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Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about specific telecasts? H: I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary, we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had been said or shown. F: Do you remember what it was? H: I'm sure both
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration. Then I went back to Kansas State University as an associate professor in the fall of 1959. At that time I was partly politically motivated because I left the government principally to go back and get interested in the John F

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to write a speech about this, and I agreed to do it . I heard that he wanted to give it at the Associated Press dinner in April, I think, '66 or '67, but I got through with it too late and missed my chance . It could have been a good speech though

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Presidential years. K: Well, of course, some of that is tactics on Johnson's part. He was wise enough and clever enough to know, once he became President, that the more he could associate Eisenhower in his own actions, the better likelihood there would
Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment

was, oh, sort of out to get Johnson? 0: I know you do . You get a lot in the press about that . Afterwards I never felt that while Jack was alive . I was really in my own shell of grief, and when all those things are written and you read them, do

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

been some talk about Lyndon Johnson's style of campaigning, as he called it, "pressing the flesh", sort of barnstorming and going from town to town, that this is out of style, and it's no longer necessary to campaign like that. And so I was interested

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

if nobody else was there but me. B: Was that an innovation of yours? H: Oh, absolutely. People never dreamed of starting anything like that and never dreamed of having a secretary that was there at 8:30. B: I believe that you had regular press

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, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came. whether it was the press, Secret Service, security. I don't know It could have been anyone of them. G: Did he reminisce about King during this period? Did he talk about [him]? R: No. He and Mr. King were not--I didn't get a sense

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