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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a chance between stops to visit with some rif the local people and to make himself known as a human being and not just as a politician. The problem that I find which [makes] national campaigning so awful and so gruesome is that a plane lands, and you run
Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

weeks in advance. Bill laid on the substance of who he was to see and what they were going to talk about with the embassy and with the prime ministry, head of state. Le~nard Marks would lay out with the information people for the publicity side
humor; camel driver's visit to U.S. and LBJ ranch; travel with LBJ as President; LBJ's selection of presidential gifts; graciousness of LBJ and Lady Bird; ambassadors' visits with LBJ; state dinners; LBJ's concern for people needing help; foreign policy

. 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

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

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for John Bailey, and I had been doing some minir:;2l li.aison work ,-lith the Democratic National Committee trying to stay. And there were a few other people who were doing it. Roche was doing i t , and I guess McPherson in a different way was doing

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that, but I didn't involve myself as much as I did in the 1964 campaign. Then I really attacked it. I said, "Whatever you want me to do, I'm there. I'll be there, whatever you want." F: To whom did you say this? To your California people

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the climate was unsavory. up. There was rumbling of revolutions. Sun Yat-sen was coming My father and mother were quite close to Sun Yat-sen and many other important people of the revolution through the diplomatic corps and also through a press gentleman
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

selected because of my past association with the President. arrived in Washington on January 9, 1964. I I was managing editor of the Chronicle still, but took on the additional titles of national political editor and White House correspondent. September

at nine or ten and say, "Have a reception tomorrow afternoon for me." 0' clock But I think there were probably three or four hundred people there, as I best recall. G: Did LBJ have set advance men on his staff or on the campaign staff who would go

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

elected. B: Back in those days when he was making that race, what did you read and hear about him? W: It was in the newspapers, of course we didn't have TV in those days, but I knew some people who knew him that like him very much. One of them

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