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  • --although they fought like dogs most of the time--he got that same feeling toward Margaret Mayer of the Dallas Times Herald. Now, I know he has called Margaret Mayer a number of times, when he would be displeased over something. She is chief of bureau
  • INTERVIEWEE: EDIE ADAMS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Miss Adams, first of all, how did you get mixed up in politics? A: Well, it was the 1964 campaign. Before that I really felt that anyone
  • /oh 3 B: Yes, sir. Did Lyndon Johnson give you any help as a, by then, an older hand? W: Lyndon was always helpful. Not only to me. third term, wouldn't it--my first term? pretty well in Congress by that time. he helped you anyway he could. Let
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
  • Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's
  • " as they call it at those magazines, doing every department where someone else were unavailable, sick or on vacation . BA : What was the name of the book? BE : Time and a Ticket , it was called . BA : You may be too modest to mention this, but are you
  • Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays
  • in Washington, and at that time I didn't feel I was ready to move to Washington. But a little later on when I decided that I would like to live in Washington, Walter Jenkins called and asked me to come over to Austin for an interview, which I did. After some
  • appropriations to the Senate, he had time to open the hearings. He didn't stay there for all the hearings, but he opened them and I was always intrigued, though at a distance. I was at a table making part of the presentation, but I was always intrigued
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh advisor to many of us and was well versed in the history of China at that time. [He] predicted pretty accurately what was about to happen
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Waldron -- I -- 2 W: Yes. I knew Senator Wirtz before he died. G: What were your impressions of him at that time? W: Truly~ my impression
  • , 1968 INTERVIE\'lEE: BE~; INTERVIE\{ER: T. iL\?2.I BARER J. 1,'I/\.TTENBERG Mr. i;;"ttenberg' s office, Executive Office Building, PLACE: Washi~gton, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Hr. Hattenberg, we '..;'2.re talk.ing last time about the group of you