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Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • immediately began to show an interest in student politics, was elected president of the student association or whatever they call it, the student body . the president . He worked on the college paper . He worked for President Evans at that time
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and that he had a letter of introduction from the Boston bar association to the president of the Saigon bar assocation. And I was thinking to myself, "Jesus Christ! This is going to be very, very interesting." But he was going to be their lawyer; he
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Wardlaw, who'd been up there to see about getting some money from the National Historical Publications Commission. Frank Wardlaw is the director of the University of Texas Press. And nothing happened. I was on a take it or leave it basis. I had enough
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was younger and more energetic in those days. G: Now, in February of 1964 American Banker Association President William Kelly made a speech in New York deploring the lack of cooperation and the overlapping of the three federal agencies involved
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the process. Lyndon Johnson probably had more control over the press than any president since that time. He knew exactly who to call in on what issue and exactly how it would get leaked, and he knew when to delegate his leaking, too. Presidents leak to get
  • parents to a state dinner; negotiating the details of Paris peace talks with the North Vietnamese; Hubert Humphrey's lack of involvement in Vietnam peace talks; leaking information to the press; LBJ's secrecy; the issue of a ten per cent federal income
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this award. K: Each year at the Women's National Press Club, for many years an award has been given to an outstanding woman. On this particular occasion, President Johnson was to be the speaker. It's a dinner honoring Mrs. Roosevelt and the women who
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the White House." I said, "Why?" He said, "I can't tell you." So I was able to find a place for my wife and kids to stay at a motel, and the FBI got my suit pressed for me, got on the airplane, landed at Andrews Air Force Base, arrived at the White House
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . This was a fact. So did Mary Lasker. And so Mrs. Roosevelt said, "Dorothy Schiff should never have attacked him on civil rights." Because she understood also -- she knew enough about it -- that he was doing his level best. F: But the liberal press
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • report did provide estimates of what the cost would be under various circumstances. And these costs, the Farmers Home Administration, Lee Fryer, who was an associate administrator, I believe was his title at the time, worked as a task force
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • a press conference down at the Driskill Hotel and became a candidate for the Senate. And, of course, all of us were working full time but we found several hours a day ..... some of the boys went into the campaign full time. I didn't, but that reminds me
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have got such a majority it really doesn't matter. But in those days, it was so close. It was so close. Do you have any Let's talk about LBJ's relations with other senators. recollections of his association with Walter George, for example, who
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --and may still believe--that Swiss law requires him to buy gold whenever it's offered at his buying price by anybody, or at least by any Swiss resident private or public. So he couldn't associate himself with the communique that made him obligated
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • autographed, of course, and they appeared in the offices of all of our people around the world . Many of them were reproduced in the local travel press and sometimes in the public press of the countries in which they operated . This kind of a thing adds
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But he got over that hump. Then Weaver held a press conference in which somebody asked him, "Do you want to be secretary of housing and urban development?" and Weaver said, "Yes," which created a whole raft of stories sometime in December. F: Did he? C
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • debated it for one entir e week, besides the prelim i narie s and the buildups and the inser tions in the Record and the debates in the public press . We starte d on Monday and I don't believ e we finish ed that bill until late Frida y night . I
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he and others tried to persuade the Democratic leadership, without success, that it should propose a Democratic alternative legislative program. So in late January 1957, eighty liberal House members--most of whom later were DSG leaders-associated
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the same kind of John got it from talking to the press; he'd talk to Halberstam and Sheehan. I didn't make complaints. I was complaining--not complaining, I was telling him what was a fact, and he was shouting back at me so loud that they could hear him
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , by the National Association of Manufacturers. It was a puff, gut labor bill. They were trying to take advantage of the scandals in the Teamsters and other things that the McClellan Committee had dug up to really land some body blows on organized labor
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe in a third term, and I appointed a campaign manager named Vincent Daley, and he was campaign manager--ostensibly the campaign manager. He was the front man, and he was the one who used to hold the press conferences every day, but I used to see
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that is really productive long term but the effect is enormous. MG: You mentioned the whole range of projects. In some of your memos there is a theme there that you ought to present more of the successful programs to the President's attention and the press
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on Saturday morning with the other appointees and Mrs. Johnson. As we arrived the President was holding a press conference at which he announced our appointments and we spent the rest of the morning with the President, had lunch with him and Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • belonged to the Press Club. this column, "El Toro." that'd stack up. ~- 17 I was associate editor and I wrote You know they couldn't get rid of the newspapers Nobody wanted that College Star. Some of us got to writing things like that, you know
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . M: Somebody picked up the information that you are associated with a firm called Peabody, Kaufman and Brewer. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Was it evident at this point? J: I usually was pretty aware of who he knew beforehand. His letters, his stream of letters, were almost daily, and if I needed to do something, he could and did give me advice on how to do it. One of the most pressing things
  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , then know it was going to be surface-to-air missiles and all that it turned out to be . And we associated Kosygin's visit in early February, with sort of refo rmalizing good relations, good Communist-bloc relations, between Moscow and Hanoi . So
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was afraid that to you any he finally think and he promoted you? Mr. Clark ever Johnson was aware of the kinds £!!B.have on this. in the press to his appointment, Did he ever indicate and I never complained. I think, in any-- Department rather
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • proposals for the Job Corps was that it would be run primarily by the Defense Department, and that we would use the army to set up training camps and we would use military bulldozers and spades and shovels and drill presses and so on as the equipment, and we
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associated with that program. P: Does one of these stand out in your mind? F: Yes. It must have been in the spring of '67. The President the preceding fall had ordered a halt to new construction projects, not only in the Army's civil works program
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is the same as a Cadillac now. Oaddy couldn't drive it, Mama couldn't, but they had to have a boy to drive it. His name is Guy Ames [?J. He drove Mama. you can call it a chauffeur if you want to. newspaper, you see. In other words, Also ran the press
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of their association, did Ralph Yarborough and the senior senator tend to get along fairly well? You've got a natural maverick in Ralph. J: I think they always got along together on the personal basis. Their personalities were such that they were never close
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the So much so that even before inauguration we were clear that in a sense Walter Heller and Jim Tobin particularly at the council ivere going to be pressing for domestic things, and I was going to have to be saying, despite the wish I might also have
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on to name this subcommittee, he looked up and down the rostrum of the members, and he named me and here I'd been on only a few weeks. Of course. it was a great surprise. The press made a great deal of it and called me the "Vice_ Admiral" because I
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, because we didn't want to jar the place too much, was to look at informational materials and speeches and memoranda and press releases and get a feel for the office. Then we continued that and we thought that they had manpower problems, but as we got more
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Judd -- II -- 21 up in Shansi [Shanxi] when he came in from Peking to see what was going on with these caravan trails and so on. And he gave this dinner for me and there were people there from the press and the civilians
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I don't associate it with the Presidency or the Senate or the Majority Leadership. It is a personal characteristic. It was his dominant personal characteristic as I see it. G: Can you recall him applying this Johnson treatment in persuasion? J
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • budget, which I have published for many years, which the National Planning Association has published for many years, which some other organizations have published--that is an example of what should be in the economic report as the integral starting point
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be written, the postcard could be written, but nothing would happen, because that has been the kind of immunization for us. Many more controversial and critical things occur weekly in the Peace Corps that we couldn't even sell to the press, but it's
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Press and it had an editor named Mefo, at least that was [his byline]. He was really M. E. Foster, I think, but he wrote a column and he used to sign it Mefo. My parents were going through the Depression and money was pretty scarce. buy him a suit. L