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- candidate for the post of premier by then. And I had a friend at this time who was very close to the Ngo Dinh Diem group, and my friend was Dr. Tran Van Don, who became later foreign minister in the first government of Mr. Diem. So we stayed in 2 LBJ
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . But by and large, I think Myron--the Times was okay. Christ, the best people weren't the Times or the Washington Post, it was the Philadelphia Inquirer, a guy called [David] Zucchino, and the guy for Variety. Variety had a guy in there every day, Kevin Goldman
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- there had been the nastiest editorial, maybe it was the morning before that, the nastiest editorial I had ever had written about me. It was written by the Post [Russell Wiggins was editor of the Washington Post]. M: And Wiggins was sitting there. B: Yes
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- operator, post office employee, House doorkeeper for the gallery, etc. In some offices these jobs went to relatives or sons of the members close friends, and after the job was over (and the hours were not long) the employee was at leisure. The Chief had
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- time. In fact, one of the post card companies downtown is selling it for a nickel, that picture they got from a White House hand-out. dinner. So I made that picture and went back to That was the beginning of extracurricular or curricular activities
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- was very happy to grant his request and she proved to be a very efficient clerk and has been my friend ever since. She is now the widow of the late Governor Hobby and at present owner and editor of the Houston Post. Also while I was a member of Congress I
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of the stores, and people would congregate there and on Saturday afternoons mill around and meet everybody on the street. And in the stores and post office, too, insofar as they happened to meet there. G: Do you remember any trials of significance? R: I don't
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Smith -- I -- 27 S: Right downtown. They later made a sort of a business office out of it, and it was right down there not more than two blocks from the Rice Hotel, east I would say from the Rice Hotel. ES: Across the street from the post office
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was an assistant editor of the Lockhart Post-Register. G: Did you ever talk to LBJ about that letter later on and explain to him? W: Never. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- created the Justice Department has some provision whereby the President is forbidden from leaving that post vacant for more than thirty days--a statute, and I kn~w don't think I ever it came to pass. the legislative background of it and-why
- Barber to a Defense Department post; advising LBJ on having Lynda move from her segregated dorm at UT and inviting civil rights leaders to dine at the Ranch; LBJ's understanding of the militant forces released by progress in civil rights
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXIII -- 22 G: Did you form any impressions of post-presidency then from seeing President Truman at that or Mrs. Truman? J: Just sort of a satisfied feeling that he had weathered it well
- governess; LBJ's support for working women and daycare facilities; LBJ's smoking and stress; Gene Autry at the 1953 Texas State Society barbeque; a British Embassy celebration of the coronation of Elizabeth II; seeing the Trumans in his post-presidency
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ://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 Califano -- XIX -- 9 tabloids and maybe even the Washington Post
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to represent on the side, in addition to working for him: two newspapers in Massachusetts, the Boston Post and the Springfield Daily Ne.ws. Springfield is in western Massachusetts. So I had those two papers in Massachusetts, Liz had the three papers
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- , proud when you served on the Judiciary [Committee], on the Watergate thing. I know the night that you made your remarks, I think that if the ratings had been posted, you would have rated with the Super Bowl. J: Well, I can only tell you this. Thank you
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- easy communications with some members of the press. Certainly people like Wolf von Eckhardt of the Washington Post, in the very latter days Bob Cahn of the Christian Science Monitor, I could call and ask for information and ask for background
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- different railroads. It's a post of great diplomatic skill that was thrust upon Mr. Long. Mr. Truman felt that you really had to have people that, by the time 1960 came along, we called advance men, to go ahead and to pave the way for the proper reception
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- . Well, I see now what it was, some kind of multi-state group. So Oveta Culp Hobby, publisher of the Houston Post, intervened with the program committee and invited him out there to speak. It wasn't a dinner. He was speaking in a relatively small room
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- conditions as the residents of Resurrection City lived. One of these fellows was Paul Ballantine [?] of the Washington Post, whom I understood right after Resurrection City undertook to write a book about it. But I have not seen it published. As a matter
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- for that post, and Kennedy eliminated that prejudice. Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of the Yale Club on the motivations of national public service. M: Was this ever published? F: Yes, it Was published and I think it was reprinted in full in the Washington Post at that time. Therefore, in answer to your question, LBJ Presidential Library
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- been fighting it in the North to begin with. ~ G: Of course, politically that's another story. T: Now don't bring in these details. (Laughter) G: .. Red China is not really a detail, I guess. T: Many times in post-war years in the course
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of Intervention, I wrote an article for The Washington Post in which I made that same issue: that no one can tell you how a president came to a decision because no one knows all of the information and all of the ingredients to which he was exposed before he made
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to return to their posts in Washington. Lyndon Johnson was invaluable to me as a member of the Naval Affairs LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Committee
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . You've got a hundred men, and they all want to make the front page of the Washington Post every day; they all want to be the author of the greatest LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was going to Los Angeles and he wanted me there. G: What for? H: He just wanted me. He thought I should be there. wanted me to talk to Leslie Shaw. And I went. And I did. He He'd appointed that fellow post- master, a black fellow. I've been
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- Shelton, in her Saturday Evening Post article, said that it was the mother who made the arrangements. Some of the President’s old friends recall that it was he who made the arrangements. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- it on both Johnson and Phil Graham [who] was working on it. Phil was then running the Washington Post. As I say, I can remember this frozen look I got from both of them, a dead silence and a frozen look. It took me about five minutes to realize why, so I
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ? G: Yes. S: Most of it I didn't know anything about. G: Now, you also saw him quite a bit, I understand, in the post-presidential period after he left the White House. S: Yes. G: Do you recall your visits with him then? S: Yes, they were
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- bi tis beb/een 1962 and 1964, and you were Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. Do I have the basic command periods and posts essentially correct? M: Yes. Mc: Have you ever participated in any other sort of oral history project
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- 1960 convention in Los Angeles; the Biltmore Hotel; decision to take the Vice-Presidential post with JFK; connection with Johnson family in Oglethorpe County, Georgia; Lady Bird Johnson’s grandfather as founder of Baylor University; the LBJ Library
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pazianos -- I -- 14 trying to close post offices. There's a really vested interest and you have a constituency and you're going to defend it to the very end. My
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- of that I went out to California and was a free-lance writer for the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, various other newspapers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and so forth. Then I gradually got into electronic journalism and did a lot of radio work. 1 LBJ
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- be approximately ten days after he had announced his non-candidacy. I quickly took a trip to Indiana to survey the scene, met with the Kennedy supporters and returned to Washington. The farewell in the Post Office Department and with the President at the White
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- and don't have to be in competition for the consumer dollar, like building a post office building--let the government say, "You've got to pay your carpenter $50 .00 an hour or whatever ." M: Now, if you had a free hand as a builder, you could build
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- that problem previously. C: No, we really hadn't that much. F: You'd gone through the outer post. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)