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Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh 2 T: I graduated in January of '59 from law school and went to Washington in June of '59; served up there for just the one year, which is the tenure of the clerkship; returned to Austin in July of '60; and became an associate with a law firm
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • simply drive Hanoi into the arms of Peking.I think this may be one of those points where the Russo-Chinese rivalry led to a frustration of the Geneva accords on Laos, and led to the inability or unwillingness of the Russians to try to press Hanoi
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cannon -- I -- 12 G: I think it was January 31 or February 1; the press conference was the first. C: It was a Saturday
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • unethical. People didn't know that because this press group, particularly the television crowd, would keep playing that up by just a word or two here and there, and just kept dropping coconuts on the heads they stopped, you see. ever~vhere And actually
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in this society as they ought to to read the black press when the Kerner Commission Report came out. It was said that the President ignored the Kerner Commission, didn't like it, didn't like what it was dOing. What he didn't like was certain ways
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with a But they're human beings too so those frictions sometimes came up. F: Did you press for cease-and-desist power? A: Oh, yes. years. And so did Johnson. And we didn't get it. It just didn't come through. A couple of Then as I left-- F: Was this a kind
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Department of Justice. I And that's all I wanted to do--go back to my job--and in fact I did. F: You didn't know who they were going to move your life around, did you? T: No, I didn't, but they certainly did. to press me on the matter. My father
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • moved my office to Houston . M: Did you join a law firm here? L: No, I practiced by myself . I had associated with different law firms, just shared offices, but I had an individual practice . M: Why did you move, incidentally, from San Antonio
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • be in the tub, and he would talk to you and two or three secretaries would come in and take letters . He never stopped . At night, the conversation would go on during supper and right up to bedtime . I would say that the press that followed him from all
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson was wrong, but they considered that there was an emergency in terms of the number of poor people who were not getting adequate attention, and that something of an emergency nature had to be done to remedy that situation. G: Now Congress pressed
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , she did about contributing to the volume? A: She did a great deal in the way of contributions toward this volume. For one thing, her personality and her relationship with the press in general has always been so pleasant t h a t you started out
  • and President Johnson; Woman's National Press Club Farwell dinner for Mrs. Johnson; parties for women's press
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH LAITIN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Laitin's home in Bethesda, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with that anecdote that you were telling earlier [about] LBJ and the press. You mentioned that that was perhaps his
  • An incident involving the press access to LBJ at the Ranch; Cassie Mackin; Doug Kiker; Marianne Means; Virginia "Ginny" Thrift; Walter Lippmann and Scotty Reston; Washington Whispers; comparing the number of press conferences held by LBJ
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • out to Saigon in your capacity there. Z: That's right. M: The description given by your predecessor, John Mecklin, which is in some detail, describes the difficulties, credibility gap or so on that existed between the press and the.government out
  • Press relations
  • Assignment to Saigon; Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge acts as his own press officer; Vietnam press relations an issue at the Honolulu conference of 1964; unifying press relations functions in JUSPAO; the maximum candor policy; origin of the "Five
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 11, 1968 B: This is the interview with George E. Christian, the press secretary for Mr. Johnson. Mr. Christian, to start with, what were th.:: your appointment to this job? i rcumstances
  • Career; White House personnel; press operation; transition difficulties; Vietnam negotiations; LBJ’s contemplation of not running for reelection in 1968.
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember did go on TV. G: I think it was "Meet the Press" or something. B: "Meet the Press," something like that. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Vietnam enemy inflitration through Laos and Cambodia and pros and cons of U.S. invasion to cut supply lines; Bunker's conviction concerning censorship of the press; LBJ's 3/31/1968 decision not to seek re-election; bombing pause; U.S. plans to train
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Moyers, who was President Johnson's press secretary, ber in the process of interviewing for that article, and I remem- sometime in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Biographical information; preparation for covering Vietnam; reflections on McNamara; the Caravelle Hotel; recollections of Thich Tri Quang; the Buddhist movement and the Ky government; press policy in Vietnam; opinion of Ky; elections in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That is, as I don't have to tell you, the President does--and the whole family-­ live in a fish bowl, and yet some things are theirs. C: Well, that was constantly the tightrope that a press secretary to a first lady walks, because the first lady
  • Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --then United Press--worked as a radio writer for many years, and then started covering several departments-- F: Did you see--? T: --and then started covering the White House [at the] start of the Kennedy years, January 1961. F: When did you first
  • Thomas’ first meeting with LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and newsmen; covering the 1960 campaign; White House press corps; LBJ’s vice-presidential years; Mrs. Johnson’s trip through the South; television and the Vietnam War; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • explode. F: That was enough of that. Mc: Yes. This was very curious to me. As the trip went on, he had a good press to begin with, and then when he got to Rovaniemi in Finland--this was after several days of very, very strenuous travel, crossing
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of meetings with members of the press. R: Oh, yes. G: Were they trying to get a perspective on Lyndon Johnson, a new President? Is this why they would come to you? R: Basically what they were up to, Mike--it's funny what a difference it makes
