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Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the chairman would in some way limit the freedom of action upon his part. I didn't know what his policies were going to be, but mine were public, and had been stated and restated and discussed at press conferences and so forth. Therefore, I felt
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't say Khanh leveled with him on the preparation--but whom Khanh sought out the minute the fat was in the fire, yes. G: You don't recall the name, do you? F: I don't, but it's a matter of public record. time. It was in the press at the LBJ
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- I -- 2 brushing straw off my shoulders as I get on the press plane. I had never been on a press plane
  • Coverage of 1959 Khrushchev visit; Khrushchev's dislike of the press; Mesta Machine Tool Company tour; JFK's choice of LBJ as VP; reflections on JFK's trip to Texas in 1963 and the days following the assassination; experience as a witness to LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --disagreement, within the embassy, and that the embassy was not leaking like a sieve, although when you have that sort of disagreement, the likelihood of leaks, I suppose, increases. What was the status of our relations with the press in Saigon at this time? F
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the hotel after this action by the hotel authorities. F: It was tremendously convenient for a young man working on the Hill. P: As I remember, the first month or so they gave me my room rent free. After that, I paid a very nominal sum, and as I remember
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • completely free of any-- M: I don't know. I doubt that it was. I remember there was Some charges made LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: -8http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY
  • jobs and errands for the President; advice for LBJ’s press relations; Bill Moyers; LBJ’s treatment of George Reedy; Jenkins held LBJ in respect but not afraid to disagree with him; 1964 campaign; Mississippi delegation; Mooney’s admiration of LBJ; Eric
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • gets rediscovered by the press about once LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that to the operators? K: Not as much I believe as Mrs. Johnson would like for him to show. F: I see. K: From the standpoint of a general manager, I would say the working conditions of the station are ideal. F: He has given you a free rein through the years
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of what we think is good security and what we think is bad security as it pertains to that individual. M: Mr. Johnson, as President, got into the press sometimes unfavorably because of his occasional flare-up at the Secret Service, people who were
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? s: No. We simply had to stand up when our name was called, and afterwards talk to some of the press privately. But we had no part of the press LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • pretty much today. But even when he was Vice President, of course, we weren't pressing him on legislative matters. We did have a number of contacts with him. Mu: Did Mr. Kennedy use him for anything that involved organized labor--? Me: Not directly
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • free to come down here and look into the facts. They generally came in pairs; I remember one group, there were three of them altogether. Once several came at the same time, including Ford, and this was before the Warren visit. assisted us a great
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been some talk about Lyndon Johnson's style of campaigning, as he called it, "pressing the flesh", sort of barnstorming and going from town to town, that this is out of style, and it's no longer necessary to campaign like that. And so I was interested
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • back further, or whether to go ahead with something on the order of a hundred and one, to two billion dollar range. It was President Johnson's view that if we pressed ahead, and particularly what he thought might be the political reaction to a budget
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a good deal more candor and writing it in a more free and open style when it came over from the State Department, whose interest was primarily in the substance--and which wrote in that peculiar form that I've never been able to comprehend. F: Did
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Department of Justice. I And that's all I wanted to do--go back to my job--and in fact I did. F: You didn't know who they were going to move your life around, did you? T: No, I didn't, but they certainly did. to press me on the matter. My father
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was a fact-finding comrr.ittee really. F: Were you given a free hand in naming your assistants? W: Yes, sir. F: No political pressures then? W: None wha~ver. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about specific telecasts? H: I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary, we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had been said or shown. F: Do you remember what it was? H: I'm sure both
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • any sort of intimations in those days of the sort of later at least alleged manipulation of the press that Johnson attempted from time to time? B: Well, he wanted to tell you his story. There's no question about that. He wanted to persuade you, he
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his He's a powerful, forceful man, as everybody knows, and so of course he made an impression. I didn't see him much after that until one night maybe a year later I was on the board of the Women's Press Club. was sea,ted at the head table. di nner
  • Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent; impressions
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Carpenter was Mrs. Johnson's press secretary? Yes. I said, "Well, I haven't prepared any remarks, Liz, and I don't speak German, and I understand the Chancellor does." She said, "Well, just come on in and present the acts." So I immediately acquired
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ?". He said, and he spoke very low, "The Speaker just announced me for the presidency." Sure enough, Rayburn had called a press conference over in the Adolphus Hotel without saying anything to anyone about it and made the announcement. Mr. Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • meeting, but you sort of sensed it in individual meetings when he was pressed to do certain things that he would sort of indicate that, after all, he was not the President of the United States. For a man who had had great power and had great energy, I did
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • himself very accessible to them, on his own motion. B: This brings up the whole relationship of Johnson and the press. Would you agree with what has been a good deal of public criticism that Mr. Johnson does not understand the press and cannot live
  • Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • if nobody else was there but me. B: Was that an innovation of yours? H: Oh, absolutely. People never dreamed of starting anything like that and never dreamed of having a secretary that was there at 8:30. B: I believe that you had regular press
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Press Club here. And the person making [the presentation?], just casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch, mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, and a member
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of that, and he said--actually he wasn't there but he had one of his assistants read his speech for hinr-"I am now in a position from certain statements I have made on national TV and to the press of looking as if I may lead the state into a secession again. All
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • together at President Kennedy's briefing sessions before his press conference. M: This is in the Cabinet Room? H: No, Kennedy used to have briefing sessions, starting in about mid1961--at least I became a part of the group at that time--at 8:45 a.m
  • JFK oral history project; first contact with LBJ; JFK press briefing breakfasts; biographical information; LBJ as VP; SST; 1961 Berlin Crisis; JFK assassination; transition; Eliot Janeway; poverty program; tax cut; Christmas meeting at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • when he was up in the Majority Leadership post, for they were attacking him quite frequently in Texas in the press and in resolutions at labor meetings . Some of the boys from the Communications Workers had aligned themselves with the DOT's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Planning, and she has just returned to Brookings about ten days ago; and finally, Jacob A. Stockfish, Director, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury department. The composition of this group has never appeared in the press, and is highly confidential
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the staff’s backgrounds; friction among staff mambers; Jacobsen’s opinions on the press; assessment of specific LBJ staffers; who had influence on LBJ’s decisions; LBJ’s temper; LBJ’s 'earthy' language; LBJ’s power of persuasion; the credibility gap; Mrs
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . There were some people who came on occasion that could not resist a tendency to go out and talk to the press, mouth off about what It did not necessarily help them. they thought was going to happen . Sometimes people knew who those folks were, sometimes
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)