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  • the specific things . I think it was something to do with the Vietnam War or the Middle East situation. M: This was the group that press sometimes refers to as the wise men or the elder statesmen or such names as that? B: Yes, but it wasn't official
  • was to the Big Bend National Park and of course, over and over to the Grand Tetons. S: Oh how I loved that! Did you delight in subjecting the press to this? And making them all go down on the rafts? J: Well, actually, I think they came to regard it as quite
  • was going on in the press, what 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 Califano
  • the report; the union [International Association of Machinists] basically rejected the report. The issue was whether the union would go on strike and whether we could get a law passed to extend the non-strike period. And we came head up against the problem
  • ] Castro assuming power in Cuba. Do you remember anything of that? J: Yes. I remember that he came to Washington, made a speech at the press club, was lionized. Everybody was talking about him, except I do not remember anything that Lyndon said
  • Johnson's work for LBJ; Beagle getting loose; how the Johnsons named their dogs; birthday parties for Sam Rayburn and his interest in including the children; Lady Bird Johnson's experience with, and view of, spanking; the American Heart Association's
  • with a Ph.D. in economics, but who was a Texan--told me of his problems, and I said, being the political animal I am, the first thing I said was, Vice President? '~ave you contacted the I'm sure he would be interested in associating himself with a project
  • 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 6 M: He left it up to us. I think he was pressed
  • : Let me ask this: did you work before C: Yes, I had a cleaning and pressing business, and prior to that time then,~too? I worked in a battery manufacturing plant. M: Of course, that was in the Depression, too, and things were pretty tough. LBJ
  • union, [the] International Association of Machinists. Any insights on the appointment of that emergency board with Wayne Morse, [David] Ginsburg, and Dick Neustadt? C: Yes. At some point in April 1966, we decided that we would set up an emergency board
  • though. G: And he also had a press conference at the air base in Massachusetts and apparently another one the next morning-- R: Yes. G: --at the Kennedy home. Anything on a decision at that point on what role in the campaign LBJ would play or what
  • frankly, the association was always of this public nature. As I said, I've had conversations with both President and Mrs. Johnson, probably longer conversations with Mrs. Johnson. I suppose I've been on and off television from time to time
  • are in Mr. Timmons' offices in the National Press Building, Room 1253. My name is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. Timmons, to begin this interview, I would like to give a very brief background on your very long journalistic career. You began as a reporter
  • after the 1964 election; Credibility Gap; press secretaries; books about LBJ; letters from LBJ; LBJ’s personality; 1948 election; 1941 special election; foreign affairs; LBJ’s withdrawal; opinion of LBJ as a President; Lady Bird and their daughters.
  • the American advisor rated his counterparts. M: Right. G: Well, aren't there problems associated with that? M: Well, there are certainly problems in that if the person knows he's going to be rated, he may be unfriendly to the advisor, you know, distant
  • office under General DePuy; obstacles to Montague's promotion; members of the press who covered pacification; Montague ignoring orders not to talk to the press; the effect of the Vietnam experience on the U.S. army as a whole and the idea of a volunteer
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Leitão da Cunha -- I -- 5 audiences on campuses, at press conferences, on invitation from societies which deal with international relations. And to all these, I
  • of business in this case? A: Yes, in some degree socially. M: What about his press relations in those days? very good. A: I seem to recall they were Is that your recollection? They were very good in the sense that he was much admired, but he
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
  • as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing
  • ; department's speech drafts; review of speeches; "Rose Garden rubbish;" LBJ's sensitivity to press reaction to speeches' LBJ's relationship with the press; joke specialist on staff; LBJ as am accomplished storyteller and raconteur; LBJ's speech referring to his
  • of finagling going on and Son'le of those counties. 0 There was ver just south of us in San Augustine I\;one of the press has ever printed that to ITly knowledge. G: Other Johnson caITlpaign workers in that cam.paign have indicated that they were counted
  • Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State
  • happened in 1959 will not be comprehensible. The Republicans associated the whole thing with Walter Reuther. He was the black beast as far as the thinking of the House and Senate Labor Committees went in 1947-48. When they passed the closed shop
  • Mateos; LBJ’s presidential leanings in 1959; LBJ’s ambivalence during this period; western swing trip; the Washington campaign office; Senate’s interest in LBJ candidacy; comparison of LBJ’s and JFK’s voting records; LBJ and the press; liberals
  • flew to Fort Worth with him to be with Amon Carter, and then he met with Sarah Hughes and spoke to the Texas Bar Association. This was right around the time of Sarah Hughes' nomination as a federal judge. R: Again, I mean this was just a routine
