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Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 25-30]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Telephone conversation # 12104, transcript, LBJ and RAY BLISS, 8/23/1967, 10:30AM (Item)

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LBJ ASKS BLISS TO BE ON US DELEGATION TO OBSERVE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ELECTIONS; MAKEUP OF DELEGATION; BLISS DISCUSSES HIS OTHER COMMITMENTS, ASKS IF HE CAN LET LBJ KNOW LATER TODAY; LBJ SAYS HE WANTS TO ANNOUNCE DELEGATION AT TODAY'S PRESS BRIEFING

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 11-20]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

arrived in NewYork, one of the--! don't remember--officials came on the plane and called out my nameand asked me to comeout and, as I came out, there was a big crowd of photographers and they thronged all around me. I was hustled into the press room

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

was in the first car and I was about three or four cars-because whenever there was an official ceremony like this the press people had to be up forward. Liz Carpenter was up forward, etc., and I always stayed out of the way. Oh, about eight miles out we began

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

it, and it looked as though we were home free. And in the ninth week, or tenth week, of this particular--what was for me an ordeal, because I was very much afraid it was going to pop out in the press and be a really embarrassing thing for the Secretary

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 21-24]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

as executive agreements, before the Senate Foreign Relations Corrmittee, which was insistent that they should be entered into as treaties. Also during this period,continued efforts I was making to keep Radio I Free Europe, RFE,and Radio Liberty, Radio RL

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 1-10]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Telephone conversation # 12822, transcript, MARVIN WATSON and RICHARD DALEY, 3/18/1968, 5:15PM (Item)

Sorensen, he then called Mankiewicz, who is Senator Kennedy's Press Secretary to ask him cbout it and he confirmed it and then the Press just descended upon the White Ho use and the President was in Texas. They, then descended on the Pentagon
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WATSON ASKS FOR DALEY'S EVALUATION OF BEN HEINEMAN AS POSSIBLE APPOINTEE TO CABINET OR SUBCABINET POSITION; DALEY RECOMMENDS HEINEMAN; WATSON DISCUSSES PRESS STORIES ABOUT RFK'S CALL FOR COMMISSION TO REAPPRAISE VIETNAM POLICY

Telephone conversation # 12514, transcript, LBJ and OFFICE CONVERSATION, 12/6/1967, 2:35 PM (Item)

of transcript: 2 pages plus I-page note Barbara Cline Archivist SERVICE SET J.;l 51'-/ THE WHITE HOUSE WASH I NG"fON 6:17 p.m. - Dec. 6 Mr. President : Leonard Marks called and said that Ambassador Goldberg's press secretary has just told him
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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, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in February or March, and I think I was made deputy assistant secretary in May. M: Right. In that position, where you were dealing with the press--this, of course, is before Mr. Johnson's, I guess, really bad trouble with the press began, so you had
; 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

for immediate purposes. - -- -·-- liaison ... . . __ _______ Mr. Nixon said that, despite observations in the press, he had made no decisions on his Cabinet. He hopes to have his Cabinet appointed by December 5. He would naturally like to have someone keep

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

: That was when Chancellor Erhard was here at that time. I think that was about the last it surfaced in the press. L: Yes, I think that's right. The Chancellor was here also in 1966--Chancellor Erhard was, I recall. M: That's one of the issues on which

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

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

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/1/1968 (Monday) (Item)

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/25/1967 (Sunday) (Item)

»MEMORANDUM THE W HITE HOUSE WASHINGTON S u n d a y , J u n e 2 5, 1967 F’a g e 3 e v e r y t h i n g th a t concerned press coverage. A nd t h is w a s s o m e t h i n g th at I h a d never faced b efore. M r s . B u r g c a m e a t 8 :0 0 a n d c o m b
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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

? A: No, at that time he was not well known, of course, and I should say that the image that had been projected of him by the Communist press was an unfavorable one. P: What was it? A: I think they had tried to depict him as an old-line politician of Texas

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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