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Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , his English was bilingual, very colloquial, and I did not have to tell him very much. fellow named Dinh Trinh Chinh was minister for a while. Another He had been educated at the University of Missouri journalism school, so he knew some. But most
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that would by and large be negative. Based on that specific, often negative [incident, the press] would draw conclusions that ended up being quite at variance with what the official channel of communication provided the Washington policy makers. You know
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That was not unique to journalism. I think that the entire U.S. command structure had exactly the same problems. You would discover, for instance, that young agency [CIA] or State Department or military people at the district level or lower had a pretty shrewd
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during the time he was at Sam Houston, the group that included: Edna Dato, Jake Kamin, Myrtle Lee Robbins, Ellie Jones, Gene Latimer. Through particularly Edna Dato, who later was the one to get me into journalism, I got to know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of which was the Winston-Salem Journal. I first went there in 1951, and the executive editor of the Winston-Salem Journal at that time was Wallace Carroll. He left and went to Washington as the assistant chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • : And that sort of cemented your relationship with him? G: Yes. K: Did it antagonize Wayne Morse at all? G: Oh, yes. K: When Kennedy came into office as president, he had, I guess because of his Catholicism, become very hemmed in on the issue of providing
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was a member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, \'Jhich Nr. Vinson was chairman of then. I went to a small military prep school and junior college in Milledgeville and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959 with a degree in journalism. From
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the first combat troops to Vietnam, the marines, doing this and the instructions and he was explaining it, why he was that he had given these marines and so on . Well, it was very clear to me at the point that I was going back to daily journalism
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • problem. And a decision [was reached] in 1964 that there was an urban crisis; but [there was] an inability to focus on a great, bold, new, dramatic program to respond to it. The 1964 Task Force provided a highly sophisticated analysis of the main
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • instance where they paid a GI to be filmed cutting the ears off of a dead VC. This sort of journalism wasn't something that anybody can be proud of. But all in all, I'd say that the press called the shots as their publishers saw them, and some were very
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in his mind too, because Bill certainly demonstrated conclusively that you can be an extremely successful press secretary without ever having had any experience in journalism at all. I mean, my feeling is that Bill Moyers was the best presidential press
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with a country that has as little established press traditions as Vietnam. There were, perhaps, two or three cases, maybe more, maybe a half dozen, where visas were refused. But even in providing visas, the Vietnam government was amazingly responsive
  • Survey (HES); the censorship issue; lifting Ev Martin's (Newsweek) credentials; Oriana Falacci; overall performance of the press in Vietnam; the Caravelle Bar issue; individual journalists characterized; TV journalism; Morley Safer; LBJ and the press
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • but techni ca lly attached to the Department of State. M: Did you have any contact with ~tr. Johnson personally prior to the time he was president, in your journalism days? J: Before he was president? M: Before he was vice president even. J: No, I
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , I was really out of touch with the mainstream of academic economics. I wasn't reading the journals, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in order to provide more stimulus to the economy. At one time Jim Tobin charted the activity at the New York desk in terms of when we held meetings. Every time we were about to hold a meeting, the activity, those purchases at the New York desk of U.S
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • thing that we did was to provide that members' retirement, except for the formula of 2 1/2 per cent for each year of service, would include all of the general benefits that are a part of the retirement system for all federal employees . We came
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, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • participated in writing it. M: It's always a group project. Was there any person in particular who gave you trouble on the Hill, or did it depedd on the issue? S: It depends on the issue. Since I was really providing technical information wherever I went
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and its fellow travelers in journalism, and everyone got edgier and more tense. If you sat down to dinner and someone made some stupid comment about the press, there was likely to be a very quick rejoinder. I think it is true that by the end of my tour I
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 5 in Texas journalism [helped]. Mind you, Stuart didn't know me from toad hop; he had just sort of taken me into tow. F: He had heard of Houston. (Laughter) R
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you to Mr. Johnson when he was majority leader? N: I became the Senate correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in September of 1958. Previous to that, I had been with the Associated Press, and I had not been close to Johnson at all with the AP
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • himself never tried to move things one way or another? H: No, never. Bob's too good a newsman to do that--has too much regard I think for journalism. F: Now, how does NBC establish its policy? H: You know the Federal Communications Commission keeps
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in journals . B: At that time, I was considered one of the candidates . I went back to New York--oh I think in November of 1959,--and did a very poor job . meeting in New York, they had all of the candidates . At that It was the meeting of the National
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Wall Street Journal called and said, "What do you think of the merger?" And I said, "What merger?" He said, "The merger of the Departments of Commerce and Labor that the President is about to announce." And I said, "You're out of your cotton-picking
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by way of any private decision of what he would do in the future . M: And you need to deal with what I think one of the better accounts of the whole affair, the one by Philip Geyelin of the Wall Street Journal /Lyndon B . Johnson and the World , 1966
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)