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- Histories [NAID 24617781]
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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
- with us at the Mansion overnight--and he kind
of felt that, at least I got the feeling that he thought that the
Vietnam issue was the big issue.
F:
Did Humphrey ever talk to you about his problem as a candidate and
sort of getting free of the Johnson
- 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
- himself very accessible
to them, on his own motion.
B:
This brings up the whole relationship of Johnson and the press.
Would you
agree with what has been a good deal of public criticism that Mr. Johnson
does not understand the press and cannot live
- 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
