Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette

How Pachios got involved with Peace Corps; JFK's assassination; LBJ comparing himself to JFK; Eric Goldman; Pachios' work as an advance man in the 1964 Presidential campaign; Maine governor John Reed; Eugene Pulliam; campaign stops in California 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 relationship with the press; Hugh Sidey; LBJ's fondness for neatness and 'experts'; Peter Lisagor; Bill Moyers as press secretary; James Moyers; Merriman Smith; LBJ's secrecy; LBJ's first trip to Vietnam and the 1967 around the world trip; LBJ meeting wounded Vietnam soldiers; handling crowds and the press during trips to the Philippines, Korea and Mexico; preparing for the 1966 State of the Union Address; Edmund Muskie; May Craig; landing Air Force One at National Airport; LBJ's view of war/leaders; Pachios leaving his White House position; Pachios' final impressions of LBJ.