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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was pressing to increase the amount of materiel sold from the stockpile. It was one of several things we were doing. One of the key components of that materiel, and one that produced a lot of dollars for us, was aluminum. So I had some familiarity and so did

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Shortly after Johnson took over in 1963, he brought Okamoto in, and of course Oki can fill you in more about that. But N~sweek ran an article in the press section about Oki and his job, at which point Johnson fired him. The press--he didn't like
, LBJ’s reactions to specific members of the press.

Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the press problems and all the problems involved." I said, "Well, this would be difficult, I can see." His next question was, "Well, where should it be done here in Washington?" 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

day with a press contingent of about sixty people. Mr. and HI'S. Rockefeller greeted Mrs. Johnson at the Jackson Hole Airport. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was a famous incident. What was your vantage point for observing those events? T: Well, I got there shortly after the time that I guess John spoke in the tent and the press was outside. And I talked to [General Paul] Harkins, and I talked to Vann. It was over
1964 to 1967; Timmes' duties in Vietnam in 1967; the Tet offensive and its effect on the character of the war; press coverage of the Vietnam war.

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there any trades that you recall? C: No. It was just pure heat. I'm sure I talked to the [New York] Times editorial people, the [Washington] Post. It was a full-court press. G: Patriotism and-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

don't believe that there was any specific or particular pressure. viously there was a lot of talk in the press. Ob- I think this was really fed by the medium more than people calling the President up and saying, "why don't you put Bobby Kennedy

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the credibility gap. B: You don't feel that Mr. Johnson himself was responsible for his generally bad relationships with the press? G: I would distinguish between bad relationships with the press and the credibility gap. One is a matter of fact, one

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

again, he had a newspaperman there, and once again, I was surprised at the fact that he exposed himself so completely to somebody of the press. This time it was a representative of one of the big wire services, Sid Davis, who had brought his family, too
October 1965 visit to the Ranch; LBJ’s relationship with the press; activities at the Ranch; LBJ’s desire to pay off Democratic National Committee debt and Krim’s involvement; Cliff Carter; John Criswell; political discussions at the Ranch; Francis

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was this type of arrangement where the press would come in and really have a--? 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

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

much more deeply involved in this for a relatively short period of time because of his desire to forge a compromise. G: The Vantage Point indicates that there was, as the newspaper clippings here do, that there was a lot of negative press with regard

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

his He's a powerful, forceful man, as everybody knows, and so of course he made an impression. I didn't see him much after that until one night maybe a year later I was on the board of the Women's Press Club. was sea,ted at the head table. di nner
Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent; impressions

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. MG: Were the Secret Service in practice more than simply security? I mean, did they, in addition to preventing an attempt on the Vice President's life, did they--were they pressed into service to help him in other--? G: A little. Not much. My

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

wanted to go to Washington, which we argued against, but he wanted to go. He decided to hold a press conference before he left Austin to go. He set the press conference up, or we set it up, for one o'clock, one-thirty that day, and he was going to leave

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by them. They became our first-rate sources, and the pessimism and the doubts that fed into that press corps came first and foremost not from dissident Vietnamese politicians, as people later claimed, or this political group or that group in Saigon

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interesting case, perhaps because it's lapped over into this Administration and has been the subject of a good deal of press comment. As you know, President Johnson has always been very sensitive to press criticism, and often more sensitive than many of us
; the Johnson treatment; books written about LBJ’s Presidency; friction between the Kennedys and LBJ; press relations and criticisms; cause of LBJ’s unpopularity; LBJ’s interest in polls

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him. G: Let me ask you about the Texas press during that campaign. J: The Texas press in Washington? G: No, the newspapers in Texas, the big dailies. Did they tend to support Stevenson as opposed to Johnson or vice versa? J: The big

Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. PE: Didn't even have a press agent. SVS: No. Not a press agent, but a campaign manager, who did furnish a few stories to the Press. PE: I can't imagine a campaign nowadays without at least a press agent. SVS: Well, I had a what you could call

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the United States. And I attribute this primarily to the press coverage at that time and to the dissident groups here in the United States, who were following the Hanoi line and had been before that. I went out to Vietnam late in February, about the twenty

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know. G: Do you have any recollection of the convention? You didn't go to the--? E: No, I didn't go to any of the conventions. G: Or the selection of the vice president, of Kefauver--? E: No, I didn't. (Interruption) G: --press, both

