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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a moment on one thing. Veteran newsmen have seen it all and presumably don't stampede easily. Was there a feeling among the White House press corps, widely expressed, that this may be the beginning of some sort of coup d'état or an attempted nationwide
  • Katzenbach as attorney general; presidents’ interaction with the State Department; May 1966 trip to Chicago; LBJ’s opinions of the U.S. role in Vietnam; LBJ’s assessment of his own staff; Tonkin Gulf resolution; Lindley Rule and press access to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on it was quite apparent that Rayburn had developed a kind of fatherly affection for Johnson. So had Vinson--Carl Vinson is who we are speaking of, the chairman of what was then the Naval Affairs Committee, later the Armed Services Committee. And that to them
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the request by telephone. But And of course, bolstered it, came through with the telegraph request, too. And it was all done and I had no problems. As I say, thare were no blocks in the way any place. F: Did the Justice Department send someone out here
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • remember on any number of occasions we used to mutually deplore what we felt was the lack of coordination of all of the efforts, first just within the federal government--how each department had its own poverty operation. Labor was doing something