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Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

advantage following the TET offensive, that we could have hurt them more and could have severely limited their ability to wage war against us. F: Do you think that there's some sort of almost stubborn refusal to see some things on the part of the press

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it. What we--at least what I--in the office knew was when he got called up to active duty that he initiated this himself. I also knew-G: Initiated? W: His getting called up to active duty. He volunteered, told the press that he wanted to go on active

Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

. You need to understand that at that time, on the second floor of the East Wing, Liz had her office, and of course she was chief of staff as well as press secretary, and then Bess had her office, and then there was a correspondence office, which I sat

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Corpus [Christi] to come up and then I planted five questions. I did this in the Sheriff's campaign when he opened it a few months ago. G: In which campaign? J: Sheriff [Raymond] Frank. He's a good friend of mine. He had a press conference so I

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VIII -- 14 J: Well, I wrote an article, a press release, for the weekly papers I didn't think Lyndon would sign. He [Morse] came down here

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

should He'd clear it and then I'd tell them off record, hush hush, come in the back door, don't talk to tne press, and we'd have a meeting. Or a bill signing. When the bills that we were involved in [were passed], you would have a signing ceremony

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--and when you go over to foreign countries, the CIA sort of works with the Secret Service--on the one hand; and George Christian and his advance press officers on the other hand; and Marvin Watson and just advance men on the third hand--could with little

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

days that Johnson was still a this~ a press briefing? frustrated senator. M: No, I didn't. Did you see any evidence of that? I used to see the then-Vice President from time to time, and he was always willing to do anything he could to help us

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what we really had in mind, but I constantly worked with Dirksen. I remember when I was on "Meet the Press" in about the first part of March, late February, when the Civil Rights Bill had come on down. I was made manager of the bill. They said to me

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

getting references not only to the fact that he was a representative in front of the press, but that he wrote political memos to the Senator. J: He did. And he joined us I just can't remember exactly when. But Lyndon was very proud of him and was always

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on of Eugene McCarthy and/or Senator Dodd who were the other two besides Humphrey who were rumored in the press as under consideration? C: Much of what I have to say is obviously just the expression of a personal opinion. It is my opinion that Senator Dodd

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into action. F: I well remember Harry Truman's delightfully forthright statement when he took the atom bomb out of the military control and put it into civilian, he didn't want some dashing lieutenant colonel making a reputation out of pressing a button. So

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 up the President and tell him I hoped that he would reconsider and change his mind and I said, "No, I'm in no condition to talk to him." So my wife was really shaken. She likes Lyndon Johnson. N: Did you try to press him

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

directly involved in that? That is, did you get any word from the President to press this case? V: I didn't. I'm sure that the Attorney General kept the President fully advised as to our involvement. You'll recall the tragic aftermath of that killing

Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and had all the press come out there and everything, and no youth showed up for the first day. LG: Do you recall that? I don't know. I do not recall this, but in the early days that could certainly happen. MG: From then on he was very careful to make

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the press at the Fairmont Hotel in January of 1973. It just so happened that my wife and I were both going to be in the area, and they asked if I could drop by and see him at the hotel. Well, he was late arriving, but Warren Woodward, a very close friend

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came. whether it was the press, Secret Service, security. I don't know It could have been anyone of them. G: Did he reminisce about King during this period? Did he talk about [him]? R: No. He and Mr. King were not--I didn't get a sense

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: There was a center set up downtown, a communications center, and they put in telephones, and reporters would be there when President Johnson happened to be here and was going to have a press conference. They used that as headquarters, anyway, when he was in Texas

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

jurisdiction. This was a little upsetting. I never heard any- thing about this and if the press had seen it I think they would have played it up. But we stayed outside and talked and wondered and so on. And then finally I believe Thornberry and Brooks

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and departments resent OEO? B: It was so reported very much in the press and elsewhere. We know of the Willard Wirtz LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it would be a catastrophe." Bright woman, Phi Beta Kappa from University of Minnesota, staid person, was in the room in Philadelphia when Hubert Humphrey made his big civil rights speech. But thirty minutes later I'm back in my office and here comes a press

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to broaden the base of representa tion on that Community Action board to afford the target areas an opportunity to be represented . I remember the press tried to needle Mr . Shriver about the fact that there were only two Negroes on the initial Community

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

little opposition. I myself began to show up occasionally in the newspapers. Isabel Shelton wrote a very nice article about me. I got better than I deserved, I think, from the press in general, and almost never ran head on into them. However

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that. F: Were you aware personally of a dissatisfaction on John Gardner's part with the President? That is, did Gardner, as the press indicated, feel that he had not had sufficient support? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

communicated to U Thant. Of course, I can re ca ll th at pe riod. It was always very, very di ffi cu lt because it is very di ffi cu lt to catch up with the press in th is regard. Every one of al l so rts of ind ivi du als would presumably pick up th is kind

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by the press stories and the kind of questions I'd get from people on working for Mr. Johnson, hard taskmaster, all kins of strange personal extremes. I never encountered that. I had a great deal of respect for the President both as a person and as President

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, such as budget-which I didn't handle--and press relations which George Christian handled before he left--with those exceptions most of the ultimate responsibility on the other matters relative to the Governor's office rested with rne insofar as the Governor

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

memory is the first time, as a matter of fact, that he was there. You don't want all of these occasions, do you? As I remember the first time he came it was a communion service and in the [Episcopal] Church press some months before, there had been

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was obviously becoming closer and closer, I was the laughing stock to begin with of both the national press and the local sentiment in Wyoming, as a hopeless case-F: Yes, I remember your campaigning even penetrated into Texas. M: In fact, its penetration

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with my desires. I didn't want to stay there. G: But the press account quoted it as saying "to accept certain assignments for the President in the days immediately ahead." K: Well, the President didn't want to mention what that was, because it had

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

frankly John Kennedy and the administration were sensitive to the oft-repeated complaint, particularly I'd say in the Sons of Italy gatherings, and the minority language press, that he had put his Cabinet together without any Italians, or without any Poles

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember it all. But her sponsorship gave us a big kickoff, so we announced it right there--I think it was in what they used to call the Gold Room, it was a big press conference thing--at the White House. That got us off to a flying start. To revert just

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. There were some people who came on occasion that could not resist a tendency to go out and talk to the press, mouth off about what It did not necessarily help them. they thought was going to happen . Sometimes people knew who those folks were, sometimes

Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)

that you had to do with radio and transportation? Now, some of the stuff I found is how your campaign was scrambling for money, that you were very hard pressed at points. Some of the oral history interviews I've read, people say, "Well, we didn't know if we

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh Belieu -- I --17 ask Ike; I'd teach her questions to ask Eisenhower at the White House press conferences, which she started doing. He said, "Buy her a drink if you need to. Buy her a martini." Well, later on we're having a conference between