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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Zorthian. J: Well, I can't with honesty say I know or that this is the way it was. really don't know. Yes. I I'd just be guessing. G: Fine. J: Barry was an activist, and I think he felt that the role of the press in information and so on was more
McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. And none of this had really happened for black reporters. In that day and time, you could count on both hands the number of black reporters working for the mainstream media. G: There was a significant black press and I guess that’s where most
How Terry got a job at the Washington Post; shaking hands with Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus; early encounters with LBJ; Capitol Press Club; awarding LBJ for civil rights work; LBJ giving scholarship money to a black college student in 1963; job

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Moyers, who was President Johnson's press secretary, ber in the process of interviewing for that article, and I remem- sometime in the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Biographical information; preparation for covering Vietnam; reflections on McNamara; the Caravelle Hotel; recollections of Thich Tri Quang; the Buddhist movement and the Ky government; press policy in Vietnam; opinion of Ky; elections in Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

saw eye to eye. F: Did you see much of Johnson in his Senate years, back here in Austin? K: Not a whole lot, periodically-- F: Did he come around the press room any? K: Yes, he would do that every now and then just on a hand-shaking tour. F
Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. That is, as I don't have to tell you, the President does--and the whole family- live in a fish bowl, and yet some things are theirs. C: Well, that was constantly the tightrope that a press secretary to a first lady walks, because the first lady
Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

HotS e his relations with the press are composed, first of all, of his prior relationships. As Jack Kennedy once said in a press conference when Charlie Bartlett was being assaulted for a piece he and Stu Alsop had written in the Saturday Evening
LBJ and his relations with the press

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--then United Press--worked as a radio writer for many years, and then started covering several departments-- F: Did you see--? T: --and then started covering the White House [at the] start of the Kennedy years, January 1961. F: When did you first
Thomas’ first meeting with LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and newsmen; covering the 1960 campaign; White House press corps; LBJ’s vice-presidential years; Mrs. Johnson’s trip through the South; television and the Vietnam War; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

explode. F: That was enough of that. Mc: Yes. This was very curious to me. As the trip went on, he had a good press to begin with, and then when he got to Rovaniemi in Finland--this was after several days of very, very strenuous travel, crossing

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of meetings with members of the press. R: Oh, yes. G: Were they trying to get a perspective on Lyndon Johnson, a new President? Is this why they would come to you? R: Basically what they were up to, Mike--it's funny what a difference it makes
LBJ’s staff; Pierre Salinger; LBJ and the press; Reedy appointed as press secretary; railroad strike and machinists’ strike; LBJ’s understanding of Latin America; Alliance for Progress; War on Poverty; tax bill; civil rights bill; LBJ’s secrecy

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hung around in Doug Kiker's office--he was the director of press for the Peace Corps--watching TV. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
and Austin; going to work for Press Secretary Bill Moyers; advancing a meeting between LBJ and the Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, at Campobello; LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; recording conversations between LBJ and the press office; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be a segregationist and try to uphold some principle that's long outmoded and overruled. (Interruption) G: Okay. I was asking you about Bill Moyers' replacement of George Reedy as presidential press secretary. J: When I came on board and was around a while
judges to appoint; Bill Moyers replacing George Reedy as press secretary; Reedy's contention that LBJ was isolated from accurate information; Bill Moyers' personality; the credibility gap; George Christian as press secretary; Thurgood Marshall's

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

meetings and that sort of thing. As a matter of fact, in the press room we had heard that there were complaints after a while from some of the cabinet members about the difficulty of having to go to Texas to have a meeting, because they'd have to get up
LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

four or five of us in. logue. It was just fascinating. It was an eve~ing of Johnson mono- Then I covered him for a while in the 1964 campaign and in the second term I think, so only on fairly public occasions, press conferences. Very few press
Biographical information; 1957 Civil Rights Act; Presidency; LBJ's relations with the press; Eric Goldman; anti-communism; Vietnam

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 20, 1968 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Mr. Reedy. Sir, what part did you play in the election campaign of 1964? R: I was the press secretary. B: Did that involve any particular problems

