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Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SARAH McCLENDON (and her daughter, SALLY O'BRIEN) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 16~ Tape 1 of 1 M: I thought you might be interested to know the first time I ever met Lyndon Johnson. I can't
Biographical information; meeting LBJ; Lynda and Luci Johnson; LBJ’s relations with the press; Senator Styles Bridges; visits to the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of press criticism; LBJ’s sister Josefa; Bobby Baker; Johnson’s lack of trust of people.

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that you played a role in that. R: Oh, yes, quite a role. I organized all of the press coverage, and more than that, I helped in the setting-up of the Texas visit. Adenauer's security chief--I've forgotten his name now, a German professor--spoke very good

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--disagreement, within the embassy, and that the embassy was not leaking like a sieve, although when you have that sort of disagreement, the likelihood of leaks, I suppose, increases. What was the status of our relations with the press in Saigon at this time? F
Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

] as long as we have the freedom that we have. our standpoint, this never was a major issue. And from The press would debate, argue, interpret, and put their interpretation on the figures. G: I was thinking specifically of the poverty program. The face
Folklore of LBJ; statistics and the press; George Christian; 1968 campaign; Moyers

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

months later when he knew me better, whether he would have wanted to see me every single night or not, I don't know. But it wouldn't have surprised me because he was very much publicly on the line. The press doesn't make a distinction between

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, press discussions, so forth. This was done strictly at the upper levels. C: You mean in India, or in this country? F: Oh, in either of the countries. C: In this country, it was just regarded, I think, as part of the Johnson new emphasis

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

the times I spent with him. M: In the early period it would seem to me there were questions of his relationships with the press. That may have been a recurring theme. H: It was. M: I think you told me that he was very much concerned that he wasn't
to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality

Oral history transcript, Julian J. Ewell, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. overdramatize things. Of course, the press tends to I guess it's just endemic to the press. So I don't think it was anywhere near as dramatic as they painted it, but if you looked at the Hamlet Evaluation System numbers, which were not ideal but the best you
Biographical information regarding Vietnam tour of duty; post-Tet to pre-invasion of Cambodia; Delta; Long An; Dinh Tuong occupations by Viet Cong; TO & E NVA units and Viet Cong main force; press and TV coverage of Vietnam War; body count; Hamlet

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

niche. No one would have had Walter's job for love nor money, but Walter wasn't trying to backbite George Reedy with the press or--I mean everyone worked together. And I think Mr. Johnson liked to have the staff around him weekends, Saturday nights

Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)

and it is just up to us to start out. So let me introduce myself: I am Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library. This is George Christian:. We both worked for President Johnson in the White House. George was far more important than I; he was press secretary
Press relations
use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: No, I don't. G: Can we talk about the press a little bit? That was a very lively None at all. topic, too, I think. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

few minutes. C: Most of my duties pertained to getting the press ready for overseas trips. On most o f our trips, particularly those ~nvolving international conferences like the Manila Conference in 1966; and the Punta d el Este Confe rence
Experiences with Presidential foreign travel; importance of availability of communication; Presidential speeches; LBJ’s foreign relations; White House staff press briefings; Marvin Watson; 75% free hand with the press; Fortas/Thornberry nomination

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

operating apparently under the notion that LBJ was going to run again. R: Yes. G: How were you brought into the campaign organization? I know you had worked in 1964. R: I can't remember exactly how it happened. I may have been pressing Johnson, you

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

came in, really very effectively got them together after a meeting of something less than an hour, as I recall. Took them all out to the press and announced that we were off to the races, and we were moving on the water problem. F: You didn't have any

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was pressing to increase the amount of materiel sold from the stockpile. It was one of several things we were doing. One of the key components of that materiel, and one that produced a lot of dollars for us, was aluminum. So I had some familiarity and so did

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Shortly after Johnson took over in 1963, he brought Okamoto in, and of course Oki can fill you in more about that. But N~sweek ran an article in the press section about Oki and his job, at which point Johnson fired him. The press--he didn't like
, LBJ’s reactions to specific members of the press.

Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the press problems and all the problems involved." I said, "Well, this would be difficult, I can see." His next question was, "Well, where should it be done here in Washington?" 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

day with a press contingent of about sixty people. Mr. and HI'S. Rockefeller greeted Mrs. Johnson at the Jackson Hole Airport. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was a famous incident. What was your vantage point for observing those events? T: Well, I got there shortly after the time that I guess John spoke in the tent and the press was outside. And I talked to [General Paul] Harkins, and I talked to Vann. It was over
1964 to 1967; Timmes' duties in Vietnam in 1967; the Tet offensive and its effect on the character of the war; press coverage of the Vietnam war.

