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Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of government information for war purposes, and I did the study that led to the creation of the Office of War Information. And later--I'll come to that in a moment--I became its Associate Director. I scarcely finished this subject when the President called me

what they called the bull pen which was the big large room in the basement of the Biltmore Hotel where all the politics took effect, and every day at noon the press had arranged for press conferences. So everybody else had spoken and so I got out

completed, and we will have sent it to all of the judges and all other interested parties for their comment . But we are seeking a year's extension . F: Governor, let's talk politics today . In your association with Mr . Johnson personally, when did you

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

1952, I talked to Senator Johnson about the possibilities of establishing federal assistance for the construction of public broadcasting stations, stations that would be associated with colleges and universities, established by local community groups

was still sufficiently junior upon the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that I was not often called to the White House for briefings upon any of those matters. My active participation and association with Mr. Johnson and the people in the White House

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

the times I spent with him. M: In the early period it would seem to me there were questions of his relationships with the press. That may have been a recurring theme. H: It was. M: I think you told me that he was very much concerned that he wasn't
to the United States Information Agency Advisory Commission; LBJ’s decision to not run in 1968; Vietnam propagandist and censor Barry Zorthian; Hoyt’s trip to Vietnam; John Vann; LBJ’s “credibility gap”; LBJ’s press secretaries; LBJ’s personality

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by them. They became our first-rate sources, and the pessimism and the doubts that fed into that press corps came first and foremost not from dissident Vietnamese politicians, as people later claimed, or this political group or that group in Saigon

he was criticized sharply by the press and by the more-or-Iess hawkish people and by the military for not hitting the military targets in the capital city of North Vietnam. He explained to me that this was a tire plant that sat right in the middle

handle the news press, they would talk to the local politicians, but they actually ran the campaign . Completely innovative ; some- thing like that had never happened in American politics before . It worked tremendously . Well, we got to the convention

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