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Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as the chairman would in some way limit the freedom of action upon his part. I didn't know what his policies were going to be, but mine were public, and had been stated and restated and discussed at press conferences and so forth. Therefore, I felt
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the airplane, waving to the television cameras and so forth. G: Did you have any association with LBJ while you were at the Peace Corps? P: None. In fact, the first time I was ever in the White House was on November 22, 1963. I was working at the Peace
  • and Austin; going to work for Press Secretary Bill Moyers; advancing a meeting between LBJ and the Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, at Campobello; LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; recording conversations between LBJ and the press office; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about specific telecasts? H: I think twice in all the years, indirectly through his press secretary, we got word that he was something less than happy with something that had been said or shown. F: Do you remember what it was? H: I'm sure both
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 4 There was a local reporter riding on the White House press bus. The only discussion I remember about possible crowd hostility
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That was, first place. my first real association of any kind with Lyndon B. Johnson. As you may remember, 1957 was the year of the first civil rights bill. F: Right. W: Which I was naturally interested in, as a southern correspondent. More than that. I went
  • Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD HELMS INTERVIEWER: ' TED GITTINGER PLACE: Ambassador Helms' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Ambassador, if it's all right, we'll start. H: Okay. G: How far back does your association with the CIA go? H
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on this. Can't we just talk?" he knew Johnson a lot better than I did. But he knew his man, Whether it was for fear that he would be further put out to pasture or whether he just felt that it was not his prerogative to do it, he did not press the issue
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 M: He left it up to us. I think he was pressed
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • pretty much today. But even when he was Vice President, of course, we weren't pressing him on legislative matters. We did have a number of contacts with him. Mu: Did Mr. Kennedy use him for anything that involved organized labor--? Me: Not directly
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of books and a number of articles in public finance and social security and other associated areas. During this whole period, since I've joined Brookings, I've always been interested in public service, and largely through my friendship with Walter Heller
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • happened to come to Washington. I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage- ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go back. In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant director of the Budget Bureau, which
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you have the idea you were W: Not at the time, I didn't give it much thought--in that area, an~~ay. F: How long did this association continue? W: It continued to the present time. F: So that any time he was in New York he was likely
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the part of the Ecuadorians in getting the change made? B: I don't know. I never did know because we had agreed to do it. The Ecuadorians were actually pressing me to get our agreement to do it. F: So I never did find out why it didn't happen
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , their presence on the floor of the House, the speeches that they make, the effectiveness of their speech, logical, sound, their contributions, their associations with their fellow colleagues, their personality. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with me, placed great emphasis on the need for helping the people as well as for destroying the Viet Cong. He wanted rural electrification programs in Vietnam; he kept pressing for a whole series of developmental initiatives. Well, out of all
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --disagreement, within the embassy, and that the embassy was not leaking like a sieve, although when you have that sort of disagreement, the likelihood of leaks, I suppose, increases. What was the status of our relations with the press in Saigon at this time? F
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wouldn't say Khanh leveled with him on the preparation--but whom Khanh sought out the minute the fat was in the fire, yes. G: You don't recall the name, do you? F: I don't, but it's a matter of public record. time. It was in the press at the LBJ
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the press. I saw that, and 1 talked LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
  • ; Rather’s comments on LBJ’s choice of advisors; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries: Reedy, Moyers and Christian; LBJ’s role pertaining to Kosygin and Middle East; LBJ as a role model to rather in gathering all information available and representing hard
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • meeting, but you sort of sensed it in individual meetings when he was pressed to do certain things that he would sort of indicate that, after all, he was not the President of the United States. For a man who had had great power and had great energy, I did
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and a strong-willed man, was too hard a sell from a political viewpoint, too much pressing. I was too naive, green, I guess insecure, and 1et IS say I was overwhelmed, but I was not overwhelmed sold. I was sort of overwhelmed wanting to say to pull back
  • Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was a great press coverage that after that vicious attack, here the man was at a state dinner. And as they were leaving the White House, the man's wife turned to her husband and said, liThe President danced with me three times tonight. Isn't that amazing
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/8/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/4/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Press relations
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • about a matter he hcd . Their relationsh·ip, I thought, couldn 't be better. The press rea11y spent al 1 that t i me try ing to separate the two of them, and who >'as the second mos t powerful man in Hashington , and then they started to put Bobby
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/9/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Press relations
  • Lady Bird talks to LBJ at Camp David; Lady Bird & foreign press board buses for Goliad; view flowers & cattle; funeral service for Martin Luther King; ceremony at restored Presidio La Bahia; speeches by Stewart Udall & Lady Bird; migrant children
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • coordinator do? J: We had something in Vietnam called the mission council. In other countries, it's known as the country team. It consists of the ambassador, people at the embassy--the political counselor, the press counselor, the economic counselor