Skip to main content

Discover Our Collections

211 results

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in advance. He was terribly sensitive, as I said earlier, about leaks. One of his best friends in the press was Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun, and Potter wrote a rather innocent story once saying that the President was going to grant the request of India

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think he was aware of the fact that he was actually doing a favor for a friend of Bobby Baker's. I'll never forget what happened then. One Sunday--I always read the Baltimore Sun on Sunday, because I thought it was about the best paper in the country

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bunker -- II -- 19 G: I gather, for example, John Carroll of the Baltimore Sun might have

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the [Washington Post], and one other paper. But he always read the Times and the Post. G: The Baltimore Sun? J: Yes, the Baltimore Sun. It was around. There were several others around, but he wouldn't read them all the time. G: How about the [Washington

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Baltimore Sun and another reporter. So the President took us over to the White House. We stopped in the Oval Office and LBJ saw Valenti for a second and said he'd he back in a few minutes. We went upstairs to the family quarters, the Yellow Living Room

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

down. I'm sure he's not on the list now. R: You know, how many close relationships he had, I don't know because I was not at the Senate regularly. He certainly had a close relationship with Phil Potter, Baltimore Sun, which he carried

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Ward [of] the Baltimore Sun; Tom Lambert [of] the Los Angeles Times. The network people in those days--John Scali was with ABC; Elie Abel, NBC; Marvin 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Ward [of] the Baltimore Sun; Tom Lambert [of] the Los Angeles Times. The network people in those days--John Scali was with ABC; Elie Abel, NBC; Marvin LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Sure happened. But I had the same thing happen another time. Senator [J. W.] Fulbright had gone to Baltimore to make a speech, and the Mayor, Tom D'Alesandro, was our friend. about forty miles away. So I was holding up a vote. Baltimore is So I

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and admitting to how much ordnance we'd put in there, which was an extrordinary amount of bomb-power . The other was a thing when policy came by reverse . There was a speech to be given in Baltimore to the Jay Cee's about a year ago, and it was determined

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

courted them too much at the start, and then they fell out. I think he gave great weight to what was said in the eastern newspapers, the New York Times and Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. that are read in this town. Those are the papers I think he

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wife, is thanking. "The day they were closing up the sun room"--that would be in his headquarters at the Stephen F. Austin [Hotel]--"I went down to tell them all goodbye and thanks for you and also for me. They've all been grand: Julia Bryden and sweet

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- I -- 4 C: Well, I could certainly check between these cities exactly. Two hundred and fifty sounds like a reasonable distance, because I think flying between here and Washington, we'd always have to stop in Baltimore for fuel, so it sounds like

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

a daily column. By that time Pearson, who'd collaborated on the book, had been discharged by the Baltimore Sun for writing a chapter in the second Merry-Go-Round, called "More Merry-Go-Round" about Pat (Patrick Jay) Hurley, then Secretary of War, and his

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

below, Phil Potter of the Baltimore Sun and a lot of these guys. "What the hell's up?" So I went down and said, He said, "Johnson's going to be vice president. He's going to take the vi ce pres; dency. II I said, "You're out of your mind." He said

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

yesterday about the Baltimore freeway plan he's working on and a little village in New Mexico that he's been working to save. I think he wanted to report on these two matters to the Committee for a More Beautiful Capital. It was her feeling that we should

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

Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it just about the same way. Two others, Sun in Pennsylvania, Maryland Shipbuilding in Baltimore, haven't gone quite this far, but t.hey are specializing in s:i,ngle ship designs, and as they buila more and more of those individual or single ship designs

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- IV -- 3 moved Cassie Mackin in. They brought her in, I think, from the Baltimore Hearst paper, and this was her first trip down to Texas. After church in those days the press would all swarm after them; it was sort

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it all in. G: Then you went from New York to Washington, is that right? J: Yes. I'm not sure how. I vaguely remember that we went down on a bus, because I think I remember going through the city of Baltimore. At any rate, my friend, Victor McCrea, had

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

too much misted an outlook. Gene Roberts was very, very solid. had a good string of correspondents: Ralph Kennan. Ward Just. The Baltimore Sun Peter Trumpal, Pat Ferguson, And the Post had fairly good ones: John Maffrey, To toss some out. It's

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to have a splash and you had to have some geographic spread, and you had to worry about which congressmen's districts they were in and so forth like that--I remember a battle in Baltimore about whether Parren Mitchell was going to be the LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it wasn't that he didn't d ese rv e th e country, but that the country didn't deserve him--something to that effect. Well, this type of thing began to come out. I r ememb e r another one i n the Baltimore Sun a bout the Texan s , how God, wasn't it great

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be great admirers of the President. There was a man called Charles Roberts, Chuck Roberts, from Newsweek. Or, of course, Phil Potter, the Baltimore Sun, always was pro-Johnson, and any number of oth.ers whom I've talked to who were solid. The thing I'm

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

remember Pat Furguson with the Baltimore Sun and I always joke We left his main campaign plane; got into two or three old DC-3s and flew up to Mankato, Minnesota where he made a speech. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)

from Baltimore--Green Springs Valley. I was the second child in the family. Then I had a--the next one in the family was my sister Hilda who married and lived in San Francisco. My third--my brother Ronald Von Holt who also graduated from Yale in 1921

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)

from Baltimore--Green Springs Valley. I was the second child in the family. Then I had a--the next one in the family was my sister Hilda who married and lived in San Francisco. My third--my brother Ronald Von Holt who also graduated from Yale in 1921

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)

from Baltimore--Green Springs Valley. I was the second child in the family. Then I had a--the next one in the family was my sister Hilda who married and lived in San Francisco. My third--my brother Ronald Von Holt who also graduated from Yale in 1921

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)

from Baltimore--Green Springs Valley. I was the second child in the family. Then I had a--the next one in the family was my sister Hilda who married and lived in San Francisco. My third--my brother Ronald Von Holt who also graduated from Yale in 1921

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Hospital], or ultimately to Mayo's [Clinic], as indeed did I. But Radford Brown was a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. G: Was he in Baltimore? J: No, right there in Austin [Washington], a very courtly, elegant gentleman, a wonderful line

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)