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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the Associated Press had a regular correspondent on the island, a very romantic kid, who pointed out to us all of the various 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • ; LBJ's frustration with press coverage of his trip; LBJ's meeting with Greek prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis; LBJ's trip to Italy; meeting the Pope; LBJ's ability to relate to poor people; Reedy's work and LBJ's actions during the Cuban missile
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , but it was very clear to me that both of them were anxious to have Sarah Hughes have that nomination. This was a particularly difficult one to get President Kennedy to approve for the peculiar reason of age. The American Bar Association was not willing to approve
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • met President Johnson. Actually my first meeting with him was at a Gridiron Club dinner in March, 1963. I was there with Paul Miller, who is now head of the Associated Press and head of Gannett newspapers and there was a little party after
  • for the Performing Arts; relationship with the Kennedys; Bill Moyers; Tommy Thompson; Lincoln Gordon; the Dominican Republic crisis; Castro and Cuba; Free Trade Association meets in Montevideo; Central America foreign ministers meet in San José; Fernando Eleta
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the department in many of the appearances that otherwise would have been made by Mr. Cohen, and perhaps others, rather than me. B: We've been using the phrase "organized medical groups." Actually it was the American Medical Association that was the major
  • , and Welfare (HEW); 1961 morale in the Kennedy administration; Jones' involvement in the introduction of Medicare; opposition to health program legislation; the introduction of Medicaid by the American Medical Association (AMA); JFK's meeting with members
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • associated with the same sort of operation back in Texas, except that you are, of course, dealing on a much magnified scale? C: There was a gre a : deal of difference. I think the fact that I was, in a sense, a profes s·anal press secretary--had been do
  • 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, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and on Sunday and holidays it fell a good deal to my lot to go in and work with the President. And at that time I was associated with--oh, we worked on speeches, every kind of matter that the President is concerned with, and with Judge Rosenman and Bob Sherwood
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : CARTHA D. DELOACH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. DeLoach's office, Hilton Head, South Carolina Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with your initial association with President Johnson. Was that while he was in the Senate? D: Yes
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . . . 1 C: No~ I met him when he was vice president. I don't recall exactly the occasion, but Cliff Carter, who was an associate of his, working for him, was in the city doing something. I think he might have been advancing a trip into the city
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN E. LYLE, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Congressman Lyle's office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to sketch very briefly your background and explain how you first came to be associated
  • First association with LBJ; recollections of James V. Allred; support of FDR; memories of Roy Miller; LBJ’s aptitude for acquiring information; views on LBJ; 1941 race; recollections of George Parr; circumstances of Lyle’s election to Congress
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • pleased to serve Mr. Fowler, with whom I have been associated for several years and with whom I have an extremely good personal rapport. And after I had been with Mr. Fowler five or six months, Bill Moyers who by then was press secretary asked to talk
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the around-the-world flight, and we sure put them to a good purpose. Afterwards, of course, there was absolute commotion, The West Wing began to fill very rapidly with staffers and friends and associates. phones never stopped ringing. The The press
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
  • liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT W. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Murphey's office, Nacogdoches, Texas f~URPHEY Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, Mr. Murphey, would you begin by telling us what your association was with Governor Coke Stevenson? M: I
  • support; States’ Rights Party; Stevenson and the press; the 1948 campaign; George Peddy votes; election controversy; Murphey’s election as sergeant at arms; Stevenson’s attitude about the decision on the election.
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • participated in any other oral history project. T: Yes, I participated in the recordings for the benefit of the Kennedy Library covering essentially the period of time during which I was associated with President Kennedy. As you have indicated, that was from
  • [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that conversation. The President was very strong in his characterizations of the press, spoke of the fact that the three networks were dominated by communists. G: But he had been getting a very good press at this point? K: But I'm telling you what my
  • to the Ranch; press coverage of Krim’s time spent with LBJ; development of LBJ’s land in Texas; LBJ encouraging Krim to buy land near his Ranch; George Brown; A.W. Moursund; LBJ’s egalitarian nature; LBJ’s treatment of staff members and friends; LBJ teasing
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a decent sort. She more or less recommended it. I'd had an experience once with former President Harry Truman when I was program chairman of the then Mississippi Valley Historical Association, later the Organization of American Historians, in which
  • the National Parks Advisory Board; Stewart Udall; meeting Mrs. Johnson at the White House to discuss Big Bend National Park; traveling to Big Bend with Mrs. Johnson; the press at Big Bend; Judith Axler Turner; instituting a White House historical program
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • came down here, and I worked for the Dallas News as a kind of part-time employee in Austin and worked for United Press on the same basis. I graduated in 1935. United Press made me a correspondent. Then I went to Dallas News in 1942 and worked for them
  • -as-you-go amendment to the Texas Constitution regarding the appropriation of state funds; O'Daniel's supporters; Morehead's early impressions of LBJ; Franklin Roosevelt's visits to Texas; the press' respect for privacy in the early 1900s; Roosevelt's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there. It was [an] across-the-board sort of a gathering, all of whom loved the Speaker, all of whom profited from their association with him, from a give and take, from a learning and sharing. He was a remarkable catalyst in that body, the House, and indeed in the whole
  • helped them; support for LBJ in the press; Welly Hopkins' letter to friends in support of LBJ that resulted in a perceived connection between LBJ and the Congress of Industrial Workers (CIO).
