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Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the beginning of the period of advocacy journalism and, you know, you took them as they came. G: Who were some of the good reporters from that period? M: Oh, the best are really no longer there. John Hightower was the senior Associated Press correspondent
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Noel -- I -- 9 fairly do as a partner of the firm. I assembled a small group of associates around me and practiced in that posture until I was appointed to the court in 1961. M: Now, after you got out
Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and the next time I really got, shall we say, close to him, was when I went to Vietnam to be his chief of staff. G: I see. Well, there was quite a hiatus in your association. K: Yes, it was a long time between those times; although we had met each other, we
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