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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • nature of my work in Vietnam and recognizing this, let me resort to my claim of friend and associate and attempt only to identify areas that at least deserve analysis for any comprehensive evaluation of the performance of the press in Vietnam. The first
  • Impact of the Tet Offensive; dealing with Vietnam information officers; effect in Vietnam of LBJ’s 3/31 announcement; government-press relationship; LBJ’s personality
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LOYD HACKLER INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL Place: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: This is an interview with Mr. Loyd Hackler, formerly the assistant press secretary of the White House staff. I'd like to ask you to provide for the tape
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Korea; impressions of LBJ; press relations; staff operations; LBJ and RFK; McCarthy campaign; 3/31 speech
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • years and that was natural they called me Tex there. So then when I came to Washington with the Associated Press in March, 1937, why, again they called me Tex. Then in fact for about thirty years while I was with the AP I had· this weekly column
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was accessible? A: Yes, he was always accessible. He wasn't always very informative. People around him were more informative than he was, people like George Reedy and Bobby Baker. M: You say that he got along better with the press then, and that's my
  • 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, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that was pretty horrible. G: The President had gone to New York. R: We were in New York. G: Al Smith dinner, was that it? R: I've forgotten what the dinner was. I was the first to know. I think I knew even before he did. Oh, I think the Associated Press
  • Duties of the press secretary; LBJ’s misunderstanding of the press; LBJ’s secrecy as president; press pool; travelling with LBJ; LBJ’s friendliness toward the press; Eric Goldman; resignation of Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you just a few more questions about Mrs. Johnson as first lady, and also some other issues I should say. I think the first one I'm thinking of, and I'm asking you this primarily because of your own close association with Mr. Udall, who was secretary
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Well, we had all sorts of problems with it. In the first place, an airline cannot haul anybody free-for-nothing without all sorts of special permits; and we had to go to the International Aviation Association, or whatever they call it, and get
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : A whole crowd. Everybody. In those days the press gallery was very small compared to what it is now. newspapers, had small staffs. And the press association, the individual But I remember very well when we were all LBJ Presidential Library http
  • with the Kennedys; press relations; criticism of LBJ; news media contributed to LBJ’s loss of popularity; previous Presidents’ handling of the press; Supreme Court Packing Bill; JFK’s formal format; impact of television on politics, campaigning and government
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that coverage by a group of younger reporters, good journalists, but young mavericks, rebels, young Turks, whatever label you want to put on them. David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Nick Turner
  • State of press relations in Saigon in 1964; coordination between various elements of the mission; generation gap and press relations; psychological operations; integration of the press relations efforts; JUSPAO; understanding of the Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was not based on our association with the United Press, which was almost nonexistent. It was on the basis of our working together when I was in the Budget Bureau. Also there I had had some not-direct contact with the President, but you know how close the budget
  • of LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; how LBJ’s treatment of individual reports affected their stories; television coverage of a White House event regarding a Rural Electric Association meeting; press coverage of NASA events; the difficulty in denying rumors.