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, it has been said for vice presidential possibilities in a geographic balance of the ticket. W: Only through the press reports on that. Of course, by that time I had met on a personal basis Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, and by then I must admit that I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Wilbur Mills. C: Wilbur Mills and the President. This is a meeting with Wilbur Mills and the President and myself, in the President's office, in the Oval Office as I recall. It was in connection with Mills' pressing for some restriction on spending

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, liking, being amused by, were very strong between me and Tony, my younger brother, who was himself eight years older than me. M: Because you were involved in a national campaign at that time, was there a lot of press there when your--at the funeral? J

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

This was absolute anathema to all those on high, with the possible exception of George Ball. When Lyndon Johnson in his John Mr. Rusk was the worst offender. Ho~kins speech spoke of'~nconditional discussions," Mr. Rusk took the press aside afterwards, I
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; briefing LBJ while VP; Indochina; Vietnam; Diem; Roger Hilsman; William Bundy; Mac Bundy; John McNaughton; Interagency Planning Staff; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; peace negotiations; press leaks; bombing; "Why

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

know. They'd believe what they hear. There was a lot of speculation--I'm not sure when it begins, but from very early times--about advisers engaging in combat. We were constantly, I understand, having to reassure the press that this was not the case

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a mission in and because for American reporters covering Phnom Penh the war, we rarely went anyplace where there was a North Vietnamese possible contact, just about everybody who went to Phnom Penh least a pass in at and the guy, day, in the press
Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!; subsequent

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, is that right? V: Yes. G: Tell me first to describe the--how many cars were there on the train? V: I have no idea. G: Was the press in one area, do you think? V: I can't answer that. I just don't know. The press is usually sort of in one--you know

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Did you ever work on press releases, or was that handled entirely by the press office? H: If they were shorthanded and you were caught in the halls on a Saturday morning, or something, and they said, "Do you have anything to do?" "No." LBJ

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

with the press?" He said, "Screw 'em." precise, he said "Fuck 'em." (Laughter) (Laughter) No, to be more And I said, "Well, you know, not all of them are communists, Graham." (Laughter) He said, "Well, maybe not. forth. too. But the rest of them are dupes
Graham Martin; question of origin of the insurgency; Laos and the Laos Accords; General Trapnell; Averell Harriman; Pop Buell; division of American opinion on Diem; Buddhist troubles; the immolations; press corps; coup that overthrew Diem; Henry

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

many of the labor unions came out for him. And of course as you know from the speeches and so on, Mr. Johnson kept pressing it and kept pressing and kept pressing, making him say what he would have done, because he sort of knew what he would have done

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, really. The American public and the press doesn't, I don't think. So therefore the public should learn much about it, what a war of national liberation is all about. That's a technique that the Soviets developed a long time ago. They've perfected

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the coin of the sagging-zone defense is that sometimes you must grab the ball and run with it. An example of this is the personnel interchange program, where unless our office had taken the initiative in pressing the program, it simply would have been

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was Louis Martin's presence hush-hush as far as the press was concerned? Why did you caution to--? C: Where is that? G: It's in that March sixteenth memo. No, I'm sorry. Maybe it's a different-- C: --From the press. We invited them up. This really

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

their communications set up, and start moving. And it's a slow process. One of the major difficulties with the appearance of the handling at Detroit was the fact that the press was constantly at the side of Governor Romney and Mayor Cavanagh. And just on the ticker, I

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wouldn't say Khanh leveled with him on the preparation--but whom Khanh sought out the minute the fat was in the fire, yes. G: You don't recall the name, do you? F: I don't, but it's a matter of public record. time. It was in the press at the LBJ

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Carpenter was Mrs. Johnson's press secretary? Yes. I said, "Well, I haven't prepared any remarks, Liz, and I don't speak German, and I understand the Chancellor does." She said, "Well, just come on in and present the acts." So I immediately acquired

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to him along the way; he knew what I was doing. G: Why did you include the surtax proposal when you weren't going to press for it? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the letter to the Lyndon Johnson Library. F: Was there any sort of tacit order that came down from on high that the staff were not to make any public reaction to the press on the book? C: Not that I remember. Now, it's quite possible

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 was very strongly for his selection as Vice President. I remember going on the floor of the convention in Los Angeles, [and] making a statement to the press that this showed the wisdom of our new President in selecting

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Sunday night and he had a little press conference on Friday. We had a drink in his private office off the Oval Office. He wanted us to argue with him as to whether he should or he shouldn't, and I think he had pretty well made up his mind then for certain
; working with Marvin Watson; night reading; LBJ’s memory; LBJ’s humor; a Chinese employee of Ambassador Raul Castro who came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s and staff’s relationship with the press and privacy; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968

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