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Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • elected. F: You just wanted to give a free hand to a successor? E: I think any successor--by the way, I am now chairman of one Presidential Commission and a member of another. I got in touch with President-Elect Nixon immediately after the election
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Candidates ," and it was so difficult to get speakers even to debate Republican speakers on a national hookup of free time, that I had to fill in some of those myself. I enjoyed terrifically debating people like Sherman Adams, who was the campaign manager
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • something like the Korean settlement, with a genuine demilitarized zone and the Communists on the North and the free Vietnamese on the South, with some guarantees of our troops remaining there. This, I think, was what he was hoping for, praying for, up
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on there . on there . And we asked Kennedy--and we had some Humphrey people Of course, Humphrey was defeated in Wisconsin and West Virginia and had pulled out of it, so the Humphrey were footloose and fancy free . I felt that as Governor that I could persuade a majority
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the campaign you handled his electronic media, I thi:n.k. M: His radio and television, yes. G: I kn6w of the one occasion in New York when there was a joint appearance. What did you do there to set that up? Well, let me give you the background. The press
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 A: Yes, there would be one other general class, and that would be the big, bright, brash press conference type that he would ordinarily hold in the East Room. They would invite a lot
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the times I spent with him. M: In the early period it would seem to me there were questions of his relationships with the press. That may have been a recurring theme. H: It was. M: I think you told me that he was very much concerned that he wasn't
  • to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by them. They became our first-rate sources, and the pessimism and the doubts that fed into that press corps came first and foremost not from dissident Vietnamese politicians, as people later claimed, or this political group or that group in Saigon
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention