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Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 10 G: Do you think that as the process continued during that campaign that there was less censorship, more freedom of the press? Did you see an emerging democracy in terms of the practices? B: Yes, there was more freedom, freedom of the press
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was a great press coverage that after that vicious attack, here the man was at a state dinner. And as they were leaving the White House, the man's wife turned to her husband and said, liThe President danced with me three times tonight. Isn't that amazing
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of overpowering when you see him coming up from that 4 or 5 o'clock nap. He was looking ruddy and like he'd been out of the sauna and sunbathed --freshly pressed clothes and a folder in his hand. how are you, John? Good to see you. He said, '~ell, Come over
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , very definitely that way. G: Can you think of any other examples here? H: It had been so long I have difficulty remember specifics, but he resented the fact that the national press, the national party considered him too conservative and Texas
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Hilsman -- I -- 3 substantive or anything else. But after I resigned and was a critic, friends in the press tell me that Johnson tells a story about that evening that I just don't remember anything remotely like. I know it didn't happen the way he told
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • there. But what I started to point out was this: several days after arriving in Hanoi, when I was having lunch with the head of the press department, he said, "Mr. Salisbury, we're delighted to have you here, particularly because we thought that you had lost
  • that, as a reporter, he had no political agenda; Pham Van Dong’s off-the-record comments; private negotiations between the U.S. and North Vietnam; keeping contact with the U.S. while he was in North Vietnam; press access to information Salisbury found out while
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • television set in a half hour." We were out at the motel, and so the Secret Service agents and I turned on the television set. We were sitting there, and Johnson came on and was giving a press conference. Somebody asked him about the political trip
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • arrange transportation? M: You were entitled to it as long as you had a MACV press card. G: Is that right? M: And then what you did, you took your chances. You arrived at a given point with a MACV press card and went to, in effect, the booking desk
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have discussed, who had very negative views of Lyndon Johnson. And they probably, in some instances, had those views before the assassination, but didn't have a handle to articulate them to their friends and associates or press. I think what clearly
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- VIII -- 16 G: There were some other instances, problems with the press. There was a Marshall McNeil story about Admiral [Robert] Carney that enraged Johnson. quoted. R: I guess
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • legislature. I remember he charged right into the Senate press gallery one day to hand out press releases, and believe me, the press is very stuffy about that. They do not like senators coming into the press gallery. Oh, Johnson may have intervened, but I
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- 4 M: But we had gone so far as to seek some international volunteers? You mentioned England and the Netherlands had agreed? R: That's right. We were talking about that with other governments. M: When hostilities did break out, the earliest press
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • suitable for a backyard farmer than a great statesman and President. and even bad judgment. I don't think the man ever learned how to deal with the press _and became his own worst .enemy in his relationship with the press. He . never learned how to.deal
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President asked the Vice President to make. M: I know Mr. Johnson later became so suspicious of the press, based partly on what he thought were unfriendly leaks by Kennedy people. Did this begin while President Kennedy was still alive? S: I didn't know
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • understand it didn't press them very hard. He just put them on the table for consideration; and that was the reconvening of the Geneva Conference, which incidentally the British wanted very badly, and also he mentioned the Phase A-Phase B formula as a way
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . At that time her secretary was both the social secretary and private secretary and press secretary. She combined all three, and most of the mail was for her signature, but a good deal of it was for Mrs. Eisenhower. M: Would you continue this--let me have
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Valenti -- I -- 8 V: Even if he was irritated, piqued for the moment, I think he always came back. F: A great deal has been made in the public press, going back to his senatorial days when he was really first discovered by the press
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to hit military targets and to keep to an absolute minimum civil an damage and civilian casualties. So that he would press very hard when targets were recommended that appeared to be near populated areas or were in populated areas as to what
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- IV -- 15 men;, they said, "Here is a chance to pay off a political favor." And we had pressed upon us one thoroughly unqualified former English teacher in a high
  • decisions regarding Hatch Act amendments; debate over whether a federal employee should be allowed to be a precinct chairman; the Commission's draft report being leaked to the press; legislation resulting from the Commission's work; John Macy's involvement
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember doing a press briefing on how they were withholding capital spending. We suspended the investment tax credit. You ought to get the papers on that because that was quite a fight in the government. Fowler didn't want to do it. G: Okay. C: My point
