Discover Our Collections


  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Specific Item Type > Oral history (remove)
  • Subject > Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985 (remove)

23 results

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • there. I don't know if it's important--I was editor of the Law Review, and I won the Campbell Award for Argumentation. I spent a year as clerk to the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. I went to Detroit and entered a law firm there, and I
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • run against him and when Dick decided not to, why then McCormack was home free. But I don't think anybody believed after Rayburn's death that McCormack would not be elected. B: Just to keep the record straight, that's when you moved from
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • about a matter he hcd . Their relationsh·ip, I thought, couldn 't be better. The press rea11y spent al 1 that t i me try ing to separate the two of them, and who >'as the second mos t powerful man in Hashington , and then they started to put Bobby
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 4 There was a local reporter riding on the White House press bus. The only discussion I remember about possible crowd hostility
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the hotel after this action by the hotel authorities. F: It was tremendously convenient for a young man working on the Hill. P: As I remember, the first month or so they gave me my room rent free. After that, I paid a very nominal sum, and as I remember
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • completely free of any-- M: I don't know. I doubt that it was. I remember there was Some charges made LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: -8http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY
  • jobs and errands for the President; advice for LBJ’s press relations; Bill Moyers; LBJ’s treatment of George Reedy; Jenkins held LBJ in respect but not afraid to disagree with him; 1964 campaign; Mississippi delegation; Mooney’s admiration of LBJ; Eric
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in their mind they already knew what you were going to answer, and I think still did in later years . If you gave them a different answer you really got pressed on why . [than what they expected], then They both were tremendous egotists . They both were very
  • Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARL T. CURTI S INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Curtis' office, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mrs. Curtis, if you have anything to add, feel free to do so, because we've long since learned the importance
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, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of these unani­ mous reports, with some very solid recommendations, [like] get a dollar's value for a dollar spent, and calling attention to our basic weakness in the military field . The national press and the world press paid attention to him because he
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • speeches. It did not attract any kind of superlatives from the press, no one leaped on it, because it did not have a structure at that time. It was just a phrase. F: Excuse me a minute, Jack, but had you before then tried to find some sort of a tag
  • House' speech; LBJ and the press; LBJ’s television appearances; Festival of the Arts; Eric Goldman; Dwight MacDonald; Charlton Heston.
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • any sort of intimations in those days of the sort of later at least alleged manipulation of the press that Johnson attempted from time to time? B: Well, he wanted to tell you his story. There's no question about that. He wanted to persuade you, he
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
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, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't believe that there was any specific or particular pressure. viously there was a lot of talk in the press. Ob- I think this was really fed by the medium more than people calling the President up and saying, "why don't you put Bobby Kennedy
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, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bachelors in Washington. We were We were assigned to Margery when she got back to the States, more [as] bodyguards in keeping the press away, and keeping her from dropping any more post cards, really, until we could decompress the situation. G: What
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be called the public relations office or the press office. It was a tremendously exciting time, and the Roosevelt victory in '36 was of great satisfaction in the Mine Workers office. My political activity then was confined to writing speeches for some
  • ; personal anecdotes of knowing the Johnsons early in his Washington career; LBJ interacting with strangers; socializing with the Johnsons while LBJ was in the Senate; LBJ’s relationship with the press; LBJ’s work as Majority Leader; Senator Richard Russell
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, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • believe she later resigned . Ba : Secretary Freeman has said just recently in his valedictory press conference, he indicated that he thought might have handled the Billie Sol Estes affair better--that is, handled the press relations better . Bi : Yes . We
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of finagling going on and Son'le of those counties. 0 There was ver just south of us in San Augustine I\;one of the press has ever printed that to ITly knowledge. G: Other Johnson caITlpaign workers in that cam.paign have indicated that they were counted
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that commented on the national scene and that brought me to ~Iashington every now and then. F: What was that magazine? OM: Texas Heekly in Dallas, edited by Peter Molyneaux. I took two years' time out in 1935 and 1936 to head up the press publicityand
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)