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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Tell us what you remember about that. W: Well, for years I had been counsel to the Hearst companies, and the Hearst They were very fond of Johnson, all of them, anyway. companies owned the San Antonio Light in San Antonio, Texas. And I had Hr
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in. F: r~aybe he was coming or going. W: Anyway, it was a group of foreign dignitaries of the level that the vice president would meet rather than the president. I remember his pulling me over and recalling me to Mrs. Johnson, and we chatted
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of that dismissal that the column evolved. work and various things. I did free-lance I finally went to work then for the INS, and I w-auld wind up eve ry week with a lot of odds and ends. together in a piece which went over very big. I got to putting them
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • involved in foreign policy, and that he was assuming the role that had once been played by Senator [Walter] George. R: That's not altogether accurate. Senator George played a very unusual role in the Senate in that he actually formed opinion
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Of course, in '48, he was running like mad himself for Senator. B: O r '52. 1956]. '52, that was the year that Kefauver beat me [actually that was I was the nominal head of the delegation. I was the favorite son candidate for the presidency here
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reporter with the San Antonio Light. That was the Hearst paper down in San Antonio. I mean, 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, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that because it prevented whatever chances the Democrats had to carry the election. And they nominated John W. Davis for President and Charles Bryan, governor of Nebraska who was a brother of William Jennings Bryan, who had run for the presidency a number
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • know why 1 thought it would stay there, but 1 had it on this car where 1 thought it would ride, in between the bumper and the engine. And Johnson asked me if I minded moving from that car over to another car so he could ride back with A. W. Moursund
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • saw my name in there--he was there for INS or Hearst--and he said, "Gee, if Beech is going to go, I got to go, too, or else I'll get a rocket from the New York Journal American "--or at least that's what I think he was thinking--and Jim Lucas . So
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • about that time, the Ladies for Lyndon movement. Predictably, Marietta Brooks was a big factor in it, and a lady named Mrs. W. A. Griffis, from, I believe, San Angelo. Later on they wore darling little red, white, and blue costumes, girlish straw hats
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 14, 1972 F: Let's talk, George, about the President and what you know about the Richard Russell situation. R: I don't know too much of it directly, Joe. I do know that a number of months after I left
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and it was essentially a picture newspaper. Hearst's Mirror. It was challenged by There was a war of tabloids which drew in all of the newspapers of New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • particularly? M: I don't know. What was his name? A: James W. Pate, P-A-T-E, Jimmy Pate. At that time, of course, radio was kind of in its infancy; it was new and it had a lot of appeal. A radio announcer in those days was really a celebrity. I had
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • incident. Did I ever tell you the story about Cassie Mackin, who since has become quite well known as an NBC news commentator, very prominent in covering the conventions. She replaced Marianne Means on the Hearst headline service. Marianne Means had sort
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAN RATHER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: CBS Offices, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 F: I suppose we ought to go back and place you at that point in November, 1963, at which you get involved in things. R: That's as good a place as any
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was president of the Hearst Corporatinn, which owned the INS, the organization for which I worked. It was Lyndon's way of letting me know that he was on the inside track. Of course he had by that time attracted a great deal of attention outside
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before that. race for the senate. I ye~r he was elected? don't know that I knew Wirtz in his first I know I knew him well by the time he ran for his second term, which must have been about 1928 or something like that. Because I ran for the senate
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the vice president was. That was so typical, that he would have, as always, a clipping in his pocket. H: It was some survey. paper, I F: It wasn't a Gallup survey. It was a Hearst rememb~r. I sometimes thought it would have been better if he
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- I -- 4 headquarters. That was the year of the [W. Lee "Pappy"] O'Daniel blitz. O'Daniel had won
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was to get upon a chair and say in a loud tone of voice, "Arizona casts four votes for William Randolph Hearst." LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • him that I had seen a bunch of VC bodies and [had] burst into tears. And there was some stuff in the Hearst papers that I was trying to uncover an Asian Fidel Castro. It was really nasty. And meanwhile you're going out and getting your ass shot
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Cather- ine] Mackin, who was a very, very good friend of mine, who was the Hearst reporter at the White House, was down doing what we usually did on Sunday morning with the press: standing outside the church. This was the church in Johnson City
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was periodically covering the White House for the [New York] Times--obviously we gave him a backgrounder story the next day, saying that we were going to make a major push in this area. G: Had the [William Randolph] Hearst [Jr.] series already come out? C: Well
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LIV -- 4 (Long pause) Then we have all this bureaucratic stuff about how they're going to organize. William Randolph Hearst [Jr
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and Johnson had a close relationship with William Hearst. And Johnson told Hearst that "I don't think you're my friend if you're carrying Evans and Novak on the right-hand corner of your edit page," which kind of shook up Hearst. M: Yes. N: So they didn't
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • through Dick--well, the president of Hearst, such a good friend, I'll think of it in a minute--but he was the one I think that originally introduced Lyndon to Weisl [Dick Berlin] . He saved Hearst ; Hearst was about to go bankrupt . G: During