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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
  • Biographical information; day of JFK's assassination; Jim Jones; Marvin Watson; 1968 campaign; Marty Hauan; Will Sparks; DNC; George Christian; Mike Monroney, Jr.; advance work and trips to Honolulu and Huntington, West Virginia; Whitney Shoemaker
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Bolton -- I -- 15 long handshake to monstrous crowds. On the streets of Honolulu, Taipei, Manila, he had shaken hundreds of hands. He would stop his motorcades in order to dismount and walk through the crowds to reach more hands
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 CINCPAC-Fleet in Honolulu. operation. And it was basically a State Department But so far as the Department of Defense was concerned
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , stopping first in Honolulu where he dedicated the East-West School at the University of Hawaii, which is a new enterprise, he literally berated Spencer Davis in public at every news conference, chided him for having this erroneous story on it. Of course
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • available. have the confidence in UHF. Advertisers didn't The coverage is not as extensive, and so, therefore, an investment in UHF did not prove to be as good. F: Did you primarily work with Mrs. Johnson on this, or did the Senator take an active hand
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kennedy wanted to keep. Now, beyond 1961 I was in the State Department, and really can't vouch for it. I should add one more impression I had of Vice President Johnson. It was when I was asked to chair one session of a meeting of the Advertising Council
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , so we went on up to a little higher tower, and we overlapped the A pattern of his station in Austin. But he had all the business he could handle and he was running those prize stories, you know, they were paying those huge sums for advertising
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing that Lyndon Johnson did in 1941 was promote navy advertising in small Texas newspapers, navy recruitment ads. B: Through his stations there? G: Well, no, in Texas newspapers. He tried to get the navy to take out ads in small weeklies
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to soon realize that they are going to have more people than they can handle~ B: Are you doing anything special in the way of advertising? H: No. Ben Butterfield, our assistant director for Tourism and Information Services, has been in touch
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://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 BELEN -- I -- 26 attend the Postmasters' Convention in Honolulu, and I'm going
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • from Honolulu. She wrinkled up her nose as if how dare he interrupt her when she was busy rehearsing something, and then she skipped off to talk to him. Unfortunately, at the luncheon or on the bus tour we went out to Columbia Island. Well, most
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • attorney in the state of Texas principally and have been since my graduation in 1933. In addition to being an attorney and representing for many years the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, which is the association of members who
  • Biographical information; how Tocker came to know LBJ; the billboard bonus law of 1958; Tocker’s work for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America; passing an amendment to the billboard bonus law; LBJ’s stance in regard to the billboard bonus
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • amount in the shortest period of time. What would have to be dealt to accomplish that objective? Well, we decided one major portion of the problem was the advertising industry. ing industry. We would have to deal with that in the advertis- Another
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , outdoor advertising control, [two] the control of junk yards, and then thirdly, the landscaping and scenic enhancement of highways and their immediately adjacent areas, M: What was Mrs . Johnson's role in this? B: Well, Mrs . Johnson was tremendously
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • that would be sent up about highway beautification would reflect the agreements that had been reached between you and Mr. Moyers, you on behalf of the outdoor advertising industry. I think in the conversation that wasn't recorded I had said
  • advertising and related issues.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I mean, all I remember was that they really had a lock on the committees. They did not want the billboards taken down because they didn't want to lose the revenue. It wasn't the advertisers on the billboards; it was the people that owned
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • did the station fit in to the Austin spectrum with the other stations at the time? What role did Lyndon Johnson play in the business? S: Well, originally, I couldn't tell you a whole lot about the radio stations because I didn't advertise much
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • noticed that an advertiser's program was appearing on one of the other stations in the area and Austin didn't have it, and, "My friend," you know, "are you my friend or not?" and so forth, and would I see what could be done for him? And I quite frankly
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: HARFIELD WEEDIN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Chateau Marmont Hotel, Hollywood, California Tape 1 of 1 G: You were discussing your ad agency. W: No, it was an advertising agency. Was it PR or advertising? My
