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  • this with the regular Senate dining room? B: Oh, in the regular Senate dining room you've got all the press to bother you. Another thing, see, if you used the secretary of the Senate's office, you don't have to be explaining to the press why you're there. If you
  • on the part of the Ecuadorians in getting the change made? B: I don't know. I never did know because we had agreed to do it. The Ecuadorians were actually pressing me to get our agreement to do it. F: So I never did find out why it didn't happen
  • ., N.W., Washington, D.C. This is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. White, I want to begin our interview with a brief backgrounder on your very long journalistic career which began in 1927 with Associated Press. It was through AP that you first came
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
  • of people. It's a conservative [organization] like the Americans for Democratic Action on the left. And the second way was in anti-communist seminars. Now, there was a little flurry and some news about that and some complaining in the press and arguing
  • -pressed it very well in talking of· an appointment. He used ~ two of them as a matter of fact. "I want every guy n..'1.d I want his : LBJ Presidential Library •' . http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • ." He usually let me know a little bit in advance when we were going to have it all typed and mimeographed and ready for the press, and we had a very short time, and we were working quite mad on that. He went on the Senate floor, and it caused a lot
  • 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
  • Houston [Johnson] recalled this same mood and that the staff would help encourage some press stories to the effect that his career was not over, that he could still run for the presidency, or something like that. J: Do you recall any of this effort
  • surgeon general of the United States and he was going to put his name up. He said, "Now, you fix up the press release. You and Don work it out. I've got to run over to the Senate and when you get through bring it by the floor and I'll take a look
  • , "What do you think of that?" I said, "Nice picture." (Laughter) He was trying to embarrass me. I caught the devil. (Laughter) They really did give me a time. G: Who did that? HD: Well, mostly the press. G: Anybody in particular that you remember
  • with me, placed great emphasis on the need for helping the people as well as for destroying the Viet Cong. He wanted rural electrification programs in Vietnam; he kept pressing for a whole series of developmental initiatives. Well, out of all
  • before he died. I And I put that on the press, released it out of Dallas and Paul Bolton read it on KTBC and then went into a long lecture on the laws of libel and slander. wasn't saying it, I'd simply quoted the Moody speech. t100dy. But I Let them
  • , partly because our own economy has expanded to such an extent and partly because we have been pressing for, and indeed ourselves offering tariff advantages to the LDCs, the less developed countries. F: In the spring, our spring of 1965
  • is violence. We're up against that situation constantly to-day. I remember when our first hundred million dollar program was approved by the United Nations Development Programme Governing Council I called a press conference. We gave some details of what we
  • Press Club here. And the person making [the presentation?], just casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch, mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, and a member
  • was assisting me, who I mentioned a little while ago, he told me of a magnificent old man in the city of Memphis of great wealth, who had the previous week made an offer in the press, an offer born frankly of ignorance of just what he was talking about. He
  • didn't say. But we talked for a long ttme. There was ·he, my wi fe, Jim Ronan, the state chai rman·, and Chri s Vlahoplus, my press secretary, and we had quite a-F: How do you spell that last name? S: V-L-A-H-O-P-L-U-S. He was my press secretary
  • retaliation, but that back at the Associated Press 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
  • it, because I thought he was just a young boy that was bragging about his good relations with the President. But I remembered very distinctly at the time that the impression I had from Mrs. Johnsdn from the press, from seeing her photographs in press
  • . 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
  • section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session
  • trust. They treated him as a usurper. Now I understand that the Honorable--wait a minute now, I'm getting old--who's the press secretary to-­ F: [Pierre] Salinger. C: No, the press secretary to Lady Bird. F: Oh. Liz Carpenter. C: Liz's book
  • said anything to me about it, never did. And I wondered if he was going to, sometime or another. Had he done it, I'd have said, "All right, you do it. You do it." G: LBJ went public with a series of press conferences-­ M: Oh, yes. G: --I guess
  • was in that meeting and how his task was to question about such acquisitions. To follow that through, perhaps more specifically, it was pub- licized in the press that Udall had an argument with Lyndon Johnson the very last moments of the administration, and I
  • . I took some of my consternations over to George Christian, who was the press secretary at the time, who was present at the ranch in Australia when Mr . Johnson was tendered the offer of the kangaroos . George said he had enough to worry about ; he
  • LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death
  • the room to him. That made it [easy]. Sometimes he would just get right on the phone to that person, or if it was someone calling from the press gallery, he'd say, "Tell him to come on down." It made it very easy to work in that respect. It was confining
  • INTERVIEWEE: ANITA WINTERS, with occasional comments by Melvin Winters INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Anita Winters' residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side l G: I wanted to ask a question about the press coming in to LBJ's home country
  • 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
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 12 Well, [in] any case, we got, by and large, good press with the businessmen. God, Max would die if he. . . . This is two reports later, but the last sentence says, "Frankel said
  • guidance for [Bill] Moyers for the press. G: This was actually before Fowler indicated that he'd changed his position. C: That's right. Yes, it was. He was really--I think this belongs here. And then this is September 2--better give me September, Marcel
  • he read it as. . . . But Johnson, as he indicated at his press conference, was opposed to compulsory arbitration. And then finally, on May 3 he . . . G: Anything on that meeting with Fortas, Fahy, Morse, et cetera on the second, May 2? C: No, let
  • to watch the Senator work with either Secretary Dulles or Herter? C: Senator Johnson you're speaking of1 F: Yes. G: No, I have noth ing direct on that that I could offer. r: As far as the press was concerned, Senator Johnson did not show his hand
  • but it applies to this portion of your career when you were in the Washington Post. The group that are generally called the "New Left" who are critics of Mr. Johnson today frequently say that there's an Establishment press, and certainly they always list
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt- -27 on the enforcement of the desegregation of the Court. At that time, Whitney Young and a number of people were pressing very hard to put into the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as they did
  • was due to make a speech he called and said he was corning out, and I said, "Don't come. licked." We are going to get badly So he didn't come, and Kennedy did get the delegation. We fouled it up a little bit in the press, but he got it. went out to Los
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
  • endorse- ments. G: I'm sure the Chronicle did; I'd forgotten about the Post. S: Endorsed Coke you mean? G: Yes. S: The Post could possibly--and the Press was an active newspaper at that time, and I'm rather certain the Press did not endorse Johnson
  • years that we had worked together. Mrs. Johnson made a little speech. And She said she had hoped the President would come; she was sure he had pressing business and couldn't get there. Just about three minutes later, in he walked. And I could tell
  • of HHH; JFK, LBJ and press attitudes; anti-Johnson campaign 1960-1969; contacts with President LBJ and Lady Bird;
  • decision which intrigued the President. G: I have a note that he took the press on a four-and-a-half [hour] tour of his various ranches during that trip. Were you along, do you recall? O: No, I wasn't. G: You seem to have maintained a policy