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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gave me some fascinating information on Hawaii. Dick Bird, that was the commodore, [Daniel K.] Inouye was the congressman from Hawaii. Fred Dutton--I think Dutton only went to Los Angeles. I don't think he went on to Hawaii. What in the hell
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was when he was Majority Leader. The first time I met him was when Clyde Tolson, Associate Director of the FBI, and I was an assistant director, called me to his office and indicated that wouldn't it be a good idea if Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover were
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --in Los Angeles at that time--and Fritz Hollings was for Kennedy. We both made speeches to the South Carolina delegation for our candidates. I cited Lyndon's Senate record and showed it was much more conservative than John Kennedy's Senate record
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conventions that I had active participation in and in each instance there were charges of that nature, whether you are talking about Los Angeles, even Atlantic City, Miami and then Chicago. We didn't feel the national committee was giving us a fair shake
  • ; a meeting hosted by Duane Andreas to find loans to continue media for Humphrey; poll results leading up to the election; whether time or money would have allowed Humphrey to win the election; Humphrey's efforts to discuss a Vietnam plank with LBJ and hope
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: We finished last time with a discussion of the Salt Lake City speech which, I believe, was the end
  • City speech on Vietnam; Nixon's continued refusal to debate Humphrey; buying television time for Humphrey; poll results; Humphrey dealing with hecklers; a lack of funding for campaign materials; television advertisements for Edmund Muskie; Humphrey's
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by telephone from Los Angeles to my home up here. vision. I was watching the convention on tele- He said, liThe arrangement's just been made. Johnson's going LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , certainly not publicly. F: Were you in Los Angeles at the '60 convention? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had been state executive director for Governor Stevenson's Presidential campaign in 1956. In 1960 I had served on Governor Stevenson's national staff for a period through his defeat in the Los Angeles National Democratic Convention. Mc
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there's anything really for you to add at Los Angeles that you haven't already told and that's a negative way of putting it. S: I can add here because~ did not say this in :0:_Thm1San9J2":Y.;i, that the account I give of the choice of Vice President
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into politics, from this county. F: When you went there, I presume you were a delegate to [the 1960 Democratic Conventions in] Los Angeles? K: Yes. As a matter of fact, for a delegate--I was one of Humphrey's--let me put it this way: I carried his bag. I
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • just have-- F: Well, I mean just so you'll get some idea the first of the talent in the initial competition. We had Tom Johnson, now publisher of the Los Angeles Times. T: Is he the one who worked at the White House? F: Yes. He was twenty-two
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and much more local, out in the field, and we were really working, at that time, with the agencies in the government. But I remember very early in the game the mayor, now the mayor of Los Angeles, [Tom] Bradley, was probably the very first outsider
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the Civil Rights legislation? Yes, it did. McS: Did you play any part in the 1960 Convention in Los Angeles? F: I was a delegate--now wait just a minute--I was there! whether I was a delegate or not. I don't recall. I'm not sure Yes, I was. When LBJ
Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Washington, D.C. area, a subway; same in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, and Chicago, and San Francisco, and Los Angeles, New York, places like that. But the Highway Trust Fund was a solemn covenant, in my opinion. It was made between the people
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember that. But I don't remember anything like that. G: Okay. Of course, he did quit cigarettes after that heart attack. W: Quit smoking. He sure did. G: Did that bother him? Did he have a hard time with that? W: He sure did. G: He liked
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had accepted? M: Well, when I got the news I had just-- we were staying at a little offbeat motel that had just been refurbished out there in Los Angeles quite a ways from the hall, and I was sitting around the patio with a group of members
Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to California to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles with Mayor Ton Miller and Tom Miller, Jr. PB: What year was that in? ?D: 1960. PB: 1960. Wa.shing~or. Senator 7~en and on Joh~son a:. attorney you also illace a~ 30;ne o
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh BERRY -- II -- 1 9 This is in Los Angeles County . The white communities that were in that general area had been offered seats, and for over a year declined to accept them . Well, he completely omitted that from his report, leaving
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Carolina or, it so happened, Los Angeles in my own state, that I would help him. And his answer was, "I'll get no publicity out of Los Angeles." This was a few weeks before the Watts bonfire. And incidentally, I went out on that, on the President's
