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Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • saw eye to eye. F: Did you see much of Johnson in his Senate years, back here in Austin? K: Not a whole lot, periodically-- F: Did he come around the press room any? K: Yes, he would do that every now and then just on a hand-shaking tour. F
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • architect in Culpeper, Virginia, by the name of Meade Palmer. Carol Fortas became our treasurer, as I remember. I also remember holding a press conference in my old office building at Hains Point, the Park Service office building, where we had the model
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that way for a number of years. Fulbright has been dead for some twenty years; Crooker, Freeman, and Bates are all retired from this law firm--they have no further interest in the firm. I'm really the senior partner. M: And you've been then associated
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the President had decided at that moment that he would try to squeeze in some time and held sit for the portrait that lid asked them to make, the first official portrait he needed to get going on the presses and hanging in government buildings. I came over 1i ke
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • associated with the New Yorker since, what, 1944 or thereabouts? R: That's right. ~1: And you are well-known as an author of numerous contemporary hi stor;cal type \;JOrks, Senator Joe McCarthy and The Genera 1 and the Presi dent, a fairly well-known list
  • Biographical information; 1957 Civil Rights Act; Presidency; LBJ's relations with the press; Eric Goldman; anti-communism; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam. And that explanation did not satisfy Ackley. In any case, Ackley issued a statement. We really should try and get the AP [Associated Press] and UPI [United Press International] wires on all this because it's the only way you can follow all those
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember the margin of victory in 1948; not so many remember the narrow margin of defeat in 1941. F: I would presume that his associates felt that he had a case in 1941 if he'd chosen to pursue it. K: Yes. Yes. F: When you came down to 1948, he had
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that point, working with Mac Bundy, and he called me over a few days after I joinej the government just to talk. So that was the first time I met him. M: Turned out to be a rather close association, didn't it, as time went by? J: Very. M: Quite
  • ; goals for South Vietnam; reasons for LBJ’s unpopularity; flaws in LBJ’s handling of the press; inept press corps handling Vietnamese War; incorrect editing of press dispatches; LBJ’s abilities as a diplomat; peace negotiations 1966-1968; 1968 Paris peace
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • appointed and had begun its work. in either 1961 or 1962; maybe 1962. That occurred I guess That started under the Kennedy Administration and the major impact to begin that came from the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and what
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Association convention, I gather, as part of this Press Club. Do you remember that, when he went to Huntsville? W: No. G: He worked in Welly Hopkins' campaign for state senator. Do you have any recollection of that? That was the first-W: No, other than
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted to publicize it. It did result, as I've recounted, in this press conference. I think he felt relieved. I have no idea about the reaction of the advisers who had been negative at Miami. But George McGovern was perhaps pressured by his wife, Eleanor
  • involvement in the McGovern campaign; O'Brien's efforts to increase order and coordination in the campaign; encouraging McGovern to identify himself as a Democrat and to publicize the work of the Democratic Party; press reports that O'Brien was leaving
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • political mechanism is closely associated with the dairy industry. And Mr. Mills, there- fore, pressed for certain types of adjustment to the pricing and support activity of that industry, which, again, was my responsibility. LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the mistakes I made--when I told Charlie to let some of them who were writing Monday stories have copies of it, and then they later leaked it to somebody. There was an Associated Press or some story got in that most of the facts. The President was very unhappy
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • inherited some solid people: Bill Welsh, John Stewart. We hired Joe Mohbat as press secretary from the Associated Press. There were several others who were solid. You had a nucleus but you had to give it direction. You had to give 15 LBJ Presidential
  • of the company; O'Brien's resignation from McDonnell and Company after working out a deal for Kapenstein to stay; the eventual demise of McDonnell and Company; O'Brien severing his financial ties to McDonnell and Company; creating O'Brien Associates and working
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • qualifications of a senator is his ability to raid the Treasury and get all he can for his state." I don't remember whether he replied to that, but that was my first encounter with him. F: It was friendly. Did you see much evidence, in your years of association
  • ;’ Ted Dealy; Bobby Baker, LBJ’s right hand man; Sam Houston Johnson; eastern press; Ralph Yarborough; retiring in 1958.
