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Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , didn't you? C: Yes, I now represent the Boston Herald-Traveler. F: So you've kept the Boston connections? C: Yes, I've kept Boston connections. I've represented the Springfield - Daily News continuously since early 1946, and, of course, Jack
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh T . O'Neill--I-- 8 she was young . Herald . She later went to work for the Boston As a matter of fact, she's Mrs . John Finney now . John writes for the New York Times
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe, were on there. She was from the Dallas Times-Herald. Who else? And the rest were mostly newspapermen from weeklies. Just a free trip. G: I see. Does that mean they couldn't go because of space or time requirements? R: Oh, they couldn't go
  • between the convention and election due to a lack of political stability; the JFK/LBJ 1960 campaign kickoff parade in Boston; LBJ drinking too much in El Paso at the beginning of the campaign; the nature of LBJ's campaign speeches; the Richard Nixon-Henry
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stood in all of those doors that read Look Magazine and New York Herald Tribune and a lot of publications that I was too intimidated to even go in. bureau for twenty-six dailies in Michigan. She had a news For twenty-five dollars a week I could
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Boston Marriott Hotel, Newton, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 G: Now, at the beginning of 1957, [Frank] Lausche voted with the Democrats. R: Yes. G: Giving them a two-vote
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1944 as a You're from Massachusetts? correspondent for the Boston Herald , at which point I met President Roosevelt, who was simply wonderful to me . I met Harry Truman . Later Then I married Bill and stopped working . G: You became a housewife
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • --of which we had very few, known as the Boston bomber--they wanted all we had to come and assist them in the relief of the actions going on in Vietnam. You see, that brought it immediately under the military aid program, in spite of the fact
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and his team--and he had some good people. He had a Boston lawyer, a Choate man, Choate and Yale, whom I met on the plane coming down from Hong Kong, who was telling me what a great opportunity he felt that he had to perform a public service in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the names one scarcely remembers: New Boston, Omaha, Mt. Pleasant--that was a good Saturday afternoon town, everybody spoke of it--Mt. Vernon, B-O-G-A-T-A--which from print you would think is BO-guh-TAH, but not so; it's buh-GO-tuh, and whoever would have
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Dallas Times Herald and, later, The News for years and years after Hornaday left. And so we appeared on there at different times. And sometimes there is replica of it. But that's just something we'll have to force. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: W 5, 1981 ILLIAM M. CAPRON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL PLACE: L. GILLETTE Professor Capron's office, Boston, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 G: Well, let's start, Professor Capron, with your earliest involvement with what became the research on the War
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to leave on a cross-country tour. It was National Business Women's Week, the middle week of October, and I was going to be dOing sixteen states in seven days, like a luncheon in New York and a speech that night in Boston, that type of thing that took me
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • an associate editor of the college newspaper, but I liked to write and that sort of thing. And then there was an opening at the New York Herald Tribune. A colleague of mine had gotten on the New York Herald Tribune and said, "Well, you can come on here, and we
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of those problems and decisions, primarily because everybody has their own club and he really wasn't in the Kennedy club. G: He was not Harvard. He wasn't Boston. In particular that Kennedy civil rights bill was one example where perhaps LBJ's
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . They reversed it. Well, father was a civil contracting engineer. from Boston Tech. He graduated He built railroads--many of the eastern railroads. When he was but thirty years old, he built the foundations for the Williamsburg Bridge. That was, I think
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would assure them that the people that consented--The Herald took the ad, and I think have been everlastingly sorry--I don't know. ago gone. F: Yes, and you wish they had turned it down. Long LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Massachusetts and went to Washington in 1944 as a correspondent for the Boston Herald, at which point I met President Roosevelt, who was simply wonderful to me. I met Harry Truman. Later Then I married Bill and stopped working. G: You became a housewife. W
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , had that part-time job working your way through school. I guess Mrs. [Miriam] Ferguson was still governor when you began. M: She--the first recollection I have of state politics--I had done some political writing on the Plainview Herald in the summer
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • a job of candid photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, I believe it was. It 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -relations end of the New York Herald Tribune in those days, and the New York Times, Newsweek, and other magazines and newspapers. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of editor of the El Paso Herald Post--his name was Ed Pooley; I'm sure that you've heard of him. F: That's P-O-O-L-E-Y. B: P-O-O-L-E-Y. Ed Pooley detested Coke Stevenson. He thought that Coke Stevenson was the biggest fraud and crook that had ever come
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • obvious that it wasn't old Lyndon anymore. He was a fascinating man. Once when I was on the News, and then I came over here--and his great friends were here on the Dallas Times Herald: Mr. Tom Gooch and Mr. Edwin Kiest, Jim Chambers, who's still
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of--was it the Dallas News? G: Well, or the Times Herald. B: Times Herald, yes, Times Herald. G: Tom Clark was there, too, I think. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , primarily because, among many other things, during the war when the Dallas Times Herald was about to run out of paper, couldn't publish, Johnson showed up with Tom Gooch at the Priority War Production Board and made a pitch for them being given some paper
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in the then existing Herald-Tribune, I said, "For all I know, I can Herald-Tribune tomorrow saying, 'President Refuses t:o See Pa.rents of Missing Civil Rights Workers.' a case of whether we want to ask. them to come in. for invitations. It isn't They have asked
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was then with the New York Herald Tribune. Since then they've both become commentators on NBC. Kiker was always the nemesis of the President. It was my feeling that if LBJ had run for re-election that eventually Doug Kiker would become his press secretary
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the byline that they read . F: B: Did you tend to travel separately or did you gang up? Some of us traveled separately, some traveled together . Most of the time Acheson of the Times Herald rode with me, I can't recall his first name . F: B: F: B: F: B
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all--But somewhere I think the story will somehow come out that it was not true. Now, I was in Dallas the night it occurred. The Washington representative of the Times-Herald telephoned Mr. Felix McKnight of the Times-Herald and said Mr. McKnight
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was get on the telephone and say, Come on out here," and that's how the Dallas News scooped the Times-Herald on that story. F: Did you do a lot of interviewing in this investigation, or did you mainly take the facts that the police and the FBI had
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at all before you came to Washington? E: I did not. Of course, I knew who Lyndon was. I had been working on the Dallas Times Herald when this vacancy occurred with the death of Congressman [James] Buchanan in Austin. I knew about Lyndon Johnson's