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Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Lyndon, and then the recent article in Time magazine classifying Doris Kearns as a psychohistorian, whatever that is. In the Haynes Johnson book, I was offended by personal references which I know Doris spoke to the two authors about, and my
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • when he wasn't pursuing some objective. M: He just didn't sit down and read a novel. J: I don't recall Mr. Johnson ever reading anything 'in my presence or ever discussing reading anything other than the newspapers and the current magazines, Life
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • , you were successful most of the time, but occasionally there were critics. You may remember the article by Elizabeth Drew [?] in the Atlantic magazine. ML: She never interviewed me. CL: Did you get upset on something like that? LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • brokers, the intermediaries, at a time when mass media politics, particularly in California, were coming on strong. Kennedy had been using public relations, p6pular magazines, glamour and so forth like that, and Johnson was still thinking that there were
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • believe that letters were received by perhaps a majority of the Congress as a result of publicity which appeared in one or two of the broadcasting magazines, and we had sufficient pressure of that sort so we concluded that this ought to be put on even
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to realize that in those days all radio broadcasters were extremely concerned, as were theaters and magazine publishers. All these things suffered a real impact from television. G: Why do you think LBJ was considering selling the station in 1948? T
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the impression from newspapers and magazine articles, etc., that in the realm of education the civil rights issue--integration, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • this hindsight that people try to put into history these days to prove that they were right. I was fascinated to read last night an article in Encounter magazine written by a man named Robert Elegant-G: He's a British journalist, I believe. H: --in which he
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • believe in the current issue of Time magazine, there was quite a discussion of the fact that in the present campaign for the presidency the advance man is sort of taken for granted and has to go into every town where a candidate is going to speak and make
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , who ran the Transport Company of Texas. He worked with him-- Incidentally, the Transport Company of Texas got a contract for support work on Kwajalein, about a ten million dollar contract, and Fortune magazine--I was the stringer for Time, Life
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in every sense But the minute your thinking, or the text, or anybody's discussion in a paper or a magazine ran into a thing that wasn't logical, he could catch it and call attention to it. And he never failed. He was wonderful on that score. make them
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • federation of REA co-ops, to work on the Wisconsin REA News, the first of the statewide REA member magazines and newspapers in the country. and very soon became editor myself. I worked for the first editor But I got a leave of absence through the good
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe, a businessman. There were blacks; there ~'1as one of the principal editors of Ebony magazine. It was across the board; IQrs. Robert ~lcNamara on the Council, as did economist J. Kenneth Galbraith. served LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the table and hope that it goes by. at the time. I was inclined to speak out myself. I thought it was wrong The whole thing, you know, was developed by these two fellows that ran this Rampart Magazine up here who were inclined to produce the sensational
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was picked up by Senator Douglas and others out of a magazine article. Of course, Paul Douglas at that time was working very hard for elimination of the depletion allowance. G: To him it seemed a profile in courage to turn it down. Reportedly Senator
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • doubt it . I don't know if I could say exactly . I do remember that the first time my husband wrote a profile of Lyndon Johnson it was in Harper's magazine . was when he was in the Senate . I believe it It was stressing his pro- fessionalism rather
Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • " in the trade, 5-fluorouracil ointment. In December of 1966 an article had appeared--I'm guessing at December 1966, in late 1966--in Life magazine, which was still being published, in which Edmund Klein of Roswell Memorial Park or Roswell Park Memorial Hospital
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No. B: This year at the time of the Life Magazine story. M: This year. Anything hurts the Court. Everybody else can do whatever they want, but the Court--we can't. I mean, I can't even violate the speed laws. I can't even do anything. B: Another
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • magazine came along, and I was invited to run a column in that. There was supposed to be--there were supposed to be two of us. One was Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence, and me, but Taylor never got around to much, so I ended up writing most
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' magazine--Washington Monthly, "the Permanent Secretary of Agriculture." Have you read that? G: No. R: You ought to see that. G: What is the title again? R: "The Permanent Secretary of Agriculture." G: Washington Monthly did you say? R: I
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was this? B: It was economist and editor, really a combination. Miss Perkins had the belief that the Department of Labor should publish a very simply-written type of monthly magazine that primarily would be directed at workers, union people
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 the FAA magazine and the ICC publications, the Coast Guard Monthly Newsletter and so forth . And we had
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they are not really malicious and are a matter of common discussion and common report, been in the newspapers and many magazine articles. Things like Lyndon's dealing with Theodore Green, whose overwhelming desire was to end his days as chairman of the Foreign
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CHURCH -- I -- 13 in his praise of me. He spoke to newspapermen, people who were doing special magazine articles, talked about the great future of this young
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • In one of the first national articles about Lyndon, it was Time magazine, his ability to destroy the Black Stars was one of the major things that he talked about in that arti­ cle . So I think it meant a lot more to him, successfully destroying � LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the Watts riots. We were talking to the fellow from Time magazine and what have you. I mean it's so amazing. I notice the obvious following-up on all this other stuff. I mean Will Sparks comes by to see me on Thursday the nineteenth at 5:45
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and loyalty and the press seducing you. It was just incredible. I don't know if you have that or not. Do you have the magazines for that period of time? G: Was he consistent about that, not wanting his aides to get publicity? C: Yes, he was consistent
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it on the cover of Time Magazine, I believe [Time Magazine, August 17, 1970, page 12.] B: Well, recently there was an account of it but the rumors were spreading around even during those years. H: If so, you know, with it being people who were highly involved
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- I -- 8 held a very high staff position on a national magazine which is now defunct. It wasn't the Literary Digest--Today was the name of it, Today magazine
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -- 21 B: But you did sneak some in anyway? A: Yes, we snuck some in anyway. We also got questions planted in that thing in the Parade magazine, which was also my idea. B: That "People" feature that's in the first part of Parade? A: Right. B
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • Life magazine. So many things that happened here; you know, that is Life magazine is quoting, you know, what Haley said about him--that's not the Haley that you're familiar with. This is a 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there that was published in Collier's magazine. That picture in the bedroom there is the picture of the cover of the Collier's magazine. And it said, "Can Lyndon do what Truman did?" Because he'd just been named head of the [Armed Services] Preparedness [Investigating
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • magazine and television coverage of it. Between the election of '60 and the time this commission was formed, both CBS and NBC did documentaries of Appalachia. You may remember "Christmas in Appalachia" the one that NBC did in December of '62
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • led me unexpectedly to North Texas, to Denison and Sherman, where we established a fishing and travel magazine. I had a public relations and advertising agency for roughly ten years. legislature for two terms from North Texas. And I went
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a little bit, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine, and before long, he encountered the priest coming out who had delivered the last rites. So, by the time I got to the press room, and he got to the press room with our reports, everybody pretty well believed