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Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no to aye. didn't have enough, and he headed my way. to get recognition. They still I was standing there trying I knew that if he managed to get to me or managed to say anything to me, the press was going to say that Lyndon Johnson changed my vote. I
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't we call in the press and tell them?" And that was it. F: Was, in that period, the average county chairman and other courthouse types in Texas fairly brutal and honest in his assessment, or did he tell you what you wanted to hear? C: No, I think
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • light on the topic we are about to discuss. Also, on December 14, 1966, Mr. Rowe had a memo which says: Mr. Rowe telephoned George Christian, press secretary to the President, and repeated his conversation with Dudman. Christian the President had told
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was to illustrate the fact that Mr. Weisl, who is Johnson's long-time friend in New York and his lawyer, became his committeman in New York City. Yet he had met few members of the press. Mike O'Neill knew the President very well; if I gave the impresston otherwise
  • President LBJ’s relations with the press and Louchheim’s efforts to improve such relations; Louchheims work in State Dept.’s Community Advisory Service 1964-1966; encouraging foreign service employees to go on domestic talk circuits; foreign talk
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ." And he actually suggested on a number of occasions that I might undertake certain full time assignments, which I did not do. He did not press me. In other words, you know, Mr. Johnson's reputation for what he set out to get. he got [was not always
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • very unusual. The social health legislation--Pell had been a leader in the fight against venereal disease and the American Social Health Association is the private sector group that was pressing this on a national basis, the programs to alleviate
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • meeting, but you sort of sensed it in individual meetings when he was pressed to do certain things that he would sort of indicate that, after all, he was not the President of the United States. For a man who had had great power and had great energy, I did
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that would be one aspect of it. Things were going well. G: Because you know there was speculation in the press-- K: Oh, yes. G: --that he was going to be coming back. K: Oh, yes. And there was speculation in the press, of course, that he was going
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • branch of government about the press in Washington, and Harry was obviously a very bright and personable guy. For some of them I think I did, I mean I may not have listed them in this memo, but I think I probably took Cater, I mean Gaither, or Levinson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they recommended and . . ." and he never liked the memo to say, "You asked me for . . ." G: But was he thinking of a contemporary use for the memorandum to show to the press or congressional leaders, or was he thinking of a long-term use to sort of demonstrate
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • hard and then he sent a--. That reference, although it had been cleared with me on a couple of occasions by Ramsey, was misinterpreted by some members of the press as if to suggest, well, maybe he had something else in mind, other than the effort which
Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , as a press man, and 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bruno -- I -- 6 advisor. M: Would Mr. Johnson himself ever give you
  • ; LBJ's attempts to compensate for his temper; the high rate of turnover for White House press secretaries; Bruno's work with LBJ's correspondence and the organization of the correspondence office; Bruno's work as director of the Tour Office; the tour
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • O'Dwyer. So I said, "Well, how would you like to go to Mexico as his press associate, first secretary of the embassy?" "Yes." I picked up the phone, called Ralph Hill [?] in the State Department, and I got him a job, just like that. That was under
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to hang on. It made it awfully easy for the enemy and It's exaggerated in the press. sion is greater than the actual fact. interests of the United States. M: The impres- This all works against the There's no question about it. I have read
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reynolds -- III -- 7 a more efficient and useful activity. It will save the country money and do a better job for the people. F: Had this surfaced to the press yet, or had you
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he got to like it. the press a great deal. G: Anything in particular? P: Yes. I remember he used to talk to me about He was very upset about the press. I think he used to particularly complain to me about the New York Times. Mostly he
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • would eventually get a Supreme Court appointment? M: Over and over again. He made the announcement in the East Room, and it was very funny when I went in. The press knew nothing about any of this. When I went in he first said that I would come behind
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Okay. C: I called out there. G: Did you learn about it from the President or did you read it in the press initially? C: No, I found out about it at 9:45 a.m. on the fifteenth of October. This is interesting. They don't even have the President
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that period not too long ago? I know I made a whole bunch of notes about the episode, because they were talking about how [Edward R.] Morrow and the press were really responsible for bringing this about, or that was the inference. I still have the notes around
  • at Hayden's 1962 press conference from Bethesda Naval Hospital; the relationship between Hayden and LBJ; LBJ and parliamentary rules; Rule 22; LBJ's early success and communication with the older senators; LBJ's concern that Elson influenced Hayden too much
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Order. I remember that the Vice President, Mr. Johnson, asked me to attend the press briefing which was in the Fish Room at the White House. He briefed the press on that order, as I remember. I sat with him, and after the briefing he very kindly urged
