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Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was, oh, sort of out to get Johnson? 0: I know you do . You get a lot in the press about that . Afterwards I never felt that while Jack was alive . I was really in my own shell of grief, and when all those things are written and you read them, do
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the press. I saw that, and 1 talked 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
  • ; Rather’s comments on LBJ’s choice of advisors; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries: Reedy, Moyers and Christian; LBJ’s role pertaining to Kosygin and Middle East; LBJ as a role model to rather in gathering all information available and representing hard
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the sidelines. He never takes a very active He did make it very clear to many people, the press and others, that he felt this way. It was carried in the press at the time that Senator Johnson was his choice, and he stuck with this for quite a long time
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Was the fallout that serious? B: I think it was. I think it made it very hard to get attention on everything else, that judgments tended to be colored by the Vietnamese situation. For example, we pressed the British so hard to stay in line on Vietnam, and I'm
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . This was in the fall of 1963, shortly before President Kennedy was killed. And curiously enough, I had been pressing for several weeks for that kind of a proposal and my senior colleague from South Dakota led the opposition to it --Senator Mundt. M: GM: M: GM: I
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • activity through computer capability; CIA; Robert Komer and pacification; the Tet Offensive; Westmoreland press briefing after Tet; the media; infiltration; the importance of Cambodia; Sihanouk; problem of interpretation of intelligence; body counts; Sam
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with him, so we were good friends. He was seeing President Eisenhower. Well, I saw Majority Leader Johnson then and indicated he was doing quite well. A member of the press obviously came by, and I indicated in the press report that his electrocardiogram
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the status factor between being a senator and being a House member was still eschewed very much to the Senate. Senators were the equal of cabinet officers, and House members were not. So it was a showy audience. He also had some celebrity figures from press
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cities like Philadelphia and New York and Chicago. The first indication we had that they planned to hold a Solidarity Day exercise came from the press. Progressively, as we had visits with their leaders about matters relating to Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on and so on. It just developed in a very natural way to the point where we forecast that there would be a Chinese nuclear explosion within a reasonable period of time. This was covered very fairly, accurately, honestly by the press, and by the time
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ?". He said, and he spoke very low, "The Speaker just announced me for the presidency." Sure enough, Rayburn had called a press conference over in the Adolphus Hotel without saying anything to anyone about it and made the announcement. Mr. Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of imagery. P: And according a certain respect to women in general. A: Yes. Public image is important today in communications. For instance, when I went to Denmark, I think that the photographers, the press photographers, were far more interested
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • publicly or not. Even if he didn't, I'm sure we did. I'm sure even if Eisenhower went out without seeing the press that we did not let the opportunity go by to say that he'd been briefed on the steel situation and he agreed with what we were doing. G
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of community action. We were still full of--we had to make sure that the poor got their piece of it. We couldn't--when I say "we" I'm not talking about the President now because he increasing would press me. "We," I mean the social planners, the Reuthers
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was handling Mrs. Johnson's press relations-F: Was this your first real contact with Liz? L: I got to know Liz, probably, very well then. I had known her, but not [well]. F: Your life seems to be always running into people who you are going to get mixed
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a press conference. Now these were all his own traps. We were not having anything to do with it--there were people in and around the Johnson campaign, the only one I identified with it myself from what I saw was Bob Clark, Tom Clark's brother. They picked
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this young man that he wanted to come to Washington and help him. G: Let me ask you about his dealing with the press. Did you have an opportunity to observe his relations with either the print media or the radio media? W: Mildly. He was very effective
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cases. R: Well, I suppose I'm one of the few people who has been appointed to a job Some months after the appointment had been signaled in the press. M: You mean that didn't mean that you didn't get it after the press leaked it? R: Evans and Novak
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • opinion, it's not just mine, I've seen it stated by people in the press corps--that he probably had the best relationship with the press of any governor that ever held the office. He had the respect of the press corps and he respected the press corps
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald (Item)
  • the Vietnamese that they themselves had to do the job, not us. M: How could press relations in Vietnam have been improved? satisfied with the job done by Barry Zorthian and JUSPAO? Are you In retro- spect, do you think that censorship should have been imposed
  • . forces; press relations; general assessment of the Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • much you should or should not talk to the press, period? L: Well, I think he believed firmly and for good reason that the staff should be as Louis Brownlow has said, or as Roosevelt has said, men with a passion for anonymity. He 8 LBJ
  • House staff's public exposure; Pat Anderson; press criticism of domestic programs under LBJ; the long process of enacting domestic programs; urban housing developements; Model City task force members and work; funding Model Cities and getting
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as the press sometimes charges? W: I wasn't close enough in the ring to President Kennedy. man, he has got concentric rings about him. Like any I was in a fine spot. I wasn't so close in that when President Kennedy sneezed I had to wipe myself off. But I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of it to Moyers who was in Austin, I guess, with [the] press corps. I had a hell of a time getting Goodwin, who was out on a sailboat, but we finally sent the Coast Guard after Dick. We got him. He wrote a statement, dictated it to my secretary. The time was so
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was there and I remember how she sat up in the gallery and she moved from one place to the other and the press would follow her. That was marvelous. Of course, she was for Johnson too, you know. F: Did you ever talk to her about this? M: Yes, of course. F
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on McCormack IS leadership? W: There was great affection between LBJ and McCormack. I think John McCormack was an excellent Speaker, and I think he was much maligned in the press. He was not press oriented, and he was not articulate in the way the press
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they could do. G: Was LBJ apprised of this situation later? A: No, no. No, no. We never told him about that. It really wasn't a thing we would tell him about. It was just laughable to the Secret Service that heard it. Well, the press around it heard
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • done anything in particular to whip up a crowd, or had it just come naturally? V: It had really come naturally. We had done the usual thing of trying to make sure that the press knew about it and that they were coming in early, to let out
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, 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, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • paratroopers patrolling Connecticut Avenue. George Christian and I got together and went over to the National Press Building, because that's your best view of the riot area, from the National Press Building--National Press Club--and saw a lot of rather strange
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, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and a strong-willed man, was too hard a sell from a political viewpoint, too much pressing. I was too naive, green, I guess insecure, and 1et IS say I was overwhelmed, but I was not overwhelmed sold. I was sort of overwhelmed wanting to say to pull back
  • Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • approach underscores that. He was at one point going to announce me without any notice to me in a press conference. [He] told me later on that was his intention that morning at the press conference in the East Room, but during the prior evening Dean Rusk
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, 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, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 10 G: Do you think that as the process continued during that campaign that there was less censorship, more freedom of the press? Did you see an emerging democracy in terms of the practices? B: Yes, there was more freedom, freedom of the press