LBJ’s personal additions to letters; procedure for releasing correspondence to the media; procedures in writing speeches for the President; LBJ’s input into speeches and dinner toasts; presidential speech writers as policy makers; LBJ’s speech making style; editing speeches prepared by speech writing corps; creating a network of subject and writing specialists outside the speech writing corps; subject experts outside and inside government; phrase making and its importance in speech writing; list of writers and comments on each; Harry Middleton.
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Citation
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny), LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 1, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-maguirec-19690729-2-78-36-b