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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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