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Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Johnson personally ever get involved in any way in that? H: I don't believe they did on the Powell matter. hazy. My memory is a little I know they got involved on my running feud with George Romney. I thought if they'd stayed the hell out of it, that I
liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

House? No, no, to the contrary. against lying. George Christian takes a very firm position He's noncommittal on many occasions. He felt like he had not only the right but the duty to withhold, if he felt like this was in the best interest
Folklore of LBJ; statistics and the press; George Christian; 1968 campaign; Moyers

of people. But in September when--and President Johnson was also involved in the program by that time in the sense that McNamara or somebody had described it to Senator Russell and Mr. Vinson. included George Mahon. I don't know who else. Ordinarily

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with Paul Kilday and George Mahon--those in particular, I think. Mc: Did you become associated with Speaker Rayburn and the "Board of Education," as it is called? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

the affairs of a small country twelve thousand miles away. M: I was thinking in terms of the [Governor George] Romney brainwashing business. You don't think there was any intentional effort on the part of the Americans particularly to prevent the White

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to be not the case, and since that time I'm sure that many of us have had second thoughts about what really was happening over there. But that was the feeling at the time. Everybody on that tour, includ- ing George Romney who later said he was brainwashed

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of State; Sylvester and Phil Goulding were in charge at DOD, and ·• both were subject, obviously, to the White House. But then there's always a question as to how much time Bill Moyers or George Christian. had to really exercise the kind of direction

by the press, it would have been a period of great exultation. I think the press was absolutely fascinated by Lyndon Johnson, and I think that he handled the press very well. He had George Reedy up in the Senate press gallery, sort of keeping reporters

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

really stayed with the man that did the most for their country, for their section. B: Does that apply to governors, too? E: Yes, sir. B: When you think of governors; you think of people like George Wallace I think wore of the governors than maybe
McPherson; George Reedy; Lee White; LBJ as VP under JFK; John Connally; Preston Smith; Bobby Baker; Lady Bird Special, 1964; NSC 1965; escalation in Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; dissenting group in the White House; John Stennis; LBJ's decision not to run

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the first night. I think it was the first or second night when the question was whether the federal troops should be brought in. The White House was in a real bind on this for various reasons. Of course Romney was governor, and he had requested

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