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Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh gets a grant of almost two and a half million dollars. I mean, what about you or what about Pittsburgh makes you so special? M: You must have been speaking of the Ford Grant. F: Right. M: I would have to say
  • Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of Pittsburgh? B: Oh yes. I met Lyndon Johnson when he first went to Congress. M: This is the kind of thing wei re at the mercy of. I had no idea your acquaintance went back that far. B: I met him through former Governor Dave Lawrence who
  • ; Berlin Wall issue; Barr as an observer during the 1967 Vietnam elections; Barr's view of the War on Poverty; Model Cities; Head Start; 1964 LBJ campaign visit to Pittsburgh; the March 31, 1968 speech; 1968 Democratic convention; housing issues; 1968
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the White House. I briefed them. We then took off in a presidential helicopter and we let the press take pictures of Morse and Collins and me saying goodbye to them as they got on the helicopter to go to Pittsburgh to settle the steel thing. When they first
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • my colleagues on this press plane. We had a fellow at KDKA-Pittsburgh named Mike Levine [?] who was a police reporter. Runyon character. He came out of the newspaper business. He was a Damon He didn't have to obey any State Department rules about
  • Coverage of 1959 Khrushchev visit; Khrushchev's dislike of the press; Mesta Machine Tool Company tour; JFK's choice of LBJ as VP; reflections on JFK's trip to Texas in 1963 and the days following the assassination; experience as a witness to LBJ's
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the presidency. Although my coverage down- town of the White House was limited directly or continuously to the last eight months of his presidential term, when I left the United Press International, which was a successor organization to INS and took charge
  • with Republican leadership; relationship with Senate and White House press; relations with HHH; hot and cold staff relationship
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • months later when he knew me better, whether he would have wanted to see me every single night or not, I don't know. But it wouldn't have surprised me because he was very much publicly on the line. The press doesn't make a distinction between
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Weaver, Nabrit, a whole lot of people like that, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Martin Luther King. It sends out no press releases. Now, he was so impressed that he thought what you do was to have the President here. So then I was responsible for working
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: R. CONRAD COOPER INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you for the transcriber's purpose. You're R. Conrad Cooper and during the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • publicly or not. Even if he didn't, I'm sure we did. I'm sure even if Eisenhower went out without seeing the press that we did not let the opportunity go by to say that he'd been briefed on the steel situation and he agreed with what we were doing. G
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • their communications set up, and start moving. And it's a slow process. One of the major difficulties with the appearance of the handling at Detroit was the fact that the press was constantly at the side of Governor Romney and Mayor Cavanagh. And just on the ticker, I
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 3, 1968 THB : This is the interview with Dr . George Burkley . begin here by just outlining your career . Dr . Burkley, let me Your medical training is at the University of Pittsburgh
  • -Fort Worth with JFK; travel arrangements with LBJ; press relations
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the night, and Johnson was going to see some people in Pittsburgh the following day. He was going to make a speech in Clarksville, West Virginia the following night. So he called us all to his room--all the press party--and he said, "Now,1I he said, "when
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SOLIS HORWITZ INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Horwitz's office, Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tape 1 of 2 M: Let's just identify you for the transcriber's benefit. You're Solis Horwitz, and your last
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • haven't had a president that's sophisticated. Partly also because the press would never understand stuff like this. Today it would immediately get leaked to the press and they'd have a better appreciation of the ramifications of the actions that were being
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he could get close and press the flesh and cement ties with guys who were important. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • start by summarizing what I know of your career here subject to your corrections and additions. You were born in Pittsburgh in 1918; educated at Amherst; University of Chicago Law School; Georgetown Law School; World War II service with the U.S. Army
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • broke was that he sent for me and he was in the little Ways and Means Committee room up on the second floor or the main floor of the Capitol. He had written out in longhand a statement for the press. he sent for me to ask me what I thought
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) G: Mr. Adler, I want to begin by asking you to describe where you were in the government at the time the War on Poverty was planned. A: I was at the Department of Commerce but on the payroll or being paid by the University of Pittsburgh
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • [telephone] I had friends here, I used to know the Gores very well. I used to visit the Gores. came here and then married in New York and we had an apartment here. I We lived in Pittsburgh but we always had an apartment here in the old Willard Hotel. F
