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  • anything to say about [whether he] might run against Lyndon in 1954. He didn't. G: Did LBJ feel that Shivers might consider running? There was an awful lot of-- J: --talk about it. No, I don't think he ever did. But he was aware that the press
  • don't think. Maybe he did. But he was pressing Johnson and Johnson couldn't hide, couldn't run. He had nobody around him except me and what kind of support am I? Nothing I could say, anyway. Well, Malik thought he was scoring points. Somewhere I have all
  • be called the public relations office or the press office. It was a tremendously exciting time, and the Roosevelt victory in '36 was of great satisfaction in the Mine Workers office. My political activity then was confined to writing speeches for some
  • ; personal anecdotes of knowing the Johnsons early in his Washington career; LBJ interacting with strangers; socializing with the Johnsons while LBJ was in the Senate; LBJ’s relationship with the press; LBJ’s work as Majority Leader; Senator Richard Russell
  • of the Federal Woman's Award winners. I met him personally when we were taken to the White House to meet the President. There was a press briefing, and the President introduced us to the press. That was my first actual opportunity to shake hands with him
  • Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging
  • of this was ever by chance. Yo u weren't flying from, say, Weatherford to Graham and just suddenly realize that's Peaster down there or something like that. M: No, no. It was all planned and programmed. And then the press followed in another car or cars so we
  • back." "By god, it just shows you can't believe everything you see in the press. He didn't look like a nigger to me." Anyway, he didn't think there was anything wrong with that. So I said good bye to him, and I went over to my office, and about a half
  • actually started to Warsaw, as one press account had it a year ago. And I don't think we'll know until war's end and considerably after whether this was really a tragically missed opportunity or not. M: What about the ones then following that--the other
  • you and I could sitting out here half a day." G: Did the press continue to have an interest in him out here once he was no longer president? S: I think so because--he decided that he was going to have his own milk and eggs here on the Ranch. We were
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
  • to be unpleasant with the Congress or with the press or something of this kind so that he ought to know he's going to have some dirt thrown at him for doing this. But in fact the decision has already been made, maybe made by some prior occurrence, by some prior
  • to the Quadriad, or we'll lay them out to Martin, and let's see what he-- G: The statement to the press was fairly conciliatory, though. C: Compared to the earlier draft. I did send the President a draft of a much tougher statement that said
  • to surround it and know every angle and what have you, number one. Number two, it obviously helped bring that kind of intellectual economic community along once you went and have them supporting you in the press and in their parties and what have you
  • ://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 Califano -- XLVI -- 3 Almost from the time--the fall out. We took flak in the press
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3--Mid dleton Intervi ew (6-20-7 9) 9. Did you work with all of the Johnso n Press Secret aries? No. 10. What do you think was Presid ent Johnso
  • " was in Roosevelt's press statement when he released the report. VFD: That wasn't in the report itself. Cliff wrote a brilliant piece, I thought, on credit, saying that the South was the paradox of the nation. CJD: This part was edited out, but the a wastepaper
  • was popping down to Washington all the time and the Senator would have me down there. George was his name--was his press secretary then. G: Reedy. F: Reedy, George Reedy was his press secretary. Walter called me one afternoon and said, “The National Press
  • at the press conference, because number one, I was having a difficult time selling tickets. The chairman of our party and the treasurer of our party were in some disagreement with each other, and some very splendid volunteers were sort of holding this dinner
  • the press was brought out to the compound, and it was drizzly. Jackie was very pregnant; she made a sort of a distant appearance. Bobby was around. There wasn't any glamour to the compound at that point, but everybody got to see it. Johnson had picked
  • say it and it's something unpleasant, you can't take it back." This was a little bit like the story of the press conference that was told yesterday, where he had made some remark. And that, I think, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • was rather upset so I went back and told the librarian about it, and she said, "Oh, well, you can go to see Lyndon Johnson. head of the Press Club. He'll know what to do about it. He's He'll talk to you about it." So she sent me over to his office
