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Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • announce the next day--Sunday, February 14, where he was on one of those "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press" programs--that he was going to campaign for Humphrey in Wisconsin. In other words we would give him the District of Columbia and he would help
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • state do in a case like that? S: I started smoking. F: Are you talking about literally or smoking inwardly? S: I would occasionally light up a cigarette in a press conference. really smoke, didn't before, and don't now. No. F: Incidentally
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pushing was the other way, that the senator sometimes just couldn't go along. So he always had to be acquainted with those and I don't think he ever, as far as I know, pressed a senator to do something which he knew would have a severe backlash in his
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been some talk about Lyndon Johnson's style of campaigning, as he called it, "pressing the flesh", sort of barnstorming and going from town to town, that this is out of style, and it's no longer necessary to campaign like that. And so I was interested
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • increase should serve to point that out where in his chalk talk to the press on the blackboard, he outlined what the problem was--that his $25 billion deficit was intolerable, that the choices then were either to borrow most of that deficit, to borrow
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a speech in Japan that seemed to be contrary to what Johnson was saying in his campaign speeches. The press made it a big thing. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have to go look in the press and see that. What's remarkable about--in the context of this . . . I think the President was also much more comfortable once we got Pat Brown out to California. G: You did send an air force plane to Greece to meet him. C
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I may been--when we handed the message out, I had to brief the press and I may have been stuck talking to the press because I notice that neither Moyers nor I are listed as traveling up there. But I just don't remember. I know I was in the Speaker's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the proper tombstones. Mrs. Johnson also loved to go looking for antiques, particularly early American pressed glass. And every now and then she would buy something so big, like a piece of furniture with a rounded glass front, which was much used, and almost
  • of a restroom; a 1956 birthday party for LBJ with several senators in attendance; LBJ's relationship with Senator William Fulbright; socializing with Walter Lippmann and other members of the press; the National Guard presence in Arkansas to allow desegregation
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were going to tell me something. W: He had the press interviews there. We went into Austin and I went into Austin with Mrs. Johnson to go to the beauty parlor. It was quite exciting for me. I had never lived with a person of their caliber before and I
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that just wanted to talk and wanted to take some literature and we'd give them literature. and we worked hard. It was a fun job, I mean, we seemed to be awful busy up there with these drop-in people. G: Did you work at all with the press? E: Very
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not excited about the Sputnik, about the Soviet Union. He just said we weren't in a race. a press conference and said we weren't in a race. said that it was just a hunk of iron. [James] Hagerty h~d One of the admirals I think because it was down- played
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • if nobody else was there but me. B: Was that an innovation of yours? H: Oh, absolutely. People never dreamed of starting anything like that and never dreamed of having a secretary that was there at 8:30. B: I believe that you had regular press
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to go--which I did. I had issued a Johnson-support statement, as acting chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, like everybody else. on something like this. The press always tries to get an angle I don't think John Kennedy had been dead twenty-four
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that and then Steve Early, the press secretary--and he was the senior fellow in the White House--said, "Stop it. want it done." I don't know why. The Boss doesn't So we did stop it, although we'd already--one of my favorite stories, having nothing to do
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that the military aid program was designed primarily to build up our strength in Europe. I know that at the same time the Korean War was under way, so that this was in 1950 that I'm talking about. General [Douglas] MacArthur was pressing hard for more air power
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to back up here and break the war out in parts, too. let's go to the advisory war, the war during which time the First~ American role was solely advisory. was very, very small. The press corps at that time The number of people who were either perma
  • Biographical information; reporting from Vietnam; press in the advisory war; Diem regime; correspondents’ activities; networks of sources and information; view of Vietnam; Buddhist-Catholic strife; Hoa My; rural-urban dichotomy; factions; Nguyen
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , because the minute you do that, they'll change the code. G: Is that the impeccable and highly secret source that Mr. McNamara referred to? M: Sure. G: Okay. It was intercepted radio traffic, is that the nature of the thing? M: Yes. But the press
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • going to go to Santo Domingo and take command of the forces." The press later said that the President had told McNamara and Wheeler to send "the best goddamn general we could find" to the Dominican Republic. I didn't believe any of those stories
