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  • Date > 1968-11-20 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing
  • ; department's speech drafts; review of speeches; "Rose Garden rubbish;" LBJ's sensitivity to press reaction to speeches' LBJ's relationship with the press; joke specialist on staff; LBJ as am accomplished storyteller and raconteur; LBJ's speech referring to his