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Byers, Bo
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist and member of the Texas Capitol Press Corps, Associated Press and Houston Chronicle, 1946-1983
Easley, L.T.
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist, Associated Press, 1937-1967; Public Relations-Press Relations Officer, House Committee on Agriculture, 1967-1978
McArthur, George
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- LBJ Connection: Reporter for the Associated Press
- Bio: James C. Hagerty (1909-1981) was the Executive Assistant Press Secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey from 1943 to 1952. He served as President Eisenhower's Press Secretary from 1953 to 1961.
- LBJ Connection: White House Press Secretary for President Eisenhower, 1953-1961
Ward, Margaret Mayer
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist and member of Texas Capitol Press Corps; Washington Bureau, Dallas Times Herald
Kinch, Sam, Sr.
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist and member of the Texas Capitol Press Corps, representing the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
McGhee, Roy L.
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist, United Press Incorporated, 1959-1973
- LBJ Connection: Press Secretary to Senator Richard Russell, Georgia, 1966-1971
Thomas, Helen, 1915-1993
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist; White House Press reporter, 1961-2006
Fleming, Robert H.
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- Bio: (1912-1984) Journalist; Midwest Bureau Chief, Newsweek Magazine, 1953-1957; Correspondent, 1957-1961, Chief, Washington Bureau, ABC News, 1961-1965; Deputy Press Secretary for LBJ, 1966-1968; Assistant Director, U.S. Intelligence Agency, 1968
- LBJ Connection: Chief, Washington Bureau, ABC News, 1961-1965; Deputy Press Secretary for LBJ, 1966-1968
Lewine, Frances
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- Bio: Frances Lewine was a journalist and White House correspondent, as well as President of the Women’s National Press Club. She served as deputy director of public affairs for the Department of Transportation under President Jimmy Carter.
- LBJ Connection: Journalist, White House correspondent; President of the Women’s National Press Club
Laitin, Joseph
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- 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
- , and an assistant to Texas Governor John Connally from 1963 to 1966. He served as press secretary to Texas governors Prince Daniel and John B. Connally. He was also a White House Press Secretary and Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969.
- LBJ Connection: White House Press Secretary and Special Assistant to the President, 1966-1969
Johnson, W. Thomas, 1941-
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- an appointment from President Lyndon B. Johnson to be a White House Fellow. He then served as an assistant press secretary to the President in 1966, as deputy press secretary in 1967, as a special assistant to the President in 1968, then as an executive assistant
- LBJ Connection: Assistant press secretary to the President, 1966; deputy press secretary, 1967; special assistant to the President; 1968; executive assistant, 1969-1970
Hackler, Loyd, 1926-1996
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- LBJ Connection: Journalist; Associate Director of Information, Veterans Administration; White House advance man, 1965; Associate, later Assistant White House Press Secretary, 1966-1969
Boatner, Charles K.
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- LBJ Connection: Texas journalist and friend of LBJ; Special Assistant to Vice President Johnson, 1961-1963; Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, 1964-1970; Director of Press Information, Department of the Interior, 1964-1970
Novak, Robert D.
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- LBJ Connection: Associated Press reporter, 1950s; Staff and Chief Congressional Correspondent, Wall Street Journal, 1958-1963; Author, Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power
Pachios, Harold
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- LBJ Connection: Congressional Liaison to the Peace Corps, 1961-1964; Member, Office of Economic Opportunity Task Force, 1964-1965; Associate White House Press Secretary, 1965-1967
Taylor, Willie Day
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- LBJ Connection: Long-time staff member and family friend of LBJ. Worked for the White House Press Office, maintained newspaper clippings file.
- Bio: John Edward Byrne (b. 1925), press officer and government official was Press Secretary to the governor of Maine from 1958 to 1960, and an executive with the General Services Administration from 1961 to 1980. From 1980 to 1988, Byrne served
Carpenter, Liz, 1920-
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- to 1963, and she was Press Secretary and Staff Director for Lady Bird Johnson from 1963 to 1969. She later served as Assistant Secretary of Education from 1980 to 1981.
- LBJ Connection: Journalist, 1945-1960; Lyndon Johnson's Vice Presidential campaign staff, 1961; Executive Assistant to Vice President Johnson; Press secretary and staff director to First Lady Lady Bird Johnson
- as Press Secretary to Robert Kennedy from 1966 to 1968, and as manager of George McGovern's Presidential campaign in 1972. He is the author of Perfectly Clear (1973), U.S. vs. Nixon (1975), and Remote Control (1978).
