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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at that point, working with Mac Bundy, and he called me over a few days after I joinej the government just to talk. So that was the first time I met him. M: Turned out to be a rather close association, didn't it, as time went by? J: Very. M: Quite
; goals for South Vietnam; reasons for LBJ’s unpopularity; flaws in LBJ’s handling of the press; inept press corps handling Vietnamese War; incorrect editing of press dispatches; LBJ’s abilities as a diplomat; peace negotiations 1966-1968; 1968 Paris peace

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and the Far East in 1966, I guess it was. M: This is the only time you traveled actually in the press party. A: Right. M: Did you get the impression on that occasion, this was when he was meeting with. the chiefs of state of all the Asian states
LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, that basis title. That job also carried with it the executive directorship of the World Bank and the International Development Association and so forth. Since then it's been changed. M: That's why I was confused. I knew that now those weren't the same

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

must say with the wisdom of hindsight--I may be a little parochial on it--that the Middle East trip was quite successful. It was beginning of my association with Lyndon Johnson. F: That's what I wanted to ask. He was dissatisfied with his staff help

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

really had something to say or whether it was going to be a case in which I simply restated what has been said to them repeatedly, but we felt that it was worth taking a chance. I tried here to keep the press from building up my trip out there, and I

at a very delicate stage in our association just at that time on settling the claims, and the State Department--I speak of "the" Department as if it were an anonymous entity--which you do, you know, when you are in it--but actually by that time I really

Marine guards or some sort of uniformed people standing along the aisle keeping the people back. But the people wanted to press forward and we had to move very swiftly to get through and into the other ballroom and back again. As I recall then we danced

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on the sidelines. He never takes a very active He did make it very clear to many people, the press and others, that he felt this way. It was carried in the press at the time that Senator Johnson was his choice, and he stuck with this for quite a long time

of imagery. P: And according a certain respect to women in general. A: Yes. Public image is important today in communications. For instance, when I went to Denmark, I think that the photographers, the press photographers, were far more interested

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as we called them, is Ambassador John Bartlow Martin. He did this for Kennedy in 1960 and on a smaller scale for Johnson in '64--to go in and advance for the President, to meet with the local leaders and the press and the opinion makers to find out

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by the press stories and the kind of questions I'd get from people on working for Mr. Johnson, hard taskmaster, all kins of strange personal extremes. I never encountered that. I had a great deal of respect for the President both as a person and as President

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

coordinator do? J: We had something in Vietnam called the mission council. In other countries, it's known as the country team. It consists of the ambassador, people at the embassy--the political counselor, the press counselor, the economic counselor

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