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Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • to that. As a matter of fact, my main problem with the Congress was that we were constantly pressing for lower levels of expenditure than they were willing to approve. You saw it in the argument over conventional versus nuclear power. You saw it in the argument over
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • and it is just up to us to start out. So let me introduce myself: I am Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library. This is George Christian:. We both worked for President Johnson in the White House. George was far more important than I; he was press secretary
  • Press relations
  • use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • .'. . was, of· course, very careful to assure that the Communist party in Italy was able to participate politically on a free and open basis; and we all agreed with this. ( This ;. ~ ·. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • went in there and you bought a schooner of beer for fifty cents then you could help yourself to anything and we used to go in there because we knew that the main school dining hall would be closed. So for fifty cents we'd get a big free meal over
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • went in there and you bought a schooner of beer for fifty cents then you could help yourself to anything and we used to go in there because we knew that the main school dining hall would be closed. So for fifty cents we'd get a big free meal over
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • went in there and you bought a schooner of beer for fifty cents then you could help yourself to anything and we used to go in there because we knew that the main school dining hall would be closed. So for fifty cents we'd get a big free meal over
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • went in there and you bought a schooner of beer for fifty cents then you could help yourself to anything and we used to go in there because we knew that the main school dining hall would be closed. So for fifty cents we'd get a big free meal over
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • was a man who when he decided that he was annoyed at you he'd get your name wrong, "that Moyer," or "that McBundy," deliberately. Scoundrel! D: Ed Guttman tells me that he was offered the press secretary job by Johnson at some point, and turned it down
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • become convin ced that educat ion is a factor in produc tion--t hat this countr y cannot reainta. in a free and open society and a high rate of economic growth except through educate d ma npower . come to beli eve that Federa l aid In other words
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • of the subsequent efforts that had been made to do something about the billboard legislation and how extremely well-organized the billboard industry is, and given the political campaigns that they contribute to and the free billboards and all of that in the campaign
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • said Jack wanted me but he wanted me to know that the liberals will raise hell. He said Mennen Williams will raise hell. I thought I was dealing with a child. I never did understand Bobby. I never did understand how the press built him into the great
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • into the press. But most of my contacts with Mr. Reagan have been very private. B: Very private. I appreciate the comments you have made when you spent some time with President Johnson alone or sitting and watching sunsets or spending time in prayer and all
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • . And the man who read that said that he felt that his eyes were the first to ever read those Sam Houston deals. DC: In trying, from a scholars point of view, to peel the layers free to get at the real sap within--I like that metaphor--the problem
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • it get him into so much difficulty with the press, because a lot of the feeling that there was a credibility gap, that he dissembled, that he misled the press and the public, and certainly Eric Goldman describes that in his The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
  • LBJ's decision-making in regard to the Dominican Republic in 1965; Abe Fortas' involvement with the Dominican Republic; LBJ's concern over press coverage and his naivety regarding favorable press coverage; Bundy's involvement in the 1967 Six-Day
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • were there you may know something about them. First question concerns the Hhite House Communications Agency. Can you tell me anything about how that functioned and what its connection was with you as press secretary? CHRISTIAN: It supplied our
  • Special telephone interview regarding the impact of television on public policy; White House Communications Agency; use of videotape; White House Naval Photographic Unit films; LBJ's close relations with the press; television news reports; effect
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DATE: Robert Fleming, Deputy Press Secretary for LBJ November 8, 1979 PLACE: Washington, D.C. SUBJECT: Fleming's Knowledge of Daily Summaries of the Network \ Television Coverage: During the Period of TET, 1968 INTERVIEWER: David Culbert
  • Press relations
Oral history transcript, Harry J. Middleton, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1979, by William C. Spragens (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3--Mid dleton Intervi ew (6-20-7 9) 9. Did you work with all of the Johnso n Press Secret aries? No. 10. What do you think was Presid ent Johnso
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • are continually pressing him to make appointments to the advisory council and to act on the Heckscher report, and he seems as if he doesn't respond at that time and that there is not an interest on his part at that time. And I know that in March of that year he
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • be interesting--we're recording, after all, for later history here--to point out that at this moment in 1968 when the President is very hard pressed politically apparently, a good deal of people make the criticism of him that he will not, or cannot, or doesn't
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • . You need to understand that at that time, on the second floor of the East Wing, Liz had her office, and of course she was chief of staff as well as press secretary, and then Bess had her office, and then there was a correspondence office, which I sat
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • rights, but not only that. We are beginning to come back today to some of the views that he had, that we have very serious economic and social problems in this society, some of which we don't know how to deal with, but all of which are pressing
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • that you had to do with radio and transportation? Now, some of the stuff I found is how your campaign was scrambling for money, that you were very hard pressed at points. Some of the oral history interviews I've read, people say, "Well, we didn't know if we
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • ssed myse lf every oppor tunity refor m, for broad er we did press li:n as hard as we dared to for intern al just a quest ion of politi cal invol veme nt, and for a bette r army . But it's what you can do with a situat ion like that. at the end Did you
Oral history transcript, Walter Mylecraine, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • And that -- in the public press -- has ­ i 10 i as the re as on .tlla\ the Pre~j_dent was very mucli 11 1i dis satisf ied '\?ith his 1l · , appo~tntl~19nt. there is more to it But ·_ ;_) l l ( . 12 than th~ t, . and you ~ill ~ave to ~a sk: ~enry whether he