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Prokop -- I -- 22 influence there. G: Was this primarily the advertising profession? P: Absolutely. They were very strong, particularly during the period of the Truth in Packaging. They had, quite
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -­ XV -­ 8 controlling advertising along the federally-funded highways. Do you recall LBJ's position here in 1955? J: I don't. I know what Mrs. Johnson's position would have been, but I don't think she was active
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Did that establish a business relationship? B: Yes. Yes, it did. G: Let me ask you to describe that. B: Well, of course, naturally we wanted to help, so we told our advertising department to look into it and anything we could do to help out
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • advertisers. M: You went into a national market then? A: Yes, I went into the national market myself. Of course, the station had national reps. Still they couldn't do a whole lot for you; they're more or less order takers. So this is 12 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was in professional services and I couldn't, being a small a- gency, take that time off without any income to the agency. No, we made a deal, as I recall, and I think I made it through Woody, and the deal was that we would handle the advertisement, placing ads
  • Meeting LBJ; Albert Thomas; seeing his wife for the first time; events before and during the 1960 convention; LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Valenti’s role in the 1960 convention; advertising
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to talk to the news media. Again, one of our on going programs that got a lot of emphasis during President Johnson's regime, and still is, is the advertise­ ment. During his tenure we spent about eighty or ninety thousand dollars for advertising
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Peterson -- I -- 15 really reflected far more than others in the White House staff what the President was thinking. For example, an advertising pub­ lication, Printers Ink, printed a nasty editorial
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that so many business leaders from all industries were willing to lend their names to the membership of that committee, even in public advertisements, as well as donating the one thousand-dollar maximum amount that could at that time be contributed legally
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • dollars a year in that original form! But too few advertisers graced its pages. At one of the difficult stages, [Gardner] Mike Cowles admitted: "You are doing your best" to lift the pages of Look to a higher level"--the two of us ran Look
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of California at Santa Barbara. In 1951 you joined the Travelers Insurance Company and were there until 1964. K: '65. G: '65. Is that correct? From 1964 until 1965 you were the vice president of Travelers in charge of public information and advertising
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : No . M: but at that time he was an officer of an advertising firm in New York . He was a private citizen, then, acting as the President's friend, your informal representative in this case . Lemoyne Billings at that time, I'm not sure what he's doing
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or is it in--? In May of 1966--I said the spring of 1967, I meant the Spring of 1966. But in May of 1966 Fowler, Connor, Schultze, and [Arthur] Okun were supposed to appear on a panel before the Advertising Council on May 17, and they were going to discuss economic
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was related to that seems to have been the control of advertising rights along these highways and whether the federal government could or should get involved with regulating bill boards and things like that. B: It was a very emotional issue
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • very kind about Malone on the floor after he had been with us on a close vote. Of course, he used that in an advertisement when he ran against Howard Cannon. That's what caused Johnson to stop there on Sunday after he had made the trips in 1958 and have
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • notice on that particular time. He just had a couple hours notice on that and had to set up the security on that for him. But it wasn't an advertised visit,so we were able to set up our securi ty pretty qui ckly. r1: I suppose that would be easier
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • interest in the station at that time? W: Well, Mrs. Johnson purchased the radio station, and it was having quite a difficult time to survive; in other words, he had to get companies to advertise on his station. And to do that, he had to get acquainted
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there should have been, as to whether this was something the city itself had any area of responsibility for or whether, as many people said, it could have happened anywhere. Well, it could have happened anywhere, but there was an advertise- ment
  • ; 7th Avenue wholesalers; Dallas Morning News’ notorious advertisement; Bruce Alger; re-establishing Dallas as a good place to live and work; Bronze Abstract Wall commissioned by Dallas Public Library; problem with having an official designer; Adele
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that year, Congress had passed legislation that put a health warning on cigarette packages. I proposed to the President that we recommend legislation that would ban cigarette advertising from television. We'd go through the legislative program--we won't get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 23 we had sort of set the date for June 1 for a new start. Lyndon said we ought to advertise that. No matter how