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a close friend and associate of then Congressman Johnson, you see. M: And remained so? F: And remained so until this day. We had lunch there with Francis Biddle, and we were all sort of getting together and breaking up, really. I then saw him next about
  • Roosevelt Association; counsel for Washington Post; Phil Graham; Jerry Siegel; John McCloy; Edmund A. Gullion; Herbert Humphrey; Jerome B. Wiesner; Arthur Dean; Arthur Schlesinger; McGeorge Bundy; ACDA; Alvin Wirtz; Moscow trip; test ban treaty; American
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • complex economic and financial problems today, particularly the part of the world that I am closely associated with, the one hundred developing nations. The result is that I haven't had the time, I haven't had the resources, and I don't have the memory
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with either UP [United Press] or AP [Associated Press], [saying] that what I wanted to see [was] if we couldn't arrange a debate with the vice presidential candidates. And my recollection is it was around eight o'clock in the evening that Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • NGS . MR BROUDY: 0 This is Jack Broudy of the Office of Public Infor­ rnation, U. S. Office of Education . We are tilking with Dr. Wayne O. Reed, Associate Corenissio ner for Federal-S tate Relations in the U. S. Office of Education . Dr. Reed
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • , but at the same time they were not something we just made up. I've forgotten what they were. It would be worth checking at the time. I don't think the press gave that particular thing a big play. In fact, when he gave the speech, I think he didn't make a big to-do
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • guidance, of a thousand and one different things. And he did institute a system of the five-year force level and financial plan and a number of management tools which enabled him and his associates to see where the major issues were and be able to intervene
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on that one. Anyhow, that was the way that was and then, as you know, later after that, the President went up to a meeting, I think it was the Associated Press editors, in a couple of weeks, repeated the same thing right smack on the record; and then later
  • -Proliferation Treaty; DeGaulle; American economic encroachment; effects of détente on NATO; Harmel exercise; INTERIM REPORT; press; institution of war.
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • make this arrangement possible. I suggested at that time that we form a non-profit corporation, as we have in the case of other national parks. I wrote a memo that went to Mrs. Kennedy from the Associate Director of the Park Service proposing
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • someone that would be better politically or even better personally for Kennedy. B: Anything particularly associated with the selection of John McCormack as speaker after Mr. Rayburn's death? H: No, I don't think so. B: Cut and dried seniority? H: I
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • in the economic faculty at Princeton, and that's the way Bill [William G.] Bowen got his first major exposure. T: When he-- F: And he wrote a little document for the Association of American Universities on federal aid positions, which was the forerunner
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there no hint of this from the White House--that didn't surprise me at all, I didn't expect any and there wasn't--but the truly surprising thing to me was that there was no hint of this in the press, and at this time President Johnson had many detractors
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • at one time, just prior to your association with Mr. Johnson, the managing editor of the American or both papers? L: I had served on both papers, but in 1936 I was managing editor of the American when I terminated my connection down there. B: I
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -Idaho] who has since passed away of Idaho, Senator Schoeppel [Andrew F. Schoeppel], who has since passed away, of Kansas, Senator Cotton [Norris Cotton] of New Hampshire, and his then associate, Senator [Styles] Bridges of New Hampshire. I believe
  • ; African affairs; Rostow and Dean Rusk; reaction to LBJ joining JFK’s ticket; SJRes 12 Amendment; 3/31 announcement; comparison of LBJ to other Presidents; LBJ’s weaknesses; the press.
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in 1946 with the Ohio State Journal . M: When did you go with Scripps-Howard? B: Well, I had an intermediate stop . I was with the Associated Press in the Columbus bureau for about a year and then from the Associated Press went to the Columbus
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was handled. That done, I may have even--I guess I wouldn't have--I may have even read him that part of the memo. In any case, that done, we were set for the press conference. I guess I was enough concerned about Connor that I did tell the President I didn't
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : The answer is, Walter Heller tends to dominate any organization or association with which he's affiliated. and effective person. He's a very enormously capable I would not have used the word lIdominate" in the sense that the other members of the Council
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • background before we get into your association with Johnson and Texas politics. L: All right. I'm Emma Long, Mrs. Stuart Long, and my background--I was born at Pampa, Texas to a ranch family and I grew up in the Panhandle. [I] graduated from high school
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , amongst other things, to begin putting together a review of all federal programs that impacted on juvenile delinquency and to do some of the speech writing that was involved for different persons associated with the program. The Ford Foundation was very
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • more adept at it and actually became widely recognized as an extremely capable communicator, particularly when he got to the presidential press conferences, the point I want to make is that from the outset it did not come naturally. In fact
  • with the Congress, their leadership styles, and how that affected O'Brien's work; JFK's and LBJ's reactions to public criticism and the press; the emergence of television as an important communication medium; how JFK and LBJ differed in intellect, background
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a hotel room when they were in town and when the American Association of Newspaper Editors was there, followed by the Associated Press gathering. Of course, since those days, conventions have proliferated, but the two months of April and May were certainly
  • in Korea; LBJ's work to cut wasteful spending; press attention for his subcommittee work.
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had pressed the button, unless someone had made a decision that this was to go. I said it seemed odd, but I pointed out that things like radio and television changed the world from where it had been and it was quite possible that conditions in cities