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Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know she was just very smart in everything, but she introduced me to journalism and I'm sorry that I didn't take it as a freshman. Because LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , his English was bilingual, very colloquial, and I did not have to tell him very much. fellow named Dinh Trinh Chinh was minister for a while. Another He had been educated at the University of Missouri journalism school, so he knew some. But most
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the University of Texas in journalism. WPA offered me a job of handling public relations for the state of Texas for the agency at a salary of about double what my newspaper salary was. So I went, with some trepidation that I was leaving direct newspapering
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Not really. I can see her kind of and remember her being there in the home and I met her, but I don't recall her. G: There's an indication that LBJ favored the establishment of a school of journalism there at Southwest Texas. Did he ever talk about
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 18, 1969 B: This is the interview with David E. Lilienthal. Sir, to begin at the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? You mention in your journals meeting him at the time he was assigned
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • taught to be ashamed of. So many of the retarded were closeted within homes and families and no one knew about them. There was an attempt to provide public education and information to enlighten people that to be retarded was not a shameful affair
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in his office with Mr. Paul Ringler, the principal editorial writer of The Milwaukee Journal. In this interview some of his habits certainly were evident. One thing was that he intended to convince Mr. Ringler absolutely and completely. It's very
  • LBJ's 1958 interview with Paul Ringler of the Milwaukee Journal; LBJ's practice of making telephone calls while people were in his office; Senator LBJ's ability to get information from people on the telephone; LBJ's tactics to gain Senate passage
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be intuitive judgment. He didn't seem to arrive at his conclusions from data garnered from recent issues of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. But somehow he knew; he seemed to have read widely and picked up much by ear. And it was often fun being
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • involve the President. We believe we have absolute security on this file within Justice, provided no copies are made within Justice and provided there are no leaks. We have no idea of the distribution that took place within Justice." That Colson memo
  • and Harold Geneen of ITT, and other memos that would be harmful if leaked; Mitchell's and Kleindienst's denials of knowledge or involvement in ITT; Terry Lenzner's and Sam Dash's demand that Robert Maheu's replacement, Chester Davis, provide them
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but once that bridge was crossed there's no need in going back over it. G: You were active in the honorary journalism fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi. You were secretary of that, I guess. J: Probably. It was a matter of no importance. But I did decide
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and was on the agenda beginning in the early sixties as something that would be adopted but that's the nature of the way I became involved. G: In the sort of aid, help, information that you were providing, was it largely a question of how to fund
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • became the number-one reporter and everybody else kind of looked around for their own stories. It was not an organized process. Time magazine works it a little [differently], because it's group journalism. [At] Time magazine, the bureau chief is assigning
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Lowell Limpus, as a military historian, took the laws of Clausewitz and applied them to journalism, plain military tactics and politics also. vast change. At that time the news media was undergoing a very Captain [Robert] Patterson had started the News
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and nieces. My father and my uncle and I felt for a long time, primarily through my own wish, that I [should] go into journalism. I had taken quite a few journalism courses while I was at the University of Texas. tion. My majors there were journalism
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and nieces. My father and my uncle and I felt for a long time, primarily through my own wish, that I [should] go into journalism. I had taken quite a few journalism courses while I was at the University of Texas. tion. My majors there were journalism
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and tell them, IIAll rightll--and he did do James Henry on the TV station the same way-"if you run one ad with him, you'll never run another ad in the Longview News and Journal." unpopular. Just such stuff as that. He was very In fact, I was trying
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to provide all the details for the President's economy program in government to cut back expenses, I knew the stuff she was looking for, and I gave her the old statistics straight from the book. But there was one thing that I gave her which she always
  • on a few Eastern newspapers vs. the rest of the country; anti-LBJ sentiment in the Wall Street Journal; Jack Anderson; LBJ leaking information to the press; Bob Kintner; attempting to organize a group of young people to support LBJ; Edward Hamilton; how
