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Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't remember him giving Pearson information? W: Not through any way that I found out. I had no indication. I was very much interested to learn the press release methods that were in use in Washington at the time, and I suppose still where copies

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and drowned them, there was a great deal of material in the press about bad treatment of the recruits by the services and so forth. To make a long story short, we had a letter from a man in San Antonio whose grandson had been inducted, and he claimed

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they were going to speculate that. Z: Of course. I denied it, but once it's made in the press, the denial is never read. M: How did he proceed to get the vast amount of legislation passed in 1964 and 1965? Z: I think over the years, as Senate leader

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

very many of them go on national press and say, "This man and agency is out of control, and therefore by the rules of Harvard Business School he ought to be fired." You just make a political assessment. M: Could the Budget Bureau go into the FBI

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

defined at the meeting. F: Tell me if I am right. Now I know the problems that President Kennedy had with Mexico over Cuba; I have a feeling, though, that during the Johnson period that there was more press talk and individual talk about irritation

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

about a matter he hcd . Their relationsh·ip, I thought, couldn 't be better. The press rea11y spent al 1 that t i me try ing to separate the two of them, and who >'as the second mos t powerful man in Hashington , and then they started to put Bobby

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

right around the time of the Super Bowl. I definitely remember it now, because we had a little television set upstairs in one of the press offices, and I think out of one corner of my eye I was watching either Oakland or Green Bay up on this little

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, . . . . . because it's all the difference in the world ';n both what the press sees-..:no matter how they vote,. no matter whether they' re for . ' you strong or n~t--but ' ' what the coverage is and more particularly, · · what it does to a candidate. Because

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

shot down the six Syrian MiGs not too long before. I can remember later on stories in the Cairo press, because of course they were attentive to Battle, who had just been ambassador in Cairo. But they somehow got onto the fact that both Hoopes, who

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-1959. I thought that Senator Johnson and Senator Jackson and others were pressing too much on the missile gap thing and I said something that was more frank than you would say, thinking it wouldn't be published about these people. F: To a reporter? U

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Office there, waiting for the President, and the President came in, and Lyndon introduced me to him. I had a very nice talk with him there. I have a picture that I prize; we're standing around the rocking chair, and Pierre Salinger, who was the press

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a bad column from Doris Fleeson, asking, "What's this all about?" She'd been in the press gallery. It w as sad, this destruction of a human being, no pleasure, regardless of anything else, to see a man just fall apart; and watch his friends desert him

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and one that indicated that the President was--as it were-leaving the field. At that time Senator Kennedy had been meeting with groups of businessmen and with the press on these off-the-record and background sessions, and making his view very clear

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Russell Long. I know that after I got on the Committee I found it at once easier to gain a sounding board in many segments of the press, particularly the very creditable newspaper and television outlets that treated with foreign policy on a high level

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and had reasonably direct access to the President through it . M: There are always, of course, the press stories that the President's habits of calling up officials in various levels frequently at odd times . 0: No . Has this ever happened to you

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the press afterwards that various 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 Nitze

Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and with that engine sitting behind you, it sounded just like a 20 millimeter going off behind you. So you clear your tail a couple of times, which got me too far behind Jones to be effective as a wing man, and so I still pressed on and finally got the engine

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that would be pressing him the hardest. G: Do you remember that at all? R: Well, I remember it now that you've reminded me of it. G: And that John Connally had the petition or the filing papers and one thing and another? R: Well, he might have been

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

They needed like this was a good thing . So we worked at it . G: Did he himself have close contacts with the press, with publishers or reporters? B: Well, knowing his attitude toward the necessity of having good public relations I feel sure he did

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

advantage following the TET offensive, that we could have hurt them more and could have severely limited their ability to wage war against us. F: Do you think that there's some sort of almost stubborn refusal to see some things on the part of the press

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. What we--at least what I--in the office knew was when he got called up to active duty that he initiated this himself. I also knew-G: Initiated? W: His getting called up to active duty. He volunteered, told the press that he wanted to go on active

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Corpus [Christi] to come up and then I planted five questions. I did this in the Sheriff's campaign when he opened it a few months ago. G: In which campaign? J: Sheriff [Raymond] Frank. He's a good friend of mine. He had a press conference so I

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VIII -- 14 J: Well, I wrote an article, a press release, for the weekly papers I didn't think Lyndon would sign. He [Morse] came down here

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

should He'd clear it and then I'd tell them off record, hush hush, come in the back door, don't talk to tne press, and we'd have a meeting. Or a bill signing. When the bills that we were involved in [were passed], you would have a signing ceremony

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--and when you go over to foreign countries, the CIA sort of works with the Secret Service--on the one hand; and George Christian and his advance press officers on the other hand; and Marvin Watson and just advance men on the third hand--could with little

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

days that Johnson was still a this~ a press briefing? frustrated senator. M: No, I didn't. Did you see any evidence of that? I used to see the then-Vice President from time to time, and he was always willing to do anything he could to help us

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what we really had in mind, but I constantly worked with Dirksen. I remember when I was on "Meet the Press" in about the first part of March, late February, when the Civil Rights Bill had come on down. I was made manager of the bill. They said to me

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

getting references not only to the fact that he was a representative in front of the press, but that he wrote political memos to the Senator. J: He did. And he joined us I just can't remember exactly when. But Lyndon was very proud of him and was always

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on of Eugene McCarthy and/or Senator Dodd who were the other two besides Humphrey who were rumored in the press as under consideration? C: Much of what I have to say is obviously just the expression of a personal opinion. It is my opinion that Senator Dodd

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into action. F: I well remember Harry Truman's delightfully forthright statement when he took the atom bomb out of the military control and put it into civilian, he didn't want some dashing lieutenant colonel making a reputation out of pressing a button. So

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 up the President and tell him I hoped that he would reconsider and change his mind and I said, "No, I'm in no condition to talk to him." So my wife was really shaken. She likes Lyndon Johnson. N: Did you try to press him

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

directly involved in that? That is, did you get any word from the President to press this case? V: I didn't. I'm sure that the Attorney General kept the President fully advised as to our involvement. You'll recall the tragic aftermath of that killing

Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and had all the press come out there and everything, and no youth showed up for the first day. LG: Do you recall that? I don't know. I do not recall this, but in the early days that could certainly happen. MG: From then on he was very careful to make

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the press at the Fairmont Hotel in January of 1973. It just so happened that my wife and I were both going to be in the area, and they asked if I could drop by and see him at the hotel. Well, he was late arriving, but Warren Woodward, a very close friend

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came. whether it was the press, Secret Service, security. I don't know It could have been anyone of them. G: Did he reminisce about King during this period? Did he talk about [him]? R: No. He and Mr. King were not--I didn't get a sense

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: There was a center set up downtown, a communications center, and they put in telephones, and reporters would be there when President Johnson happened to be here and was going to have a press conference. They used that as headquarters, anyway, when he was in Texas

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

jurisdiction. This was a little upsetting. I never heard any- thing about this and if the press had seen it I think they would have played it up. But we stayed outside and talked and wondered and so on. And then finally I believe Thornberry and Brooks

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and departments resent OEO? B: It was so reported very much in the press and elsewhere. We know of the Willard Wirtz LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More