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  • - l August 5, 1967 NOTES OF MEETING OF PRESIDENT WITH MEL ELFIN, NEWSWEEK: JOHN STEELE OF TIME: JACK SUTHERLAND OF U.S. NEWS, JULY 28, 1967 The President had a general discussion with these three magazine writers on the Detroit riot and civil
  • on Saturday morning with the other appointees and Mrs. Johnson. As we arrived the President was holding a press conference at which he announced our appointments and we spent the rest of the morning with the President, had lunch with him and Mrs. Johnson
  • ; Detroit riots; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; cost effectiveness; role of service secretaries
  • know what to do at that point--you know, what they were supposed to do. So I wound up writing a press release for them by which they could announce this marvelous thing--not a part of my usual work. P: What is the line between the use of the Civil
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 Michigan and into Detroit to try to stimulate some interest in his behalf, but they weren't too successful. There was just a normal pre- judice against Southerners
  • LBJ's commitment to civil rights; 1967 Detroit riots; opposition to Vietnam bombing policy; reorganization of the District of Columbia
  • Press relations
  • Lynda Johnson & Luci Nugent's family at White House; Lady Bird has hair styled; family photos in Yellow Room; family outside for press photos; Luci gives press conference; Lady Bird works on Henry Branden's script; Lady Bird & Ashton keep LBJ
  • , Narch 30, the Presice.nt ?r::::ss conference out on the la,vn in the Rose; Carden. I ve:ry '.;1211 because I \"ont to my daughter's school and fIe" a kit e with her that morning, and he had called my office, apparently just t, ~)2 at th. press co
  • Natural Gas Company for approximately a year. By this time it was fall of 1966. Then I got a call from a guy by the name of Bill Bates, who had been Senator Russell's press secretary since the mid-1950s. By the It/ay, he might be able to make
  • Press relations
  • Pat Nugent leaving for Vietnam; Lady Bird to San Antonio & Corpus Christi; poverty bills up for vote; Lady Bird is interviewed by Isabel Shelton; buses to Padre Island with foreign press & Park Service staff; Lady Bird gives speech; fish fry