  • LBJ’s staff; Pierre Salinger; LBJ and the press; Reedy appointed as press secretary; railroad strike and machinists’ strike; LBJ’s understanding of Latin America; Alliance for Progress; War on Poverty; tax bill; civil rights bill; LBJ’s secrecy
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a segregationist and try to uphold some principle that's long outmoded and overruled. (Interruption) G: Okay. I was asking you about Bill Moyers' replacement of George Reedy as presidential press secretary. J: When I came on board and was around a while
  • judges to appoint; Bill Moyers replacing George Reedy as press secretary; Reedy's contention that LBJ was isolated from accurate information; Bill Moyers' personality; the credibility gap; George Christian as press secretary; Thurgood Marshall's
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 20, 1968 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mr. Reedy. Sir, what part did you play in the election campaign of 1964? R: I was the press secretary. B: Did that involve any particular problems
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some candle-pieces to hide some blemishes there in the background, and then we had to get identical chairs. All of these arrangements were fascinating. I recall in the meantime I was keeping Bill Moyers, who was the press secretary and the man I
  • Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ treated
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • it get him into so much difficulty with the press, because a lot of the feeling that there was a credibility gap, that he dissembled, that he misled the press and the public, and certainly Eric Goldman describes that in his The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
  • LBJ's decision-making in regard to the Dominican Republic in 1965; Abe Fortas' involvement with the Dominican Republic; LBJ's concern over press coverage and his naivety regarding favorable press coverage; Bundy's involvement in the 1967 Six-Day
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . We had a wonderful secretary, Joyce Bolo, wife of the Agence France Presse bureau chief, Felix Bolo, and mother of two young sons, who kept the books and the office running. You kind of say to Lescaze, "Well, I'll go up north, and you stay down here
  • Alsop; Bureau Chief duties; the Tet offensive; print journalists and TV reporters; Braestrup’s theory of LBJ’s approach to Vietnam; LBJ’s credibility gap; the “Five O’clock Follies: the JUSPAO; Barry Zorthian; press leaks and obtaining accurate
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the elite. Now these are my words, not his, and they would vary from town to town, and he could be relied on to sort of feel out his audience and use the necessary words for each individual town. There was a problem, however, with the press
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ward -- I -- 12 I remember that stuck in everybody's mind--and this was the type of thing that turned the press off on him--Dave Cheavens
  • 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • any sort of intimations in those days of the sort of later at least alleged manipulation of the press that Johnson attempted from time to time? B: Well, he wanted to tell you his story. There's no question about that. He wanted to persuade you, he
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interested, and giving them a chance of feeling they were on the inside. It was done in the evening so they could have an opportunity to call their press friends if they wanted to or call the interest groups they'd want to and get credit for giving them
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • every day and I even begin to realize it in watching it unfold in the press, was simply that it was the best way in the Johnson Administration to underline a success story. The hardest thing to do is to get the success story told. F: How did you
  • incident; Lady Bird served fruit and vegetables of Texas to visiting guests; Lady Bird was LBJ’s goodwill ambassador; Lady Bird flew in the same plane as the press; logistical problems of getting stories in; Lady Bird’s gift for phrase-making; White House
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor
  • Rights Commission; a discussion with LBJ about the press; LBJ meets with observers of the 1967 elections in Vietnam, a staged affair; Civil Rights Commission-Justice Department relations, especially under RFK; LBJ ignores the Civil Rights Commission
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • was ready to join the group, probably in Brazil, it had become clear from the local accounts in the press here, that the press at least was treating the Kennedy trip through Latin America as a sort of assault on the Johnson interpretation of the Alliance
  • Senator Robert Kennedy’s press secretary, 1966; Kennedy’s 1967 trip to Paris and rumor of a 'peace feeler'; animosity between LBJ and Kennedy; Mankiewicz urging Kennedy to become a presidential candidate in 1968(?)
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a change, this harmonious relationship of the President and the President's advisers on Vietnam might come apart. After McNamara left, and as Secretary Clifford fitted into his role, you saw a bit of this manifest itself. M: Certainly the press reported
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tried to prepare the press by getting as much material as we could on the visitor, because most of President Johnson's visitors were people not very well known in Washington. Only occasionally you got a Peron or a Harold Wilson. -:'. Particularly
  • Heads of State visits; press corps shift to San Antonio; LBJ’s interest in Texas politics; LBJ State Park; Connally-Yarborough feud; McNamara resignation; Clark Clifford; division with Willard Wirtz; cabinet officers and White House staff members
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with that, but the public relations officer, who was Major General [Winant] Sidle, said, "Well, you've got to think about this, General Abrams, that the press is going to say that now that Westmoreland is gone, you're changing his strategy, and you're going to get a lot
  • ; General Abrams; the press; Robert Komer; comparison of McChristian and Davidson; opinion of VC; Tet and predictions of its occurrence
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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 SIEGEL II -- 18 with the press, Mr. Johnson's esteem
  • ; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went to Houston on the desk of the Press, which was a Scripps-Howard paper at that point. I finally became city editor of that paper. G: What year was that, do you remember? M: Oh, dear. That was 1922 or 1923, I have forgotten. there to Pensacola
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ while working for Congressman Kleberg; LBJ’s relationship with FDR, Ickes, and Alvin Wirtz; George Brown; Sid Richardson; Bob Anderson; LBJ as a congressman; LBJ’s press relations; Bobby Baker; LBJ and Coke
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . W: I became a housewife, yes, but a very committed housewife as far as Washington was concerned . I was fascinated, followed the press very closely, very interested in what Bill was writing, very interested in the personalities there . I felt