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Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were a part of the Department of Labor. They had the operating mechanisms of printing and such functions, press releases. I released press releases through the Department of Labor, not direct. G: How about office space? M: We were in the General
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • is an opportunity. I.might also tell you about the time that he sent me as a delegate to the Texas Press Club Association. We had in the college a press club, and those of us who edited the newspaper or annual belonged to the press club. of it. I believe he
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to a press conference. The press conference was going to be later that day. I was there for Defense, briefing him on various Defense issues. He kept interrupting the press conference to talk to somebody at the other end of the phone to persuade him to take
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • my life. I loved it, but I mean that just wasn't my idea of a long-term career. Arthur told me quite a bit of the background he had had with Johnson over the years, their close personal association when Johnson first came to Washington
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 at Arnold and Porter named Jim Fitzpatrick, and in New York by a man named Anfuso (sp), whose father was a Congressman; and I ran a smaller group called the Associates Division
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because that was one of the other things that I had been told to do, was to be sure that I wrote a full biography for the press. I did this with great care and then showed it to Pierre Salinger, who made a few changes, and then it was pretty much given
  • 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, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • relationships with Senator Kerr were limited to newsman-politician type things. From United Press in Dallas, I went to the Honolulu Advertiser for a year. Then I went back to Oklahoma in 1965 and became associate editor of the Oklahoma Journal. I
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: LeROY COLLINS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Collins· office in Tallahassee, Florida Tape 1 of 1 F: Governor, when did you first get any sort of an association with Lyndon Johnson? I know with your interests in things
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Also you have numerous honorary doctorates of law degrees. Also according to my information, you worked as an assistant professor at East Texas State in 1928 to 1930, and again in 1932 to 1936. You were research associate at the Massachusetts
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the press took it seriously. I think that he probably with his friends at least, with his political associates, Johnson apparently was taking himself seriously. I think that he probably learned as a domino player in his very earliest years in Texas how
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD HELMS INTERVIEWER: ' TED GITTINGER PLACE: Ambassador Helms' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Ambassador, if it's all right, we'll start. H: Okay. G: How far back does your association with the CIA go? H
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was Saturday that the White House staff and the press were invited to pay last respects in the East Room, and President Johnson was asked if he wanted--and he did. Johnson paid their respects there. He and Mrs. He saw the cabinet on Saturday. And he was busy
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Teachers College and there met Lyndon Johnson. My association with him was personal and professional and educational, and I held the members of his family very close to my heart. his sister Rebekah. I knew his father before him, I knew I did not know
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Washington." It was a Negro reporter and he wrote it up headlining "Talk Going On About a March To Washington." And that was the big headline across the top of the page and it just seemed to snowball. I think the press and the masses created the kind
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • played this game simply for enjoyment. G: How did he imitate Roosevelt? R: Trying to fool people. For instance, he tried to trap the press into writing a story that Tom Dodd was going to be the vice presidential nominee. That was a typical Roosevelt
  • about Vietnam; intervention in the Dominican Republic; civil rights; immigration reforms; airline machinists’ strike; Reedy’s departure from post of press secretary; LBJ’s staff.
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a little older than I was, but we were in the same class. Then after John came Harold, who committed suicide after a few associations, he had busted up with A. W., who at that time, in the early days, he was just a little kid. Anyhow, I won't bring up
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Well, he was a very wonderful and dear man. I think, possibly, that it was because of that association that President Truman heard of me. I was called from the Navy Department one day by his secretary. He merely walked out in the Rose Garden with me
  • process; railroad strike in Florida, 1964; unemployment; Reynolds’ wife, Helen; 1965 New York City transit strike; National Association of Broadcast Employees and Army Signal Corps technicians dispute; problems with the building trade unions.
Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that he was extremely busy and hard-pressed with the many difficult problems, and I remember particularly well his arrival there. He flew up from Washington and came over from the airport by helicopter and landed at our field and we had an automobile
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you take up that story where you became associated with it? P: Yes, Mr. Baker. February. The starting point is really in middle or later President Johnson established the Task Force on the War on Poverty--I think that was its official name--early
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and also won some prizes there in oratory and in debating, and then on to law school . I graduated from law school in 1931, at that time winning a corporation law prize which was offered by the bar association of the state of Ohio . You mentioned
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the Cage family that I have been associated with all my life, still associated with. Ben Jack was a promoter, and he tried to promote everybody, including his uncle, to everybody else. He finally ended up down in Brazil. I'm sure you've heard all that stuff
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1917 in Chicago-­ R: East Chicago, Indiana--it's in a different state. B: And became the United Press' Congressional correspondent in 1938--from '38 to '41--in Air Force service, 1942-45; and then again after the war from '46 to '51 with UP
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this. But the suburban housewife was used to the image of me standing beside a well-stocked refrigerator, and I think they thought that at least the image would be that I was involved with consuming, if not consumer problems, that people associated me in a kitchen
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • , and he beat Mr. [Robert] McNamara in, which I believe was what his objective was! (Laughter). And therein began our association--mine with the Vice President, later the President. And I must say that it was a wonderful, exciting experience for me
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Services in which Dr. [Jerrold] Zacharias [physicist] was the leader; he and Wiesner were very close and intimate associates. I had brought both of them into the government in the Troy Project when I was Under Secretary of State; had worked closely
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • appoint a consumer council if he were elected, and the consumers kept press i ng him, "Hhen are you rea11y goi ng to set up a consumer council?" They did set up the consumer advisory council to the Council of Economic Advisers. I know the consumer
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on. After Goodwin left, he [Moyers] was less and less successful as Presidential Press Secretary, I think in part because Bill had adopted a method of operation that included an awful lot of backgrounding on what the President was really doing, and most
  • Bill Moyers’ departure from the staff; letter from Bill Moyers; source of press leaks; memorandum to the President; LBJ’s reaction; impatience with the situation; conduit between LBJ and outstanding critics in the Congress; visit to Vietnam; conduit
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : STANLEY KARNOW INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Karnow's residence, Potomac, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Karnow, would you begin by sketching for us your professional association with Southeast Asia? K: It came rather late in my career
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. JORDEN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador Jorden's residence, McLean, Virginia Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let's begin by my asking you by what process you got picked to go to Paris to be the resident press man
  • to the press in the Paris negotiations; information leaks during Paris talks; private talks held in Paris; Madame Anna Chennault; results of the Paris talks after the Nixon administration was in power; writing for The Vantage Point; LBJ in retirement.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude. C: And maybe some contrasts. During the--at least my experience on the receiving end in the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration was that they were--they pressed hard to be deeply involved in awarding contracts and who they went to. Indeed
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • today, Lyndon Johnson felt he was the president, and they all worked for him. Some of the things I've seen recently in the press about his Secret ServiceCone thing in particular: I read an article about bathroom habits and the Secret Service. I can't
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was--and I was making a very partisan speech. When I left the room, some reporter--I believe it was Jack Bell of Associated Press who covers the Hill--and he said, "The President has been shot." And here I'd been making a very partisan speech! I had
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • intel­ lectual associated with Adlai Stevenson, for whom he did not have a high regard. F: Yeah. Did Jim Rowe or Phil Graham ever talk to you ab:>ut his Presi­ dential ambitions or their ambitions for him outside of wh1t you've already said? S
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • say, for the White House Historical Association also donated $10,000 toward the project. The cost wasn't very much above that, maybe another three or four thousand dollars at most, and this we paid for out of our National Park Service appropriated
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as chief executive to prevent inflation. I'll have no choice. I will have no chance to go to Congress. I am not announcing this wire so that you and your associates can consider the interests of your country, and you can act with complete freedom. The best
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the United States can work his will with the Congress. When the president is successful, then the press says, well, the Congress is a rubber stamp. When the president isn't successful, well, he can't seem to provide leadership, and the Congress would follow
  • with Powers, O'Donnell, and O'Brien and their career plans after leaving the White House; opposition to Medicare, especially from the American Medical Association (AMA); how the public mindset has changed regarding Social Security and Medicare; the Bob Kerr
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • any impression of his association with Rayburn during the House years? Did they seem particularly close? Did he seem to follow Rayburn's lead pretty much? C: He was regarded as a protégé of Sam Rayburn. And Sam Rayburn was a forceful leader
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Noel -- I -- 9 fairly do as a partner of the firm. I assembled a small group of associates around me and practiced in that posture until I was appointed to the court in 1961. M: Now, after you got out
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of legislation. They will also needle us to clear reports that they want up there to meet their schedule, and will at times press us as well as the agencies to come up with what they consider the right answers on a particular piece of legislation. contact
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go to work. And I saw him, of course, a few days later in company with my friend and attorney, Claude C. Wild, Sr. F: Was Claude with Humble Oil then? P: No, Claude Wild was then director of the Independent Petroleum Association of Texas, of which