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I just don't remember. Edgar Cahn I may I would have thought of him because he and his wife had written that long piece in the Yale Law Journal that was one of the basic documents. G: Was it assumed during this period that Sargent Shriver would
Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to travel all over the world. I thought perhaps--she could just write the most beautiful themes and beautiful stories. I had thought at one time perhaps she'd choose journalism as her major but I don't know what her major really was dcwn in Austin, whether
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , you know, "Fine. I'd like to have you work on the staff." I had been working for Charlie Green, who was the editor of the [Austin] American Statesman, and before that I had been working in journalism and for the journalism director at North Texas
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • father's knee when his daddy was talking to some important person. But his knowledge of government and politics was way ahead of most of us. G: Did he ever try to ·promote the creation of a journalism school there at San Marcos? W: Yes, according
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was an enthusiastic In fact, that book there says that Lyndon asked Tom about starting a course in journalism so we'd learn how to write, we need to. Of course that was right down Tom's alley. He said, "Well, get some of your old friends that'll take the course
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . At the time that I was his clerk, I was his only law clerk. B: That was in 1949 and 1950? W: That was in the 1949 term, right. I had been editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and had come down along with other candidates from all over to be interviewed
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Bird was taking journalism, she could be, you know, like what's her name with the Washington Post. And in that way Aunt Effie certainly was ahead of her time, I think. Her dream was not of Bird marrying and having a family. Bird to have a real career
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then I'd go home and start over. I did that for twenty-one months and saved up a wee bit of money and went back to Chapel Hill and got a degree in journalism, A. B. in journalism. Journalism was handy because all they--they had more electives than any other
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Political Science Association. M: And you've published numerous articles in that journal, as I recall. R: I've published some in that journal and other journals. M: Now, to ask you a large question. There has been some talk that Lyndon Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LOYD HACKLER INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL Place: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Mr. Loyd Hackler, formerly the assistant press secretary of the White House staff. I'd like to ask you to provide for the tape
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . at the Austin Club, a beautiful place, in Austin on Eighth \~olilans and San Antonio, the lovely house that's still there. I was living But Bird often visited me. Then when she got her first degree, her B.A. in journalism in 1933, that's when we went out
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as a combination sports editor and general assign- ments reporter and shortly thereafter had a letter from Paul Thompson at U .T . [University of Texas] journalism school asking me if I'd be interested in a fellowship . Took the fellowship in journalism
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think I should draw a distinction there, that while an awful lot of journalists I think were emotionally involved, I think a bare minimum of them, and I wouldn't know how to express it, let that intrude on their practice of journalism. I don't think
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • in Austin and I went to colleg~ in Montgomery and we corresponded regularly. r.Je· wrote about: everything--ati.l our dreams and ambitions--life--love--politics--prohibition--and the like. She was taking Journalism. and wrote most interesting
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the yacht that used to be provided for the Secretary of Defense on the Potomac, and there was only a handful, including Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. was the first time I had been close to them. There were very pleasant conversations, and this led to many more
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was like, how often it met, what it did, what the purpose of it was? W: That Press Club at San Marcos? G: Yes. Was it made up of people that wanted to go into journalism, do you think? W: Probably. Because Lyndon persuaded Doc [Tom] Nichols to teach
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- III -- 14 know; I'll just have to kind of guess and put two and two together. She was a graduate in journalism at the University of Texas. Newspaper work and radio work are a little bit similar. He often said, in fact he would say it nearly every two
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • matter. But I don't remember Bird's ever cutting a class. G: Anything else on her favorite courses there? S: Well, I know journalism and history. ite. English history was her favor- I wish I could remember her professor's name, he was very well
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that would by and large be negative. Based on that specific, often negative [incident, the press] would draw conclusions that ended up being quite at variance with what the official channel of communication provided the Washington policy makers. You know
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , there was no policy in the State Department, there was no policy in AID to provide direct assistance. ~ere was a policy which was articulated at the U.N. in 1962, December, by Mr. Richard Gardner, a lawyer who has gone back to Columbia--he was Deputy Assistant