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. From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's

during my freshman year. I later became Rice correspon- dent for the Chronicle, and went on into journalism. went into politics. years. President Johnson Therefore we still had a close association over the We saw each other a great deal, communicated

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing
; department's speech drafts; review of speeches; "Rose Garden rubbish;" LBJ's sensitivity to press reaction to speeches' LBJ's relationship with the press; joke specialist on staff; LBJ as am accomplished storyteller and raconteur; LBJ's speech referring to his

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

around the table asking suggestions as to what he ought to be doing. Somebody brought up that he ought to go out and confront the demonstrators if necessary, but go out and press the flesh. And his feeling was [this]. I know he quoted John Connally

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it over the radio. G: You had not really become close to him? W: Oh, I did not know him then. G: I see. Well, descri be the process whereby you became closely associated with him. W: Mainly through Judge and Mrs. Homer Thornberry, because
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Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the camel driver now--as the I was on that trip. word that got into the press back here, when he visited. Really sounded as if they'd come straight frorn the Koran or something. C: Well, I think that they no doubt were dressed up a bit, but I think he

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the climate was unsavory. up. There was rumbling of revolutions. Sun Yat-sen was coming My father and mother were quite close to Sun Yat-sen and many other important people of the revolution through the diplomatic corps and also through a press gentleman

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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