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Provence -- I -- 5 press. I was editor or managing editor, whatever year it was, on the campus paper. M: Well then, you went ahead and worked through that 1941 campaign which Johnson
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because of opposition I believe principally in the House committee headed by Wilbur Mills. After he made his announcement, he put a full court press on to get this done, and Mills insisted that it had to be coupled with a substantial cutback in the social
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was happening. I was just so shocked when I came back here and I began to see what kind of coverage Tet had been given by the press. G: Would you contrast the coverage with what you were seeing in the cables and what you had seen personally? R: Well
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this with the regular Senate dining room? B: Oh, in the regular Senate dining room you've got all the press to bother you. Another thing, see, if you used the secretary of the Senate's office, you don't have to be explaining to the press why you're there. If you
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek
Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ." He usually let me know a little bit in advance when we were going to have it all typed and mimeographed and ready for the press, and we had a very short time, and we were working quite mad on that. He went on the Senate floor, and it caused a lot
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Houston [Johnson] recalled this same mood and that the staff would help encourage some press stories to the effect that his career was not over, that he could still run for the presidency, or something like that. J: Do you recall any of this effort
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , "What do you think of that?" I said, "Nice picture." (Laughter) He was trying to embarrass me. I caught the devil. (Laughter) They really did give me a time. G: Who did that? HD: Well, mostly the press. G: Anybody in particular that you remember
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • are continually pressing him to make appointments to the advisory council and to act on the Heckscher report, and he seems as if he doesn't respond at that time and that there is not an interest on his part at that time. And I know that in March of that year he
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before he died. I And I put that on the press, released it out of Dallas and Paul Bolton read it on KTBC and then went into a long lecture on the laws of libel and slander. wasn't saying it, I'd simply quoted the Moody speech. t100dy. But I Let them
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , partly because our own economy has expanded to such an extent and partly because we have been pressing for, and indeed ourselves offering tariff advantages to the LDCs, the less developed countries. F: In the spring, our spring of 1965
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • didn't say. But we talked for a long ttme. There was ·he, my wi fe, Jim Ronan, the state chai rman·, and Chri s Vlahoplus, my press secretary, and we had quite a-F: How do you spell that last name? S: V-L-A-H-O-P-L-U-S. He was my press secretary
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it, because I thought he was just a young boy that was bragging about his good relations with the President. But I remembered very distinctly at the time that the impression I had from Mrs. Johnsdn from the press, from seeing her photographs in press
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • section with the President for a press conference in which he was planning to cover some Defense Department stuff, and I was there along with I suppose the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. He kept interrupting the briefing session
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said anything to me about it, never did. And I wondered if he was going to, sometime or another. Had he done it, I'd have said, "All right, you do it. You do it." G: LBJ went public with a series of press conferences-­ M: Oh, yes. G: --I guess
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the room to him. That made it [easy]. Sometimes he would just get right on the phone to that person, or if it was someone calling from the press gallery, he'd say, "Tell him to come on down." It made it very easy to work in that respect. It was confining
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ANITA WINTERS, with occasional comments by Melvin Winters INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Anita Winters' residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side l G: I wanted to ask a question about the press coming in to LBJ's home country
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 12 Well, [in] any case, we got, by and large, good press with the businessmen. God, Max would die if he. . . . This is two reports later, but the last sentence says, "Frankel said
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was due to make a speech he called and said he was corning out, and I said, "Don't come. licked." We are going to get badly So he didn't come, and Kennedy did get the delegation. We fouled it up a little bit in the press, but he got it. went out to Los
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • landslide victory; attributes LBJ’s benevolence to political bribery; LeMay’s disdain for press; LeMay’s support for “conservative” leadership; fear that U.S. might be close to becoming a socialist or communist republic; Republican Party’s interest in LeMay
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to continue exploding these devices and experimenting because the United States had refused to enter into a "no first use" agreement with China. And he said this publicly, under release by the New China Press Agency. Now, this struck me and several others
  • Talks with the Chinese about “no first use” agreement, Test Ban Treaty, offer to exchange medicine, scholars, etc.; attempts to break down formality with the Chinese, Senator Albert Gore divulging information to the press, LBJ’s building bridges