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Kennedy -- I -- 23 G: In the spring of 1930, LBJ went to Huntsville as part of a TPA convention. Do you recall that? K: Texas Press Association? G: Yes. K: No, I don It. G: Yes. K: Yes. G: You were in the Press Club
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that meeting? Z: Some of it. I don't remember whether I've given you this before or not, but if not, it dealt with the press in Vietnam and the coverage we were getting. Leonard was there as director of USIA, John was there as the new director
  • 1965 meeting with LBJ about press coverage in Vietnam; Frank Stanton; Arthur Sylvester; LBJ and the press; Walt Rostow; different interpretations of the situation in Vietnam; Bill Moyers; government response to press criticism; qualifications
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the presidency. From that moment on, well, we didn't see each other for a few years, but we became friends. Eventually, of course, as a news reporter I spent almost ten years with the Associated Press in Texas, started as a sports editor in the Southwest
  • Biographical information; association with Richard Kleberg; first meeting LBJ; Roy Miller; association as a newspaperman with LBJ; LBJ’s temper; Senate race; visits during the presidency; LBJ and press criticism; W. Lee O’Daniel; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: LESLIE CARPENTER INTERVIEW'Eji: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Mr. Carpenter, tell us briefly about your own career, how you happen to be where you are at this time. I know you
  • Press relations
  • and the media; LBJ's press secretaries: Moyers, Christian
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent
  • effort to define the city limits of Hanoi for the press; the credibility gap in the State Department as opposed to the Defense Department; coordinating statements made by the Defense Department, White House, and State Department; the importance of word
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you to Mr. Johnson when he was majority leader? N: I became the Senate correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in September of 1958. Previous to that, I had been with the Associated Press, and I had not been close to Johnson at all with the AP
  • Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -- Well, now in 1945 I went out and returned to the Navy in 1946 to become a regular, if you want that in . THB : Yes, thank you . When then was your first association with the White House as a physician? B: My first association with any activity
  • Medical training; first association with White House; President Eisenhower; General Snyder; Dr. Tkach; Kenneth O'Donnell; Dr. Janet Travell; Dr. Eugene Cohen; Dr. Pep Wade; Dr. Hans Kraus; events in Dallas; campaign travel with LBJ; Dr. Cain; Dr
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARROLL KILPATRICK INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Kilpatrick's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Kilpatrick, is it correct that you began covering the White House in association with Mr. [Edward T.] Folliard in 1961? K
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in something that they'd lose their objectivity-- W: It is possible, of course, it's possible that one lost his objectivity in the Vietnamese war. But I think not, at least I claim not in my own case. When I was much younger I was on the Associated Press war
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and there was nothing else for me to do but to shake it. My grandmother had raised me to be a gentleman, and you respect authority figures. Well, there was a photographer for the Associated Press who got wind of what was happening, and by that time he had made his way
  • How Terry got a job at the Washington Post; shaking hands with Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus; early encounters with LBJ; Capitol Press Club; awarding LBJ for civil rights work; LBJ giving scholarship money to a black college student in 1963; job
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the particular incident was, but it involved an Associated Press story. At this briefing in the hotel room where the press was staying--it was at the hotel, and they were using it as the press room--Fleming on his own denounced this story which was obviously
  • Advancing LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; Laitin’s falling out with LBJ; Bob Fleming as Deputy Press Secretary; trip to Mexico with LBJ; Christmas trip to Rome; Colonel James Swindal; trying to be anonymous in Rome while advancing LBJ’s arrival
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • tenure as president that if my constituents (I was from 1961 to 1969 executive vice president of The American Bankers Association) and I agreed with him on an issue, we would do our best to go in all-out support. If we disagreed, we would, if feasible
  • Walker's first contact with LBJ; Walker keeping LBJ informed of the views of the American Bankers Association (ABA) members; Walker's banking and economics background and support for increased political power of the ABA; Walker's December 1963
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , with John Kennedy. K: Before John Kennedy announced. I am sure that I was at that point influenced by that comment of Nixon's and I accepted it at face value; I'm sure I did. A group of us had dinner in the National Press Club, one of the rooms
  • Nixon’s assessment of LBJ in the late 1950’s; JFK’s selection of LBJ as a running mate; LBJ’s failure to understand or relate to the press; attempts to manipulate the press; press’ attitude toward LBJ; Vice-Presidential trip to India and the Far
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • --direct, unequivocal statement--was to the effect that the board of directors of our association supported the proposed legislation titled S 2084. I added that one reason for our support of this legislation was that it recognized outdoor advertising
  • Beautification Act; passage of the Act and resulting problems; evaluation of Secretary Boyd’s actions; Donald Thomas; Hubert Humphrey’s involvement in Highway Beautification Act; characterization of Tocker in the press; overview of his opinions regarding outdoor
