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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

free from it because what the--the most important single thing in a press office is that it--is that it be credible. Its word must be believed. Now a number of things happened. At one point, Buzz [Horace Busby] wrote a couple of memos. One of them, he
LBJ’s staff; Pierre Salinger; LBJ and the press; Reedy appointed as press secretary; railroad strike and machinists’ strike; LBJ’s understanding of Latin America; Alliance for Progress; War on Poverty; tax bill; civil rights bill; LBJ’s secrecy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the riots. I suppose three good examples would be Watts, Detroit, and Newark. We'll leave Washington, which is a special case, since it's your own home ground. Was there any essential difference in the way these riots developed as far as White House

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. December 10, 1965. McPherson is sending me a clipping from the Detroit Free Press. "The Vice President in New York told the Free Press the cabinet had already spoken with him about the idea [inaudible] asks Congress. The Vice President, designated

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

operation after [the] Detroit [riot of 1967], for example. But in the years before, they had served up an awful lot of raw evidence that there was.I used to think it was in part in order to satisfy the conviction on the part of a lot of politicians
White House reaction to Watts riots; LBJ’s speech to the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission regarding rioters; Clark group’s report on Watts; LBJ-HHH relationship; Roger Wilkins; death of MLK; LBJ’s feelings about MLK; Louis Martin; Detroit

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the task, did it work out that way? Did he in fact let you run it as he had indicated he would ? V: He did indeed, He was one hundred percent good to his word on that. He gave us full and complete authority and a free rein in what witnesses were
; Dominican Republic Crisis; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission; Urban Institute.

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

minutes and that he was appointing--of course, the Detroit riots were at their height, and Newark was still smouldering. that he was going to appoint a citize~s He said committee to investigate LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Chicago Defender. I stayed here a few months and then in June of the same year, 1936, I went to Detroit to help establish and edit and publish the new newspaper called the Michigan Chronicle, which I still retain some proprietary interest in. From

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to the Detroit riots that sununer,were very important--when it became quite clear that he was no ionger going to connnit hiroselfto any kind of leadership in the area of race and urban strife. LBJTs reaction to the Detroit riots, you will recall, was a day
LBJ’s response to the Detroit riots and race problem; McNamara’s move from Defense Dept. to the World Banks; Robert Kennedy’s and the “doves” in the Senate; assessment of LBJ and conclusion that he was a bitter man; Kennedy’s decision to run

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on Saturday morning with the other appointees and Mrs. Johnson. As we arrived the President was holding a press conference at which he announced our appointments and we spent the rest of the morning with the President, had lunch with him and Mrs. Johnson
; Detroit riots; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; cost effectiveness; role of service secretaries

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, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into action. F: I well remember Harry Truman's delightfully forthright statement when he took the atom bomb out of the military control and put it into civilian, he didn't want some dashing lieutenant colonel making a reputation out of pressing a button. So

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: G. MENNEN WILLIAMS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Justice Williams' office in the Lafayette Building, Detroit, Michigan Tape 1 of 1 F: When di.d you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? M: I got acquainted with him in the early

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the University of Minnesota. you joined the United Press in Detroit. In 1948 And in 1949 you joined the Detroit Free Press and became a labor editor. You, at that time, also acted as a correspondent for the New York Times, Business Week, and Newsweek

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

know what to do at that point--you know, what they were supposed to do. So I wound up writing a press release for them by which they could announce this marvelous thing--not a part of my usual work. P: What is the line between the use of the Civil

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 speechwriter himself, but he was at that time Press Secretary and really the number one substantive aide as well--and deeply
; press leaks and staff members talking to the press; believing in what you write; 'crisis mongering'; changes in socioeconomic conditions for Negroes; presenting statistical information to the President; the Kerner Commission; Robert Kennedy speaking out

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. We had a wonderful secretary, Joyce Bolo, wife of the Agence France Presse bureau chief, Felix Bolo, and mother of two young sons, who kept the books and the office running. You kind of say to Lescaze, "Well, I'll go up north, and you stay down here
Alsop; Bureau Chief duties; the Tet offensive; print journalists and TV reporters; Braestrup’s theory of LBJ’s approach to Vietnam; LBJ’s credibility gap; the “Five O’clock Follies: the JUSPAO; Barry Zorthian; press leaks and obtaining accurate

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, these were sort of pressed together into one lump package and attached to it. G: I think that's probably the major thing that occurred. When I asked about your impressions of the bill and you pointed out its similarity to previous .measures which either

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

there. I don't know if it's important--I was editor of the Law Review, and I won the Campbell Award for Argumentation. I spent a year as clerk to the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. I went to Detroit and entered a law firm there, and I

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

unsuccessfully. Powell did not return his calls. I asked Martin King to call Adam, since Powell was not returning my calls either at this point. Powell had, by the way, held a press conference at which he had said) among other things, "You know, the question

