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Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: JOHN J. CORSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Corson's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your association with the NYA. How did you get into the organization? C: I got into the NYA, to the best

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

made his peace with his own future. That nettle was scratching and hurting as he tried to swallow it and digest it. M: And the press descended on you at that point. J: Yes. M: And I imagine that that was--well, the Diary says that the President

Oral history transcript, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Frantz PLACE: Ambassador Bowdler's residence in San Salvador, El Salvador Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Ambassador, first of all, tell us a little bit about your background, where you're from, where you were educated, how you came to be associated

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

there was the MURA issue, the Midwestern University's Research Association, which was a proposal for a new and very expensive high energy accelerator to be built in Madison, Wisconsin, with federal funds as a consortium of about ten or a dozen midwestern universities

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the specific things . I think it was something to do with the Vietnam War or the Middle East situation. M: This was the group that press sometimes refers to as the wise men or the elder statesmen or such names as that? B: Yes, but it wasn't official

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

was to the Big Bend National Park and of course, over and over to the Grand Tetons. S: Oh how I loved that! Did you delight in subjecting the press to this? And making them all go down on the rafts? J: Well, actually, I think they came to regard it as quite

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was going on in the press, what LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the report; the union [International Association of Machinists] basically rejected the report. The issue was whether the union would go on strike and whether we could get a law passed to extend the non-strike period. And we came head up against the problem

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

] Castro assuming power in Cuba. Do you remember anything of that? J: Yes. I remember that he came to Washington, made a speech at the press club, was lionized. Everybody was talking about him, except I do not remember anything that Lyndon said
Johnson's work for LBJ; Beagle getting loose; how the Johnsons named their dogs; birthday parties for Sam Rayburn and his interest in including the children; Lady Bird Johnson's experience with, and view of, spanking; the American Heart Association's

Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with a Ph.D. in economics, but who was a Texan--told me of his problems, and I said, being the political animal I am, the first thing I said was, Vice President? '~ave you contacted the I'm sure he would be interested in associating himself with a project

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 M: He left it up to us. I think he was pressed

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

: Let me ask this: did you work before C: Yes, I had a cleaning and pressing business, and prior to that time then,~too? I worked in a battery manufacturing plant. M: Of course, that was in the Depression, too, and things were pretty tough. LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

union, [the] International Association of Machinists. Any insights on the appointment of that emergency board with Wayne Morse, [David] Ginsburg, and Dick Neustadt? C: Yes. At some point in April 1966, we decided that we would set up an emergency board

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

though. G: And he also had a press conference at the air base in Massachusetts and apparently another one the next morning-- R: Yes. G: --at the Kennedy home. Anything on a decision at that point on what role in the campaign LBJ would play or what

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

frankly, the association was always of this public nature. As I said, I've had conversations with both President and Mrs. Johnson, probably longer conversations with Mrs. Johnson. I suppose I've been on and off television from time to time

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

are in Mr. Timmons' offices in the National Press Building, Room 1253. My name is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. Timmons, to begin this interview, I would like to give a very brief background on your very long journalistic career. You began as a reporter
after the 1964 election; Credibility Gap; press secretaries; books about LBJ; letters from LBJ; LBJ’s personality; 1948 election; 1941 special election; foreign affairs; LBJ’s withdrawal; opinion of LBJ as a President; Lady Bird and their daughters.

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the American advisor rated his counterparts. M: Right. G: Well, aren't there problems associated with that? M: Well, there are certainly problems in that if the person knows he's going to be rated, he may be unfriendly to the advisor, you know, distant
office under General DePuy; obstacles to Montague's promotion; members of the press who covered pacification; Montague ignoring orders not to talk to the press; the effect of the Vietnam experience on the U.S. army as a whole and the idea of a volunteer

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

INTERVIEWEE: DATE: Robert Fleming, Deputy Press Secretary for LBJ November 8, 1979 PLACE: Washington, D.C. SUBJECT: Fleming's Knowledge of Daily Summaries of the Network \ Television Coverage: During the Period of TET, 1968 INTERVIEWER: David Culbert
Press relations

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Leitão da Cunha -- I -- 5 audiences on campuses, at press conferences, on invitation from societies which deal with international relations. And to all these, I

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of business in this case? A: Yes, in some degree socially. M: What about his press relations in those days? very good. A: I seem to recall they were Is that your recollection? They were very good in the sense that he was much admired, but he
Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing
; department's speech drafts; review of speeches; "Rose Garden rubbish;" LBJ's sensitivity to press reaction to speeches' LBJ's relationship with the press; joke specialist on staff; LBJ as am accomplished storyteller and raconteur; LBJ's speech referring to his

