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Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a correspondent in January of 1930 and was a correspondent for our three Texas papers-lIm sorry to say we only have one now--a paper in homa~ and two in Tennessee. G: The three Texas papers were? M: We had the Houston Herald-Post. Press~ Alabama

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and no press ever really much likes the president. Even Jack Kennedy wasn't an entire exception. You remember the phrase "managed news" arose under the Kennedy Administration. And you remember it was Jack Kennedy who cancelled the New York Herald Tribune

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

might say that Felix McKnight switched over from the Dallas Morning News to the Dallas Times Herald later on, because the man at the Dallas Times Herald, who was named [Tom] Gooch, I believe it was, hired him then. I don't know what Felix is doing now

Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rather than supporting me. But we went ahead and made our report anyway, and I got a unanimous vote from the committee, which included a strong Republican in favor of it. It's been heralded by others as the best report on urban housing and rural housing

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SAZ MANERO -- I -- 16 news from all the passengers in the trip from Rome to Paris. That evening I was looking for the Herald-Tribune in Paris as soon as it came out~ sometime around ten-thirty or eleven. I bought

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

: "He is the goddam lose-iest boy I ever say!" And another incident in Dallas County, a companion of mine and a newspaper man, a man from the Dallas Times-Herald, and I met Mr. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson with us, too. We had We met him at a small air

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. His name was Herald R. Clark, and he was dean of the College of Business. The first name is like the herald of the morn, and I think this is appropriate also, because he was that type of an influence in my life. Herald R. Clark was a very interesting

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

way and down the fire stairs in order to avoid the press, not to have them know that there was any kind of dickering going on, and walking into Jim's room and finding Earl Mazo of the Herald Tribune sitting there. He was the first one I ran into. He

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, they were never on the same wavelength. Not hostile, but just distant, I mean Mitchell and Lyndon. Our old friend, Albert Jackson, of the Dallas Times Herald came up and we went 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Stevenson gaffes? B: No. Now we didn't have any of the--we had the Dallas Times Herald, which was an old deal. We had the support of the Houston Post. G: Were the writers themselves more likely to be supportive than the publishers and editors? B

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Of course, a lot of things have happened since then. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh But at the time that was certainly heralded

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with at that Convention. I made many friends over the country, and I have been pleased with what happened there at that convention. F: Let's talk about your own career for a moment. In 1963, you were heralded by the newspapers and by general sentiment as the person

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

myself. I did check I wrote a letter I remember it was at a time when Peter Marshall was quite a popular and widely heralded minister. He would have been in that period somewhat like Billy Graham today. And Mrs. Peter Marshall had come to Dallas

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and walked down to Lyndon's place and when I got there Felix McKnight of the Dallas Times Herald. stepped out, said, "How do you do?" And I shook hands with him and I said, "What are you people doing down here?" He said, "Jack Kennedy's in there. We're

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and some of them [proclaiming], "Lady Bird's a blackbird!" and so forth. And when we went through Charleston, the blinds were pulled down, and it was certainly not the heralding of America's First Lady. I think that there were moments that were very trying

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

York. Lyndon usually attended both things, quite often with Johnny Runyon and the Dallas Times Herald people. The American Legion had a big dinner. G: Did you go to that event in New York with him, the newspaper--? J: I often did, and I think

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the Speaker's birthday, Sam Rayburn's, which was, I think, the sixth of January and always heralded by a big party, most often given--well, there were many parties for the Speaker celebrating his birthday, but always a very important one given by Dale

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the coffee shop of the hotel in Fort Worth. F: Texas. W: The Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. What is it, the . . . ? I remember sitting there with John Connally and somebody from his staff, and Doug Kiker, who was then at the Herald Tribune, and Bo Byers, I

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mixed up on dates at this point, but- G: The letter was 1957. R: It was 1957? The letter itself was actually written by Jim Rowe, but the concepts were Johnson's. I think that the letter leaked out to the [New York] Herald Tribune somehow. We

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--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

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, New York Herald Tribune-- (Interruption) G: Where are we? M: On the book-- G: Well, at any rate-- M: This was cancelled then? G: At any rate I heard that the thing was going to be cancelled, got notice that it was going

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We had a cocktail party for them. Spring was the traveling time for constituents, heralded by the Cherry Blossom Festival, and main groups were the DAR [Daughters of the American Revolution], who always came in April and it was impossible to get

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--no, no, no, no, eight times. They came in in 1945, didn't they? In April of 1945. So, there'd been, possibly, close to eight. Other visitors were our old contingent from the Dallas Times Herald, good friends through the years, Albert Jackson--growing more hunched over

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Amon Carter, with Sid Richardson, back in 1940 and even before, and with Tom Gooch of the Dallas Times Herald. We knew the Hearst people quite well, Dick Berlin who was then a relatively young man but high up in the councils of the Hearst corporation

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

-- 23 for Hiroshima. Mike Cowles understood that. In fact, I did one thing which for a long time preyed on my mind; I was actually filled with guilt although I had been right to do it. Helen Reid, owner of the New York Herald Tribune, once presided over

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the "We shall overcome" speech? D: I remember the words, "I now have the power to do something about it. I aim to use it." I remember that line and I remember the closing line, "We shall overcome." I think it was Douglas Kiker of the New York Herald

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that no reporter, when I got down here, really qualified, with very few exceptions--such as Marshall Peck of the Herald-Tribune in New York City, Paul Weeks in Los Angeles--both of whom by the way later joined the War on Poverty--there were no qualified poverty

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the newspapers that he was there during this incident, Margaret Mayer ofthe Dallas Times Herald, the reporter, not only saw him there but she had asked her photographer that was with her to take a picture of him standing on the curb in front of the Adolphus Hotel

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they talk to in confidence who leaks it out. I talked to the press on arrival. So Naturally the trips were heralded to some extent and the press and television and radio were always present on arrival and on departure. were also on television. I answered

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Parks work, that you take a city born, city raised, city oriented person and put him just in a passive park, he doesn't know what to do. R: That is so right. But more and more--I just went up to this old Herald Tribune Fresh Air Camp. They're taking

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, yes. Yes, there was Alex Hurd~ acts~ and this-- the chancellor of Vanderbilt, [he] was the chairman; Walter Thayer, then president of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the stalwarts of the Republican hierarchy on the Eastern Seaboard

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

INTERVIE~~EE : HARRY PROVENCE INTERVIEWER: DAVID PLACE: His office at the Waco Tribune Herald r4ccor~B Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, we'll get some background information. I'd like to know where you were born and when and where you got your

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

others and I think everyone of us was from [the South]. I was from Alabama, Tom Wicker was from North Carolina, The New York Times, Doug Kiker from the Herald Tribune was a Georgian, and there were several others. have made this charge? So how could he

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Communism in government. that there w a s The story that I believe to be true was a luncheon held across from the Mayflower Hotel at which there was a Catholic priest, a fired correspondent from the old Times Herald in Washington, and somebody else