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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 12, 1969 This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May 12, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon B. Johnson, that is you
  • 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
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
  • as quite a good one. Also you must admit that one of my major arguments with the news media people, with other people, is that I don't see how you can compare presidents without comparing the decades of which they were president. The fifties bear
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 discussions around the world I've bailed out his reputation in the way that came almost as complete news
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
  • the necessary information we have needed to go on with the development of new nuclear weapons. MIRV warheads. That includes the development of the ABM and the So I do not think that the limited test ban has had any deleterious effect upon the U.S. 's ability
  • for this, "but not Barry Goldwater. II There were about six things and all of them, "but not Barry Goldwater." And it ended by saying this ye3f we're going to elect a new president, "but not Barry Goldwater." So I sent it to Bill Moyers. the Democratic Convention
  • every accommodation that you could get at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You could have a radio, you could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway, a good
  • , although his early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all the New Deal legislation. But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would say that he
  • the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just