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of finagling going on and Son'le of those counties. 0 There was ver just south of us in San Augustine I\;one of the press has ever printed that to ITly knowledge. G: Other Johnson caITlpaign workers in that cam.paign have indicated that they were counted
Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

happened in 1959 will not be comprehensible. The Republicans associated the whole thing with Walter Reuther. He was the black beast as far as the thinking of the House and Senate Labor Committees went in 1947-48. When they passed the closed shop
Mateos; LBJ’s presidential leanings in 1959; LBJ’s ambivalence during this period; western swing trip; the Washington campaign office; Senate’s interest in LBJ candidacy; comparison of LBJ’s and JFK’s voting records; LBJ and the press; liberals

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

flew to Fort Worth with him to be with Amon Carter, and then he met with Sarah Hughes and spoke to the Texas Bar Association. This was right around the time of Sarah Hughes' nomination as a federal judge. R: Again, I mean this was just a routine

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of these things. Mrs. Kennedy, on the other hand, had a very, almost a biting sense of humor, which saved her and I think saved a lot of the staff sometimes when the press would zero in on some of the programs that Mrs. Kennedy was involved in, especially the so

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have to look at the consumer message to get it all, but one particularly intricate problem back in the 1967 task force was that there were several securities-law things that the Securities and Exchange Commission was pressing. The SEC is not technically
Association's review of legal problems of the landlord-tenant relationship, building codes, housing codes, and the like; lack of action within HUD and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare following the conference report; the value of working in groups

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to remember the helicopter over the years and associate it with him. J: Yes, it became a kind of a trademark. He called it the Johnson City Windmill. G: There have been stories told about him pitching his hat to the crowd from the helicopter when
; how the campaign stops and speeches were planned; LBJ's ability to mimic Coke Stevenson; press coverage of LBJ's campaign; LBJ's strengths and advantages over Coke Stevenson; Mrs. Johnson's life as a political wife; cities and towns LBJ visited in June

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

congressmen and things of this nature in behalf of that bill. As it finally turned out, as it was passed, when it came down to the compromising and getting it finally through, was Mr. Johnson as tough on that bill as you and your associates wanted him

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be an observable-to-the-press presence in the White House on a regular basis. That's first and foremost. Then there's an understanding that the chairman of the party does have access to the president. He is a spokesman for the president in the political area

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, in this case, in problems that were not Tenth Di~trict problems, but wider scope than that, in helping you with such problems? W: Yes, definitely. It was partly because of his own early association wi.th the NYA program, which was part of the WPA program

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. I did have the impression that the relationship between Stevenson and Johnson was a good one. I think that Stevenson was a little more warmly associated with Sam Rayburn than he was with Lyndon Johnson; that's the impression I retain; I may

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 to the Secretary, and I came in as an associate

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

before that. J: Well, we just didn't have anybody then, kind of passed it around. G: Was it primarily to write speeches or deal with the press? J: Both. G: Was Woodward supposed to do something different? J: He was sort of to be my assistant

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cronin -- IV -- 12 changed now. I think the ABA [American Bar Association] does a lot of ranking and rating now that's a little different from the way it used to be. But we had some at the time with a judgeship bill

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and Mr. Johnson as Vice President. So Mr. Wilkins said to his associates, "Suppose we go over on the Hill." He did not spell out to them just what he had in mind. over there, they go to the office of the Vice President. very late in the afternoon

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

publicity because it had drawn the support and attention of Dr. Martin Luther King and his associate, Dr. [Ralph] Abernathy. It had ceased to be strictly a labor dispute, but emerged as a matter of the dignity of minority people in Memphis. i~volved

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The Associated Press carried it all over I can still tell you the lead. The lead was, "The fate of 250,000 Texas schoolchildren rested today in the hands of veteran educator Pat Bullock and youthful Lyndon Baines Johnson." That was the lead on my story

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was abroad in Europe and Asia--the trip in which he stopped off in Paris and had some discussions there with some French authorities. F: Is this the one that the press played up so? K: That's right. F: It's earlier, but it's worth having. K

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

did. I worked on it with Tom Whitehead, who later left our paper and bought the Brenham Banner Press and was publisher of it and for all I know may still be. But any- way, we conducted the poll and we went all over the district--smaller towns

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

an associate editor of the college newspaper, but I liked to write and that sort of thing. And then there was an opening at the New York Herald Tribune. A colleague of mine had gotten on the New York Herald Tribune and said, "Well, you can come on here, and we

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