  • and I were at daggers points. That was not true. F: That's one thing I wanted to ask you. M: That was not true. F: In the press, sometimes you seemed to be heading on a collision course. M: Oh, that's the press making that up. F: The two of you
  • the presses. I thought for a while they might go ahead; we tried recasting the first and last chapters. It still didn't quite fit with--to their satisfaction. And, within two or three weeks, they cancelled the publication altogether. G: I'm
  • being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVIII -- 2 G: But he took the initiative, as you recall. C: Oh, he took the initiative and pressed very hard. G: Do you recall what he said in those phone conversations? C: No, I
  • it by getting the sense and the meanings of our conversations and our discussions and convey that sense of meaning to Hanoi. Of course there was, I can't remember in detail now all of the elements of the conversations, but the Poles pressed us pretty hard
  • was saying that. There were a couple of sources with deep misgivings about how the press and public were being misled, who were not in a position to tell anyone what happened, but to indicate their own disquiet, let's say, about whether the facts were all
  • Marder's career history covering foreign affairs; LBJ's foreign affairs-related experience as he entered the presidency; LBJ's credibility gap in the press; LBJ's tendency to exaggerate; Marder's August 1964 coverage of the Tonkin Gulf incident
  • very cautious speeches that were entirely suitable for a Senator from Texas.He was getting out of the speech writing business here in the White House, both because of his job as Press Secretary and because the kind of speeches that needed to be written
  • asked him for an imaginative reporter Dave had recommended me. I got to know Johnson reasonably well, and by that time the committee work was so heavy that the United Press had committees divided up. My committees were the Armed Services Committee
  • . It suggests a fickleness to me that shouldn't occur . M: Do you think the press image which has sometimes been not very favorable to the President has been important in lessening his popularity? B: I think it has been a factor . M: Do you think the press
  • , I never will forget what Lyndon Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up. He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia. Harry Byrd was for Nixon. But I had been in business
  • appeared. I believe I was invited out to the Ranch while he was vice president for dinner once. Maybe when--yes, that's true, with some members of the press. I know what it was. He had just finished his tour of India, and it was a--he was in a rare mood. He
  • , and sure enough he wanted him up there. We got Sam to the plane that afternoon, and off he went to Washington. He wouldn't let Sam out of his sight that week. He kept Sam with him morning, noon and night. Saturday morning came when he had this press
  • don't know who did it; I wasn't in Dallas and didn't have this kind of feel of the place. They stepped forward--it could have been Henry Wade or it could have been a judge, I guess--as the press term is, they empaneled a blue ribbon grand jury, all white
  • they were there. They didn't like the fact we kept pressing them to, "Let's go up and get these people." G: Did you appeal Colonel Lowndes' decision not to send the relief force? L: Oh, hell yes. I did to Westmoreland, and I also did to Abrams, but I
  • there that day listening to him later went into the service and became a helicopter pilot and worked for us at Sikorsky. G: Is that right? C: Yes. His name is Don Gordon [?]. He lives just out of Dallas. G: Did the press ever travel with him
  • , and then a whole bunch of other people. Ed Guthman was there. I remember Ed Guthman was having two regular press conferences a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and the national press was there in very great numbers, and this made it quite difficult
  • : The introduction to the report or each part of the report? B: To the report. And then he would write a press release based on the report. Those reports had an excellent reputation over there. We'd take then over to the press gallery. Of course, the press gallery
  • . The President was having a press And he called up, and it was the first time I had 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
  • Vietnam; 6% surcharge; Wilbur Mills; Emile VanLennap; Chairman Mahon; IRS; Sheldon Cohen; Stan Surrey; Henry Ford; Sidney Weinberg; gold rush; financing difficulty; Paul Volcker; Ed Snyder; Heller-Pechman plan; Presidential press conference
  • gets rediscovered by the press about once 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 no aircraft in the world equipped like his aircraft is. Go: Do you also make provisions for the press to fly with the President? Gu: No, not unless they charter one of our aircraft. We get into this by the press not being given