McCloskey's work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press; 1967 Middle East war; the Liberty incident; preparing for press briefings; relationship with Secretary of State Dean Rusk; the Pentagon Papers; phone call from LBJ; relationship between American press and government
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Citation
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-mccloskeyr-19840501-1-99-48