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  • 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
  • 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
  • . He'd made a good governor, most people in And it ,,,as a political race, and feelings were aroused. Naturally I was working as hard for my man as I could. B: What made Hr. Johnson seem liberal? M: I suppose association in the minds of many people
  • 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
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 at Arnold and Porter named Jim Fitzpatrick, and in New York by a man named Anfuso (sp), whose father was a Congressman; and I ran a smaller group called the Associates Division
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
  • . 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
  • in '60, and then went for Johnson rather heavily in '64. In 1960 did you work with the business community at all? W: No. Of course, I was--I didn't because, again, I was in on trial so much of the time that I was very hard pressed to do anything
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
  • way and down the fire stairs in order to avoid the press, not to have them know that there was any kind of dickering going on, and walking into Jim's room and finding Earl Mazo of the Herald Tribune sitting there. He was the first one I ran into. He
  • Yarborough and Connally? HM: No. This had nothing to do with it. Goldwater had captured the fancy of the national press and from 1960 until the fall of '63 he got a very favorable national press. They would label him an unreconstructed rebel
  • 1965 to the present, you have been associated as a senior staff member of the Brookings Institute on government studies. I should also add, for the record, that you, in 1960 and again in 1968, \-.Jere the secretary to the platform committee
  • a fellow was subject to an injunction, he really thought before he did anything because that judge could commit him for contempt. And this was something that people didn't want to have happen to them so they followed the law. The Restaurant Association
  • Biographical information; Hobart Taylor, Sr. and LBJ; civil rights cases in Michigan; NAACP; Export-Import Bank; Cliff Carter; early association with LBJ in 1960; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; Plans for PROGRESS; Jerry Holleman; RFK and LBJ
  • at the airport and arranged a press conference for hUn. That was my only contact with him. M: What did these big city northern mayors think about Johnson being the vice presidential candidate in 1960? C: I personally thought it was a very good choice, I
  • legislation; Senate vote on Medicare testifying on the hill; civil rights bill; duties as Secretary; expansion of Office of Aging; women in government; appointment by Secretary; birth control report; surgeon general's report on smoking; LBJ and the press
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • . But it got a certain amount of press, and it was part of the discussion at least that went on among reviewers and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • 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
  • was, oh, sort of out to get Johnson? 0: I know you do . You get a lot in the press about that . Afterwards I never felt that while Jack was alive . I was really in my own shell of grief, and when all those things are written and you read them, do
  • done anything in particular to whip up a crowd, or had it just come naturally? V: It had really come naturally. We had done the usual thing of trying to make sure that the press knew about it and that they were coming in early, to let out
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 5 "This is the way it is," he was willing to assume that that's the way it was. And, once he'd pressed you with "Are you really sure
  • being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have
  • 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
  • never talked about it in your presence? 10 Okay. Remember they had the Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City that spring and summer. There was a note in the press that Ralph Abernathy wanted to meet with you. why? Do you recall that? Do you
  • , as we called them, is Ambassador John Bartlow Martin. He did this for Kennedy in 1960 and on a smaller scale for Johnson in '64--to go in and advance for the President, to meet with the local leaders and the press and the opinion makers to find out
  • days that Johnson was still a this~ a press briefing? frustrated senator. M: No, I didn't. Did you see any evidence of that? I used to see the then-Vice President from time to time, and he was always willing to do anything he could to help us
  • was obviously becoming closer and closer, I was the laughing stock to begin with of both the national press and the local sentiment in Wyoming, as a hopeless case-F: Yes, I remember your campaigning even penetrated into Texas. M: In fact, its penetration