T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Robert Fleming # 4700.0017

IDENTIFICATION: Deputy Press Secretary under Bill Moyers during President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration

INTERVIEWER: David Culbert, Professor of History, Louisiana State University

DATE: November 8, 1979 FOCUS DATES: 1968

ABSTRACT:

Tape 19:

How Fleming came to work for Johnson; sessions with Johnson; Johnson loses touch with television criticism of himself; Johnson only watched programs that were of interest to him; story of Johnson chewing gum; typical day with Jim Christian; suggests that Johnson get away from podium; Johnson's trouble with the lighting and teleprompter in San Antonio; Johnson gets most of his information from the newspapers; receives instruction from the President on how to handle the press; Johnson calls Meriman (?) Smith, a reporter; Johnson's interest in reporters; opinion on television coverage; leaves the White House

TAPES: T 19 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1 hr. 10 min.

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 28

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