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  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
  • to refresh my recollections. G: LBJ moved into that new office, the Capitol office, P-38. Let me ask you to just describe it and the circumstances around his acquiring that office. R: I'm not too sure of the circ1.111stances under which he acquired
  • any projects out of the air that we will saddle the next Administration with unfairly." Wilbur could smile and could smile and say "Yes, Hr. President," and go back to the Department and issue five more press releases on new projects-and I think
  • Eisenhower. K: So at least there was that background on the situation. When I first went up to New York with Senator Taft and Senator Millikin to talk with Eisenhower after he had become president-elect, but before he was sworn into office, we talked
  • correspondents, had been on the wire services, had worked for papers like the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, would come through our office anywhere from one to any number a day. They just wanted to work for just something to eat for that day
  • people are going to get hurt or killed. G: Did you have an opinion on the way that Hanoi was apparently able to convince some Americans that we were, in fact, bombing the civilians? Harrison Salisbury, I think, of the New York Times, was perhaps the best
  • for newspapers in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and was editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican in Santa Fe. At the time I came to Washington, I was editor of the Laredo Times, Laredo, Texas, I wrote political columns at most of the places I worked. Incidentally
  • to go to Mexico and use my Spanish; [I've] forgotten it now. But we'd work in the journalism school together, B Hall, and I worked for the Austin American and also for the [Waco] News-Tribune later. I wrote a weekly column for the--"University Life
  • to be in there, had that New Deal streak, didn't want to scare off Texas, didn't want to scare away the majority of Texans who were not big liberals, but wanted to kind of encourage people to move slightly toward the more progressive side, but without I suspect any
  • is a former newspaper reporter for the Dallas News, Chicago Tribune, but at that time he was working for the United States Information Agency. He said, "That's all right." Of course, that Saturday, July 2, he called me about at noon, about one o'clock
  • -- 1-- 2 than a full-time job if you were out of the university. So I worked for the International News Service, which is now UPI, under a fellow named Vann Kennedy, whom a lot of people in the LBJ family know. He now lives in Corpus Christi where
  • thing that ought to be part of some record. Naturally you get curious about a new president, so I pulled the Lyndon Johnson file--Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson file--after he became president of the United States, or maybe even while he was vice
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
  • ?" This went on for some time, and they finally told me that they'd had my orders changed and rewritten and that I was going to be in charge of a training group on Martha's Vineyard. They were opening a new training school at Martha's Vineyard, and they were
  • in and opened up a paper in opposition. They opened up the Tribune and built a building where the Railroad Commission is on 10th Street. the editor. William Travis, I believe, was Lyndon formed a friendship with Silver Dollar West and the other West a t