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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 4 There was a local reporter riding on the White House press bus. The only discussion I remember about possible crowd hostility
; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Presidential years. K: Well, of course, some of that is tactics on Johnson's part. He was wise enough and clever enough to know, once he became President, that the more he could associate Eisenhower in his own actions, the better likelihood there would
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, 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, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

didn't say. But we talked for a long ttme. There was ·he, my wi fe, Jim Ronan, the state chai rman·, and Chri s Vlahoplus, my press secretary, and we had quite a-F: How do you spell that last name? S: V-L-A-H-O-P-L-U-S. He was my press secretary

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