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  • done anything in particular to whip up a crowd, or had it just come naturally? V: It had really come naturally. We had done the usual thing of trying to make sure that the press knew about it and that they were coming in early, to let out
  • light on the topic we are about to discuss. Also, on December 14, 1966, Mr. Rowe had a memo which says: Mr. Rowe telephoned George Christian, press secretary to the President, and repeated his conversation with Dudman. Christian the President had told
  • meeting, but you sort of sensed it in individual meetings when he was pressed to do certain things that he would sort of indicate that, after all, he was not the President of the United States. For a man who had had great power and had great energy, I did
  • paratroopers patrolling Connecticut Avenue. George Christian and I got together and went over to the National Press Building, because that's your best view of the riot area, from the National Press Building--National Press Club--and saw a lot of rather strange
  • branch of government about the press in Washington, and Harry was obviously a very bright and personable guy. For some of them I think I did, I mean I may not have listed them in this memo, but I think I probably took Cater, I mean Gaither, or Levinson
  • they recommended and . . ." and he never liked the memo to say, "You asked me for . . ." G: But was he thinking of a contemporary use for the memorandum to show to the press or congressional leaders, or was he thinking of a long-term use to sort of demonstrate
  • and a strong-willed man, was too hard a sell from a political viewpoint, too much pressing. I was too naive, green, I guess insecure, and 1et IS say I was overwhelmed, but I was not overwhelmed sold. I was sort of overwhelmed wanting to say to pull back
  • Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
  • he got to like it. the press a great deal. G: Anything in particular? P: Yes. I remember he used to talk to me about He was very upset about the press. I think he used to particularly complain to me about the New York Times. Mostly he
  • would eventually get a Supreme Court appointment? M: Over and over again. He made the announcement in the East Room, and it was very funny when I went in. The press knew nothing about any of this. When I went in he first said that I would come behind
  • : Okay. C: I called out there. G: Did you learn about it from the President or did you read it in the press initially? C: No, I found out about it at 9:45 a.m. on the fifteenth of October. This is interesting. They don't even have the President
  • approach underscores that. He was at one point going to announce me without any notice to me in a press conference. [He] told me later on that was his intention that morning at the press conference in the East Room, but during the prior evening Dean Rusk
  • on that period not too long ago? I know I made a whole bunch of notes about the episode, because they were talking about how [Edward R.] Morrow and the press were really responsible for bringing this about, or that was the inference. I still have the notes around
  • at Hayden's 1962 press conference from Bethesda Naval Hospital; the relationship between Hayden and LBJ; LBJ and parliamentary rules; Rule 22; LBJ's early success and communication with the older senators; LBJ's concern that Elson influenced Hayden too much
  • of the earlier talks we had--with several people. What about this exchange with Chiari? Was it as passionate as the public press described it? 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • and his failure to explain his decisions to the press and public; Bundy's work in Santo Domingo; Ellsworth Bunker's negotiating success in the Dominican Republic; LBJ's relations with Latin America; LBJ's support of Multilateral Force (MLF); opposition
  • -- I -- 10 G: Do you think that as the process continued during that campaign that there was less censorship, more freedom of the press? Did you see an emerging democracy in terms of the practices? B: Yes, there was more freedom, freedom of the press
  • it was a great press coverage that after that vicious attack, here the man was at a state dinner. And as they were leaving the White House, the man's wife turned to her husband and said, liThe President danced with me three times tonight. Isn't that amazing
  • Hilsman -- I -- 3 substantive or anything else. But after I resigned and was a critic, friends in the press tell me that Johnson tells a story about that evening that I just don't remember anything remotely like. I know it didn't happen the way he told
  • arrange transportation? M: You were entitled to it as long as you had a MACV press card. G: Is that right? M: And then what you did, you took your chances. You arrived at a given point with a MACV press card and went to, in effect, the booking desk
  • legislature. I remember he charged right into the Senate press gallery one day to hand out press releases, and believe me, the press is very stuffy about that. They do not like senators coming into the press gallery. Oh, Johnson may have intervened, but I
  • 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
  • to hit military targets and to keep to an absolute minimum civil an damage and civilian casualties. So that he would press very hard when targets were recommended that appeared to be near populated areas or were in populated areas as to what
  • remember doing a press briefing on how they were withholding capital spending. We suspended the investment tax credit. You ought to get the papers on that because that was quite a fight in the government. Fowler didn't want to do it. G: Okay. C: My point
  • , the Presid ent held a press confer ence at the ranch, announ ced the progra m, read the messag e, Joe Califa no briefe d on some detail s. But they also announ ced that there would be a press confer ence at the Treasu ry at 1 or 1:30 that aftern oon. We
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stoughton -- I -- 10 would have a meeting with someone that the press did not need to know abouts but it was somebody important to the administration and to hims
  • by the budget director, wno was then Percy Brundage. nand. It was too big a budget and was out of George Humphrey, the Treasury secretary, was outraged by it and he protested to the President. He had a press conference in which he said that if this budget
  • think he had any other button but a Fresca button. G: Really? But on his desk in his office didn't he have--? B: The only button that I remember is the Fresca button on the cabinet table, that when he pressed it, it rang in the kitchens
  • victory in the United States because of the way it was reported by our press. I remember saying and reporting to the President a few days after Tet that this had been a major setback and I was fearful that it would turn out to be a psychological victory
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- II -- 7 military failure, but thanks to the bloody press it turned into a political success. Had
  • /show/loh/oh with all the people speculating privately and in columns and "Meet the Press" and so forth that Johnson would be certainly a man that the party would look at. and checking it. B: I couldn't pinpoint the date without going back I'd say
  • he was criticized sharply by the press and by the more-or-Iess hawkish people and by the military for not hitting the military targets in the capital city of North Vietnam. He explained to me that this was a tire plant that sat right in the middle
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 5 "This is the way it is," he was willing to assume that that's the way it was. And, once he'd pressed you with "Are you really sure
  • -­ I -­ 9 B: When Sam Rayburn called a press conference and announced that he thought Lyndon Baines Johnson should be the next president of the United States, and in effect put Lyndon in the race for the presidential nomination. G: Why was Byron
  • and I held a press conference and I, because of my familiarity of being from a state that had the most Indian people and Indian reservations--that I might be my own Indian commissioner. F: As a young Congressman, had you dealt much with Indian
  • during this period? J: I didn't, and I saw him frequently. (Interruption) G: We're talking about the [John] Chadwick press conference. J: I didn't realize it was Chadwick, but I knew that he had had a press conference because he had told us
  • , but he still won the support of the reporters. Do you remember anything like that? J: Well, I know he sure did try to. This, I guess, was the high tide for us in our press relations, because they were always good, as I remember. There was very little
  • Looney and Tom Miller; LBJ smoking; final campaign stops in Houston and Johnson City; LBJ's handshakes; LBJ's relationship with Jesse Jones; LBJ's relationship with the press in 1941; campaign finances; waiting for the election returns in Austin
  • on the Hill, in terms of pressing for legislation, did you notice a change after Johnson assumed office? C: Well, Johnson was much more aggressive than Jack Kennedy. On the surface he was. Again, a problem here is enough time didn't go by for everything
  • very good, in a lot of respects, but they are very good at controlling public opinion as the press, the news media, keep the passions of the population under control, ~/hich parliamentary government in Greece had been shown very weak on. They're
  • of what we think is good security and what we think is bad security as it pertains to that individual. M: Mr. Johnson, as President, got into the press sometimes unfavorably because of his occasional flare-up at the Secret Service, people who were
  • of the press down there. You'll see an account of this in the New York Times, on the front page actually. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • , Ackley and Schultze are pressing for an immediate tax increase. McNamara then comes in--the situation was sort of--everybody knew you were going to have increased military expenditures, but McNamara comes in because he was worried about his own
  • . Rayburn had gone to Bonham. The telephone rang, and he was on the line. He said he just wanted to let me know in case anybody up at the press gallery might be interested that he had just called the Bonham Daily Favorite and had announced that he