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Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a doctor that was diagnosing their ills sort of nunc pro tunc as we say in the law, now for then. Oh, the Houston Press ran a hell of a story on it. one young doctor in a bunch of trouble. It got But we issued a statement that these people had been
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • saw eye to eye. F: Did you see much of Johnson in his Senate years, back here in Austin? K: Not a whole lot, periodically-- F: Did he come around the press room any? K: Yes, he would do that every now and then just on a hand-shaking tour. F
  • Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
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, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the presidency. From that moment on, well, we didn't see each other for a few years, but we became friends. Eventually, of course, as a news reporter I spent almost ten years with the Associated Press in Texas, started as a sports editor in the Southwest
  • Biographical information; association with Richard Kleberg; first meeting LBJ; Roy Miller; association as a newspaperman with LBJ; LBJ’s temper; Senate race; visits during the presidency; LBJ and press criticism; W. Lee O’Daniel; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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.
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson would hole up in an air conditioned hotel. (Tape 1 of 2, Side 2) C: And Horace Busby would give them press releases which they would use, and they didn't have to go out to the rally. I was under orders not to take a press release; I had
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in January of 1946, became a campus stringer for Associated Press during that semester, was offered a full-time job right after that semester ended, took it and went to work I think it was July 1 of 1946 for AP . That got me into covering state government
  • Biographical information; first coverage of LBJ in 1946; personal evaluations of various Texas Capitol Press reporters; Stuart Long; reporters' preference for candidates at the time; LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senate; the helicopter; on the road
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , is that correct? M: That's right. G: Did he ever have you up to Washington? M: Oh, I was up to Washington. I didn't ever stay in the White House. One time I went in there when Kennedy had all the Texas press in there, and I wasn't on the list and I got
  • ; the Brazos River Authority; LBJ makes a last visit to Temple, Texas; at the Dallas Trade Mart with Storey Stemmons during the JFK assassination; LBJ is faithful to his friends; investigating the M-16 rifle; observing the Tet Offensive; Ted Connell; the press
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • haven't seen him for some time.--and others. And they got out literature on their own steam, maybe using some of the printing presses at the Normal--I'm not sure. bit. I had very little money; I contributed a little Lyndon traveled with me from time
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • already had fountain pens--back in those days before the ballpoints--and he had pencils and things engraved for the press and his friends "From Governor Bill McCraw." He was going to pass them out after his election, you know. Well, O'Daniel swept in. I
  • support; States’ Rights Party; Stevenson and the press; the 1948 campaign; George Peddy votes; election controversy; Murphey’s election as sergeant at arms; Stevenson’s attitude about the decision on the election.
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Provence -- I -- 5 press. I was editor or managing editor, whatever year it was, on the campus paper. M: Well then, you went ahead and worked through that 1941 campaign which Johnson
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the comndttee and take it over. Well, we were in the doghouse with the press and a lot of other people in the country at the time, many of whom wanted to--of course, among the press wanted something to write about, to stir up something. And they did! M
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was pretty strongly entrenched in Jim Wells County. G: Who else do you think was implicated? Who else would have had to be involved? R: Well, in Mangen's story, the Associated Press man Mangen--I've forgotten his first name--he says others were
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of feeling, Mr. Vann Kennedy, who was then here with the United Press, was secretary of the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, I asked Mr. Kennedy to take those certificates as they came in--a lot of them came to me and I forwarded them to him
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • in at the last minute and saved the day. So we had two or three of them that saved the day when they were certifying. But I think, when it was all told, that they did have votes enough that they weren't worried about it. B: How did the press handle this issue
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the staff’s backgrounds; friction among staff mambers; Jacobsen’s opinions on the press; assessment of specific LBJ staffers; who had influence on LBJ’s decisions; LBJ’s temper; LBJ’s 'earthy' language; LBJ’s power of persuasion; the credibility gap; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and they were all coming around expressing their sorrow to me because of my identity with the candidates for so long. It was a tragedy. Dallas got a lot of unfavorable publicity and comments from the eastern press about it, but it was one of those things
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the Press Club? 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 Richards -- I R: Yes, I
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and was a daughter of my oldest brother. She had married a University professor of engineering, and they went back over to Lebanon and were living over there at that time. F: Was this in Beirut? J: In Beirut, yes. So the Associated Press and UP came out
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • around me. F: ~ I would think it would be invaluable because among other things you'd know what buttons to press at the White House, or what goes and what doesn't, even allowing for the difference in presidents. R: Yes. And there are still some
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside he was always trying to do something for Dr. Evans. buttons to press, all I .:..:. 21 He knew which right~ G: What did he do for Dr. Evans? W: I don't know that he ever did
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , headed by Sam Rayburn of Texas, in connection with the big financial bills for fiscal reform in the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] and the utility field which Roosevelt was pressing. I was particularly fascinated by the Texan contingent
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)