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Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

, I would think. other words, you probably did so~e In work in between, with your ideas, but you had not actually, as yet, had him sit for you. H: I'd done a portrait for Time magazine of selected as Man of the Year. ~lr. Johnson when he

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. You now have galleries for periodicals and magazines. So to answer your question, Lyndon was smart in his press and public relations from the very beginning. He would call me and the other Texas reporters, but particularly me at that point because

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a magazine cover picture of TIME Magazine, and he was very happy with it. I hope maybe some day it'll hang at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University. It was a great gift, and he liked it. M: Well, you met him there? L: I met him there and had

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

millions of dollars to the Post Office Department for the below cost operations. It includes your villages, it includes your rural routes, and it includes delivery of your publications. They're subsidized, you see. These big magazines that yell

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

" effect that they could do no wrong. And even Jackie's recent marriage, these rationalizations that have been appearing in magazines. are the darndest things I've ever read, some of them. They I hope history will recognize Mrs. Johnson for all of her

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

of a year or less. There had been some contacts made with me; I don't even remember details of them. It was to be a matter of making a selection among two or three possibilities; also, I had on-going a book agreement. A contract was signed with Look magazine

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 and did a radio broadcast once a week on Sunday night. pieces and lectures and one thing and another. I also did magazine I now look back in awe and unbelief on the amount

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

cousin Elaine looked at it and said, "Oh, he's a regular Fisher Boy" or something like that. I forget the name she used. But there was an artist at that time who drew pictures of handsome young men, and they appeared in all the magazine illustrations

Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)

with him, mainly as an errand boy, and oftenti·mes he could 5e delightful. My wife ts favorite story about it is that he was_gofog in one day to the East Room. to present an award to someone as Teacher of the Year. it. He was_goi_ng Some magazine

Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Sevareid, and Ed Johnson had made a statement, which we proved had been in newspapers and magazines and was really public knowledge. And, as I recall that, the reason that Eric Sevareid took off after Ed Johnson was that he was the first one

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

on CNN said this was the first of the paparazzi pictures, and he said, "Did you do it or did Ted [?] do it?" And I said, "Well, I did it." We found him. Don Erbach [?], who was then a Life magazine photographer--we went to the lake and rented a boat, got

Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

article that I reported on. I don't know wheth.e r they printed them or not, but I have put in many hours talking to these magazine guys and 'newspaper people. B: Back in those early days when you all were boys together, did Lyndon ever express any

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for some three or four years, the first permit for that channel was granted years and years before the station was ever built. F: Life magazine came out during the campaign of 1964 showing President Johnson's holdings and putting valuations on them. Did

Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was our confrontation. But following that, when he was a senator and his picture was on the Time magazine and said, "The second most powel~fl!l man in the United States," I said to my friends, "You know who the most powerful man is? It's me! I

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. He'd been in Vietnam for Time magazine, and his point of view would certainly be interesting to you if you haven't already interviewed him. G: Oh, he's on my hit list. K: Right. You might ask him when you see him, ask him about his conversation

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, which unhappily is not an uncommon thing in the history of Vietnam but to us in America it looked like a horrible thing. I can still remember the picture of the burning bonze on the front page of one of our weekly magazines. It shocked our entire

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

school. But I did manage to get both an A.B. and a LL. B. degree from the University. M: What kinds of jobs did you hold? G: Well, I worked in stores. I waited on tables. I sold magazines in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the standpoint of export trade and from a standpoint of reducing defense costs. F: You always saw it more of an investment than you did in any sort of an aid sense, didn't you? H: I made a statement at one time, which appeared on a front cover of TIME Magazine

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was an advertising executive--was for his entire career until he retired in 1951. He was associated primarily with Field and Stream magazine, so I have something of an outdoorsman background via the advertising route. had been a school teacher. My mother [I

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: All right, I'll take that. You said it. When Johnson became President, where were you-- at the time of the assassination? M: In Puerto Rico. F: How did you happen to hear about it? M: That was a very peculiar thing. McCall's magazine. I

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: There was no problem. No. I just went right through, with no questions being raised, really. I think the only comment, the only anecdote I can throw in here is Science magazine sent a young lady out to interview me--this is the American Association for the Advancement

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: How does it differ working for a wire service and working for a daily like the L.A. Times? M: Well, I've now worked for a wire service, and a daily, and a weekly magazine. And the deadlines can actually get rougher, in a certain way, because so long

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the rest of them follows him. It was in Time magazine I think. G: Why did he walk out? R: I guess it was because Pauley certified the other group of delegates also. And when you 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

to me in the lobby, "Now, I see this fellow on the front of Time magazine here; it says 'from Texas.' Have you ever heard of that man?" And I said, "Well, I'm sure that you won't believe me, but I was sitting in that man's living room talking to Mrs

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

coverage, how much time can you spend! you say over and over again exactly the same thing! How many times can With your magazines and your newspapers, there's just a limit to how much you can--and with the financial end of it, how much it costs. Ba: It's

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to their congressmen and senators, to other people of influence; they published pamphlets, magazines, and books, urging statehood. And toward the end of the fifties statehood was a going concern as far as interest was concerned. It was in the newspapers all the time

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The President also mentioned two people to me. One was a fellow named Charles Lipsett, who published newspapers in the magazine field. The other was a guy named Joe LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

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

?" "This is The President "When are you going to start talking about these He thought I was creating a credibility gap. recall, Time Magazine did see a rattlesnake. off the runway in order to land. But as you We did have to scare antelope We saw hundreds of canyon

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. And I'll tell you, Jane Fonda did such a great disservice to our country we'll never be able to forgive her. I have heard her depicted-- I have read in a national magazine that she is a communist. know that before then. I didn't But I listened to her

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be "first name" on this, I've known you so long. Tell us a little bit about how you came out of Texas and wound up in Washington. m.1: After I got out of the Uni versi ty of Texas I spent several years in Dallas as an editor of an editorial magazine

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the investigators tremendous publicity. of the Preparedness Subcommittee. M: Mr. Johnson was chairman? K: Mr. Johnson was chairman of it. Magazine and almost the waste of military this. really story expenditure happened here~ because in fact

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was written by me in Collier's Magazine, and it appeared in February of--what year was he elected whi,p of the Senate--February of 1951, because I remember they had to stop print!ng the magazine to put in his election as whip. elected whi,p in January

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in He didn't trust MacArthur. this regard and what he did conclude when he reported back? J: Well, I can't elaborate on it, except I can quote from Time magazine on it and so forth. Anybody that intimately knew or served under MacArthur knew he

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to let you return to any kind of normal-- H: No, I had a great many people interview me for newspapers and magazines, and it seemed to me as if I would never finish talking to them about-- F: Was your court in session at the time? H: Yes. F: So

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of intellectual, liberal magazine, I forget what, and he had an article on Lyndon and his achievements. G: Did you get to know him then? He was from Alabama, wasn't he? 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a paying job. You know, it's very hard to hit the pavement and hunt for a job when you're the daughter of the president. B: She eventually ended up on McCall's magazine. A: Took it very seriously and I think wrote some quite good pieces. B: Were you

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

among other things started The Nation, the magazine, and did a bunch of other things. Good, wealthy New York Republican types. I enjoyed him, and he and his wife were there and Johnson--the way the message had come to me, I knew there was a problem. I

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

but change the role. C: I have never been a sort of member of the pack. I was a journalist working for a magazine; I had been peripheral press. I had close friends in the press corps. They always treated me at arm's length. I think they never could quite