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Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and reported to a meeting of our state cabinet after that. The press carried the story. I don't have the clippings from it. I satd at that time some very strong things about him and the quality of hts leadership in the Senate, the fact that he should figure
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh with all the people speculating privately and in columns and "Meet the Press" and so forth that Johnson would be certainly a man that the party would look at. and checking it. B: I couldn't pinpoint the date without going back I'd say
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe in a third term, and I appointed a campaign manager named Vincent Daley, and he was campaign manager--ostensibly the campaign manager. He was the front man, and he was the one who used to hold the press conferences every day, but I used to see
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the hardest ones to do. L: Yes. I guess probably anything that was real, real tough, like Detroit, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
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, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • classmate of mine, a doctor who, after he pressed it in my hand, said on the way out, "I want to be on the Medical Care Commission," so I sent it back to him. I later put him on the Medical Care Commission, but I didn't take his money. So I didn't want
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ONASSIS -- I -- 1 2 every single moment of free time going out--and that that was the way it was gotten
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • elected. F: You just wanted to give a free hand to a successor? E: I think any successor--by the way, I am now chairman of one Presidential Commission and a member of another. I got in touch with President-Elect Nixon immediately after the election
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with you. He fundamentally thinks that the press kept him from getting his opinions across to the people of the United States, and I fundamentally disagree with him. I think that his conception of a free press, unfortunately, is one that prints what he
  • ; Russ Wiggins; 1960/1964 Democratic convention; meeting of JFK and Graham regarding the VP nomination; Home Rule; LBJ’s attitude toward the press; beautification; press relations; civil rights; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • completely free of any-- M: I don't know. I doubt that it was. I remember there was Some charges made LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: -8http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY
  • jobs and errands for the President; advice for LBJ’s press relations; Bill Moyers; LBJ’s treatment of George Reedy; Jenkins held LBJ in respect but not afraid to disagree with him; 1964 campaign; Mississippi delegation; Mooney’s admiration of LBJ; Eric
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was there and I remember how she sat up in the gallery and she moved from one place to the other and the press would follow her. That was marvelous. Of course, she was for Johnson too, you know. F: Did you ever talk to her about this? M: Yes, of course. F
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Candidates ," and it was so difficult to get speakers even to debate Republican speakers on a national hookup of free time, that I had to fill in some of those myself. I enjoyed terrifically debating people like Sherman Adams, who was the campaign manager
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • something like the Korean settlement, with a genuine demilitarized zone and the Communists on the North and the free Vietnamese on the South, with some guarantees of our troops remaining there. This, I think, was what he was hoping for, praying for, up
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was due to make a speech he called and said he was corning out, and I said, "Don't come. licked." We are going to get badly So he didn't come, and Kennedy did get the delegation. We fouled it up a little bit in the press, but he got it. went out to Los
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on there . on there . And we asked Kennedy--and we had some Humphrey people Of course, Humphrey was defeated in Wisconsin and West Virginia and had pulled out of it, so the Humphrey were footloose and fancy free . I felt that as Governor that I could persuade a majority
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the campaign you handled his electronic media, I thi:n.k. M: His radio and television, yes. G: I kn6w of the one occasion in New York when there was a joint appearance. What did you do there to set that up? Well, let me give you the background. The press
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • work needed to be done--supplementary work, that we would be free to do it. But that we would be embraced in this matter, taken into it, in all respects--with nothing kept from us. I was selling the Chief on the idea that he needed us in Texas
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and they were all coming around expressing their sorrow to me because of my identity with the candidates for so long. It was a tragedy. Dallas got a lot of unfavorable publicity and comments from the eastern press about it, but it was one of those things
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 A: Yes, there would be one other general class, and that would be the big, bright, brash press conference type that he would ordinarily hold in the East Room. They would invite a lot
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a politician . She made all the meetings, she made the speakings, she made the Democratic Executive Committee meetings, and the various subdivisions of it ; she made them all . She was well known, she was well liked in the press, and she did a lot for him
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The sale of computers even to the Soviet Union today, I don't know whether it's entirely free, but one would have to take those things up specifically because of the complete embargo on trade with China . The British had no sympathy with that, and the same
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the times I spent with him. M: In the early period it would seem to me there were questions of his relationships with the press. That may have been a recurring theme. H: It was. M: I think you told me that he was very much concerned that he wasn't
  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • operating apparently under the notion that LBJ was going to run again. R: Yes. G: How were you brought into the campaign organization? I know you had worked in 1964. R: I can't remember exactly how it happened. I may have been pressing Johnson, you
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, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by them. They became our first-rate sources, and the pessimism and the doubts that fed into that press corps came first and foremost not from dissident Vietnamese politicians, as people later claimed, or this political group or that group in Saigon
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 17, 1968 F: This is an interview with Mr. Charles K . Boatner, the Director of Press Information for the Department of Interior, in his office in Washington, December 17, 1968
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Because I think it was the first stop on the railroad outside the metropolitan area. Also, it was close enough to Washington that all the local press and the foreign press could come to be in rural America, is my impression of it. As you know, Culpeper
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ?". He said, and he spoke very low, "The Speaker just announced me for the presidency." Sure enough, Rayburn had called a press conference over in the Adolphus Hotel without saying anything to anyone about it and made the announcement. Mr. Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , is that correct? M: That's right. G: Did he ever have you up to Washington? M: Oh, I was up to Washington. I didn't ever stay in the White House. One time I went in there when Kennedy had all the Texas press in there, and I wasn't on the list and I got
  • ; the Brazos River Authority; LBJ makes a last visit to Temple, Texas; at the Dallas Trade Mart with Storey Stemmons during the JFK assassination; LBJ is faithful to his friends; investigating the M-16 rifle; observing the Tet Offensive; Ted Connell; the press
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • announce the next day--Sunday, February 14, where he was on one of those "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press" programs--that he was going to campaign for Humphrey in Wisconsin. In other words we would give him the District of Columbia and he would help
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • if nobody else was there but me. B: Was that an innovation of yours? H: Oh, absolutely. People never dreamed of starting anything like that and never dreamed of having a secretary that was there at 8:30. B: I believe that you had regular press
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Press Club here. And the person making [the presentation?], just casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch, mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, and a member
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the staff’s backgrounds; friction among staff mambers; Jacobsen’s opinions on the press; assessment of specific LBJ staffers; who had influence on LBJ’s decisions; LBJ’s temper; LBJ’s 'earthy' language; LBJ’s power of persuasion; the credibility gap; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is somewhat low now, one day people will look at what he has done and will begin to realize just what an enormous accomplishment he has led this country through during his Administration. I think that so much of our communications and the press -- I think
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)