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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was then with the New York Herald Tribune. Since then they've both become commentators on NBC. Kiker was always the nemesis of the President. It was my feeling that if LBJ had run for re-election that eventually Doug Kiker would become his press secretary
  • and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus