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- ; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor
- Rights Commission; a discussion with LBJ about the press; LBJ meets with observers of the 1967 elections in Vietnam, a staged affair; Civil Rights Commission-Justice Department relations, especially under RFK; LBJ ignores the Civil Rights Commission
- you've had a campaign going on that had looked pretty negative in the eyes of the press--the way the press projected it across the nation, in Resurrection City and in the Poor People's Campaign itself. And then when you have someone else who
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- were going to tell me something. W: He had the press interviews there. We went into Austin and I went into Austin with Mrs. Johnson to go to the beauty parlor. It was quite exciting for me. I had never lived with a person of their caliber before and I
- debated it for one entir e week, besides the prelim i narie s and the buildups and the inser tions in the Record and the debates in the public press . We starte d on Monday and I don't believ e we finish ed that bill until late Frida y night . I
- Mr. Kennedy's administration. that the idea was originally mine. Warren believes Now whether that's true or not, -~ I'd make no point of that. If someone thinks that it originated in the mind of someone else, I wouldn't press the claim