gone, MACV publicized--they had also been very secretive up to this time. The day I was up north they probably thought I was going to go find the press and tell them all about it. thing from my mind. Farthest The worst thing that could have happened

Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1963 when after the National Academy of Sciences report was published, he was asked at one of his press conferences about the problem. Even though in an earlier message to Congress he'd identified the problem in Latin America as of major significance

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

meeting with him, on the occasion of his meeting with Dr. and Mrs. Nirenberg after Dr. Nirenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize. This again was a small group meeting with the President, and subsequently the press

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

McCONNELL -- I -- 15 thought ought to be done without regard to any domestic political reverberations, which, of course, every president has to take into account. McS: I think I was thinking in terms of the Vietnam War really pressing him a great deal

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

I had missed. During our visit in Washington, one of my friends--a former editor that I had worked for on the Oklahoma News--said, "Well, Franklin D. Roosevelt is going to have a press conference. Don't you want to come and hear it?" Of course, I

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I was seated over at the right near the press gallery, about the second or third row up where I got a good view of the floor . [see] . I wanted to be able to I didn't know what the vote [would be], but I watched Lyndon Johnson on the floor

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the press gallery, facing the floor . I was with someone whose name I can't recall, I wish I could . didn't know how Lausche was going to vote . I Nobody knew how Lausche was going to vote . If he voted Republican, the Republicans would organize

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to it ; and if you don't I'll just tear this little piece of paper up ." He said, "Oh, no, don't do that ." I said, "Ail right, then let's have a press release on it to seal our agreement .'" � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside he was always trying to do something for Dr. Evans. buttons to press, all I .:..:. 21 He knew which right~ G: What did he do for Dr. Evans? W: I don't know that he ever did

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

couldn't get his paper like he wanted, so he called down to Mrs. Roberts and said, "You tell Gene to get :my papers out her':!, so I know I'll get ~ny papers." So about that time, Mr. Moyers fixed it where the press would take his papers out

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or eleven o'clock maybe, between eleven and twelve, and I went by Lyndon's hotel suite. Of course the press was all outside and they had a bunch of guards LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And that was always· very interesting, because Senator Johnson would usually have a little press conference, right ahead of time, in which they asked him things. to work early. So, I did not get I'd get to work about nine o'clock, I guess, and read the record

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, headed by Sam Rayburn of Texas, in connection with the big financial bills for fiscal reform in the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] and the utility field which Roosevelt was pressing. I was particularly fascinated by the Texan contingent

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

about how much influence that she might have with the navy or in the appointment process. WD: That's right. That's right, and also not to press too hard with any contacts she might have with the Navy Department. G: Do you have a sense of what

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And they would develop a plan and announce it, have a big press conference about it. So Plans for Progress got a lot of publicity, whereas state government agencies plodding along with statistics and other government agencies [giving?] a lot of resistance weren't

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

name was Michael Drosnin. My first reaction was that I really didn't have the time to bother with Michael Drosnin. However, over some twenty years I had been courteous to the press and never failed to respond to an inquiry from a writer or a journalist

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Easley was the Associated Press correspondent covering the House of Representatives for years and years. And he later worked for Bob Poage, but Tex Easley was a very prominent associate, AP writer. H: Okay, Bill and Judy Mickey, M-I-C-K-E-Y. Anything

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

[Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles]. It was judged throughout the communist world as an occasion for historically pressing forward, and in November of 1957, directly in the wake of Sputnik, the leaders of all the communist parties who controlled governments came

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

walking in front of me and three on each side to get into the place. It was a very hostile audience. I can't remember whether I was booed or not. G: The press accounts indicate that you were booed and that Dick Boone apologized subsequently to you

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

pressed by their depositors for money had to call those notes and say "we're making demand ." So the poor home owner didn't even know that this kind of a thing existed, he thought he could go on ad infinitum and pay his interest every six months

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and it followed the issuance of this biennial report that was so controversial. Hannah at the time pressed Congress to go ahead and extend the life of the commission, saying that the Civil Rights Commission was going down the drain, staff people were leaving

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

pressing beyond that point. B: Then the whole issue is just sort of left hanging? C: Well, it's still not resolved, although the co-ops have gone ahead with their own studies and I think now are definitely headed toward the establishment of some kind