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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • be useful to record it. But it would be just as useful to record how you felt about it if you were aware of it at the time. J: Well, yes, didn't take it seriously, didn't encourage it. I personally think he was scared to death of such a prospect
  • The prospect in 1955 of LBJ being a candidate for the presidency; Amon Carter and LBJ's relationship with Carter; John Henry Faulk; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; humorous story regarding suits a tailor was making for LBJ at the time of his heart attack
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Angeles. Do you have any recol- lections of the preceedings there, or being in his hotel room? W: Let me say that if there ever was a time when I regret not keeping a diary [this was it], because it was, as we have soon later learned, truly an historic
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Angeles for the convention. Then I That's about it. F: You didn't go to Los Angeles, though, with any hopes? R: No. F: Did you think you'd get past a first ballot? R: No, I couldn't see how. F: So you didn't nurse that kind of forlorn hope
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the word but I did draft things and write things and so forth. I went out to the nominating convention in Los Angeles and was there as part of the staff for Mr. Symington. But once the nomination had taken place and the ticket was set, well, then I
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . to Cecil. . White was violently anti- I remember after the Los Angeles convention running into Bill up in the Senate press gallery and to my astonishment he said, "It may be necessary to vote for Nixon." I was astonished at Bill's indignation at Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • against civil rights and he was a true representative in voting against every bill. he became a United States Senator, the situation changed. And then when Texas was about half and half at that time on civil rights, so his votes were divided a lot
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recollection--and part of it covered these so-called project grants. If a given community had a certain type of special air pollution problem-let's say for instance, Los Angeles with its smog could apply for a project grant to deal specifically with the L.A
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? P: No, I didn't go to any--I have been to a convention. F: I know. P: Running a law office is enough. F: Did you have any inkling at all that he might be offered the Been to one, been to [all]. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • precautions, as I understand them, are almost unbelievable. V: Well, I think we agreed before--you just can't afford another Oswald-Ruby incident. B: Incidentally, has your office been involved in Los Angeles in the aftermath LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • carried northern California by 93,000 votes, but lost in Orange County and the suburbs of Los Angeles and San Diego--about 62,000 in each--and lost the State by some 35,000 votes. But it was a very strenuous and yet rewarding experience. Mc: Had you had
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it was a very realistic thing for him to do, and I don't think he compromised himself any. I think maybe he compromised some of the support he had, because he had a hard time holding on to some of that. M: Did you go to Los Angeles for the convention? C
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • I first started to work for the Los Angeles Times, I got sloppy, because I felt I had all the space in the world. Well, of course, my editors disabused me of that fairly quickly; I didn't have all the space. I had more space than I had before
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the; r wits, as Stuart Symi ngton told me--I met him at Los Angeles, I went over there and had breakfast LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in his office at the University of Texas. The date is July 19, 1971, and it is 9:10 in the morning. My name is David McComb. Last time we left off with the first committee being dissolved and the Regents appointing a committee to search for a dean. L
  • ; LBJ’s interest in teaching and his title at the School; the state of the School at the time of the interview; selection of the admitted students; the School’s faculty; Gronouski’s views on joint appointments and tenure for faculty; the attention UT
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , going too far, staying too short a time, rush, rush, rush. I was not happily in tune. However, early in April I did have a little taste of [how] maybe I could get in tune. I went to what was billed as a "celebrity breakfast," in quotes, given by Theta
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working all the time, evenings as well I said, "Well, if Idon't get a job I'm going to have to quit studying and go home ." I've got a job for you . He said, "Now, don't do that . You come by my office in the morning . I work in a congressman`s
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thesis. That \'1as turned in in April, and that was about it for my senior year, really, except waiting around to take final orals. I had become friendly with Bill. At that time Bill had left the Vice President's staff, Mr. Johnson's staff, and gone
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Senator Johnson, and the popularity of the highway program on both sides, I think we got some Republican votes like George Aiken and Leverett Saltonstall, people like that who voted contrary to the wishes of the administration. G: At the time these votes
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • productive of the Job Corps centers, located in Los Angeles. They have also involved their people in another area of responsibility; they've opened their residences to girls who've graduated from the Job Corps. I think it is twenty-eight--it may be a larger
