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Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of papers, including the Pittsburgh Courier group, the Chicago Daily Defender, the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit--altogether about ten fairly good newspapers. Mc: And some in the South as well as in the North? M: Tri
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a new HHFA administrator. That whole week stories were fed out to the effect that Kennedy had made a commitment that he was going to raise Housing to cabinet level, and that fair housing was a Kennedy commitment based upon a Pittsburgh speech in which he
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and construction firm in Columbus, Ohio, but was better known as the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and three Kentucky Derby winning horses. A very fine gentleman, he is in his eighties now, but in those days he was in his late sixties. At Galbreath's winter
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it was not a worthwhile investment. As a matter of fact, the Columbia Broad- casting System decided to turn in permits that they had. Other large organizations followed suit, including the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company which was a pioneer in Pittsburgh. F: I
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

9 and Admiral Grayson~ who was President Roosevelt's doctor later on, and he had also been President Wilson's doctor, and Sam Blythe, who was a very famous reporter for, used to write for the Saturday Evening Post, he was probably one

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the The Washington Post wasn't that much. The [St. Louis] Post- Dispatch·or the L.A. Times hadn't begun to build up. M: And he was interested in projecting beyond a regional-- S: He was interested in his national image. it. There's just no question about
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Binion, who was a lawyer for the Houston Post and KPRC, would come up and we'd be writing a speech, and held say, "Roy, I've got to look the speech over. it and pass on it. II Hurry up and finish the damn thing so I can see Well, we'd give it to him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Baskin of the Dallas News and Vernon Louviere of the Houston Chronicle and--I can't think at the moment--oh, I guess Felton West of the Houston Post. We thought we'd get down there and get a lot of hot poop, you know. He'd talk to us all weekend, and we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and interest relationship there. Dick, I recall, was sent out to Pittsburgh to catch Dr. 0~~ke~ between planes, and they had a very brief conversation around the idea of forming some sort of committee. Then Dick got involved in other efforts and he asked me
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

school, the equivalent of high school, Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock, Virginia, and graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1937. M: What did you do then? R: Upon graduating from the University I went to work for the Congress
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. They organized the metropolitan blacks, largely through the ministers in the black churches. In places like New York and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and Chicago, and, by that time, see--during World War II a great many blacks moved from the South to the North
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. We didn't go to their houses to eat, and we didn't feed them at our house. F: What did your father do? W: My father was a clerk in the post office department. F: Did you encounter any particular problems in Harvard? W: Not particularly. I had

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

school people, some of the welfare agencies and other groups from each of the towns--there was Detroit, New Haven, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. We had them in here and we sat down for several days with each one, a couple days at least with each one, and we
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; how the War on Poverty came to include more than Community Action; an Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column in the Washington Post indicating that Shriver might be LBJ’s 1964 vice presidential running mate and reaction of the Kennedy faction
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

of the country that I've never been to--in fact I'd never been west of Pittsburgh--(Laughter)--how do you sort it all out? How do you understand the seriousness of it given the age that you're at, the limited experience you have versus your social concerns
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- I -~ 27 figured Sarge Shriver kept her from becoming secretary of HEW in the Kennedy Administration. Abe Ribicoff got the cabinet post and Edith Green wanted it very badly and had made
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and a half, and then was appointed executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock. That was my west- ward migration. Of course from the time I arrived in Little Rock, in late 1947, I was immediately aware of a tall politician on the south
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. gave that up. papers. She finally She worked in a news bureau that represented midwestern Then, finally, Ha~ry S. Ashmore, who has become a well-known writer I nationally, was at that time editor of the Arkansas Gazette. He came to Washington
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and Interview IV LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MARINE CORPS GAZETTE JUNE
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 the support which the Star-Telegram gave my candidate. ~: I understand that. In Arkansas now it's that way with the Arkansas Gazette. K: Really? M: The same
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Johnson had originally offered me a post on the Securities Exchange That's right. Commission in about '63 as his first appointment, but I just was not interested in that particular post. So I was asked--I think I saw Fortas and he said I should come
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Arkansas Gazette took on Faubus at the time of that Central High School integration, it was a bleak year. D: Wel~that was a terribly acute local situation. F: North Carolina, to a great extent, has avoided the more excessive of the confrontations. D
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Knowlton -- I -- 2 So, in 1964, I came into the office of the secretary general staff of the army heading the strategy and policy division, which was kind of a deep-think tank for the chief of staff. While I was in that post
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

west? R: It was on the only rOqd you can get--direct road--from Austin to Fredericksburg. It was, as today, through Johnson City. Mail came in from three places every day. At the post office in the morning we arranged the mail to go on a star
Circumstances of Redford’s arrival to Johnson City in 1912; Johnson City at that time; handling the mail; Redford’s mother as postmistress; working at the Post Office; people in Johnson City and their way of life; roads; building the highway
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

swearing-in. There seems to have been some question as to whether to hold that swearing-in at Hye, [Texas], at the general store post office, or whether to do it at the [LBJ] Ranch. There was initially some plan to do it at the Ranch. Any recollection
when O'Brien became postmaster general; initiatives to change the postal service; whether or not patronage from postal employees would have an effect on congressional support for Post Office Department reform; O'Brien's meeting with Charles Schultze
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

arrived in Poland on November 30, 1965. M: You stayed in that post then until when this year? G: I stayed in that post until May 3l, 1968 at which time I resigned with the approval of the President in order to participate in Hubert Humphrey's political
Appointment and service as Postmaster General by JFK, re-appointment by LBJ, Adlai Stevenson’s statement at first Cabinet meeting. Differences in JFK and LBJ attitudes towards Cabinet (preferred LBJ’s). Johnson’s influence on Post Office matters
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and brother-in-law, and my son and Elva and I went down and I didn't even have any idea what the procedure would be. I was taken aback when I was told, "Let's all get in the motorcade. We're going to this post office," which the President claimed was the post
in the postal service; job offers O'Brien received in 1965 and roles he held throughout his career; how O'Brien balanced doing both congressional relations and post office work; requests to O'Brien for patronage; the Post Office Department budget
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

talking last time about the Post Office. First of all, it's under Mr. Johnson's presidency that you were promoted to assistant postmaster general? A: That's correct. B: What were the circumstances there? A: The full details, I don't think are too
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

heard any adverse comment regarding him in the White House. Ed [J. Edward] Day as postmaster general really did not have a political involvement. There wasn't a tendency in the White House to focus on the Post Office Department, unfortunately. So
John Gronouski's appointment as ambassador to Poland after being U.S. postmaster general; the beautification stamp; a Post Office Department recruiting plan for college graduates; Civil Service regulations and hiring practices; a training program
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: WALLACE TERRY INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Terry, would you begin by giving us just a little background of how you came to work for Time? T: I was a reporter for the Washington Post from 1960
How Terry got a job at the Washington Post; shaking hands with Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus; early encounters with LBJ; Capitol Press Club; awarding LBJ for civil rights work; LBJ giving scholarship money to a black college student in 1963; job
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the managing director. Suhse~uently I was general counsel to the U.S. Post Office Department. G: Why don't you give us a summary of your rise in government service as you think it might be relevant to the [record]. M: I went to work in the government
for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for a substantial length of time the editor and executive vice president of the Washington Post and held previous editorial positions with that paper, I guess, on back into the late 1940s. W. 1946. M: Right. You were a Washington correspondent in the thirties
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the beginning, with very minor exceptions. And then it turned against him, turned against the war. The Washington Post is probably a pretty good sample of that. It supported the President 100 per cent on Vietnam in the very beginning and certainly did through
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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