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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

way and down the fire stairs in order to avoid the press, not to have them know that there was any kind of dickering going on, and walking into Jim's room and finding Earl Mazo of the Herald Tribune sitting there. He was the first one I ran into. He

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Of course, a lot of things have happened since then. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh But at the time that was certainly heralded

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the coffee shop of the hotel in Fort Worth. F: Texas. W: The Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. What is it, the . . . ? I remember sitting there with John Connally and somebody from his staff, and Doug Kiker, who was then at the Herald Tribune, and Bo Byers, I

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--although they fought like dogs most of the time--he got that same feeling toward Margaret Mayer of the Dallas Times Herald. Now, I know he has called Margaret Mayer a number of times, when he would be displeased over something. She is chief of bureau

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they talk to in confidence who leaks it out. I talked to the press on arrival. So Naturally the trips were heralded to some extent and the press and television and radio were always present on arrival and on departure. were also on television. I answered

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Communism in government. that there w a s The story that I believe to be true was a luncheon held across from the Mayflower Hotel at which there was a Catholic priest, a fired correspondent from the old Times Herald in Washington, and somebody else

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

it in the Herald Tribune, but I didn't associate it with me. I mean, I never have sought any kind of office, any kind of political thing--any! show how he dealt. But I tell this to Now to prove it to you, when I went to see him and I told him, "Mr. President

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Press-Herald was this beautiful picture of Lyndon Johnson and the Republican governor in a victory salute surrounded by this huge crowd. Isn't that a great story? Well, by the time we get down to the city hall steps where Johnson was to speak, Reed

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)