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Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that commented on the national scene and that brought me to ~Iashington every now and then. F: What was that magazine? OM: Texas Heekly in Dallas, edited by Peter Molyneaux. I took two years' time out in 1935 and 1936 to head up the press publicityand
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • power . As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for the press there demanding that we take stands on things that we really don't have anything to do with, those issues wouldn't come up . We'd be talking about revenue sharing, about welfare problems, school
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the camel driver now--as the I was on that trip. word that got into the press back here, when he visited. Really sounded as if they'd come straight frorn the Koran or something. C: Well, I think that they no doubt were dressed up a bit, but I think he
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that he had a good deal of G: the French, that they didn't like him . B: Oh, no! Well, that was to be expected because the French did not-­ I remember this goes back to Hanoi days . they resented us . resented the American press there . They Nobody
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ginsburg -- IV -- 25 refused to do. It was Bantam Press. I wanted to get copies of the report out on the streets as quickly as possible. I spoke, of course, first with the Government Printing Office
  • of the black power movement from the Commission; why some cities, such as St. Louis, had no rioting; publishing the Commission's report commercially; finalizing the report and press coverage of its release; disbanding the Commission; comparing the problems
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • differ in their political philosophy? For example, would you say Rayburn was more liberal than LBJ or vice versa? B: On some things, yes. Well, no, in the way I saw the two men there wasn't a great deal of difference. Of course, the press, they tried
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on with the White House, and this was written up by Mary McGrogry, who was a columnist in the local press. Mary, I guess, was there--I aon't know. Anyway, she wrote it up, the implication being quite clear that Mr. Eisenhower was all clear in his mind
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • against. They did get rid of Mr. Yarmolinsky. He was transferred, and I think the press did the North Carolina delegation a great injustice in that process. ship. close. But we were forthright. We were open with the leader- We stated how we felt
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with no mention of this feature. But the press, of course, was very much interested in what we were doing. So it was decided that there should be some little statement communique put out. President Kennedy took Rusk, McNamara, Taylor, After the meeting, Bundy
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~orge Reedy used to write things for him and statements that he'd give to the press; and also Gerry Siegel on legislation--as a lawyer. He got some very bright people around him, and it was a very nice family group. F: How were senators chosen
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • could de- pend upon your treating in confidence anything I tell you." I said, "Well, Jimmy's right about that. Just what do you mean?" He said, "Well, you've asked me what is my basic political philosophy about the pressing questions." He proceeded
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the comndttee and take it over. Well, we were in the doghouse with the press and a lot of other people in the country at the time, many of whom wanted to--of course, among the press wanted something to write about, to stir up something. And they did! M
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that, and he said--actually he wasn't there but he had one of his assistants read his speech for hinr-"I am now in a position from certain statements I have made on national TV and to the press of looking as if I may lead the state into a secession again. All
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • together at President Kennedy's briefing sessions before his press conference. M: This is in the Cabinet Room? H: No, Kennedy used to have briefing sessions, starting in about mid1961--at least I became a part of the group at that time--at 8:45 a.m
  • JFK oral history project; first contact with LBJ; JFK press briefing breakfasts; biographical information; LBJ as VP; SST; 1961 Berlin Crisis; JFK assassination; transition; Eliot Janeway; poverty program; tax cut; Christmas meeting at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was organ- izing a campus club, Young Democrats, and asked if I wouldn't be interested. Somehow or other he had gotten my name through Texas Press, Intercollegiate Press Association. But we did organize the first young Democratic club in Denton, County
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of simplify, which was good. And sometimes he'd take a simple issue and overcomplicate it, sometimes for the benefit of the press. Also, of course, I think when things were sort of uncertain he was inclined to confuse things in the hope that out
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that you learned here? P: Yes. This is why the naivete of so many amateurs in the political battles really kind of shakes me, because unless you've really been part of that and had to raise money and had to get votes and had to press it precinct
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . But Katzenbach was being criticized for "selling out" on some things to Senator Dirksen. And the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights was pressing on Hart, Kennedy and Javits to go further than we in the Department of Justice thought we could go and needed
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Association? r would say. remember actually other boys I organizations. Harris-Blai.r probably was tile only--that's tile only one I can think of. was tile press group t~at had interest in There was the debate group. t~e And I don't Of course
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • control that government has, making sure that we provide for a genuine freedom of the press. I've felt for a long time that the federal government, through the fairness doctrine and equal time rule, is imposing too much regulation on the electronic media
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • when he was up in the Majority Leadership post, for they were attacking him quite frequently in Texas in the press and in resolutions at labor meetings . Some of the boys from the Communications Workers had aligned themselves with the DOT's
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for people to know where he was going and what he was doing. I think he really wanted to be in retirement. G: Did the press ever approach you? Were you ever a target for stories? M: No. No. G: Why was that? It seems to me that you would have been
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , knowing his personality--that that was not an isolated case. He did that quite often. G: Yes, he liked to press the flesh. R: Oh, yes; he was great at it, too. G: You were down in Acapulco. Did you play golf with him down there? R: We played every
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , of course, as Press Secretary for President Johnson--inherited from the Kennedy Administration . B: Did you consult with President Johnson on this? I can't remember . You know, my candidate for the United States Senate then was Allan Cranston . F: Who
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 followed the Taylor-Rostow mission in the fall of 1961 . Those decisions included instructions to Ambassador /Frederick/ Nolting to press Diem very hard for certain reforms, because
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be closely related to the White House, can you get your story told when you have disagreement like this? C: I did it on a couple of occasions when I was making speeches or holding press conferences. I think one of the things that I've been most grateful
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supersensitive about press releases about how the Democratic leadership should be fighting Eisenhower, and what I called the Joe Rauh-ADA-superliberal wing of the Democratic Party had entirely too much control of the personnel at the Democratic National Committee
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to take over as administrator of Bonneville . He didn't even want to be acting administrator . was thinking in terms of leaving. He But he felt that if we didn't press him too hard, he would take on the job as acting administrator for a � LBJ
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Reedy started on the Preparedness Subcommittee staff-- G: I think you're right. D: --as among others. Yes. He always had some good writers. G: Was this unusual to--? D: A little bit. I think--in those days, not many senators had press assistants
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think he was trying to find alternatives, of course. F: And he always came up with the solution of pressing for victory. E: That's right. No, not pressing for 1 victory~-that s what a number of we Southerners were arguing with him about
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can't recall. Let me think about that a second. I'm trying to think if Billy Lee articulated anything about that. I don't have any recollection of what-- G: Did you see him as a writer? E: Yes. Yes, as a press secretary. He was somebody to help
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • group be sent out, he resisted that. And of course as late as September of 1963, either in a press conference or a speech, he made clear that the destiny of the South Vietnamese was in their hands and that the United States couldn't come in and determine
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • about Africa where some 10 per cent of our population originated. M: And a great deal of what is known ain't so. Have you been particularly pressed for many more grants and aids in this area since this has grown up? K: Well, we've actually tried
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did not plan to fill every vacancy on every federal judge- ship; that these were ones that for one reason or anotrer needed to be filled because of the press of business in the various courts; and that he 'Wa~ted Hr. Nixon to know that he wasn't just
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of conscious use of budget expenditures and tax policy for economic stabilization, for full employment and related policies. M: Okay~ would you use that phrase that you just gave as a definition of the "new economics"? H: The "new economics," as the press