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD G. STILWELL INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. G: I notice in General [William] Westmoreland's memoirs [A Soldier Reports] he refers to you as "a close associate in many previous assignments before he
  • in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1963; weaknesses in the Hamlet Evaluation System and other status reports from Vietnam; Stilwell's impressions of press coverage of the Vietnam War and specifically that of David Halberstam; the U.S. government's failure
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
  • Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • host on that occasion. T~en in April 1967 he asked me to return to the United States to accept an invitation extended by the Associated Press. After I had talked to the annual meeting of the Associated Press in the WaldorfAstoria in New York City
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was, and I was aware that he was a supporter of the administration, that he had been identified with it. M: You went off to work for the New York Times, I believe, for a little while. W: I was a Washington correspondent to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
  • Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from him, whether you were a constitutent looking for Army-Navy tickets, whether you were trying to help get a dam on the Colorado River. closeness of association with him. There was a great You also felt in that office there was very much a kind
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , [George] Christian, the press secretary, or whoever was the press secretary, had to see him every day. In periods of domestic crises of one kind or another, or during that late September to March period I'd see him all the time because-(Interruption) M
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Is that the Walter of the McCarren-Walter Act? P: He's dead now, yes. And I have some association, having luncheon with them when they were back on leave. Again, I can't remember the details. F: Did he make any special effort to woo you as a newspaper man
  • news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • continued to be very closely associated with the business, but there was no high visibility of what I was doing. The answer to it is that as far as I'm concerned--the press always pointed an accusative finger toward him for the way he worked his staff
  • Biographical information; press release regarding financial affairs of the Johnson family upon LBJ's death (released by Thomas); management of Mr. Taylor's estate (Lady Bird's father); LBJ as a good businessman; KTBC; LBJ's faith in banks; ownership
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HotS e his relations with the press are composed, first of all, of his prior relationships. As Jack Kennedy once said in a press conference when Charlie Bartlett was being assaulted for a piece he and Stu Alsop had written in the Saturday Evening
  • LBJ and his relations with the press
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • indirect contact? F: I had no personal contact, and really no indirect contact. I formed my own image of him by the press and by his voting record. B: May I ask what that was sir? F: Well, my image was not good of Mr. Johnson then. He had, at least up
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That was the first time that I met her. Then we had a little reception up here afterwards on the top floor, and the President came up and met the staff and some of our close associates, about a hundred and fifty. He was there just as informal as if he weren't even
  • Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Natural Gas Company for approximately a year. By this time it was fall of 1966. Then I got a call from a guy by the name of Bill Bates, who had been Senator Russell's press secretary since the mid-1950s. By the It/ay, he might be able to make
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was on July 7. Following Gray's earlier call, I was visited by two Secret Service agents in my suite at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami. We were in the midst of preparing then for the convention. One of the agents was Paul Rundell, associate director
  • and Howard Hughes; Drosnin's efforts to get O'Brien's associates to do interviews; Drosnin's criminal activity, including stealing files for his book, Citizen Hughes; an episode of 20/20 on Citizen Hughes; Geraldo Rivera's efforts to get O'Brien on the show
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that you got later? H: Not the slightest. Nobody was worried about that at all. F: The ultraconservatives hadn't become quite as flagrant then? H: No. And it was a wonderful reception that the two candidates got. I remember the press car was driving
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • classmate of mine, a doctor who, after he pressed it in my hand, said on the way out, "I want to be on the Medical Care Commission," so I sent it back to him. I later put him on the Medical Care Commission, but I didn't take his money. So I didn't want
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about specific telecasts? H: I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary, we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had been said or shown. F: Do you remember what it was? H: I'm sure both
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it and it was twenty-eight seconds. Twenty-eight seconds and, boom, you're president. Lyndon took the oath. Mac [Malcolm] Kilduff, who was associate press secretary, was crouched down on the floor and had a microphone in his hand. It was a dictating-machine
  • Coverage of 1959 Khrushchev visit; Khrushchev's dislike of the press; Mesta Machine Tool Company tour; JFK's choice of LBJ as VP; reflections on JFK's trip to Texas in 1963 and the days following the assassination; experience as a witness to LBJ's
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • were there you may know something about them. First question concerns the Hhite House Communications Agency. Can you tell me anything about how that functioned and what its connection was with you as press secretary? CHRISTIAN: It supplied our
  • Special telephone interview regarding the impact of television on public policy; White House Communications Agency; use of videotape; White House Naval Photographic Unit films; LBJ's close relations with the press; television news reports; effect
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: -2­ http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] We gathered up a press plane, which we chartered
  • in beautification project; demonstrators; Head Start project; Women Doers Luncheon; Earth Kitt; press relations.
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : That's essentially correct. monographs. M: There are numerous articles and several I have two books now in press. What are these books in press? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would make the offer of the vice presidency to Senator Johnson, and two, that Senator Johnson would accept it? M: Let me tell you my association with that. The balloting ended at mid- night, and we got all of our workers together. In a very
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • staff from the Public Health Service, and began a very intensive--far more intensive than we had up to that time--educational program, and a program of working with hospital associations. the American Medical Association. We made an effort also to work
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • friends. We were neighbors. So we used to drive back and forth to Andrews Air Force Base a lot. I was not one of the pool members, but Frank gave me wonderful fill-ins on what happened. Frank Cormier, I guess, of Associated Press had to be among them. I've
  • LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -dragging on the part of people who could have been more helpful. They were known to be close Lyndon Johnson associates. And Hubert Humphrey, with concern about his relationship with the President, would from time to time try to focus on it. Clearly over
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ., N.W., Washington, D.C. This is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. White, I want to begin our interview with a brief backgrounder on your very long journalistic career which began in 1927 with Associated Press. It was through AP that you first came