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Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor
  • Rights Commission; a discussion with LBJ about the press; LBJ meets with observers of the 1967 elections in Vietnam, a staged affair; Civil Rights Commission-Justice Department relations, especially under RFK; LBJ ignores the Civil Rights Commission
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Press indicates that you'd received no advanced word from Bethlehem [Steel Corporation] regarding their five
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was ready to join the group, probably in Brazil, it had become clear from the local accounts in the press here, that the press at least was treating the Kennedy trip through Latin America as a sort of assault on the Johnson interpretation of the Alliance
  • Senator Robert Kennedy’s press secretary, 1966; Kennedy’s 1967 trip to Paris and rumor of a 'peace feeler'; animosity between LBJ and Kennedy; Mankiewicz urging Kennedy to become a presidential candidate in 1968(?)
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the President had decided at that moment that he would try to squeeze in some time and held sit for the portrait that lid asked them to make, the first official portrait he needed to get going on the presses and hanging in government buildings. I came over 1i ke
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a change, this harmonious relationship of the President and the President's advisers on Vietnam might come apart. After McNamara left, and as Secretary Clifford fitted into his role, you saw a bit of this manifest itself. M: Certainly the press reported
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tried to prepare the press by getting as much material as we could on the visitor, because most of President Johnson's visitors were people not very well known in Washington. Only occasionally you got a Peron or a Harold Wilson. -:'. Particularly
  • Heads of State visits; press corps shift to San Antonio; LBJ’s interest in Texas politics; LBJ State Park; Connally-Yarborough feud; McNamara resignation; Clark Clifford; division with Willard Wirtz; cabinet officers and White House staff members
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • years and that was natural they called me Tex there. So then when I came to Washington with the Associated Press in March, 1937, why, again they called me Tex. Then in fact for about thirty years while I was with the AP I had· this weekly column
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with that, but the public relations officer, who was Major General [Winant] Sidle, said, "Well, you've got to think about this, General Abrams, that the press is going to say that now that Westmoreland is gone, you're changing his strategy, and you're going to get a lot
  • ; General Abrams; the press; Robert Komer; comparison of McChristian and Davidson; opinion of VC; Tet and predictions of its occurrence
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the press, which you couldn't do in the news briefings or things like that. F: That's one thing I wondered. L: We weren't trying to get our names in the paper. F: You don't want to wall yourself off. L: We did it, but I would say it was done more
  • and the press; LBJ's perception of press coverage; finding a public relations consultant for LBJ; LBJ's problems with television appearances; Mary Wells' speech-writing; LBJ's editing skills; Ramsey Clark and the Watts riots; LBJ's views on wiretapping; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 SIEGEL II -- 18 with the press, Mr. Johnson's esteem
  • ; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went to Houston on the desk of the Press, which was a Scripps-Howard paper at that point. I finally became city editor of that paper. G: What year was that, do you remember? M: Oh, dear. That was 1922 or 1923, I have forgotten. there to Pensacola
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ while working for Congressman Kleberg; LBJ’s relationship with FDR, Ickes, and Alvin Wirtz; George Brown; Sid Richardson; Bob Anderson; LBJ as a congressman; LBJ’s press relations; Bobby Baker; LBJ and Coke
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1945 the acting Illiite House press secretary. D: That's right. F: Now then, as a veteran newspaper man and son of a newspaperman and a man in and out of Washington all your life, I'd be very interested in your commenting on press secretaries during
  • Administration; role of White House press secretary in 1945; impressions of other press secretaries; recollections of LBJ's early days in Washington and his race for Senate; support for Truman; Democratic Party allegiance; 1960 Democratic Party convention
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . W: I became a housewife, yes, but a very committed housewife as far as Washington was concerned . I was fascinated, followed the press very closely, very interested in what Bill was writing, very interested in the personalities there . I felt
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted to publicize it. It did result, as I've recounted, in this press conference. I think he felt relieved. I have no idea about the reaction of the advisers who had been negative at Miami. But George McGovern was perhaps pressured by his wife, Eleanor
  • involvement in the McGovern campaign; O'Brien's efforts to increase order and coordination in the campaign; encouraging McGovern to identify himself as a Democrat and to publicize the work of the Democratic Party; press reports that O'Brien was leaving
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • played this game simply for enjoyment. G: How did he imitate Roosevelt? R: Trying to fool people. For instance, he tried to trap the press into writing a story that Tom Dodd was going to be the vice presidential nominee. That was a typical Roosevelt
  • about Vietnam; intervention in the Dominican Republic; civil rights; immigration reforms; airline machinists’ strike; Reedy’s departure from post of press secretary; LBJ’s staff.