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

some candle-pieces to hide some blemishes there in the background, and then we had to get identical chairs. All of these arrangements were fascinating. I recall in the meantime I was keeping Bill Moyers, who was the press secretary and the man I
Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ treated

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

it get him into so much difficulty with the press, because a lot of the feeling that there was a credibility gap, that he dissembled, that he misled the press and the public, and certainly Eric Goldman describes that in his The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
LBJ's decision-making in regard to the Dominican Republic in 1965; Abe Fortas' involvement with the Dominican Republic; LBJ's concern over press coverage and his naivety regarding favorable press coverage; Bundy's involvement in the 1967 Six-Day

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. We had a wonderful secretary, Joyce Bolo, wife of the Agence France Presse bureau chief, Felix Bolo, and mother of two young sons, who kept the books and the office running. You kind of say to Lescaze, "Well, I'll go up north, and you stay down here
Alsop; Bureau Chief duties; the Tet offensive; print journalists and TV reporters; Braestrup’s theory of LBJ’s approach to Vietnam; LBJ’s credibility gap; the “Five O’clock Follies: the JUSPAO; Barry Zorthian; press leaks and obtaining accurate

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 speechwriter himself, but he was at that time Press Secretary and really the number one substantive aide as well--and deeply
; press leaks and staff members talking to the press; believing in what you write; 'crisis mongering'; changes in socioeconomic conditions for Negroes; presenting statistical information to the President; the Kerner Commission; Robert Kennedy speaking out

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

went out. Then we went back and we began working up you know a press kit, press statement, White House press announcements, and then talking back and forth about these remaining problems. It rocked along and I then had the idea, because

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

about specific telecasts? H: I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary, we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had been said or shown. F: Do you remember what it was? H: I'm sure both
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

speeches. It did not attract any kind of superlatives from the press, no one leaped on it, because it did not have a structure at that time. It was just a phrase. F: Excuse me a minute, Jack, but had you before then tried to find some sort of a tag
House' speech; LBJ and the press; LBJ’s television appearances; Festival of the Arts; Eric Goldman; Dwight MacDonald; Charlton Heston.

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was, and I was aware that he was a supporter of the administration, that he had been identified with it. M: You went off to work for the New York Times, I believe, for a little while. W: I was a Washington correspondent to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the news almost daily, I'd like to emphasize in this interview your personal relations with Mr. Johnson, your government position, and your assessment of some of the milestones of his career, and a very important area--his press relations. Do you recall
organization workings, policy problems, determining how to portray America to radio listeners; LBJ’s lack of involvement, USIA, recommended changes. Chancellor’s comments on 1964 convention, LBJ’s relationship with the press, how LBJ’s career as a legislator

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the elite. Now these are my words, not his, and they would vary from town to town, and he could be relied on to sort of feel out his audience and use the necessary words for each individual town. There was a problem, however, with the press

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ward -- I -- 12 I remember that stuck in everybody's mind--and this was the type of thing that turned the press off on him--Dave Cheavens
1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He really wanted to--he pressed hard : something of substance that I can do, something of real "Is there importance � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

h im up on it. The n we had a f l ap . th e event . on this . We had some di sagreements ov er press cove ra ge of This c a used some real problems . He a nd Liz didn ' t s ee eye- to- eye She naturally wante d full pre ss coverage , and h e
East Wing press corps; Liz Carpenter; White House reporters; press accreditation; LBJ’s relationship with the press; LBJ-Udall controversy; cabinet members; MLK and RFK assassinations.

