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Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • graduated from Harvard in 1961, and free-lanced for a while--traveled for a year and then free-lanced writing a book about the travels-­ then went into the Marine Corps for a brief period, came out and rewrote the book, worked for the Washington Post
  • ; 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