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the press, which you couldn't do in the news briefings or things like that. F: That's one thing I wondered. L: We weren't trying to get our names in the paper. F: You don't want to wall yourself off. L: We did it, but I would say it was done more
and the press; LBJ's perception of press coverage; finding a public relations consultant for LBJ; LBJ's problems with television appearances; Mary Wells' speech-writing; LBJ's editing skills; Ramsey Clark and the Watts riots; LBJ's views on wiretapping; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

perfectly free to raise any kind of question that I thought would be for the benefit of the veteran. B: Beyond specific-- W: Beyond specific legal problems. I didn't feel in that capacity that I was limited to the legal role because we were shaping policy
were asked to pay; conflict between the panel and HUD; flood insurance versus civil disorder insurance; a December 1966 conference on the legal rights of tenants and the release of the conference report during Detroit rioting in 1967; the American Bar

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

still wanted to get the statement out and make it public, we could. And we did. At that point he had a press conference on a number of other matters, and during the press conference said he thought this was a bad suggestion, probably unconstitutional

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said to Mayor Gribbs of Detroit, and Mayor Masell of Atlanta, "What do you all think about the idea of having the Corps of Engineers build these projects on a regional basis?" I don't know if it 1 s ever going to come to that, but we're obviously

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

run against him and when Dick decided not to, why then McCormack was home free. But I don't think anybody believed after Rayburn's death that McCormack would not be elected. B: Just to keep the record straight, that's when you moved from

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you to the plane on time." I got off the plane and a car met me, and we pulled into the South Lawn of the White House and there was the press corps and all the arrival ceremony people, but I didn't know what it was, all the marine guards and all

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to it. There may have been a newspaper item in the Detroit Free Press; I kind of think there was. An editorial that questioned the propriety of this. Actually, as deputy I was much further away from the work of the Supreme Court than I had been as assistant

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

convention. He was bound to vote for Senator [Estes] Kefauver on the first vote, but after that, he was free to vote--if Kefauver didn't win on the first vote--so he was free to change. He got to working on the floor for Senator Kennedy, whom he didn't know

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and was inadequate to the pressing urban problems of the District; that we had to do something, and that the reorgani.zati on pl an waul d achieve these improvements. Erlenborn and Edwards in the hearings judged the plan on its merits LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. At that time her secretary was both the social secretary and private secretary and press secretary. She combined all three, and most of the mail was for her signature, but a good deal of it was for Mrs. Eisenhower. M: Would you continue this--let me have

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

left out Detroit. Incidentally, we now have a task force in Detroit. B: Do you get involved in political considerations in selecting these? V: Not at all. B: It's not considered? V: No. B: Chicago, for example. Mayor Daley's prominence

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

he was a United States senator. Positions on legislation that infringed upon the rights of local institutions, the attack on the free enterprise system that I classify certain legislation that's called civil rights legislation, he bitterly opposed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

throughout the years. My people were free to do backgrounders as long as they advised me of them. That was not an easy area because after all, you would be considered by most of the press as being self-serving. But you were more apt to await press contact
could see them; contact with the press and efforts to publicize legislative progress; disagreement between Robert McNamara and General Earle Wheeler over the effectiveness of bombing in Vietnam; cabinet meeting updates on Vietnam; LBJ's reaction

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interesting case, perhaps because it's lapped over into this Administration and has been the subject of a good deal of press comment. As you know, President Johnson has always been very sensitive to press criticism, and often more sensitive than many of us
; the Johnson treatment; books written about LBJ’s Presidency; friction between the Kennedys and LBJ; press relations and criticisms; cause of LBJ’s unpopularity; LBJ’s interest in polls

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

agency Is the chief goal to act as the businessman's arm in promoting the nation's foreign commerce? F: I believe there is a misunderstanding of the Department of Commerce, at least so far as this bureau is concerned. We are a free enterprise economy

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

played this game simply for enjoyment. G: How did he imitate Roosevelt? R: Trying to fool people. For instance, he tried to trap the press into writing a story that Tom Dodd was going to be the vice presidential nominee. That was a typical Roosevelt
about Vietnam; intervention in the Dominican Republic; civil rights; immigration reforms; airline machinists’ strike; Reedy’s departure from post of press secretary; LBJ’s staff.

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really to pick folks, the most imaginative kinds of folks, from every piece of the Manpower Administration. ~lanpower Administration and outside the So what I did generally was to try to get folks that I thought would really be relatively free from

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

political science academies and associations, and you are a writer and a lecturer. If you would like to add anything to that, by all means please feel free. S: No, I think that just about covers it. G: I'd like to begin this interview if I can

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

company from scratch even though I had a good base to start. George Bissell, my good friend, with Murray, pressed the issue. I came to the conclusion just prior to the first of January of 1969 to drop the concept of a consulting firm in New York and join

Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: I was born the twenty-first of June, 1918, in Marquette, Michigan. My father was at that time the principal of the high school there, and he later, when I was two years old, moved down to the Detroit area. When I was four he moved to River Rouge

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just remember hearing Daddy tell about how Luci just decided one day [to see Speaker Rayburn]. We were very free children. loose on the Hill. We were just let run (Laughter) LB: Hill children. LR: We were raised up there. We all knew where

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