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the Presid ent held a press confer ence at the ranch, announ ced the progra m, read the messag e, Joe Califa no briefe d on some detail s. But they also announ ced that there would be a press confer ence at the Treasu ry at 1 or 1:30 that aftern oon. We
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trip to Texas. Did we mention this last time at all? M: Yes, we did. F: Yes. I think I felt then that the press coverage was so extensive of the trip that there was no particular need to rehearse where we went or what we did. If I'm repeating, we
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there, too? J: Bill White. Lyndon wanted Bill White--he was working for the Associated Press--to be his deputy, to help. take it. Bill, of course, didn't Maury Maverick told Lyndon, "Why did you wish this job off on your little brother, working
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , I think, caused by some irresponsible press, but specifically, the columnists Evans and Novak, who Marvin says never met him, but who just went off on a vendetta over a period of years against him. But to me--and I worked intimately with Marvin, I
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • which, in normal protocol, "After you, Alphonse" terms, would have been hours and hours and hours . point . Well, time was absolutely pressing at this We wanted to bet the communique out, and this called for it to be redone, because obviously you
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to Vice President Nixon in the Senate to try to get his support for a line we were going to try to press with [John] Foster Dulles and President Eisenhower. Nixon said that this was the first time a serious question had been addressed to him in many years
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Senator Jackson and the Senate Committee on Internal and Insular Affairs. I didn't try to press the Bureau of the Budget, other than to give my forthright observations, knowing that the financial 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stoughton -- I -- 10 would have a meeting with someone that the press did not need to know abouts but it was somebody important to the administration and to hims
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by the budget director, wno was then Percy Brundage. nand. It was too big a budget and was out of George Humphrey, the Treasury secretary, was outraged by it and he protested to the President. He had a press conference in which he said that if this budget
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Katzenbach himself? R: The President had confidence in Nick as Attorney General as a lawyer, as the chief lawyer of the Nation. pressed this by making the appointment. He ex- He certainly didn't have to appoint Nick, this was clear. But I think
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at the department, I thought. So I left New York on an eight or eight-thirty flight and was back here in Louisville. When I walked off the plane, the press corps here in Louisville had been on the phone to me all night asking about the appointment, what
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • know, counterinsurgency was stylish, and Brute [Victor] Krulak, the marine, had a similar position on the Joint Staff. Same one I had much later. So the army was very anxious to get in the act and do the right things, and the Kennedys were pressing hard
  • chiefs of staff Richard Stilwell and William Rosson; working with Allied troops from Korea and Australia; DePuy's work with the First Division; DePuy's reputation for removing incompetent commanders from their posts; DePuy's view of press coverage
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and projections that would lead into 1968 in the primaries. It was a full plate. A number of White House staff people were brought in by direct assignment and direct involvement into the promotion of the program. G: One of the press articles that I read in 1967
  • could see them; contact with the press and efforts to publicize legislative progress; disagreement between Robert McNamara and General Earle Wheeler over the effectiveness of bombing in Vietnam; cabinet meeting updates on Vietnam; LBJ's reaction
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • manner or means. G: She became rather famous for making certain statements to the press later on, and the one that sticks in my mind at this time for some reason is that after 1963, she went on record as saying that the Americans were to blame for it all
  • Agrovilles; insurgency; Madame Nhu; Green Berets; Lionel McGarr; coup d’etat; Father Raymond DeJeagher; Buddhists; press; James A. Van Fleet; troop numbers; other U.S. and Vietnamese officials; country teams in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] O'Brien -- Interview III -- 5 hadn't changed my practices. G: One of the press
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • physically, you know, as a tall, big man, very active. He knew the senators. I didn't know anybody when I came to the Senate, and I remember Lyndon Johnson knowing most everybody. I also know how the press in a sense was watching Lyndon Johnson. They were
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in years past, and then Lyndon did have, generally, good relations with the press most of the time, although he sometimes complained. G: There was a memo I think in your diary to the effect that you urged him not to be peevish about the newspaper stories
  • ; 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
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the President's view. I later learned that my answer at that time caused considerable consternation in some quarters in the White House and in the State Department. M: That was my next question. That's about the time the press began its reporting which
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • unsuccessfully. Powell did not return his calls. I asked Martin King to call Adam, since Powell was not returning my calls either at this point. Powell had, by the way, held a press conference at which he had said) among other things, "You know, the question
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • say that I always felt, first, a hostility toward, and then maybe a frustration, and then maybe just a sadness that the people from the national press corps, could not identify with Lyndon Johnson's love of land. Somehow to them it was vulgar to own