- LBJ Connection: Director of Peace Corps, Lima, Peru, 1962-1964; Latin American Regional Director for Peace Corps, 1964-1966; Press Assistant to Robert Kennedy, 1966-1968
- Bio: Pierre Emil George Salinger (b. 1925) journalist and government official, was the Press Secretary to Senator John F. Kennedy from 1959 to 1960, and again from 1961 to 1963 during Kennedy's presidency. He was the Chief Foreign Correspondent
- LBJ Connection: Special Assistant, White House Press Secretary.
Moyers, Bill D., 1934-
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- House Press Secretary, 1965-1967; Journalist with Newsday, CBS, PBS and NBC; President, Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
- House Press Secretary, 1965-1967
- from 1953 to 1954; and staff director of the majority policy committee in the Senate from 1955 to 1960. He served as a special assistant to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1963; press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson from 1964 to 1965
- LBJ Connection: Journalist; member of LBJ's staff, 1951-1965, 1968; White House Press Secretary, 1964-1965; White House Aide, 1968
- Bio: Robert Louis Hardesty (b. 1931) was special assistant to Postmaster General John Gronouski from 1964 to 1965, Staff Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1972, and Press Secretary to the Governor of Texas from 1973 to 1976.
Theis, John William
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- LBJ Connection: Washington correspondent, 1942-1976; Chief, Senate Staff, International News Service, 1945-1958; Chief, Senate Staff, United Press, 1958-1968; Chief, Washington Bureau, Hearst Newspapers, 1968-1976
Millenson, Roy
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- LBJ Connection: Legislative and press assistant to Representative Jacob Javits, 1949-1955; Legislative assistant and executive assistant to Senator Javits, 1957-1959; Minority clerk and Staff Director, Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Richards, Douglas D.
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- Bio: Douglas D. Richards was a member of the Lincoln Commission of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and had a mailing address at the National Press Building in Washington, D.C. in 1973.
Krafsur, Marcia
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- Bio: Marcia Krafsur was a public relations consultant. She was a staff assistant in the Office of the Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, 1965 to 1966. She was also responsible for the Briefing, Press, and Promotion Kit
- joined the Associated Press in 1961, where he would remain for thirty years. In addition to his coverage of the tower shooting, he also wrote sports columns for the University of Texas Longhorns, as well as local legislative sessions and governor's races
- Bio: Morris Bartel Schnapper (b. March 25, 1912, New York, New York - d. February 5, 1999, Silver Spring, Maryland) was a longtime Washington book publisher through his publishing firm, Public Affairs Press. Mr. Schnapper also was the author
- Bio: Harry W. Frantz (1891-1982) was the Press Director of the Office of Inter-American Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1941 to 1944, and Information Officer to the Assistant Secretary of State for American Republics from 1944 to 1945
Zorthian, Barry, 1920-2010
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- Bio: Barry Zorthian (b. Baryoon, October 8, 1920, Katahya, Turkey-d. December 30, 2010), American diplomat, press officer during the Vietnam War.
Mangan, James W.
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- Bio: James W. Mangan (b. July 25, 1928, Honesdale, Pennsylvania - d. September 4, 2015, San Antonio, Texas) was a journalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP) for 36 years. Mangan served in the U.S. Army in the years after World War II before
- Connally from 1934 to 1938. From 1938 to 1973 he was a staff writer and editor for various news agencies, including the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press (1938-1941), the Corpus Christi Times (1941-1945), and the Caller-Times (1945-1973).
- Bio: John Lawrence Steele (1917-2001), journalist and communications executive, reported on political events in Washington, D.C., for many years. During the 1940s and early 1950s he worked for United Press International and covered Dwight D
Feldman, Myer, 1914-2007
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- for the President. He handled most business requests to the White House relating to tariffs, airline routes, and subsidies. He was one of the individuals responsible for briefing the President for his press conferences. From 1964 to 1965, he was Counsel to President
- disappearance she returned to journalism at the Houston Press, and later the Houston Post. In addition to her career as a journalist Scott published textbooks on journalism, helped establish and edit the publication Texas Woman for the Texas Federation
- , now the Harriman Institute. He worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press in Ireland from 1949 to 1951 before returning to the United States to work as a writer for the advertising agency N. W. Ayer & Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He