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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but he still won the support of the reporters. Do you remember anything like that? J: Well, I know he sure did try to. This, I guess, was the high tide for us in our press relations, because they were always good, as I remember. There was very little
  • Looney and Tom Miller; LBJ smoking; final campaign stops in Houston and Johnson City; LBJ's handshakes; LBJ's relationship with Jesse Jones; LBJ's relationship with the press in 1941; campaign finances; waiting for the election returns in Austin
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Hill, in terms of pressing for legislation, did you notice a change after Johnson assumed office? C: Well, Johnson was much more aggressive than Jack Kennedy. On the surface he was. Again, a problem here is enough time didn't go by for everything
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bachelors in Washington. We were We were assigned to Margery when she got back to the States, more [as] bodyguards in keeping the press away, and keeping her from dropping any more post cards, really, until we could decompress the situation. G: What
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there no hint of this from the White House--that didn't surprise me at all, I didn't expect any and there wasn't--but the truly surprising thing to me was that there was no hint of this in the press, and at this time President Johnson had many detractors
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the press down there. You'll see an account of this in the New York Times, on the front page actually. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • using some of our appropriated money; and I caught the devil for it from the press. F: They don't like them bright and shiny? c: They sure don't. Mrs. They like them weathered and dirty. I don't recall Johnson ever expressing an opinion
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Rayburn had gone to Bonham. The telephone rang, and he was on the line. He said he just wanted to let me know in case anybody up at the press gallery might be interested that he had just called the Bonham Daily Favorite and had announced that he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that, too. J: Oh yes, he did. Ray Lee was with the newspaper. G: Let me ask you about the press in that campaign. He had, I guess, some good friends among the newspaper publishers. Do you remember any of them, and the reporters and the editors
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything to say about [whether he] might run against Lyndon in 1954. He didn't. G: Did LBJ feel that Shivers might consider running? There was an awful lot of-- J: --talk about it. No, I don't think he ever did. But he was aware that the press
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the press took it seriously. I think that he probably with his friends at least, with his political associates, Johnson apparently was taking himself seriously. I think that he probably learned as a domino player in his very earliest years in Texas how
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at times and certainly demanding at times, but he gave me his full confidence and I tried to return that with full loyalty. G: How was Ambassador Lodge with the press? D: Good. He was excellent. He converted what was a very hostile press for Mr
  • Appointment of Lodge as ambassador; Lodge's policy; President Ngo Dinh Diem; Diem's Catholicism; William C. Truehart; Deim's family relationships; nature of Dunn's job; Lodge and the press; Earl Young and Long An story; General Harkins; embassy
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and I'll understand why you wouldn't, but Lansdale was a rather legendary figure I think in the press and popularly, although I think Graham Greene didn't think as much of him as a good many other people and saw him as rather a sinister figure than
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be called the public relations office or the press office. It was a tremendously exciting time, and the Roosevelt victory in '36 was of great satisfaction in the Mine Workers office. My political activity then was confined to writing speeches for some
  • ; personal anecdotes of knowing the Johnsons early in his Washington career; LBJ interacting with strangers; socializing with the Johnsons while LBJ was in the Senate; LBJ’s relationship with the press; LBJ’s work as Majority Leader; Senator Richard Russell
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Federal Woman's Award winners. I met him personally when we were taken to the White House to meet the President. There was a press briefing, and the President introduced us to the press. That was my first actual opportunity to shake hands with him
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of this was ever by chance. Yo u weren't flying from, say, Weatherford to Graham and just suddenly realize that's Peaster down there or something like that. M: No, no. It was all planned and programmed. And then the press followed in another car or cars so we
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you and I could sitting out here half a day." G: Did the press continue to have an interest in him out here once he was no longer president? S: I think so because--he decided that he was going to have his own milk and eggs here on the Ranch. We were
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in 1946 with the Ohio State Journal . M: When did you go with Scripps-Howard? B: Well, I had an intermediate stop . I was with the Associated Press in the Columbus bureau for about a year and then from the Associated Press went to the Columbus
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to cut this Gordian knot. And I must say that in those days, he received practically no recognition for his effort. The pro-civil rights press in the large northern and eastern cities viewed Lyndon Johnson as a sentinel of the status quo for the old
