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Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

tranh contribution was mostly providing a security screen; capturing weapons; advertising the cause; creating turmoil and social pathology in the countryside; just tearing things up. That doesn't deliver victory militarily, but it destroys stability

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was. HW: When we first met Senator Johnson, it was at their apartment there in Austin out on Dillman Street. We applied there for a job that they had advertised for, for a couple that would travel. Of course, we thou,ght that this sounded interesting

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, from essentially either window-dressing for the campaign--"See how many intellectuals I got to sign my advertisement?"--which Kennedy had developed, I think, initially with the response to the effort of the popularity of Stevenson on the campus. It had

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

before this, there had been some kind of gas-filled balloon sent up in the sky, very high in orbit, on which there had been great advertising that you could see. Actually you could see that balloon across the sky. That night there had been a rumor

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that well. But as we saw it, it was sensational. That was one example. The second example was that he was a good friend of Harding Lawrence, the chairman of Braniff. And I think at the time Lawrence had married Mary Wells, who was in an advertising agency

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall that we got deeply involved. There were several matters that obviously needed attention. For example, truth-in-lending, truth-in-advertising, the Paul Douglas role in those days, clean air, water quality. It was our conviction through the New

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

feasts. Ice Cold .\~atermelon. 11 We would advertise· in the newspaper "Free .And that brought the crowdo· We had them in . the four ·sections of the ·city. And it was fine· because, with Gene. ·Autry and the watermelons and the closing spirit

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

: No, it was a little different. HS: No? Okay, tell me. R: Almost that. A: They wanted the advertising back. R: Long before I came to Austin--six months, a year, I don't know--bad blood developed between the newspaper and the Novys, especially Jim Novy

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, people would say he rigged the judges, and if he lost they would say that his cattle weren't good enough and a president should have better cattle. He felt he couldn't win either way, so we quit showing. But it was a way of advertising cattle so

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that would allow the federal govern· ment to control advertising rights on either side of these highways. S: States' rights. G: Yes. Do you remember that speech? S: I do, and why he did it, I'll never know, except for Coca-Cola. ·They · had

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Republican. And these were the people that Kuchel consociated with. G: There was also the question of controlling outdoor advertising along the highway? S: Yes, billboards. G: Do you recall that issue? S: Yes, I--no, I don't think I can tell you much

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

along with his sales forces, his advertising agencies, to put me in a bad light . F: I don't want to get too much in the realm of supposition, but I've been intrigued by what the law-and-order people have not done--I'm using "law and order" in quotes

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and so on. That was the sort of way I used her, shall we say, for the purposes of our Department. F: Did her visits to your outdoor areas increase attendance? Did it tend to perform an advertising function? U: The normal pattern has been with national

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at home when President Kennedy was shot? V: Yes, I was. F: Did you have on your radio or TV? V: Yes, on television. It seems to me someone called me from Jack's office, his advertising office in Houston, and said that President Kennedy had been shot

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the answer is yes. M: Just sort of going forward and looking back--Mr. Kennedy when he took office would say that the missile gap was perhaps not as real as had been advertised. Why would the professional work that was done by this committee have in your

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

about this aspect of it. There are very practical political reasons for that. If you advertised a big rally in Hermann Park and you get two hundred people or three hundred people to show up, it did look bad in the newspaper. But that was the kind

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

everybody that ever came in that store that Senator Johnson had been there the day before . It was the greatest advertising you could ever get, the kind of advertising--the blitzing that he would do . And he would blitz into a place and out ; he

Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

area, bamboo shrubs, and that cushioned my fall, but I still hit pretty hard on my bottom side. My survival kit worked fine, and it was just like advertised and everything was advertised. It wasn't any equipment's fault at all that I got banged up. I

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

Histories [NAID 24617781] O'Donne ll - I - 2 H: Do you thi nk i t's possible that the later well - advertised antipathy between hi m and Senator Robert Kennedy da ted from that early? 0: No , I don ' t th i nk. that I ' ve ever . . . l thi nk it's t

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

believe we averaged about a hundred letters a day in those days, which was heavy for a Congressman. Mr. Johnson promoted mail; he asked for it; he advertised for it, because he felt like, I think, that every letter he was able to write to someone

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Was there a problem arising from being a competitor of the Congressman? C: No. There really wasn't. A bunch of us got out and sold radio advertising everywhere we could and competed. F: Your staff was pretty well made up of people who had worked for Johnson

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

let this take the play." In a way it seemed very commercial to be advertising the names of designers. But it's a part of life, and that's one small thing I might have done differently. F: Would be sort of like not telling what kind of car

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the advertising done and all of these things, and manage to get the votes. But he's never had the kind of political organization that you think of when you think of powerful politicians. M: How could he get away with that? Daley, for example. You'd think

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that frequency and would protect them with a directional antenna in their coverage. They were a little upset about this. You know, most of these big stations actually try to sell an audience that they don't even have, but they lead their advertisers to believe

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-three and a half million dollars, which was our figure. Since we were not advertising this for public bid or competi- tive bids, we were under constraints to submit it to the Government Operations Committees of the House and Senate for approval

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

__ it was either Blanco or Johnson City, I don It know which it was--before he ate breakfast. He said, "I went into a restaurant there,ll and he said, III noticed they had some Budweiser advertised, so I said, 'Let me have a bottle of that Budweiser 'll ItJhile

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

college in 1935 and graduated during June 1939. I became very interested in the military because at that time they were advertising for young men to join the air force to become pilots. they required was two years of college. What When I completed two

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

led me unexpectedly to North Texas, to Denison and Sherman, where we established a fishing and travel magazine. I had a public relations and advertising agency for roughly ten years. legislature for two terms from North Texas. And I went

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)