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Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than some, saw what it already meant to the people of our state ... and what it could mean in the future. The primary had scarcely begun when Downey withdrew from the race. Manchester Boddy, the owner and editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, my friend
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what Johnson's personal position was, but the position of KTBC's news department was I'm afraid a little biased in favor of Rainey, not the political campaign, but all the other stuff leading up to the political campaign . Were there any particular
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in geriatrics, would call in new freshmen congressmen and tell them some of the realities of life and say, lIyou have to be here at least six years, then they know who you are." And there's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The crowds turned out and they really throbbed to him. I remember the headline on the New York Daily News was "Veep Wows Them in Saigon." From a standpoint substantively, however, he sort of went overboard. You were asking me for examples of the sort
  • The Johnsons' residence as vice president, The Elms; Konrad Adenauer’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's relationship with Texans of German descent; the Bay of Pigs invasion; LBJ's trip around the world in 1961, including stops at New York City
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • for Humphrey after President Johnson decided that he wasn't going to run. Then I went ahead and moved over and started working for Humphrey, and I handled for Humphrey I handled New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, of course, and I had Michigan, and out of those
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • all out because I never spent that much time in the White House. He was very fond of about my closest friend in Washington, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. I think probably, and I hope to goodness somebody does him. M: He's on our list
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . If the press depends upon the press secretary as their source of news, that means the press secretary can decide pretty well what they're going to know and what they aren't. And of course it's not quite like that. The White House--it is impossible to have
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE SID DAVIS INTERVIEWER Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Davis office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 S: Election day was the third. Well, I believe we were in New Orleans on the weekend before election day in 1964, and the President
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant­ to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • executive officer, as I told you in the first session, I came in just enough too late to be involved in the very early processes of the substantive divisions. So I was really handling more the daily paper, meaning paper like the thousands of letters
  • the program; Shriver juggling poverty programs and Peace Corps; Ruth Atkins and New Yorkers concerned about their school.
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • period? J: Well, I would say that the best reporting of the Vietnam situation has been by guys 1i.ke Bob Shaplen of the New Yorker; Sol Sanders, U.S. News and World Report; Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News-- M: You did get one newspaper
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ." And old Charlie Schultz, the Budget Director, used to accuse the speech writers anyway of spending half his budget. He said, "You guys have spent a hundred million dollars just getting a news lead for a speech." I said, "Well, that's just what the man
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Of course [in 1966] you had big majorities: sixty-eight Democrats, thirty-two Republicans in the Senate
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the news almost daily, I'd like to emphasize in this interview your personal relations with Mr. Johnson, your government position, and your assessment of some of the milestones of his career, and a very important area--his press relations. Do you recall
  • on White House influence on news coverage, LBJ’s response to critical press coverage, preferential treatment to certain newsmen, LBJ’s decision on to run, 1968 convention, LBJ’s way of helping departing staff members, Vietnam, the effect of daily
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Monday morning and went into New Orleans and spent the second night in Atlanta and were having breakfast somewhere in Atlanta Wednesday morning when we heard the ra9io had been counted out. was wonderful about it. F: ~eport that he So it was a sad
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /oh or maybe it was Bowdoin [College] up in New England, and had had one summer as a copy boy at the New York Times and so on. He was a very active, very energetic Vietnamese whose family or wife ran a big English school. He understood the press
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • notes," "economic news notes." And it was about the last thing we did every night, sometimes it was 3 a.m., but we always got off our daily news note on the statistics of the day and what they meant. They were not designed really to advocate a policy
Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be a lead to a new opening? B: That's right. There were daily sessions with his two colleagues and the staff members of the three delegates, at which we examined the state of play at the end of each day and decided what strategy to follow on the next one
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • commentary on the difficulty of governmental coordination, and it's the kind of thing that has me just sitting here tapping my fingers and smiling, watching the new administration set up their Council on Environmental Quality. Because they're going to run
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; with the new plant and equipment 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 SCHULTZE
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • an important term--appearance in connection with dedicating what we called our Oklahoma Ordinance Works Authority Industrial Tract . I received word of this trip through the news media on a certain afternoon, and it troubled me all evening because
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the New Haven and the proposed Penn Central system which is satisfactory to the New Haven trustees and to the district court, then, unless circumstance of material change, it would be my recommendation the Department of Justice not continue opposition
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forget you start off with twenty-two votes from the ex­ Confederate states. Then you add to that Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, that's another eight [ten] votes, that gets you up to thirty [-two]. Then you pick up a few oddballs here
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for newspapers in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and was editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican in Santa Fe. At the time I came to Washington, I was editor of the Laredo Times, Laredo, Texas, I wrote political columns at most of the places I worked. Incidentally
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE : GORDON BUNSHAFT INTERVIEWER : PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN PLACE : Mr . Bunshaft's office, 400 Park Avenue, New York Tape 1 of 1 B: This started the whole thing . You lose track of years . Here's a telegram from Mr . Heath, who
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • with a journalist who was covering the State Department for the New York Daily News, named Mike O'Neill. He was also writing for Medical World News on one of the stories about health; he had a personal interest in the health field. I urged John Gardner to consider
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: A lot of the time, and, therefore, while I saw him when he came to Paris and did occasionally see him here in New York, it wasn't anything like as close as during the time we were both
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the future might be in the northern cities? M: Only the Southerners in Congress, but that was taken to be a self-serving on their part. When they would say the real problem is going to come in New York and so on, everybody would say, "Well, you're just
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was regarded more as a source of something that might precipitate violence which, in turn, would turn the clock back. G: Anything else on the signing of the Voting Rights Act? C: I don't have any real recollections of it. I guess I was still so new I
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Pentagon. A man by the time he reaches an important position in the Army will maybe have been in the Pentagon six, seven, eight or ten years. In comes a new civilian Secretary, so he's just not a match for these men who have spent their entire lives
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the hours and the strain. It brought some new figures into his life, at least in more common daily contact: Les Biffle, who was secretary to the Senate, and Felton Johnston, whom he called Skeeter--everybody did--who was secretary to the majority. Besides
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rose to the occasion. I had Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Vermont and New York. F: You didn't have any easy task, did you? M: And when we would report almost on a daily basis our success, he would say to me, IIWhy can't you get delegates
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at dinner; and Aaron Schaffer was a man that I would normally consider a very kindly and gentle person, but an unreconstructed liberal out of the New Republic school. And after dinner, we got around to coffee. He turned to Miss Grace and he said, "After
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • predicted my appointment in the spring, I think it was, and I, therefore, concluded I was safe. M: Did you know anything about it at that time? R: No, I knew nothing about it at that time. M: How was the news broached to you? In what manner did Mr
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID HALBERSTAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Halberstam's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 2 G: You said that you had a Lyndon Johnson story. H: Yes. I was, in 1960, working for the Nashville Tennessean
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with each other a great deal over the years. The part where perhaps I came to know him best, and had the closest association with him, was right after he became president. He requested a news media liaison from Texas in Washington, and I was the one
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • accessible and other times when he was at work on some new strategy when he was not so accessible. Generally, when I saw him--and I never had to see him with any kind of daily urgency--I would submit a request through George Reedy or through Bill Moyers