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  • in the Washington, D.C. area. My family's from New England, and I spent a few of my early years up there, but for the most part I've lived in this area. I attended Georgetown University and Catholic University here in Washington, and I have been associated
  • ; LBJ's attempts to compensate for his temper; the high rate of turnover for White House press secretaries; Bruno's work with LBJ's correspondence and the organization of the correspondence office; Bruno's work as director of the Tour Office; the tour
  • O'Dwyer. So I said, "Well, how would you like to go to Mexico as his press associate, first secretary of the embassy?" "Yes." I picked up the phone, called Ralph Hill [?] in the State Department, and I got him a job, just like that. That was under
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reynolds -- III -- 7 a more efficient and useful activity. It will save the country money and do a better job for the people. F: Had this surfaced to the press yet, or had you
  • . In the associations I've had in the CAB and other regulatory agencies, I'm just absolutely confident the President, whether it be Eisenhower or Kennedy or Johnson, has stayed out of it . M: Did your decision in the Northeastern Airlines case stick, or did they get
  • to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Then in 1960, early in the year, I got a call from him one day, and he said he was going to be some place in Ohio, nearby, Would 1 have was going to come into Pittsburgh and stay all night
  • to excite jealousy and a demand for greater independence of policy !!.!-:!-~ Moscow among the peoples and ~egimes of the remainder of the erstwhile satellite area. To the extent this economic success could be associated with, and supported by, western
  • they addressed ... No one .:an doubt the Roosc\(:lt virtuosity in speech, in ealing with the press. and above all on che radio, but none of thi" talent would have \Urvivcd and scr\'cd for lhll e tweh· int nse year
  • to these was about $76, 000. Repairs have been completed and the contractors are pressing Judge Hartman for payment. Judge Hartman maintains that verbal commitments were made to him by the OEP Area Office staff with respect to the emergency repair of buildings
  • any members of the press have questions Mr. Duncan will answer them. At 10: 30 calls between newsmen here and others in Japp.n wi.11 begin on the phones which are in the waiting room. ,.~ } _«· -' ( . ~*b~~i 1e~~ ·T~-~l:GRAM De~J1rt men t< iw
  • and with the Vietnamese associates was so important that it was absolutely mandatory to try to make friends with those people and to gain their respect and to not do things that antagonized them nor caused them to be unwilling to cooperate with us. I have always felt
  • it, I agreed to marry him. I became its associate editor which turned out to be a difficult situation as the boss's wife. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • of British royalty in 1994; how royalty and government officials are treated by the press; publishing The Best of Flair; Cowles' work with SatelLifes and the Institute for American Studies at Oxford University and her future plans.
  • live in Washington is that you naturally get going on the telephone, and, you know, Joe's a great friend. It's just easy to talk to him and for him to talk to us. There's a funny thing on the press though. difficult relations were. This is an example
  • ; Russ Wiggins; 1960/1964 Democratic convention; meeting of JFK and Graham regarding the VP nomination; Home Rule; LBJ’s attitude toward the press; beautification; press relations; civil rights; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
  • , and successively you have worked for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal, the United Press Association, Christian Science Monitor, the International News Service and as Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. You were co-author
  • of LBJ and JFK; LBJ and columnists; LBJ's press secretaries; LBJ and the press; Gene McCarthy; Bobby Kennedy; 1968 campaign; personal observations on LBJ
  • on White Houses past and present. The evening panel featured Liz Carpenter, former press secre­ tary to Lady Bird Johnson; Carl Sferrazza Anthony, authority on First Families; Mark Shields, moderator of CNN's "The Capital Gang" and Richard Norton Smith
  • City and New York Univ. Married with 3 children Roman Catholic Utilities, instrument repairman, Western Electric of New Jersey and New York. President, Western Electric Employees, New York Organized National Association of Telephone Equipment Workers
  • States, Southwest Region. Mr. Woodward has had long associa­ tions with Mr. Johnson, and we'd like to let Mr. Woodward right now tell us what some of those associations were. W: How did they start? Paul, it got underway one day by my walking
  • never was intimate with him or closely associated with him, even after that time. McS: Mr. Fountain, during those Senatorial years are there any things that stand out in your mind as far as either issues or legislation that you particularly think
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
  • a lot of wonderful changes. P: Since 1948 besides serving on this committee, you have served in the American Veterans' Association, on committees and as national commander. You were one of the founders of the World Veterans Federation, and LBJ
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; present relationship with LBJ; interest and work with handicap people; summary of advances in field of the handicapped; role of advisory committee and its effectiveness; assistance from Senator
