Discover Our Collections


  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Contributor > Wattenberg, Ben J., 1933- (remove)
  • Collection > LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)

2 results

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; press leaks and staff members talking to the press; believing in what you write; 'crisis mongering'; changes in socioeconomic conditions for Negroes; presenting statistical information to the President; the Kerner Commission; Robert Kennedy speaking out
  • Kennedy called The Boy's Life Of John F. Kennedy, which I thought of and then the guy wrote it and did sort of a crununy job. So I re,vrote it and it turned out to be sort of a best seller kind of a thing. After about a year and a half or two years
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a ;';":') on it-- it must be the 27th or 28th of l-larch--the heat again3t ,hhnson was getting very, very hot indeed. You know, Kennedy and ;'>J,iirthy were both on his tail. and McPherson and Liz Cater and I and Bess Abell and Ervin Duggan-- C~~p~nter that's about all