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Gittinger INTERVIEWEE: FERD KAUFMAN (with Ida Kaufman) DATE: November 6, 1997 PLACE: Mr. Kaufman's residence, Richardson, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: How long had you been working for AP? K: I went to work for the Associated Press in--gosh, I think
  • ; interactions with Secret Service agents regarding Kaufman's efforts to follow LBJ; LBJ's opinion of press attention; touring the Ranch house; a seventy-fifth birthday party for LBJ at the Ranch after his death; the telephone system at the Ranch; the lack
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the White House for Associated Press. Is this background information correct and complete? S: That is correct except from May of '63 until the late summer of '64 I was with the Motion Picture Association of America as assistant to the President, then Eric
  • signature; reaction to press conferences; LBJ’s use of letter in a speech or press conference; blue-card cases; crank mail; unusual letters; gifts; children’s mail
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to make, I believe, at the National Press Club. The memo substance suggested questions to be posed to me. It was so ridiculous that upon receipt of it I dropped it in the wastebasket. It suggested that questions be posed to me as to whether there was any
  • Charles Colson; memos Richard Nixon's staff wrote and distributed attempting to hurt O'Brien's reputation, including one that suggested a conflict of interest between O'Brien as head of O'Brien Associates and Democratic National Committee (DNC
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pictures of that in the press all during the Baker trial and in discussions of it. Anytime you have someone like that who was associated with a president, it's going to make news, and I think the President was hurt by that. Now on Vietnam, he may have had
  • regarding Vietnam; LBJ's efforts to keep the budget under $100 billion; LBJ's credibility gap and LBJ's claim that his grandfather fought at the Alamo; LBJ's visits to Australia; Bobby Baker; George Reedy, Bill Moyers, and George Christian as press
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of relationship started many years before, way back in 1955, and that because of the long period of association I never felt that I was out of place. B: That also implies that at least you didn't see any real change in Mr. Johnson. H: Yes, it does. I do
  • Hurst’s relationship with LBJ; declining the position of White House physician; LBJ’s health and fitness for the presidency; LBJ’s decision not to run in 1968; gallstones operation in 1965; medical information and the press; psychological analysis
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Zorthian. J: Well, I can't with honesty say I know or that this is the way it was. really don't know. Yes. I I'd just be guessing. G: Fine. J: Barry was an activist, and I think he felt that the role of the press in information and so on was more
  • McGeorge Bundy and the public affairs committee; Bill Moyers; press coverage of Vietnam; Dan Duc Khoi; Bui Diem; improving methods for transmitting news; American journalists from other countries; Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; Vietnam Psychological
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ March 21, 1969 F: This is an interview with Senator Everett Dirksen in his office in the Capitol. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz; March 21, 1969. Senator Dirksen, you've had a long career associated with Mr. Johnson
  • Discussion of issues associated with LBJ's political service; federal aid to public schools; Supreme Court appointments
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to convalesce at Brooke. At that point I was president of the American Heart Association, and because of that and because I was involved in the care of President Johnson I was asked to be on "Meet the Press," along with Ted Cooper, who was then in charge
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of getting a moment alone with him in order to explain the importance of such an acquisition. I felt that for reasons of personal pride, quite aside from everything else, President Johnson would be delighted to be associated with a project of this sort
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . . Then in April 1967 he asked me to return to the~nited accept an invitation extended by the Associated Press. States to After I had talked to the annual meeting of the Associated Press in the WaldorfAstoria in New York CitYJ I was invited by the Congress
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Mr. Joseph Dodge, whom I had known at the Pentagon through his assistance to the Army in connection with the Japanese and Korean financial matters. As a result of that, we had been professionally associated. He called me, asked me to come over
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the chairman would in some way limit the freedom of action upon his part. I didn't know what his policies were going to be, but mine were public, and had been stated and restated and discussed at press conferences and so forth. Therefore, I felt
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . were all So he took this occasion to be associated with it . I hope- his statements saved, his press statements and his speeches? � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the airplane, waving to the television cameras and so forth. G: Did you have any association with LBJ while you were at the Peace Corps? P: None. In fact, the first time I was ever in the White House was on November 22, 1963. I was working at the Peace
  • and Austin; going to work for Press Secretary Bill Moyers; advancing a meeting between LBJ and the Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, at Campobello; LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; recording conversations between LBJ and the press office; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was always with John Sengstacke, who is the current publisher of the Chicago Daily Defender. So actually we've been associated in business since 1936. Mc: Are you connected with newspapers elsewhere than Detroit and here? M: Yes. We now have a chain
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; JFK association; 1960 campaign; Civil Rights Act of 1957; work for appointments of blacks; LBJ during the vice presidency; liaison between the White House and civil rights people; RFK and LBJ; LBJ