  • Association? r would say. remember actually other boys I organizations. Harris-Blai.r probably was tile only--that's tile only one I can think of. was tile press group t~at had interest in There was the debate group. t~e And I don't Of course
  • . There is a possibility that Steve Mitchell was either Adlai Stevenson's law partner or they were closely associated, but I think there was a better rapport between Johnson and Rayburn and Mitchell than there was with Stevenson, because they were always skeptical what
  • that. There is a list there. We started calling it the Lady Bird Association, Inc. at the time. On my own I developed the list of potential board members, drawing on friends and associates of the beautification program in Washington. Many of the people on the list came
  • of the corrnnunist bloc . · Much of this activity was organized, directed, an~ financed covertly by conununist governments. · American organizations . reacte~ from the · first . The young men and women who fou11ded the United States National Student Association
  • three years on the University of Texas debating team. I served in all branches of student government. Assembly. I was a member of the Student I was chairman of the Men's Honor Council. My last year I was president of the Student Association. Most
  • , but very briefly and sporadically only, so that the contact was not,in any way of any significance really . M: You were associated on several occasions when the Teach-In movement began, after Mr . Johnson was President, and generally listed
  • IV l 8 9 10 Pay lost Amount In Balance Column ART DISPLAYCO., INC. -0- This 1 to be press later mittee de on Sat. , Oct. 3, 1964 used on Sun. , Oct.. 4, 1964 to entertain the on the whistle stop t ain prior to its take off 1n the week. I
  • Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Whitney M. Young of the National Urban League, Floyd McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality, Stokely Carmichael of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
  • , and our prime contractor~ Alpine Geophysical Associates, Inc. The cleaning had been well done and apparently the machinery and systems within the ship · had been preserved in the best manner possible in order to minimize immersion damage and deterioration
  • Johnson as a teacher? Do you have any impressions of him? K: Definitely. He was just as dynamic then as he is now. can see from his debate success. I mean, as you Whatever he was associated with, or attached to, why, he went at with the same gusto
  • of the work that we had carried on, over the next five years or so. I was at the University of Ninnesota in the department of microbiology and immunology, was associate professor of medicine at the r4edical College of Virginia, and then assistant dean
  • Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical
  • into line early were the mutual savings bank's association . They were very helpful . Association of Home Builders got into line . Loan League was helpful . Then the National U .S . Savings and The Mortgage Bankers Association, I guess, had
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN J. CORSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Corson's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your association with the NYA. How did you get into the organization? C: I got into the NYA, to the best
  • CHAIRMAN April 24, 1964 PERSONAL Memorandum for Honorable Lee c. White Associate Special Counsel to the President Per our phone conversation, "personal" letter in response alleging to his conflict I have prepared the attached for you to send
  • made his peace with his own future. That nettle was scratching and hurting as he tried to swallow it and digest it. M: And the press descended on you at that point. J: Yes. M: And I imagine that that was--well, the Diary says that the President
  • . Frantz PLACE: Ambassador Bowdler's residence in San Salvador, El Salvador Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Ambassador, first of all, tell us a little bit about your background, where you're from, where you were educated, how you came to be associated
  • there was the MURA issue, the Midwestern University's Research Association, which was a proposal for a new and very expensive high energy accelerator to be built in Madison, Wisconsin, with federal funds as a consortium of about ten or a dozen midwestern universities
  • the specific things . I think it was something to do with the Vietnam War or the Middle East situation. M: This was the group that press sometimes refers to as the wise men or the elder statesmen or such names as that? B: Yes, but it wasn't official
  • was to the Big Bend National Park and of course, over and over to the Grand Tetons. S: Oh how I loved that! Did you delight in subjecting the press to this? And making them all go down on the rafts? J: Well, actually, I think they came to regard it as quite
  • and hopeless effort.'· But he ex­ pressed '·deep regret" over ·'the way in which we allowed the Vi tmlm War to become the totally defining vent of those years and likewise of the his­ tory. Jn the Johnson years it was the Vietnam War and nothing else. And so
  • was going on in the press, what 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 Califano
  • the report; the union [International Association of Machinists] basically rejected the report. The issue was whether the union would go on strike and whether we could get a law passed to extend the non-strike period. And we came head up against the problem