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Braestrup, Peter (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, New York Times, 1960-1968; Saigon Bureau Chief, The Washington Post, 1968-1973
Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974 (Item)
  • Bio: (1887-1974) Physician; Field Artillery Corps, 1918; Editor, The Nation, 1920-1923, New York Post, 1932-1933; Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, 1934-1939; Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953; U.S
Alsop, Stewart (Item)
  • Bio: Stewart Alsop (1914-1974) was the brother of Joseph Alsop; an author; and a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, 1945-1954, the Saturday Evening Post, 1954-1968, and Newsweek, 1968-1974.
Rosenblatt, Peter Ronald, 1933 (Item)
  • Bio: Peter Ronald Rosenblatt was born September 4, 1933, in New York City. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1954 and an LL.B. (J.D.) from Yale University Law School in 1957. He was the assistant district attorney of New York County from 1959
Shelton, Isabelle, 1916-1993 (Item)
  • that included the Louisville Courier-Journal and the New York Post and for national magazines that included the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal and the Economist.
Cooper, Chester Lawrence, 1917-2005 (Item)
  • Bio: Chester Lawrence Cooper was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1917. He earned degrees from New York University and American University. He served as Assistant Deputy Director at Central Intelligence Agency from 1947 to 1962
Sparks, William Russell, 1924-1987 (Item)
  • Bio: William Russell Sparks, also Will R. Sparks, (b. July 15, 1924, Detroit, Michigan-d. December 16, 1987, Long Island, New York) served as a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson and director of public affairs for Citicorp. He was a writer
Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988 (Item)
  • Bio: Ernest Cuneo (1906-1988), lawyer, newspaperman, author, and intelligence liaison, was born in East Rutherford, New Jersey. After he graduated from law school, Cuneo became law secretary to Fiorello LaGuardia, then a congressman from New York
Oberdorfer, Don, 1931- (Item)
  • to a New Era”, 1991. After leaving the Washington Post in 1993, he served as a journalist-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist; Washington correspondent, Knight Newspapers, 1958-1961; Associate Editor and Contributing Editor, Saturday Evening Post, 1961-1965; Staff writer, Washington Post, 1968; Author, Tet!
Karnow, Stanley, 1925- (Item)
  • Correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post from 1963 to 1965, and Far East Correspondent and Diplomatic Correspondent for the Washington Post from 1962 to 1972. Karnow also served as Associate Editor of the New Republic in Washington, D.C., from 1973 to 1975.
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist with Time, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, The London Observer, The Washington Post, 1959-1975; Recipient, Pulizter Prize for history; Author, Vietnam: A History
Laitin, Joseph (Item)
  • Bio: Joseph Laitin was a journalist and government official. He began at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the Standard News Association. During World War II he was head of the United Press staff in Washington, D.C., and later became a war correspondent
  • LBJ Connection: Ombudsman, Washington Post; Assistant Press Secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Roche, Charles D., 1927-1993 (Item)
  • Bio: Charles D. Roche (b. October 27, 1927, Woburn, Massachusetts-d. February 12, 1993, Margate, New Jersey) received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1945 and served in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1947. In 1950, He became a management trainee
Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloysius Leon), 1928-1998 (Item)
  • Bio: Aloysius Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1928-1998) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Aloysius Higginbotham, a factory worker, and Emma Lee Douglass Higginbotham, a maid. Young Higginbotham attended Ewing Park, a black segregated public elementary
Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981 (Item)
  • Affairs Committee, where he spent much of his energy in the post-World War II and cold war eras. Foreign affairs, like his New Deal legal work, satisfied a need in him for "ministry." It was a political form of missionary work. Hays was a deeply
Marder, Murrey (Item)
  • Bio: Veteran, WWII, U.S. Marine Corps; Journalist; Chief Diplomatic Reporter, Washington Post, 1946-1985.
  • LBJ Connection: Chief Diplomatic Reporter, Washington Post, 1946-1985
Kilpatrick, Carroll (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, Washington Post
Terry, Wallace (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Reporter for Time, Washington Post, USA Today
Tucker, Ray (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Columnist for the Houston Post
Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Publisher, Washington Post, 1979-2001
Hoyt, Palmer (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Publisher and editor, The Denver Post; United States Information Agency Advisory Commission, 1965
Just, Ward (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, Newsweek, 1959-1965; Washington Post, 1965-1970, assigned to cover the Vietnam War
May, Timothy (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Director, National Maritime Commission, 1963-1966; General Counsel, Post Office Department, 1966-1969
Wiggins, J. Russell (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Executive Vice President and Editor, Washington Post; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., 1968-1969
Siegel, Gerald W. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Advisor to LBJ during the Senate period; Washington Post legal counsel and VP
Roberts, Chalmers McGeagh, 1910-2005 (Item)
  • Bio: Chalmers McGeagh Roberts (b. November 18, 1910, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-d. April 8, 2005, Bethesda, Maryland), journalist, was Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for the Washington Post from 1953 to 1971.
