Discover Our Collections


  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)

1206 results

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, 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, 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, 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, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the presses. I thought for a while they might go ahead; we tried recasting the first and last chapters. It still didn't quite fit with--to their satisfaction. And, within two or three weeks, they cancelled the publication altogether. G: I'm
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVIII -- 2 G: But he took the initiative, as you recall. C: Oh, he took the initiative and pressed very hard. G: Do you recall what he said in those phone conversations? C: No, I
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it by getting the sense and the meanings of our conversations and our discussions and convey that sense of meaning to Hanoi. Of course there was, I can't remember in detail now all of the elements of the conversations, but the Poles pressed us pretty hard
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was saying that. There were a couple of sources with deep misgivings about how the press and public were being misled, who were not in a position to tell anyone what happened, but to indicate their own disquiet, let's say, about whether the facts were all
  • Marder's career history covering foreign affairs; LBJ's foreign affairs-related experience as he entered the presidency; LBJ's credibility gap in the press; LBJ's tendency to exaggerate; Marder's August 1964 coverage of the Tonkin Gulf incident
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • very cautious speeches that were entirely suitable for a Senator from Texas.He was getting out of the speech writing business here in the White House, both because of his job as Press Secretary and because the kind of speeches that needed to be written
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • asked him for an imaginative reporter Dave had recommended me. I got to know Johnson reasonably well, and by that time the committee work was so heavy that the United Press had committees divided up. My committees were the Armed Services Committee
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . It suggests a fickleness to me that shouldn't occur . M: Do you think the press image which has sometimes been not very favorable to the President has been important in lessening his popularity? B: I think it has been a factor . M: Do you think the press
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I never will forget what Lyndon Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up. He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia. Harry Byrd was for Nixon. But I had been in business
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • appeared. I believe I was invited out to the Ranch while he was vice president for dinner once. Maybe when--yes, that's true, with some members of the press. I know what it was. He had just finished his tour of India, and it was a--he was in a rare mood. He
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and sure enough he wanted him up there. We got Sam to the plane that afternoon, and off he went to Washington. He wouldn't let Sam out of his sight that week. He kept Sam with him morning, noon and night. Saturday morning came when he had this press
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know who did it; I wasn't in Dallas and didn't have this kind of feel of the place. They stepped forward--it could have been Henry Wade or it could have been a judge, I guess--as the press term is, they empaneled a blue ribbon grand jury, all white
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they were there. They didn't like the fact we kept pressing them to, "Let's go up and get these people." G: Did you appeal Colonel Lowndes' decision not to send the relief force? L: Oh, hell yes. I did to Westmoreland, and I also did to Abrams, but I
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there that day listening to him later went into the service and became a helicopter pilot and worked for us at Sikorsky. G: Is that right? C: Yes. His name is Don Gordon [?]. He lives just out of Dallas. G: Did the press ever travel with him
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and then a whole bunch of other people. Ed Guthman was there. I remember Ed Guthman was having two regular press conferences a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and the national press was there in very great numbers, and this made it quite difficult
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The introduction to the report or each part of the report? B: To the report. And then he would write a press release based on the report. Those reports had an excellent reputation over there. We'd take then over to the press gallery. Of course, the press gallery
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The President was having a press And he called up, and it was the first time I had 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
  • Vietnam; 6% surcharge; Wilbur Mills; Emile VanLennap; Chairman Mahon; IRS; Sheldon Cohen; Stan Surrey; Henry Ford; Sidney Weinberg; gold rush; financing difficulty; Paul Volcker; Ed Snyder; Heller-Pechman plan; Presidential press conference
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • gets rediscovered by the press about once 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
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 no aircraft in the world equipped like his aircraft is. Go: Do you also make provisions for the press to fly with the President? Gu: No, not unless they charter one of our aircraft. We get into this by the press not being given
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • announce the next day--Sunday, February 14, where he was on one of those "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press" programs--that he was going to campaign for Humphrey in Wisconsin. In other words we would give him the District of Columbia and he would help
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • state do in a case like that? S: I started smoking. F: Are you talking about literally or smoking inwardly? S: I would occasionally light up a cigarette in a press conference. really smoke, didn't before, and don't now. No. F: Incidentally
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pushing was the other way, that the senator sometimes just couldn't go along. So he always had to be acquainted with those and I don't think he ever, as far as I know, pressed a senator to do something which he knew would have a severe backlash in his
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been some talk about Lyndon Johnson's style of campaigning, as he called it, "pressing the flesh", sort of barnstorming and going from town to town, that this is out of style, and it's no longer necessary to campaign like that. And so I was interested
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • increase should serve to point that out where in his chalk talk to the press on the blackboard, he outlined what the problem was--that his $25 billion deficit was intolerable, that the choices then were either to borrow most of that deficit, to borrow
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a speech in Japan that seemed to be contrary to what Johnson was saying in his campaign speeches. The press made it a big thing. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have to go look in the press and see that. What's remarkable about--in the context of this . . . I think the President was also much more comfortable once we got Pat Brown out to California. G: You did send an air force plane to Greece to meet him. C
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I may been--when we handed the message out, I had to brief the press and I may have been stuck talking to the press because I notice that neither Moyers nor I are listed as traveling up there. But I just don't remember. I know I was in the Speaker's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the proper tombstones. Mrs. Johnson also loved to go looking for antiques, particularly early American pressed glass. And every now and then she would buy something so big, like a piece of furniture with a rounded glass front, which was much used, and almost
  • of a restroom; a 1956 birthday party for LBJ with several senators in attendance; LBJ's relationship with Senator William Fulbright; socializing with Walter Lippmann and other members of the press; the National Guard presence in Arkansas to allow desegregation
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were going to tell me something. W: He had the press interviews there. We went into Austin and I went into Austin with Mrs. Johnson to go to the beauty parlor. It was quite exciting for me. I had never lived with a person of their caliber before and I
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that just wanted to talk and wanted to take some literature and we'd give them literature. and we worked hard. It was a fun job, I mean, we seemed to be awful busy up there with these drop-in people. G: Did you work at all with the press? E: Very
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not excited about the Sputnik, about the Soviet Union. He just said we weren't in a race. a press conference and said we weren't in a race. said that it was just a hunk of iron. [James] Hagerty h~d One of the admirals I think because it was down- played
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • if nobody else was there but me. B: Was that an innovation of yours? H: Oh, absolutely. People never dreamed of starting anything like that and never dreamed of having a secretary that was there at 8:30. B: I believe that you had regular press
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to go--which I did. I had issued a Johnson-support statement, as acting chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, like everybody else. on something like this. The press always tries to get an angle I don't think John Kennedy had been dead twenty-four
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that and then Steve Early, the press secretary--and he was the senior fellow in the White House--said, "Stop it. want it done." I don't know why. The Boss doesn't So we did stop it, although we'd already--one of my favorite stories, having nothing to do