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  • residence. M: They should have bought that house. President. That house belonged to the Vice I was always sorry that I didn't make it so it would go to the Vice President. F: Did you sell it to the Vice President--Johnson--directly or did Phil Graham
  • up a thing and listen as long as they want and put it down. F: In 1967 you gave President Johnson the Alexander Graham Bell
  • Library; Alexander Graham Bell Association Medal for the Deaf; coronation of the King of Tonga; Redwoods National Park; Presidential Conference on Natural Beauty; biographical information
  • was represented--by this time the so-called Adams position was the CIA position, and there was a whole line-up of CIA analysts on the CIA side. Representing MACV was the then-Colonel Daniel Graham, a captain called Kelly Robinson, a marine colonel called Paul
  • ; 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
  • in the Agricultural Department, you see, and had seen the terrible plight of agriculture in the South, too, There were a lot of those North Carolina people, like Arthur Raper. All those people around the University of North Carolina, Frank Graham'S group, you know
  • means of communi- cation which would impart knowledge. The Alexander Graham Bell people-- they're still strong--felt that you shouldn't use the hands because if you use the hands, students won't use the lips. to a point. They've got a point--up I
  • , and I'll understand why you wouldn't, but Lansdale was a rather legendary figure I think in the press and popularly, although I think Graham Greene didn't think as much of him as a good many other people and saw him as rather a sinister figure than
  • husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I
  • on radio--we didn't have television in those days--selling his flour and how to lead them all in prayer. He got a tremendous following and, my God, ran for governor. I was up in Graham one day, talking about Pappy O'Daniel. I drove into town. It had one
  • in the United States on population. It was a very forward-looking state from a health standpoint. I think it was when Frank Graham was there. He was a very famous educator. The other states were not very interested but did talk about it a great deal
  • when I was a freshman, and I didn't know Boody very well . He was never very friendly to me . G: Elmer Graham, did you know him? B: Yes, but I can't place him . No, I can't come up with any comment about him . G: He was LBJ's debating partner, I
  • . And in my calculus, a very big country, the number one country looking at this thing as a limited investment for a limited time, but facing an opponent for whom it was total war, at whatever cost, for how long it took: unequal contest. Graham Martin said
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- I -- 3 Henry Gonzalez, and I think the other was Graham Purcell, I'm not certain of that. There were
  • be. There were some articles about Phil Graham of the [Washington] Post pushing the President. too. That may be so, If Phil Graham [Washington Post publisher] had any concern aboJt my father, as I have read, being an effective executive, I. think that he
  • of a Swiss university . sales manager for the Ace Zipper Fastener Company . He's been He's been sales manager for some other gadget concern ." And I wired back and said, "My first assistant, Mr . Harry Graham [?] is a graduate of Harvard University . He's
  • : Yes. Straighten me out. W: That's right. Frank Graham had left by now. Frank Graham had left the United States Senate. He was defeated in 1950; served on until January, 1951. F: I knew him fairly well. What was your impression? alize after
  • , substantially the same thing that--who was this fellow from the Washington pUblisherJ--his version was correct. ~ [Philip Graham, John Kennedy came to see Lyndon and asked him to run and all this talk, well, anyway-B: That fellow at the Washington Post, Mr
  • was the attorney general who had to make the legal decision which led to sending the troops in. I was talking a good deal with Rogers on the phone, and through the late publisher of the Washington Post, who was very cl ose to Lyndon-F: Phil Graham. A: --Graham
  • Corps, thirty . So I was moving covering something new . all the time ; I was always dis­ Whereas my colleagues come back to the States and gone that situation, around G: Did you know Graham Greene? B: No, I did not, and I regret
  • don't remember when--a friend of Phil Graham's of the Washington Post. Ladies' luncheons continued to be a part of my daily fare. So many social things have changed. We hardly ever have ladies' luncheons anymore. Hats, hats, hats. Gloves. One thought
  • all else in life - friendship. Working at speech-writing in Washington I had favorably caught the eye of the wonderful man, Eugene Meyer, owner of the Washington Post, father of the present owner, Katherine Graham. He was so close to Harry Truman
  • , would come through, and I would see him. Kay [Katharine] Graham came out. No, I had no particular problem with them, and I have no particular criticism of them. They operated in a very difficult world, and we got along fine, we really did. G: How
  • -- 18 B: Any parties I went to were people the President--when he was sore at them he put them in this circle, and when he wasn't sore at them they came to candlelight dinners--Joe Alsop or Kay Graham. I'm talking about people I happened to be most
  • for it in the Senate, this includes Gerry, Ben Cohen, Jim Rowe, I can add some others such as Frank Graham of the Washington Post, were all convinced that it was unconstitutional as written. And so Ben Cohen, Gerry and I sat down and wrote a Part Three which
  • , it's a working It's not one of these junkets. And they were concerned. They work from dawn to dusk. And John Graham who was the Commissioner of AEC, was concerned--we were all concerned with what we saw. And so this whole program grew out
  • : Did you serve on the debating team with him? D: No, I couldn't make it. He made it; his debating partner was a fellow named Elmer Graham; it was a good team, and it was a little too much competition for me. F: Were you involved in any
  • accept this proposition after the defeats - the year that Senator Graham, Senator Pepper, were defeated in 1952, I think it was - 1952 which was an unforgettable object lesson to me in politics - the inherent danger of getting out too far in front of your
  • side, and some of their key advisers, Congressman Graham Purcell in the grain area, Congressman Paul Jones and Congressman Tom Abernathy in the cotton area. They were the key men that would be on the majority side on this. And so you worked with them
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh At that time, the House Committee on Education and Labor had a chairman, Graham Barden of North Carolina, who
  • hell broke loose. Phones were ringing; he was calling Kay Graham in one place, Senator Morse LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M