  • of these things. Mrs. Kennedy, on the other hand, had a very, almost a biting sense of humor, which saved her and I think saved a lot of the staff sometimes when the press would zero in on some of the programs that Mrs. Kennedy was involved in, especially the so
  • have to look at the consumer message to get it all, but one particularly intricate problem back in the 1967 task force was that there were several securities-law things that the Securities and Exchange Commission was pressing. The SEC is not technically
  • Association's review of legal problems of the landlord-tenant relationship, building codes, housing codes, and the like; lack of action within HUD and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare following the conference report; the value of working in groups
  • to remember the helicopter over the years and associate it with him. J: Yes, it became a kind of a trademark. He called it the Johnson City Windmill. G: There have been stories told about him pitching his hat to the crowd from the helicopter when
  • ; how the campaign stops and speeches were planned; LBJ's ability to mimic Coke Stevenson; press coverage of LBJ's campaign; LBJ's strengths and advantages over Coke Stevenson; Mrs. Johnson's life as a political wife; cities and towns LBJ visited in June
  • congressmen and things of this nature in behalf of that bill. As it finally turned out, as it was passed, when it came down to the compromising and getting it finally through, was Mr. Johnson as tough on that bill as you and your associates wanted him
  • be an observable-to-the-press presence in the White House on a regular basis. That's first and foremost. Then there's an understanding that the chairman of the party does have access to the president. He is a spokesman for the president in the political area
  • , in this case, in problems that were not Tenth Di~trict problems, but wider scope than that, in helping you with such problems? W: Yes, definitely. It was partly because of his own early association wi.th the NYA program, which was part of the WPA program
  • . I did have the impression that the relationship between Stevenson and Johnson was a good one. I think that Stevenson was a little more warmly associated with Sam Rayburn than he was with Lyndon Johnson; that's the impression I retain; I may
  • 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 5 to the Secretary, and I came in as an associate
  • before that. J: Well, we just didn't have anybody then, kind of passed it around. G: Was it primarily to write speeches or deal with the press? J: Both. G: Was Woodward supposed to do something different? J: He was sort of to be my assistant
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- IV -- 12 changed now. I think the ABA [American Bar Association] does a lot of ranking and rating now that's a little different from the way it used to be. But we had some at the time with a judgeship bill
  • and Mr. Johnson as Vice President. So Mr. Wilkins said to his associates, "Suppose we go over on the Hill." He did not spell out to them just what he had in mind. over there, they go to the office of the Vice President. very late in the afternoon
  • publicity because it had drawn the support and attention of Dr. Martin Luther King and his associate, Dr. [Ralph] Abernathy. It had ceased to be strictly a labor dispute, but emerged as a matter of the dignity of minority people in Memphis. i~volved
  • . The Associated Press carried it all over I can still tell you the lead. The lead was, "The fate of 250,000 Texas schoolchildren rested today in the hands of veteran educator Pat Bullock and youthful Lyndon Baines Johnson." That was the lead on my story
  • was abroad in Europe and Asia--the trip in which he stopped off in Paris and had some discussions there with some French authorities. F: Is this the one that the press played up so? K: That's right. F: It's earlier, but it's worth having. K
  • did. I worked on it with Tom Whitehead, who later left our paper and bought the Brenham Banner Press and was publisher of it and for all I know may still be. But any- way, we conducted the poll and we went all over the district--smaller towns
  • an associate editor of the college newspaper, but I liked to write and that sort of thing. And then there was an opening at the New York Herald Tribune. A colleague of mine had gotten on the New York Herald Tribune and said, "Well, you can come on here, and we
  • were due to address the House of Delegates of the American Nedical Association in Dallas. tape) (Gap in But H. G. Dulaney, who runs the Rayburn Library, was going to drive us down, and Mr. Rayburn, for some reason, just couldn't get it together
  • for the deanship. That is, he never tried to guide the development of the School--no, that's wrongly put; I think he did do that--but he did not try to press the committee to recommend anything about the structure, organization, functions. But he did press
  • INTERVIEWEES: VIRGINIA and WILTON WOODS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The Woods' residence, Seguin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Woods, let me ask you first of all about LBJls association with Maury Maverick during this period when he was secretary
  • Association with LBJ; Blanco County; Johnson family; college life; White Stars; student activities; Houston; Professor Greene; assistant to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; 1937 campaign; campaign advisers
  • the press conference here at the Manned Spacecraft Center we flew up to the Ranch and had a meeting with him at that time, and a very, very nice one as a matter of fact. It was sort of [an] informal meeting . We received our medals, that was Buzz Aldrin
  • association with the President, as of December 1, 1966 you resigned as chairman of the Board of Regents. Was this an anticipation of an appointment? H: Yes. I knew then that-- F: That something was coming. H: It was just a question of the timing