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe that .. he ~aited too late to have any chance in Los Angeles. F: You were back in Texas then when the convention went on? R: I stayed in Washington since my parents came back in 1955; I haven't gone back and forth. F: Were you surprised
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was that sensitive with regard to the subject matter or the congressman or senator involved? D: Mostly the subject matter, mostly the subject matter, because I had had some experiences in the Kennedy years and I'd been burned a couple of times. So we straightened
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • that no reporter, when I got down here, really qualified, with very few exceptions--such as Marshall Peck of the Herald-Tribune in New York City, Paul Weeks in Los Angeles--both of whom by the way later joined the War on Poverty--there were no qualified poverty
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ," meaning McArthur of the Los Angeles Times . "What's the matter? George is a good, solid man ." writing a lot of stories ." And I said, "Oh, he's been I said, "Well, what sort of stories?" I knew what sort of stories ; George had run on to some big
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh advisor to many of us and was well versed in the history of China at that time. [He] predicted pretty accurately what was about to happen
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Was it 1960? And where was that, Chicago? No, it was somewhere else. G: Los Angeles. J: Yes, that's right; it was Los Angeles, because I got out there early. We had a chance of doing something, of perhaps defeating Kennedy, a chance. It was dependent
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • park in San Francisco Bay; we bought land in Los Angeles, in Chicago; we bought land at Florida, in Biscayne Bay in Miami, which is now right south of where President Nixon has his house; and we were in the cities up to our neck. Now this involved
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. C: Fine. I came to Houston with my family in 1929 from Long Beach, Mississippi, and felt very much a stranger in Texas at that time. the fall of 1930 I entered Sam Houston High School. old. In I was fifteen years President Johnson, then twenty
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • authoritatively about what Lyndon Johnson was doing, what he was like and all that, and to my knowledge, in the four years I was there, the only time he saw the President was at that ill-fated Arts Council display on the South Lawn and it was only a passing thing
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Los Angeles? F: No. M: He didn't go to that. F: No. M: That was the one where Johnson got nominated for Vice President. F: Yes, but he didn't make a success of it. nominated him, you know. vision. John Connally But we listened to it all
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the vice presidential nomination? H: Oh, I saw the Senator back in Los Angeles. F: He told you he was going to take it? H: Well, that he accepted, and that Sam was influential in it. F: Something switched in the meanwhile. H: Must have, because
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the things that I wanted to do was to identify with the NAACP unit, wherever I was. I found the branches in Anniston, Alabama, when I was in basic training at Fort McClellan; in Los Angeles, California, when we were down at Fort Ord; San Luis Obispo, Camp
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
  • ticket; LBJ becoming Minority Leader in 1953 and Majority Leader in 1954; time following LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; LBJ vs. Price Daniel on civil rights; Majority Leader LBJ’s attempts to balance his duties to Texas and the nation; LBJ’s talents as Majority
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Los Angeles? L: No, San Francisco. The main office was in San Francisco, and I had nine branches around the state and also in Nevada--Reno and Las Vegas. pretty well. It grew We became one of the ten largest mortgage banking firms in the country
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • decision had just com~ down and in a way kind of · revived the heat.,. 1.._ any event, I can't honestly say. to Chicago in '56 knowing that.he didn't have a chance. . I feel he went I think he . went to Los Angeles in '60 knowing privately'that he
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Governor Shivers went to Illinois to see Governor Adlai Stevenson, who was the Democratic nominee, and asked him if he would be willing to support the Texas title of ownership--it was even--the matter was in Congress at the time. Stevenson said no, he
  • Party in Texas; land scandal during Shivers' time as governor; Bascom Giles; a federal farm storage scandal involving Billie Sol Estes and Ralph Yarborough's alleged involvement; Texas Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald; insurance scandals during
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for a couple of hours, and then [by] the time you went back and forth, it was a good six hours probably. Then I was taking exercises. That's gone on and on throughout my life with very mediocre results I would say, but I had the instinct to make the best out
  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of people in- Some individual started it. It was furthered by Dr. [Eliot] Corday of Los Angeles through the College of Cardiology; he obtained a special bill from Congress for intensive coronary care centers with LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ]. same capacity. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? L: Yes. F· Did you have any inkling that Mr. Johnson would accept the Vice- And I was in the same capacity in this Congressional district. Pre sidential nomination? L: No, sir. Not the slightest. F