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the earlier talks we had--with several people. What about this exchange with Chiari? Was it as passionate as the public press described it? 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • and his failure to explain his decisions to the press and public; Bundy's work in Santo Domingo; Ellsworth Bunker's negotiating success in the Dominican Republic; LBJ's relations with Latin America; LBJ's support of Multilateral Force (MLF); opposition
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was a great press coverage that after that vicious attack, here the man was at a state dinner. And as they were leaving the White House, the man's wife turned to her husband and said, liThe President danced with me three times tonight. Isn't that amazing
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , very definitely that way. G: Can you think of any other examples here? H: It had been so long I have difficulty remember specifics, but he resented the fact that the national press, the national party considered him too conservative and Texas
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there. But what I started to point out was this: several days after arriving in Hanoi, when I was having lunch with the head of the press department, he said, "Mr. Salisbury, we're delighted to have you here, particularly because we thought that you had lost
  • that, as a reporter, he had no political agenda; Pham Van Dong’s off-the-record comments; private negotiations between the U.S. and North Vietnam; keeping contact with the U.S. while he was in North Vietnam; press access to information Salisbury found out while
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • understand it didn't press them very hard. He just put them on the table for consideration; and that was the reconvening of the Geneva Conference, which incidentally the British wanted very badly, and also he mentioned the Phase A-Phase B formula as a way
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Valenti -- I -- 8 V: Even if he was irritated, piqued for the moment, I think he always came back. F: A great deal has been made in the public press, going back to his senatorial days when he was really first discovered by the press
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember doing a press briefing on how they were withholding capital spending. We suspended the investment tax credit. You ought to get the papers on that because that was quite a fight in the government. Fowler didn't want to do it. G: Okay. C: My point
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there, too? J: Bill White. Lyndon wanted Bill White--he was working for the Associated Press--to be his deputy, to help. take it. Bill, of course, didn't Maury Maverick told Lyndon, "Why did you wish this job off on your little brother, working
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Katzenbach himself? R: The President had confidence in Nick as Attorney General as a lawyer, as the chief lawyer of the Nation. pressed this by making the appointment. He ex- He certainly didn't have to appoint Nick, this was clear. But I think
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • know, counterinsurgency was stylish, and Brute [Victor] Krulak, the marine, had a similar position on the Joint Staff. Same one I had much later. So the army was very anxious to get in the act and do the right things, and the Kennedys were pressing hard
  • chiefs of staff Richard Stilwell and William Rosson; working with Allied troops from Korea and Australia; DePuy's work with the First Division; DePuy's reputation for removing incompetent commanders from their posts; DePuy's view of press coverage
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • physically, you know, as a tall, big man, very active. He knew the senators. I didn't know anybody when I came to the Senate, and I remember Lyndon Johnson knowing most everybody. I also know how the press in a sense was watching Lyndon Johnson. They were
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did not press him to make those hard decisions during an election year. Some people, Bob McNamara would probably say, it is not possible to say how far this is still his view, but there was a time that he felt that the most serious problem in those few
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , "Tomorrow I'm presenting your name to the Arrangements Committee," or something like that, or the National Conunittee, "to have you serve as temporary chairman and keynoter. In other words, you're it. The press release will be made in Washington." "Fine
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • himself very accessible to them, on his own motion. B: This brings up the whole relationship of Johnson and the press. Would you agree with what has been a good deal of public criticism that Mr. Johnson does not understand the press and cannot live
  • Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- II -- 7 military failure, but thanks to the bloody press it turned into a political success. Had
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Yarborough and Connally? HM: No. This had nothing to do with it. Goldwater had captured the fancy of the national press and from 1960 until the fall of '63 he got a very favorable national press. They would label him an unreconstructed rebel
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Bolling -- I -- 8 could be with the press, both in terms of columnists and editors . He was a positive genius with them, despite his reputation with reporters . influential . He had a very close friend in Phil Graham, who was And he had demonstrated
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the statehouse. And since the age of media-handouts--press releases--had not yet reached the Capitol, reporting the statehouse was a full time job. As a foot- note to journalism, Kennedy and myself possibly speeded along the age of handouts at the Capitol
  • Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 5 "This is the way it is," he was willing to assume that that's the way it was. And, once he'd pressed you with "Are you really sure
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -­ I -­ 9 B: When Sam Rayburn called a press conference and announced that he thought Lyndon Baines Johnson should be the next president of the United States, and in effect put Lyndon in the race for the presidential nomination. G: Why was Byron