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Quadriad, or we'll lay them out to Martin, and let's see what he-- G: The statement to the press was fairly conciliatory, though. C: Compared to the earlier draft. I did send the President a draft of a much tougher statement that said
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to surround it and know every angle and what have you, number one. Number two, it obviously helped bring that kind of intellectual economic community along once you went and have them supporting you in the press and in their parties and what have you
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • haven't had a president that's sophisticated. Partly also because the press would never understand stuff like this. Today it would immediately get leaked to the press and they'd have a better appreciation of the ramifications of the actions that were being
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://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 Califano -- XLVI -- 3 Almost from the time--the fall out. We took flak in the press
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • " was in Roosevelt's press statement when he released the report. VFD: That wasn't in the report itself. Cliff wrote a brilliant piece, I thought, on credit, saying that the South was the paradox of the nation. CJD: This part was edited out, but the a wastepaper
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Commission the press would eat us both up. So let's forget that." Incidentally, there was a vacancy there. "Let's move on to where we've got some vacancies." So he outlined two or three jobs for me. One of them was the Interstate Commerce Commission
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was popping down to Washington all the time and the Senator would have me down there. George was his name--was his press secretary then. G: Reedy. F: Reedy, George Reedy was his press secretary. Walter called me one afternoon and said, “The National Press
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a half-hour of this finally said, "Well, it's a real good meeting, and I'm glad you've been here, and thank you very much for helping your President. Now you want to go out there and talk to the press," and went on and on. And we just got near the door
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the press conference, because number one, I was having a difficult time selling tickets. The chairman of our party and the treasurer of our party were in some disagreement with each other, and some very splendid volunteers were sort of holding this dinner
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the press was brought out to the compound, and it was drizzly. Jackie was very pregnant; she made a sort of a distant appearance. Bobby was around. There wasn't any glamour to the compound at that point, but everybody got to see it. Johnson had picked
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • architect in Culpeper, Virginia, by the name of Meade Palmer. Carol Fortas became our treasurer, as I remember. I also remember holding a press conference in my old office building at Hains Point, the Park Service office building, where we had the model
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • haven't seen him for some time.--and others. And they got out literature on their own steam, maybe using some of the printing presses at the Normal--I'm not sure. bit. I had very little money; I contributed a little Lyndon traveled with me from time
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • going stronger in that. We had to fight him, and all the rest of the story is true, but unattractive adjectives attract the press. Finally, with regard to the material on particularly Pages 27 and 28, in which I was quoting my memory of conversations
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • say it and it's something unpleasant, you can't take it back." This was a little bit like the story of the press conference that was told yesterday, where he had made some remark. And that, I think, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Bertha Allman Graef, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was rather upset so I went back and told the librarian about it, and she said, "Oh, well, you can go to see Lyndon Johnson. head of the Press Club. He'll know what to do about it. He's He'll talk to you about it." So she sent me over to his office
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the quiver. Let's go ahead with it." In effect, he said to Finletter, "You go ahead and get this thing done, and I'll be ready to move the day after election." I remember going back with Finletter to talk to the press about it, and Finletter of course
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and I guess you functioned in the capacity of press assistant. . The official title was press M: .That's right. but every.one called job "press secretary'. "· ~he G: assistant~ Well, I'd like to_begin just by asking you about the '64 task force
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the situation that he was in, that he had to have some kind of bill. G: There was a good deal of criticism from the southern press that Johnson had tricked the South in this way. M: Yes, with his announcing that this bill that had been blocked would
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and I were at daggers points. That was not true. F: That's one thing I wanted to ask you. M: That was not true. F: In the press, sometimes you seemed to be heading on a collision course. M: Oh, that's the press making that up. F: The two of you
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be--I didn't know Russell quite as wel 1 at that [time]. I \vas still working for the United Press when that happened, you know. While I knew Russell, I didn't know him as well as I got to know him later. It may \\fell be that Russell was already
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and chatted with the~. This attracted a lot of very favorable 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] attention on the part of the press. More on LBJ Library