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Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with ARVN in most cases. There were free drop zones and you could go into those at any time, but if you were close to populated areas, close to ARVN troop concentrations, things of that nature, you had to clear those target areas with ARVN in advance. G
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe, were on there. She was from the Dallas Times-Herald. Who else? And the rest were mostly newspapermen from weeklies. Just a free trip. G: I see. Does that mean they couldn't go because of space or time requirements? R: Oh, they couldn't go
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a terribly divided party--which we obviously had. There were just countless occasions when in working with him and even with his colleague Bobby Baker at the time that I found many things being done that were little perceived by the press. M: Can you give
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • assuming that job ten or eleven months hence . I guess I was particularly amused and impressed that he said, "Look, this may leak into the press . I recognize that . it doesn't, but that's really up to Gardner in part . I hope If he felt that he
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • press out of this thing, which doesn't help the administration. I talked to the President about it, I had called him and told him about it and kept him informed by memorandum and by at least two or three phone calls telling him when the bitter blows were
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ) And that incident, of course, went around the world. My view is, first, he is uninhibited in the first place. And about this time the press was giving him a hard time about withholding information and hiding information, so I think he was simply showing what went
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of overpowering when you see him coming up from that 4 or 5 o'clock nap. He was looking ruddy and like he'd been out of the sauna and sunbathed --freshly pressed clothes and a folder in his hand. how are you, John? Good to see you. He said, '~ell, Come over
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or believed in the free press, hey, you were being pumped just as hard as he was and probably a lot more effectively. Now, in that sense, yes. Again, at the hands-on, field-officer level, I think a lot of people found what journalists knew to be valuable
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have discussed, who had very negative views of Lyndon Johnson. And they probably, in some instances, had those views before the assassination, but didn't have a handle to articulate them to their friends and associates or press. I think what clearly
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • suitable for a backyard farmer than a great statesman and President. and even bad judgment. I don't think the man ever learned how to deal with the press _and became his own worst .enemy in his relationship with the press. He . never learned how to.deal
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President asked the Vice President to make. M: I know Mr. Johnson later became so suspicious of the press, based partly on what he thought were unfriendly leaks by Kennedy people. Did this begin while President Kennedy was still alive? S: I didn't know
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in mind? At these April meetings was it somewhat of a free-for-all, or did he call on you and you and you and you? H: Yes, he went around the table and called on various individuals, so that he gave everyone an opportunity to speak. 7 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on of Eugene McCarthy and/or Senator Dodd who were the other two besides Humphrey who were rumored in the press as under consideration? C: Much of what I have to say is obviously just the expression of a personal opinion. It is my opinion that Senator Dodd
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of legislation. They will also needle us to clear reports that they want up there to meet their schedule, and will at times press us as well as the agencies to come up with what they consider the right answers on a particular piece of legislation. contact
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by going to Jack Valenti and work something out. But it was much harder because he'd be late, and you'd wait there an hour or so when he was supposedly free and he wouldn't be. be immediate. You knew it wouldn't He didn't have a system like President
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be tied in \lIJith what Nixon's doing now. It's going to be that. I notice that the press has a habit of calling it now the "era of Vietnam." in Vietnam. it. They don't call it the \'/ar I don't know whether that's a way of trying to soften LBJ
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be a future colleague of yours? M: Well, not necessarily, but I was impressed with his drive, his ambition, his constant absorption with political matters. It was his whole life,more or less. F: Kleberg just gave him a free hand? M: Yes, Kleberg gave him
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • unsolicited outside letters? M: No, r think the main things were the comments in Women's Wear, which didn't give Mrs. Johnson very good press, saying that she was a typical LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • impression that the White House tried to let the new D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct supervision from the White House? M: From what I could see of the operation of District government, certainly the mayor gave me a very free
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was Sunday morning, and none of us were pressed for time. At that period of LBJ's life probably, I don't know how long that lasted. but he delighted in telling about his accomplishments and especially to his old friends. We were delighted to listen. G
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DOUGHERTY -- I -- 3 I thought then that I just wished to God that I were free to do that. F: Did