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there any trades that you recall? C: No. It was just pure heat. I'm sure I talked to the [New York] Times editorial people, the [Washington] Post. It was a full-court press. G: Patriotism and-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

don't believe that there was any specific or particular pressure. viously there was a lot of talk in the press. Ob- I think this was really fed by the medium more than people calling the President up and saying, "why don't you put Bobby Kennedy

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the credibility gap. B: You don't feel that Mr. Johnson himself was responsible for his generally bad relationships with the press? G: I would distinguish between bad relationships with the press and the credibility gap. One is a matter of fact, one

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

again, he had a newspaperman there, and once again, I was surprised at the fact that he exposed himself so completely to somebody of the press. This time it was a representative of one of the big wire services, Sid Davis, who had brought his family, too
October 1965 visit to the Ranch; LBJ’s relationship with the press; activities at the Ranch; LBJ’s desire to pay off Democratic National Committee debt and Krim’s involvement; Cliff Carter; John Criswell; political discussions at the Ranch; Francis

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was this type of arrangement where the press would come in and really have a--? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

much more deeply involved in this for a relatively short period of time because of his desire to forge a compromise. G: The Vantage Point indicates that there was, as the newspaper clippings here do, that there was a lot of negative press with regard

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

his He's a powerful, forceful man, as everybody knows, and so of course he made an impression. I didn't see him much after that until one night maybe a year later I was on the board of the Women's Press Club. was sea,ted at the head table. di nner
Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent; impressions

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. MG: Were the Secret Service in practice more than simply security? I mean, did they, in addition to preventing an attempt on the Vice President's life, did they--were they pressed into service to help him in other--? G: A little. Not much. My

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

wanted to go to Washington, which we argued against, but he wanted to go. He decided to hold a press conference before he left Austin to go. He set the press conference up, or we set it up, for one o'clock, one-thirty that day, and he was going to leave

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by them. They became our first-rate sources, and the pessimism and the doubts that fed into that press corps came first and foremost not from dissident Vietnamese politicians, as people later claimed, or this political group or that group in Saigon

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interesting case, perhaps because it's lapped over into this Administration and has been the subject of a good deal of press comment. As you know, President Johnson has always been very sensitive to press criticism, and often more sensitive than many of us
; the Johnson treatment; books written about LBJ’s Presidency; friction between the Kennedys and LBJ; press relations and criticisms; cause of LBJ’s unpopularity; LBJ’s interest in polls

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him. G: Let me ask you about the Texas press during that campaign. J: The Texas press in Washington? G: No, the newspapers in Texas, the big dailies. Did they tend to support Stevenson as opposed to Johnson or vice versa? J: The big

Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. PE: Didn't even have a press agent. SVS: No. Not a press agent, but a campaign manager, who did furnish a few stories to the Press. PE: I can't imagine a campaign nowadays without at least a press agent. SVS: Well, I had a what you could call

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the United States. And I attribute this primarily to the press coverage at that time and to the dissident groups here in the United States, who were following the Hanoi line and had been before that. I went out to Vietnam late in February, about the twenty

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know. G: Do you have any recollection of the convention? You didn't go to the--? E: No, I didn't go to any of the conventions. G: Or the selection of the vice president, of Kefauver--? E: No, I didn't. (Interruption) G: --press, both

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, it has been said for vice presidential possibilities in a geographic balance of the ticket. W: Only through the press reports on that. Of course, by that time I had met on a personal basis Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, and by then I must admit that I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Wilbur Mills. C: Wilbur Mills and the President. This is a meeting with Wilbur Mills and the President and myself, in the President's office, in the Oval Office as I recall. It was in connection with Mills' pressing for some restriction on spending

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, liking, being amused by, were very strong between me and Tony, my younger brother, who was himself eight years older than me. M: Because you were involved in a national campaign at that time, was there a lot of press there when your--at the funeral? J

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

This was absolute anathema to all those on high, with the possible exception of George Ball. When Lyndon Johnson in his John Mr. Rusk was the worst offender. Ho~kins speech spoke of'~nconditional discussions," Mr. Rusk took the press aside afterwards, I
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; briefing LBJ while VP; Indochina; Vietnam; Diem; Roger Hilsman; William Bundy; Mac Bundy; John McNaughton; Interagency Planning Staff; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; peace negotiations; press leaks; bombing; "Why

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

know. They'd believe what they hear. There was a lot of speculation--I'm not sure when it begins, but from very early times--about advisers engaging in combat. We were constantly, I understand, having to reassure the press that this was not the case

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a mission in and because for American reporters covering Phnom Penh the war, we rarely went anyplace where there was a North Vietnamese possible contact, just about everybody who went to Phnom Penh least a pass in at and the guy, day, in the press
Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!; subsequent

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