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  • debated it for one entir e week, besides the prelim i narie s and the buildups and the inser tions in the Record and the debates in the public press . We starte d on Monday and I don't believ e we finish ed that bill until late Frida y night . I
  • to it so the press has things to write about. I think it's effective. P: And in the case of having the First Lady doing it too? J: When you've got a first lady like Mrs. Johnson, I think it's very effective. P: Are there any other events that stand
  • on that campus with the Press Club and the Harris Blairs and the Schoolmasters' and the White Stars. Why was this the case? D: Well, of course, I didn't come in contact with too many of the clubs because my activities were just surrounded by the summer session
  • . But meanwhile the governors and the mayors and the county people were getting quite angry. They were complaining in their conferences and in public and in the press that they were being left out on the planning, the staging, the execution. They were just being
  • with that, he agreed to co-author a book with Lady Bird called Wildflowers Across America, which as you know is a real classic, published by Abbeville Press. Carlton was a steadfast member of the board until he died, which was about four or five years later. He
  • coast at that time had few Negroes, and the Southwest was in sympathy with the South, and the Northwest found that it was not a pressing issue. They would help if it came to a roll call, but they would not take the initiative. The Southwest, as I say
  • the money from [Harold L.] Ickes' Public Works outfit. The first time ~on came to the Public Works outfit [Michael W.] Mike straus was at that time the press agent for Ickes and also head of the Reclamation Department, so he came to see Michael straus
  • Office there, waiting for the President, and the President came in, and Lyndon introduced me to him. I had a very nice talk with him there. I have a picture that I prize; we're standing around the rocking chair, and Pierre Salinger, who was the press
  • a bad column from Doris Fleeson, asking, "What's this all about?" She'd been in the press gallery. It w as sad, this destruction of a human being, no pleasure, regardless of anything else, to see a man just fall apart; and watch his friends desert him
  • it--the press asked me about Dean Rusk and Bob McNamara--also Bobby Kennedy who had been mentioned. have that they didn't have! What did I I said, "I have the invaluable quality of dispensability." P: Did you see any reasoning behing this? Of course, you
  • then, because after the luncheon was over she was driven right back to Washington. But I spoke with her before, you know, at the small reception and got to chat with her for just a moment. Of course there were just scads and scads of the press there and lots
  • . I don't think he would have been re-elected, and I think he felt he would not be re-elected. M: Is that the reason--? G: And he had been subjected to a lot of abuse by the press and people LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • in at the last minute and saved the day. So we had two or three of them that saved the day when they were certifying. But I think, when it was all told, that they did have votes enough that they weren't worried about it. B: How did the press handle this issue
  • on this. The Oppenheimer episode, which really finally broke out in full array in the press after I left the AEE, further excited this whole situation. And the rivalry between Oppenheimer and Teller produced great tensions among the scientists at Los Alamos. LBJ
  • and one that indicated that the President was--as it were-leaving the field. At that time Senator Kennedy had been meeting with groups of businessmen and with the press on these off-the-record and background sessions, and making his view very clear
  • with Russell Long. I know that after I got on the Committee I found it at once easier to gain a sounding board in many segments of the press, particularly the very creditable newspaper and television outlets that treated with foreign policy on a high level
  • and had reasonably direct access to the President through it . M: There are always, of course, the press stories that the President's habits of calling up officials in various levels frequently at odd times . 0: No . Has this ever happened to you
  • - Probably he issued one to the press which Ray Lee wrote. couldn't have done anything about it. He But things were bound to be a bit subdued because the candidate was unavailable. G: Did you use the radio much to campaign? W: Yes, he was on a few
  • in the press afterwards that various LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze
  • , and with that engine sitting behind you, it sounded just like a 20 millimeter going off behind you. So you clear your tail a couple of times, which got me too far behind Jones to be effective as a wing man, and so I still pressed on and finally got the engine
  • ., Indep., D.-Ore.], a highly combative group of Democrats. And they were really superb at it.They could go on for forty-five minutes and give the press several columns of stories. And it made for good reading and a lot of fun. But when it came down
  • that would be pressing him the hardest. G: Do you remember that at all? R: Well, I remember it now that you've reminded me of it. G: And that John Connally had the petition or the filing papers and one thing and another? R: Well, he might have been
  • something that you really couldn't do anything about . Now, one other historical thing that might be of interest . after I had that breakfast, I was on "Meet the Press ." Right One of the ques­ tions that someone asked me, they asked me whether I thought
  • , and other things were more important and more pressing . M: Did the sort of latent opposition that you mentioned might have existed in the State Department ever surface and come up against this? B: Yes, within the State Department there were sort of two
  • a little bit, and I put my hands on his back and pressed with the fingertips on both sides. It seemed to me that it was the sort of thing the doctor had told me about. and have a doctor. any doctor. So I said to him to go to a hospital And he was sort
  • They needed like this was a good thing . So we worked at it . G: Did he himself have close contacts with the press, with publishers or reporters? B: Well, knowing his attitude toward the necessity of having good public relations I feel sure he did
  • advantage following the TET offensive, that we could have hurt them more and could have severely limited their ability to wage war against us. F: Do you think that there's some sort of almost stubborn refusal to see some things on the part of the press
  • it. What we--at least what I--in the office knew was when he got called up to active duty that he initiated this himself. I also knew-G: Initiated? W: His getting called up to active duty. He volunteered, told the press that he wanted to go on active
  • , in the Congress or the press or elsewhere that their particular legal interpretation of something in that department was incorrect. They would frequently come to us, at least informally, trying to get us to review it and hold their hand and back them up. Sometimes
  • , unanimously incidentally, despite threats of filibusters and what have you. I have no idea what it took to do that but I'm sure it took something. But right around the time he goes to work on the board for what was then--the press was calling it a thirty
  • ] investigation of Nader and all that was public, they're having to hire [Theodore] Sorenson to protect them, a lot of coverage of Nader in the press, that he hadn't yet registered on the President's radar screen, whereas if he'd been a member of Congress he'd
  • and Director of CIA, and beginning at some point, the President's press adviser. G: Tom Johnson, I think. 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • , allowing for the fact that as Senate majority leader he can't? J: His relations with the press have always been one of his problems, as I'm sure he recognized better than anyone else. He went back and forth from being extremely friendly to them, perhaps
  • statement before the Associated Press April 20, 1964, and as I say read into the record in Geneva on April 21 of 1964. At the same time with an offer to negotiate a treaty on this basis if we wanted. This was fissionable material production reductions
  • Corpus [Christi] to come up and then I planted five questions. I did this in the Sheriff's campaign when he opened it a few months ago. G: In which campaign? J: Sheriff [Raymond] Frank. He's a good friend of mine. He had a press conference so I
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VIII -- 14 J: Well, I wrote an article, a press release, for the weekly papers I didn't think Lyndon would sign. He [Morse] came down here
  • . it caused trouble, as it should have. A stupid thing to do, and And while this was done at the campus level, it quickly got into the press and to the governor's office and the board of regents, and I was in the midst of that, including eliminating