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • pressing so heavily on millions of our citizens. The basic philosophy of the OEO is constructive and much good has been accomplished for the poor and the uneducated, but in some areas there has been an injection of politics beyond reasonable measure
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that you played a role in that. R: Oh, yes, quite a role. I organized all of the press coverage, and more than that, I helped in the setting-up of the Texas visit. Adenauer's security chief--I've forgotten his name now, a German professor--spoke very good
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • didn't know, and I tried to communicate this to them--to tell them that I didn't know. And this infuriated some of those members of the Congress. I recall that Congressman [William] Cramer of Florida was a real tiger about this. He kept pressing me
  • Leadership Conference's (SCLC) interaction with the press; communication problems within SCLC; racial tension at Resurrection City; lack of coordination and organizational problems at the demonstration; Ralph Abernathy; the terms of the Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --disagreement, within the embassy, and that the embassy was not leaking like a sieve, although when you have that sort of disagreement, the likelihood of leaks, I suppose, increases. What was the status of our relations with the press in Saigon at this time? F
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ] as long as we have the freedom that we have. our standpoint, this never was a major issue. And from The press would debate, argue, interpret, and put their interpretation on the figures. G: I was thinking specifically of the poverty program. The face
  • Folklore of LBJ; statistics and the press; George Christian; 1968 campaign; Moyers
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , press discussions, so forth. This was done strictly at the upper levels. C: You mean in India, or in this country? F: Oh, in either of the countries. C: In this country, it was just regarded, I think, as part of the Johnson new emphasis
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the times I spent with him. M: In the early period it would seem to me there were questions of his relationships with the press. That may have been a recurring theme. H: It was. M: I think you told me that he was very much concerned that he wasn't
  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was McNamara: bang, bang, bang, bang, bang--facts, numbers, answers, what have you. Rusk was always eloquent. He was very persuasive, thoughtful. And then Johnson would come on and give a major pitch for what we were doing. The build-up---I must have--the press
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hurst -- II -- 5 dures, when the press would naturally bring up, "Will his heart stand it?" et
  • Hurst’s relationship with LBJ; declining the position of White House physician; LBJ’s health and fitness for the presidency; LBJ’s decision not to run in 1968; gallstones operation in 1965; medical information and the press; psychological analysis
Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . overdramatize things. Of course, the press tends to I guess it's just endemic to the press. So I don't think it was anywhere near as dramatic as they painted it, but if you looked at the Hamlet Evaluation System numbers, which were not ideal but the best you
  • Biographical information regarding Vietnam tour of duty; post-Tet to pre-invasion of Cambodia; Delta; Long An; Dinh Tuong occupations by Viet Cong; TO & E NVA units and Viet Cong main force; press and TV coverage of Vietnam War; body count; Hamlet
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • would logically come out of the White House at that particular time. And you may have read that this system came "a cropper" because on one day at the ranch, Joseph Laitin then an assistant press LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the around-the-world flight, and we sure put them to a good purpose. Afterwards, of course, there was absolute commotion, The West Wing began to fill very rapidly with staffers and friends and associates. phones never stopped ringing. The The press
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • niche. No one would have had Walter's job for love nor money, but Walter wasn't trying to backbite George Reedy with the press or--I mean everyone worked together. And I think Mr. Johnson liked to have the staff around him weekends, Saturday nights
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
  • liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , who came ou t of the preach er realm to become Presiden tial Press Secreta ry, an d move on f rom there. I know that pa rt of this wi ll be a f te r th e fact, but you d id overlap, and I'd be i nteres te d in his r elati ons hi p wi th th e Pr e
  • Bill Moyers as press secretary; LBJ’s techniques; overseas trips.
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --Marshall McNeill. is the And so So now when Marshall get hardboiled and I want to get mad at him, I remember, "No, he's really a P: softie inside." Did you think that Mr. Johnson was pressing himself too much--ove~orking at that point when he did
  • relationship with Lynda and Luci; Lynda’s illness; the girls’ early education and personalities; Mrs. Johnson; the day of JFK’s assassination; LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; Marshall McNeil; the press; 1954 campaign for re-election; LBJ’s aspirations; 1960 convention
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that conversation. The President was very strong in his characterizations of the press, spoke of the fact that the three networks were dominated by communists. G: But he had been getting a very good press at this point? K: But I'm telling you what my
  • to the Ranch; press coverage of Krim’s time spent with LBJ; development of LBJ’s land in Texas; LBJ encouraging Krim to buy land near his Ranch; George Brown; A.W. Moursund; LBJ’s egalitarian nature; LBJ’s treatment of staff members and friends; LBJ teasing
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: -2­ http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] We gathered up a press plane, which we chartered
  • in beautification project; demonstrators; Head Start project; Women Doers Luncheon; Earth Kitt; press relations.
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what had happened to the university. Well, it turned out, as was fully reported in the press, that.when the student procession entered the Capitol, Stevenson figured that this was going to happen, and there is a back stairway entrance to the Governor's
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : No, I don't. G: Can we talk about the press a little bit? That was a very lively None at all. topic, too, I think. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • few minutes. C: Most of my duties pertained to getting the press ready for overseas trips. On most o f our trips, particularly those ~nvolving international conferences like the Manila Conference in 1966; and the Punta d el Este Confe rence
  • Experiences with Presidential foreign travel; importance of availability of communication; Presidential speeches; LBJ’s foreign relations; White House staff press briefings; Marvin Watson; 75% free hand with the press; Fortas/Thornberry nomination
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I got a job working for Esther Tufty. F: Who's she? C: Well, she's a newspaperwoman. F: How do you spell Tufty? C: T-u-f-t-y. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, known as the Duchess. I'd beaten the paths around the National Press Building, really
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would have made the same choice or not. F: That closed that conversation, didn't it? BH: Dick, in retrospect, thinking about that convention, you know we had gotten very bad press. There are simply not the facilities, unfor- tunately, in Atlantic
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't imagine it, but that was the high point of it all. Now getting back. Being in politics and things, when you see the press and read where the condition is still critical. quite a few that want to get the job if Lyndon died. Then there's Now
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • operating apparently under the notion that LBJ was going to run again. R: Yes. G: How were you brought into the campaign organization? I know you had worked in 1964. R: I can't remember exactly how it happened. I may have been pressing Johnson, you