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Oh, yes. That was referred to often as an outstanding example of the seriousness of this problem nationwide. That probably was the reason that Johnson made specific reference to the Potomac, because the Potomac was in a sad, sorry state at that time
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on as chairman. In 1960 at Los Angeles, Bobby Kennedy--I remember a comment he made to me, "John won't be there forever." 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of such a thing when it first came up. It was sort of a glancing conversation. B: Was this before the convention? K: This was in Los Angeles, but before anything materialized because people were just beginning to mention it, only one or two people because
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . It so happened that his office at that time overlooked the steps leading up to the Capitol and leading up to the House and Senate Chambers, the side of the Capitol that faces the Supreme Court Building. When the shots were fired by this group
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The Atlanta Constitution, which today is a big paper in terms of Washington, I don't think he had ever heard of it. The Los Angeles Times, which now gets most of the leaks from the Carter Administration, really didn't rate all that much, and yet they gave good
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • this question--I think he was from Los Angeles--something to the effect that it's a misunderstanding about this legislation if you're thinking that it's a program in which the federal government is LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • found some presidential appointee had a Jetstar and was on his way to Los Angeles. I got him to take me, my footlocker, my duffel bag, my suitcases and so on--they threw them all on the plane. We arrived, and of course he went to the military side. I
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down there, if not every day, several times a week. So the only alteration in the travel plan that was made to pick us up was Washington to New York, and then we went directly down to the Ranch. Mrs. Johnson met us at the ramp and took us in to the old
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and it made him a very, very effective Vice President. F:. I think it was his talent to manipulate that did it.. Coming on down to 1960, did you go to the convention in Los Angeles? E: Yes sir. F: Were you surprised when Johnson accepted the vice
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in terms of what happened while--I know that he got to be Kennedy's running mate. I knew that he had turned it down when they first offered it to him. F: Were you a delegate to the Los Angeles [convention]? S: No, I didn't go to Los Angeles, but I had
  • and paying for media time in advance; taking money from Jimmy Hoffa; Walter Jenkins; a rumor that Humphrey had an altercation with a prostitute.
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the kind of county that needs the program. K: That's right. The same thing would be true of New York and Los Angeles and Detroit, various others of these large industrial centers. M: That's interesting. You know Mr. Johnson's current critics, some
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess, about the time he became NYA director. That's my first recollection of him. F: Did you see much of him in those days? S: Not a lot, not a lot. F: He was just a name that was beginning to emerge? S: Oh, I would see him. I was in Austin
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and left Ed Johnson at home as far as delegates were concerned. But even at that, Kennedy and White only had one-half of the delegates. They didn't have a majority of the delegates until I went to Los Angeles and found out I could no longer support Adlai
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , ultimately was a strong supporter of Mr. Johnson in 1960. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? W: No. Or had you left the paper by then? Because I came to work for the Times in May of 1960. The conven- tions were in July, as I recall. F: Yes. W: And I
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is to go back and kind of figure how you got in the position to know Lyndon Johnson. L: I was introduced to him by Gene Lasseter. F: Yes, from over in East Texas. L: Yes. She was from East Texas. At that time, she was C. V. Terrell's secretary.. He
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a War." Elegant was a reporter I think for the Los Angeles Times then; he's since written two best-sellers on China. He claims that the way the war was reported, particularly on television, a war fought for the first time on our side without censorship
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Practical Minnesota politics, J: Yes . So when the delegation went to Los Angeles, Kennedy had been there . Lyndon Johnson had sent India Edwards to speak for him when we had a big meeting of the party and the representative of each of the potential
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 'till the time you came in. It is history that there's been a surge of concern about the Indian now after a long period of neglect. So I think the best thing you can do is just start off telling what you found, what you tried to do and then I'll
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh those strange individuals that they passed the late wh?was in school that said hereafter that everybody that doesn't graduate by a certain time must take the bar exam . I was working and a number of the other students were
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Nash, the previous time we met we got up to the point where you had agreed on a site for Resurrection City. Now then, one thing we have