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trip to Texas. Did we mention this last time at all? M: Yes, we did. F: Yes. I think I felt then that the press coverage was so extensive of the trip that there was no particular need to rehearse where we went or what we did. If I'm repeating, we
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to continue exploding these devices and experimenting because the United States had refused to enter into a "no first use" agreement with China. And he said this publicly, under release by the New China Press Agency. Now, this struck me and several others
  • Talks with the Chinese about “no first use” agreement, Test Ban Treaty, offer to exchange medicine, scholars, etc.; attempts to break down formality with the Chinese, Senator Albert Gore divulging information to the press, LBJ’s building bridges
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He called me two or three days later and gave me the list of songs that he was going to sing, and I took the list of songs down to Liz Carpenter and she typed up the press release. The next thing I heard was a call from Walt Rostow with sort of a hint
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • systems. Prior to the time the decision is made, I think the Director has felt free to voice his own opinion from an arms control point of view, whether we should deploy ABM's or whether we shouldn't. Generally speaking Mr. Foster, the head
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • House for this press conference. Abe said, "Look, you don't suppose he is going to lean on me some more about this." heard. I said, "Oh, I think you are off the hook from what I have II Well, I had a television set in here, which is now in the next
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and thought Mr. Moley should--but he [Hull] was an internationalist. He was a free-trader. While Moley was away, Mr. Hull got to Mr. Roosevelt and told Mr. Roosevelt that this was hurting him and it was the wrong thing. Then the usual game was always played
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a free hand by the Kennedy Administration? R: No, because, you see, what had really happened--it wasn't a question of giving a free hand, There was one very unfortunate thing. When the Space Act was passed, Eisenhower did not understand the section
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in those days. But people There was a feeling that Eastern Europe would have been entirely free is we hadn't signed the Yalta agreements. Eisenhower had to go along with it because otherwise he would have split the Republican Party irrevocably, and he
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • when he was vice president, I suppose more after he became president . In fact all of my life, since the early meeting in the thirties I've been in close relationship with President Johnson . I think he has felt that he was free to call and ask my
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 12 Mrs. Maverick could tell you more about that than I could of the various ones. And Maury then was constantly making speeches to this group, or to press clubs--he went to New York to meet Dorothy Thompson and her group, and I
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • said Jack wanted me but he wanted me to know that the liberals will raise hell. He said Mennen Williams will raise hell. I thought I was dealing with a child. I never did understand Bobby. I never did understand how the press built him into the great
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , or seldom sat in I should say. L: Yes, he did I think. Quite frequently at the start, but to a lesser extent later on. F: Were they fairly free discussions? L: Yes, initially. F: They gradually got a little tired. Everybody has his own say? Were
  • landslide victory; attributes LBJ’s benevolence to political bribery; LeMay’s disdain for press; LeMay’s support for “conservative” leadership; fear that U.S. might be close to becoming a socialist or communist republic; Republican Party’s interest in LeMay
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , concluded that a telegram should be sent. In any event, as this evening continued to unfold, another matter came up. Press and network people were anxious to have a spokesman for the Kennedy side in the ballroom. I was a little intrigued to find
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . You're Arthur Goldschmidt and your current position is United States Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. G: No, I resigned that with the change of administration. M: Oh, you're out of that. G: Yes, I'm a free man
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • most people would have guessed that the city of Detroit was the last place that would have gone and yet it was one most violent. what went into keeping peace in New York. So I don' t really know I'd like to think that we influenced it, I don' t k
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and was in Moyers' office, which then \'/asn't the press office, if I remember it, it was in fact where Larry Temple later was. next to the Oval Office. M: I don't think he was press secretary by that time, was he? R: I don't know. He was running the campaign
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a nice occasion it was, that kind of thing. G: You mentioned the picketing. Why was he so concerned about the picketing? Was it because of the press coverage of it or was it just a personal--? K: I don't want to overdo his concern because he
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Horowitz -- I H: I think there was. I think there was. was nibbling away at it all the time. -~ 7 Because I remember the press Even when the bill was finally sent up
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • agriculture; that only the western states with less than twenty-five inches, and in m.any cases only six and eight and ten inches of rain, were the ones that had to have federal assistance in the terms of an interest-free loan to develop their agriculture