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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • money. And also [it was partly] a very casual encounter: his older brother, Uncle Will, was married to a woman who wrote poetry and published it in small magazines, women's magazines and in local papers, and perhaps a little more wider range. Anyhow, her
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • magazine there was a big picture of Senator Humphrey holding the V-for-victory sign with Larry O'Brien, delighted with the passage of the bill in the Senate after the very vigorous opposition we offered. So I guess we didn't have quite the sympathetic ear
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Texas incidentally--in 1956 I was editor of two trade magazines in Stanford, Connecticut dealing with the inland commercial marine industry--tugboats, barges. Then in 1959 or '60, I guess, I started with a friend of mine a national magazine called
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • publicity like the Kennedys were getting. "Every week they're on the cover of this magazine or that magazine. I can't even get an item in 'Periscope.'" (Laughter) G: This was his Senate staff, is that right? M: No, his vice presidential staff. Reedy, Liz
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Occasionally he would ask a question about a magazine. or he would come in and he would say there was a certain item in some magazine LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • between wire services, magazines, newspapers, television, and foreign press--foreign press being put on for the very simple reason that when there are foreign royal weddings we want American reporters to have the right to be there. F: Do you arbitrarily
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that is directly. I started working for Time magazine in Paris in 1950 and at that time the French war in Indochina was going on. So I had a good deal to do from the Paris end of covering the story, that is, from the French end of the story. And [I] became
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • do good and you'll certainly get more than thirty-five bucks." I don't know what they paid me in the beginning but about forty-five. "At least you can move up and you can do what I'm doing." This is John Radosta, R-A-D-O-S-T-A. He said, "I do magazine
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have that background. B: I was working at McCall's magazine with Lynda Bird. She and I became good friends, and I came to Washington several times. I was in her wedding, and I got to know the family pretty well. One day her father called me
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to their membership. And the project helped develop a new kind of interest in household employment. It spread awareness of the problem. Three or four Magazine writers took it up. of the leading, very large circulation magazines ran feature articles LBJ
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • --and we won the Academy Award in 1967. We published a weekly news summary; we published a monthly magazine on the war on poverty, which is disseminated very widely throughout the country; and in addition put out brochures and booklets and fact materials
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wildenthal -- I -- 23 Johnson. He had in tow a Look magazine correspondent, I believe, who was doing an article on him. He asked me
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the managing editor of Harper's magazine. Lapham proceeded to testify that he could account for Drosnin's presence with Hoffman when the deal was made as an effort by Drosnin to pursue an article he was writing supposedly under Lapham's direction on drugs
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -eight depressed counties that comprise Appalachian Ohio. national newspaper and magazine publicity. As a result, we received -Time magazine ran a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 5 Lyndon let them go for the speeches at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. The next day Knowland brought up one of the most controver- sial bills. You'll have to check Time magazine
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . One of the most devastating articles about Johnson in this era was written in Harper's magazine by Larry King. Larry and I got to be friends during this period, and some of what Larry says is entirely too bitter and too biting, but a lot
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • helped Governor Connally when he prepared his story which ran in Life magazine. As you look over on that wall, you'll see the picture and the inscription there. It's a picture from Life magazine. M: Right. That's the one of John Connally standing
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • reading a popular magazine or anything like that at all . He was a great newspaper reader . He bought every issue of the paper and of course at that time there were quite a few dailies in Washington and he would buy each latest edition and he read them
  • of popular magazines; LBJ a voracious reader of newspapers; LBJ-FDR agreement on policy; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ gets NYA job; roadside parks; the "Little Congress;" LBJ drafts patronage agreement for Texas delegation.
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that information. But shortly after that the fellow who was acting primarily as our chief information officer allowed a Time magazine photographer to come into our office and take pictures. imagine. That upset me no end, as you might He tried to say, "The guy
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • White House correspondents, wrote about the administration Then know, and wrote a column on the presidency . I got started on Tet! , the book . in a strange way . I had been writing and free-lancing And it started, a magazine writer, done before
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dealt with it. There was an article--I think it was in McCall's magazine, one of the women's magazines--which by happenstance my wife happened to have. And that told of the difficulties--how clinical laboratories were giving phony responses, what
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are in the office, but Harry's in there asleep and Jim's reading Pathfinder magazine," which was a Boy Scout magazine [or] something. (Laughter) We were scared to death. Moyers I remember one time--poor Walter Jenkins had been working on Johnson's 13 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • pornographic literature. Now I'm sure that none of the Justices ever saw those films or ever saw those magazines and they struck down these decisions out in California with what was known as a per curiam decision through the court. It wasn't even written
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • like to talk about a couple of national matters which were occurring at about this time. Some time, I believe in April, I received a phone call from Martin Litton, the travel editor of Sunset magazine, and himself an extremely ardent conservationist
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was quoted in Time magazine as attacking [the] Alliance for Progress. So I'd been through this with him before. Yes, if he was suspicious of Moynihan, he saw a perfect way to handle the matter. Me. G: Let me ask you to recount the attack of the civil rights
Oral history transcript, Willy Brandt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not been president very long, he gave an interview to a German correspondent, the Quik [?] magazine, in which he said that the Germans in Berlin particularly ought to look at their problem through Russian eyes. I know it may have caused some consternation
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Minister in the Fourth Republic and was the leading politician in the Fifth, she had a magazine called--well, it's like the forepeak of a vessel, a nef, so it's called La Nef. Atlantic Monthly. on Poverty. It's sort of like Harper's or She asked me to do
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • World War II, the fraternities never won the presidency. what the independents gave us. The only thing they won were The independents never challenged the editorship of the Cactus, for example, because that was not a magazine but sort of a social
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • along, and I'll just The only on~ trip with him. let you take the reins. Mc: Dr. Grosvenor had committed the magazine to a story. I think he probably already has it on the tape, how he approached him on it. F: He thinks at a garden party. Mc
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • . and go to school, too. Minnie'~ habits. They invited me to live with them So I did and became very familiar with She read constantly. She read everything, read the reports and histories and magazines and everything. 1 1 See footnote number 1
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • worked on for almost six or eight months leading up to the announcement and then later there was a magazine article on it in the New York Times and then later in my book, To Be Equal, which went into it more in detail. Mr. Johnson is mentioned in the book
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; O'Brien's obligation to work for Humphrey's campaign through the end of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Humphrey's role in getting O'Brien's work obligations postponed to 1969 and later cancelled; offers from Look and Life magazines to do
Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that story, and many, many years later I read in Time magazine where Lyndon was telling that as one of the stories from his school. And it came from me, from my school. M: You mentioned earlier that when you were in high school and went to school
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an editorial writer at the Times. You go to the Sunday magazine and a hundred or so employees, and I understand, as of t o d a y , that there isn't a black in that part of the New York Times. I need not tell you but these are just vital ways of getting ideas
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a sense of how difficult we expected this to be. We lined up every columnist we thought we might have some clout with--magazines, the black press and everything, [and we prepared] special materials that would appeal particularly to each columnist. Again
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were making. The climax came and he supported us completely when a man named [J. B.] Matthews was named staff director of the committee, along about June of 1953. one of the magazines. Matthews had written an article that appeared in The lead paragraph
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reason, it didn't happen. Lyndon was hoping to come back on Christmas Eve with good news, some sign that the Pope would intercede in the war with Ho Chi Minh. Some days later Hugh Sidey wrote a piece for Life magazine and he called it, "Around the World
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • with which he hoped to come back and run Washington, and I came down as a political writer for the Reporter magazine to ask him if that story was true. It led to a story that he liked, interpreting Johnson and his attitude toward national politics. But I
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)