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  • Series > Transcripts of Oral Histories Given to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library (remove)
  • Subject > Press relations (remove)

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Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • the chances were of getting it out, and who was against it, and who was for it." (telephone ringing and voices in the background) "Johnson was constantly working the floor, working the cloak room, keeping in touch with the interests, the desires, the weakness
  • use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • conversations they had with reporters during the day. He was always very interested, very concerned in media treatment of him. One of the problems really of working for· him was that he needed five hours of. sleep a n.ight and that was all. nap