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in, maybe twenty people, in this suite and said that he had this offer and that he wanted to let us know before the press knew it because we were his good friends. So to the few of us there he explained that he had had this offer, and that he felt
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson's reaction when she as first lady was compared to other first ladies? I remember seeing in the press a lot of comparisons of Mrs. Johnson and, say, Mrs. Roosevelt, and most of all, Mrs. Kennedy. A: It's very hard for any first lady to be compared
  • Mrs. Johnson as first lady; trips into poverty areas; Mrs. Johnson and speeches; Lynda and Luci during the presidency; 1964 campaign and train trip in the South; press on train trip flying Lady Bird Special; Mrs. Johnson's control and self
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • unemployables? B: That came considerably later, didn't it? F: Yes . B: That was the organization that Henry Ford was involved in? I was not involved in that personally, but our company was involved in it . We did a lot of work on that in the Pittsburgh
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • more than we ever had before. As I just said to some people in the press the other day, I thought that while John Kennedy recognized the mayors of America and recognized the big city problems, not much was accomplished while he was president. Now
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SARAH McCLENDON (and her daughter, SALLY O'BRIEN) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 16~ Tape 1 of 1 M: I thought you might be interested to know the first time I ever met Lyndon Johnson. I can't
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ; Lynda and Luci Johnson; LBJ’s relations with the press; Senator Styles Bridges; visits to the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of press criticism; LBJ’s sister Josefa; Bobby Baker; Johnson’s lack of trust of people.
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 4 There was a local reporter riding on the White House press bus. The only discussion I remember about possible crowd hostility
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that it was not a worthwhile investment. As a matter of fact, the Columbia Broad- casting System decided to turn in permits that they had. Other large organizations followed suit, including the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company which was a pioneer in Pittsburgh. F: I
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had pressed the button, unless someone had made a decision that this was to go. I said it seemed odd, but I pointed out that things like radio and television changed the world from where it had been and it was quite possible that conditions in cities
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of papers, including the Pittsburgh Courier group, the Chicago Daily Defender, the Tri-State Defender in Memphis, the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit--altogether about ten fairly good newspapers. Mc: And some in the South as well as in the North? M: Tri
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • union dues. He wouldn't have to belong. He'd just have to pay his dues. B: Do you recall how the mainstream press handled this? Were most of the--was most of the press anti-labor or pro-labor? M: I think--I don't know whether anti-labor is the exact
  • ; higher education for African Americans; Morehead's work for Southern Education Reporting Service and Southern School News; negative press coverage of the South; school integration and racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; the legal
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I arranged meetings with a number of big city mayors [including, among others, Dick Daly in Chicago, John Collins in Boston, Dick Lee in New Haven, Jerry Cavanagh in Detroit, and the mayor of Pittsburgh] offering to approve CRP financing
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people on the staff, Elizabeth Scully, the daughter of the then Mayor of Pittsburgh, an administrative assistant, and Jeanette Heine, H-E-I-N-E, a secretary. We built from there. I was trying to build the organization. Aubrey kept a very close hand
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CAVANAGH -- I -- 30 House on this idea. It'll be announced Monday. the press release over to the ~~hite I just
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • magazine went to press on Sunday night, but they did most of their editing through Saturday. He knew that correspondents had to file overnight Thursday, so that the editors in New York got the raw copy on Friday morning. zine's night. Now, I want you
  • Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • surprise when the appointment came through and people, you know, the public-C: Extremely critical. M: Why do you want a TV actress, ad woman, doing something like that? C: All right. everything. The press was very critical. Let' s go to the job
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • press him on it, and I don't know why he chose me, so I can't really answer the ultimate question, which is how come Livingston got so much involved? It's perfectly true that I have another academic interest in the comparative study of federal systems
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -­ XVI -­ 17 be Stu Symington; I didn 1 t press him at the time. But what he said
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Because my wife and I were relatively young--I was thirty-eight at the time--and we had come from John Kennedy Massachusetts, we received a lot of press coverage. country in We were doing unusual things in the conservative State of Ohio. When
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • press releases; he could get it from the daily press. G: I just wondered if he was in some respects an informal part of your compliance apparatus. F: No, he wasn't, because Herbie didn't operate that way, number one. He was always an adversary. He
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and through the sponsorship, or at least the encouragement of the Pittsburgh Courier , Archibald MacLeish appointed me to the position of morale officer in the Office of Facts and Figures . Well, that was a very short tour of duty because I became dis­