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Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it, and Yarborough walked out. They had a big parade, walked out of the convention hall. Well, at any rate, it was a hangover from the Fort Worth convention. G: Again with the Daniel people being in control? W: Yes. Yarborough had a press conference the next

Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

really got a lot of publicity, and we had a big press corps that would travel with us, and she got--for a First Lady, she really got a lot of publicity and a lot of mileage out of those trips, made it to newspapers, and not just the Washington Post

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

: Yes, yes, yes. How could you not? In fact, that very day Lyndon had had a press conference that had some very difficult questions that made him angry, he probably responded to poorly. Well, I think at some point at the cost of taking more time

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

serious movement? K: I've read about it in the press but-- F: Allowing for the fact that people discuss all possibilities. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and MacArthur gave him frank advice and Joe leaked it to the press and it insulted Truman because it didn't agree with Truman's position so Truman fired him. One of Truman's major mistakes. He didn't need to fire him, but again he didn't blow up. He kept his

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

notice on the President's [Diary]--we had the meeting with the chiefs, and then--I love this--"Meanwhile Governor Averell Harriman flew"--this is when we were meeting with the chiefs--"flew to Austin to meet with the press, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krim

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

files of accepted desegregation plans. We believe Mr. Barry has been preparing strong protests against OE." I don't know how [Bill] Moyers got that with Moyers telling Cater to look into this very carefully. This is just a press statement. Some other

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the climate was unsavory. up. There was rumbling of revolutions. Sun Yat-sen was coming My father and mother were quite close to Sun Yat-sen and many other important people of the revolution through the diplomatic corps and also through a press gentleman

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

drove slowly while he discussed the whole matter with me. He had felt that what we ought to do was to get to the press at once with the suggestion that they not run any story about Walter Jenkins until they had more facts. F: At this stage

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

two o'clock that morning-he carried the press with him, and they was sitting around him inquiring about this and talking about that, and it was two o'clock in the morning. I told one of the press persons, a secretary, to tell him that I wasn't

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

group of people could do a better substantive job in private without the harassment of the press, interest groups, and without worrying about haw they look if they're the lone dissenter, without having to explain their stand publicly. P: Were there any

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the press about s orne action that we are thinking of taking with reference to some country, making a loan, something of this sort, or we are going to make a loan or we aren't going to make a loan- -this kind of thing. Often enough, as far as we could

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as we called them, is Ambassador John Bartlow Martin. He did this for Kennedy in 1960 and on a smaller scale for Johnson in '64--to go in and advance for the President, to meet with the local leaders and the press and the opinion makers to find out

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

up here on Connecticut. I've forgotten what it was--right above Dupont Circle-- Johnson, as a young congressman, was pressing Rayburn to put another young Texas congressman on a particular committee in which there was a vacancy. He brought it right

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. Then, he began the endless rounds -- looking for.a job. L'ltimnt!"ly he fOllnd a snaIl utility company. 'rhc on~ d~press;on -- part time -- with a local deE'pen(>d -- l:lonth by l!'onth. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

fairly obvious, when crowds sack the USIS library that doesn't get you very good press with the Foreign Relations Committee. N: Absolutely. G: Was it possible to explain this to the Egyptians in any way that would make any difference? N: I think

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

--this was the biggest thing in his life--and he was very, very involved in it. The day before the Saturday meeting I was sent a copy of the press release from the Department of Interior, announcing the action for the following day. I called Stew up and I said, "We

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't remember him giving Pearson information? W: Not through any way that I found out. I had no indication. I was very much interested to learn the press release methods that were in use in Washington at the time, and I suppose still where copies

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and drowned them, there was a great deal of material in the press about bad treatment of the recruits by the services and so forth. To make a long story short, we had a letter from a man in San Antonio whose grandson had been inducted, and he claimed

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they were going to speculate that. Z: Of course. I denied it, but once it's made in the press, the denial is never read. M: How did he proceed to get the vast amount of legislation passed in 1964 and 1965? Z: I think over the years, as Senate leader

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

very many of them go on national press and say, "This man and agency is out of control, and therefore by the rules of Harvard Business School he ought to be fired." You just make a political assessment. M: Could the Budget Bureau go into the FBI

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

defined at the meeting. F: Tell me if I am right. Now I know the problems that President Kennedy had with Mexico over Cuba; I have a feeling, though, that during the Johnson period that there was more press talk and individual talk about irritation

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

about a matter he hcd . Their relationsh·ip, I thought, couldn 't be better. The press rea11y spent al 1 that t i me try ing to separate the two of them, and who >'as the second mos t powerful man in Hashington , and then they started to put Bobby

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

right around the time of the Super Bowl. I definitely remember it now, because we had a little television set upstairs in one of the press offices, and I think out of one corner of my eye I was watching either Oakland or Green Bay up on this little

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, . . . . . because it's all the difference in the world ';n both what the press sees-..:no matter how they vote,. no matter whether they' re for . ' you strong or n~t--but ' ' what the coverage is and more particularly, · · what it does to a candidate. Because

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

shot down the six Syrian MiGs not too long before. I can remember later on stories in the Cairo press, because of course they were attentive to Battle, who had just been ambassador in Cairo. But they somehow got onto the fact that both Hoopes, who

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-1959. I thought that Senator Johnson and Senator Jackson and others were pressing too much on the missile gap thing and I said something that was more frank than you would say, thinking it wouldn't be published about these people. F: To a reporter? U

Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)

into the press. But most of my contacts with Mr. Reagan have been very private. B: Very private. I appreciate the comments you have made when you spent some time with President Johnson alone or sitting and watching sunsets or spending time in prayer and all

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Office there, waiting for the President, and the President came in, and Lyndon introduced me to him. I had a very nice talk with him there. I have a picture that I prize; we're standing around the rocking chair, and Pierre Salinger, who was the press

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a bad column from Doris Fleeson, asking, "What's this all about?" She'd been in the press gallery. It w as sad, this destruction of a human being, no pleasure, regardless of anything else, to see a man just fall apart; and watch his friends desert him

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and one that indicated that the President was--as it were-leaving the field. At that time Senator Kennedy had been meeting with groups of businessmen and with the press on these off-the-record and background sessions, and making his view very clear

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Russell Long. I know that after I got on the Committee I found it at once easier to gain a sounding board in many segments of the press, particularly the very creditable newspaper and television outlets that treated with foreign policy on a high level

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and had reasonably direct access to the President through it . M: There are always, of course, the press stories that the President's habits of calling up officials in various levels frequently at odd times . 0: No . Has this ever happened to you

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the press afterwards that various 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/loh/oh Nitze

Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and with that engine sitting behind you, it sounded just like a 20 millimeter going off behind you. So you clear your tail a couple of times, which got me too far behind Jones to be effective as a wing man, and so I still pressed on and finally got the engine

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that would be pressing him the hardest. G: Do you remember that at all? R: Well, I remember it now that you've reminded me of it. G: And that John Connally had the petition or the filing papers and one thing and another? R: Well, he might have been

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

They needed like this was a good thing . So we worked at it . G: Did he himself have close contacts with the press, with publishers or reporters? B: Well, knowing his attitude toward the necessity of having good public relations I feel sure he did