  • LBJ Connection: Journalist, Washington Post, 1949-1971
Gordon, Helene Lindow (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Member, Mrs. Johnson's staff, 1968-1969; Secretary to Mrs. Johnson during the post-presidency; Family friend
Ignatius, Paul R. (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Logistics, 1961-1963; Under Secretary, 1964; Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1964-1967; Secretary of the Navy, 1967-1969; President, The Washington Post, 1969-1971
Belen, Frederick C. (Frederick Christopher), 1913- (Item)
  • Bio: Frederick Christopher Belen (b. 1913) was secretary to Congressman Andrew Transue for the 75th congress, secretary to Congressman George D. O'Brien for the 77th-79th congresses, and counsel and chief counsel to the Post Office and Civil Service
  • LBJ Connection: Deputy Postmaster General, U.S. Post Office Department, 1964-1969
Heller, Walter W. (Walter Wolfgang), 1915-1987 (Item)
  • Bio: Walter Wolfgang Heller (1915-1987) was considered one of the leading economists of the post-war era. Heller served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Kennedy Administration. He left his post shortly after Kennedy's
Mann, Thomas C. (Thomas Clifton), 1912-1999 (Item)
  • , and held various diplomatic posts in Europe, Latin America, and Washington, D.C., through 1955. From 1955 to 1957, Mann served the post of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. From October 1957 to August 1960, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State
Greigg, Stanley L. (Item)
  • Bio: (1931-2002) U.S. Navy, 1957-1959; Administrator at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa; Sioux City, Iowa, City Council, 1961 and Mayor, 1964; U.S. Congressman, 1965-1967; Director of the Post Office Department’s Office of Regional
  • LBJ Connection: Mayor of Sioux City, Iowa, 1964; U.S. Representative, Iowa, 1965-1967; Director, Office of Regional Administration, U.S. Post Office, 1967-1969
Abell, Tyler, 1932 (Item)
  • LBJ Connection: Drew Pearson’s stepson. Husband to Bess Abell (Social Secretary to Mrs. Johnson), Associate General Counsel to Post Office Department, 1963; Assistant Postmaster General 1964-1967; Partner in law firm Ginsburg and Feldman, 1967
Schwartz, Marie Smith, 1920 (Item)
  • Bio: Marie Schwartz (b. March 19, 1920, Atlanta, Georgia) was a journalist, author, philanthropist, and a personal friend to the Lyndon Johnson family. She was a staff writer for the Washington Post, covering the White House during the Eisenhower
Travis, Edmunds, 1890-1971 (Item)
  • Bio: Edmunds Travis (1890-1971) was a newspaper editor from Texas. He worked as an editor for the following newspapers, beginning in 1908: the Austin Tribune, the Austin Statesman, the Austin Dispatch, and the Houston Post.
Darling, Richard C., 1933-1992 (Item)
  • Bio: Richard C. Darling (b. December 1, 1933, Jackson, Michigan-d. August 22, 1992, Charlottesville, Virginia), served as Deputy Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General and in other United States Post Office roles. He was also a lobbyist
Gavin, John, 1931- (Item)
  • Bio: John Gavin was an actor who appeared in films such as “Spartacus” (1960) and “Psycho” (1960). He was appointed by Ronald Reagan as Ambassador to Mexico and served in this post from June 1981 to June 1986.
Otting, Raymond Gustav, 1909-1965 (Item)
  • Bio: Raymond Gustav Otting (b. December 19, 1909, Oklahoma-d. October 20, 1965, Austin, Texas), U.S. Post Office employee in Austin, Texas.
Scott, Bess Whitehead, 1890-1997 (Item)
  • College for one year. She returned to Houston in 1915 and obtained a position as a reporter at the Houston Post newspaper. She married Hubert Clark Scott in 1918 and they had two children. Scott followed her husband in his career, but after his
Goodpaster, Andrew Jackson, 1915-2005 (Item)
  • 1954 to 1961. He also held several Pentagon posts and and served as commandant of the National War College. He was deputy commander of American forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969 and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) commander from 1969 to 1974
Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972 (Item)
  • Bio: Carl Trumbull Hayden (b. Oct. 2, 1877, Hayden's Ferry, Ariz.-d. Jan. 25, 1972, Mesa, Ariz.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Arizona, attended Stanford Junior University and held a number of local political posts before his election