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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • facts. I called in a couple of reporters to give them the background for the column. There was one fellow that was late and so I gave him a special briefing on it. Anyway, there was a story that appeared in the [Washington] Star the next day
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of established that job, and it had to be what was considered a glamorous blonde in the old Hearst tradition. Really, that was an old Hearst tradition. They would have some femme fatale always as a star reporter. Marianne Means was the one in Washington, and she
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- III -- 24 Jack what's-his-name of the Washington Star and his wife Leona--Jack Horner. He wrote under the name
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [to El Torrejon]. He was still a colonel. He never got a star as far as I know. Now why LBJ did this to him instead of handing him a star [I don't know]. I'm sure it would have been just as easy. Look what he did for Jim Cross later. This guy had been