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

already dug in and had put himself in charge of the press relations and was acting as the voice of the agency. So I came down in a rather difficult position of having a deputy already established, and having to take over a department that had been
Biographical information; Shrivers; Holmes Brown; James Kelleher; John Brademus; Mr. Boutin; Mr. Loftus; press relations; Marshall Peck; Paul Weeks; Erwin Knoll; Joe Kershaw; "The Year Toward Tomorrow;" yearly Congressional approval; lack of White

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and the Far East in 1966, I guess it was. M: This is the only time you traveled actually in the press party. A: Right. M: Did you get the impression on that occasion, this was when he was meeting with. the chiefs of state of all the Asian states
LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, [George] Christian, the press secretary, or whoever was the press secretary, had to see him every day. In periods of domestic crises of one kind or another, or during that late September to March period I'd see him all the time because-(Interruption) M

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

interested, and giving them a chance of feeling they were on the inside. It was done in the evening so they could have an opportunity to call their press friends if they wanted to or call the interest groups they'd want to and get credit for giving them

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in February or March, and I think I was made deputy assistant secretary in May. M: Right. In that position, where you were dealing with the press--this, of course, is before Mr. Johnson's, I guess, really bad trouble with the press began, so you had
; goals for South Vietnam; reasons for LBJ’s unpopularity; flaws in LBJ’s handling of the press; inept press corps handling Vietnamese War; incorrect editing of press dispatches; LBJ’s abilities as a diplomat; peace negotiations 1966-1968; 1968 Paris peace

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Gittinger INTERVIEWEE: FERD KAUFMAN (with Ida Kaufman) DATE: November 6, 1997 PLACE: Mr. Kaufman's residence, Richardson, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: How long had you been working for AP? K: I went to work for the Associated Press in--gosh, I think
; interactions with Secret Service agents regarding Kaufman's efforts to follow LBJ; LBJ's opinion of press attention; touring the Ranch house; a seventy-fifth birthday party for LBJ at the Ranch after his death; the telephone system at the Ranch; the lack

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wanting to know about some public matters. You remember, I suppose people have told you this, that he is supposed to have cancelled appointments after it had leaked out somewhere through the press. I've heard it. Did you ever hear of that? I have
;’ Ted Dealy; Bobby Baker, LBJ’s right hand man; Sam Houston Johnson; eastern press; Ralph Yarborough; retiring in 1958.

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. And at that time, of course, the evidences of disenchantment with the Catholic regime of Ngo Dinh Diem were beginning to surface, particularly in the northern part of the area, the Hue-Da Nang area, as well in Saigon itself. All of them exacerbated by a press
in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1963; weaknesses in the Hamlet Evaluation System and other status reports from Vietnam; Stilwell's impressions of press coverage of the Vietnam War and specifically that of David Halberstam; the U.S. government's failure

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

every day and I even begin to realize it in watching it unfold in the press, was simply that it was the best way in the Johnson Administration to underline a success story. The hardest thing to do is to get the success story told. F: How did you
incident; Lady Bird served fruit and vegetables of Texas to visiting guests; Lady Bird was LBJ’s goodwill ambassador; Lady Bird flew in the same plane as the press; logistical problems of getting stories in; Lady Bird’s gift for phrase-making; White House

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, "The foreign aid bill." He said, "Oh." He was then trying to leave, go down the hall to the East Room for a press conference. Not all press conferences were held in the East Room but this one was. So everybody left, and I went to my office. It hit me when I got
that civil rights and Medicare legislation were inevitable, as opposed to education legislation such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; LBJ's decision to make O'Brien the postmaster general of the U.S. and a press conference at the LBJ Ranch

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for voting for the Taft-Hartley. So labor was opposed to him. P: When Coke Stevenson came up here, Lyndon tipped me off and I arranged a press conference for Coke Stevenson and had a question asked of him by one of my assistants about the Taft-Hartley Act
news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)

were there you may know something about them. First question concerns the Hhite House Communications Agency. Can you tell me anything about how that functioned and what its connection was with you as press secretary? CHRISTIAN: It supplied our
Special telephone interview regarding the impact of television on public policy; White House Communications Agency; use of videotape; White House Naval Photographic Unit films; LBJ's close relations with the press; television news reports; effect

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with people that Lyndon Johnson would be a fine president. F: Did he talk with you about it? H: Yes, he did. So he had that idea. Again, under the way that President Eisenhower worked wherever he went there was press, so wherever there was press

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