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Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the chairman would in some way limit the freedom of action upon his part. I didn't know what his policies were going to be, but mine were public, and had been stated and restated and discussed at press conferences and so forth. Therefore, I felt
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about specific telecasts? H: I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary, we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had been said or shown. F: Do you remember what it was? H: I'm sure both
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get the votes, they also would tell him. There was no double talk. There was no rather crude partisan politics between the three men. I think I could also say in the associations that I had both with the Speaker and Mr. Johnson it was exactly
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Senator Johnson go? M: In the fall of 1955, I was playing golf one day, on a Sunday. Governor Stevenson called me off the golf course [and] said that President Eisenhower had had a heart attack, and the press was LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • pretty much today. But even when he was Vice President, of course, we weren't pressing him on legislative matters. We did have a number of contacts with him. Mu: Did Mr. Kennedy use him for anything that involved organized labor--? Me: Not directly
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • still wanted to get the statement out and make it public, we could. And we did. At that point he had a press conference on a number of other matters, and during the press conference said he thought this was a bad suggestion, probably unconstitutional
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you have the idea you were W: Not at the time, I didn't give it much thought--in that area, an~~ay. F: How long did this association continue? W: It continued to the present time. F: So that any time he was in New York he was likely
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it now in the press. I have seen a marked change within the last two years in the general acceptance of the fact that ?rms control is a very important part of the national policy decision level, and is getting more and more attention paid