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  • . Rebekah Johnson; Sherman Adams' resignation; crisis of Quemoy and Matsu; rally with Vance Hartke; Democratic sweep of Congressional election; Paul Butler and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ's address to the U.N.; LBJ's meeting with Lopez Mateos
  • . He very graciously replied that he sure needed all our thoughts and prayers. M: Have you ever visited them then at the Ranch, socially? T: Oh yes, many times. One very unusual meeting there perhaps was the late President Adolfo López Mateos
  • ; visiting the Ranch at the same time as Mexican President Adolfo Lopez-Mateos; trip to Oaxaca to pick up Senator Douglas; returning part of El Paso to Mexico and related events; experiences with Mexican officials at social events; Mrs. Johnson’s success
  • . What is important about the labor bill is to understand the overall problem. G: Okay, I want to ask you about the barbecue that LBJ had for [Adolfo] , Lopez Mateos in mid-October of 1959. R: Well, that was quite an affair. As you may recall
  • Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez
  • whether he had known him before or not. I can't answer that. I had thought he had known him, since we stayed at his house, I had assumed I guess that they had been friends, but I don't know. Wouldn't—no, it was [Adolfo] Lopez Mateos who came to the Ranch
  • of that kind. G: You went again to the Ranch, I think, in 1959, when Mexican President [Adolfo] Lopez Mateos was visiting the Ranch, and there was a reception or party for him. Do you recall that occasion? S: I recall it, but that was such a madhouse
  • about, Joe, because Hill--well, Hill did have something to do with setting up this meeting between Johnson and Lopez-Mateos down in Acapulco, which took place in 1958, I guess. He wasn 1 t the prime mover or anything like that, but he had quite a bit
  • at the earliest possible moment. But the floundering was incredible. Of course, you had that one episode before the inauguration. Kennedy thought it would be a very good idea for Johnson to go down for a conference with Lopez Mateos. I think I've covered
  • Mashman; Price Daniel's visit to the LBJ Ranch during a flood and LBJ's efforts to help neighbors during that flood; Lady Bird Johnson's brother, Tommy Taylor; LBJ's effectiveness in television appearances; Mexican President Lopez Mateos' 1959 visit
  • . In fact, I was asked by President Kennedy to come back to Washington and I accompanied him to his first meetinq with President López Mateos. He met with President López Mateos on this question, on this subject, and I accompanied President Kennedy. F
  • relationship with Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz; going to the Ranch for Lopez Mateos’ visit; JFK assassination and public response in Costa Rica; JFK’s visit to Costa Rica; security risks; communist rallies in Costa Rica; attempting to slow the birth
  • Telles, Raymond Lopez, 1915-2013
  • -- II -- 11 L: No, I don't recall anything about it. G: Okay. Let's talk about that visit in Palm Springs after he conferred with President [Adolfo] López Mateos. This was on the salinity problem, and you were very active in this area. L: Oh, yes
  • what that was about? W: No. G: On the 18th of February, Eisenhower came through Austin on his way to meet [Adolfo] López Mateos in Mexico, and LBJ was with him. Did you go to Austin? W: No. G: And then LBJ was at the Ranch until late that month
  • a few years to the point when he was a senator, a rather simple story that is well worth telling. We had Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico. He had come to the United States, and, of course, what they had--what the Mexicans had done was to give a--to put
  • the foreign office and the Embassy. So when President Kennedy came, the Mexican government let it be known that they were now prepared to negotiate some kind of a settlement. The two Presidents, President Lopez-Mateos and President Kennedy, touched
  • he was at Amistad with President Lopez Mateos and the deciding to make this an 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • bulls. He wanted to give, I think it was Lopez Mateos [Gustavo Diaz-Ordaz], president of Mexico, a bull as a gesture of goodwill and wanted to try to get away from [inaudible], and he sent Betty, myself, and Dale and Jewel Malechek down there to deliver
  • , and we were fellow delegates to the 1957 conference in B.A. [Buenos Aires]. I knew that Senator Johnson was a very powerful man in Washington. He had come to Mexico at the end of 1958 when Mr. López Mateos was president-elect, and they met in Acapulco
  • were host to him and to President López Mateos of Mexico in the early part of '64. Did you take part in any of the arrangements to bring the two men together here? Y: Our city of course cooperated. Through the police department we provided security
  • my brother on the official airplane to Acapulco, Mexico, to meet with President López Mateos, then-Senator Johnson wanted to go to Austin and he rode with us from Washington to Austin. My brother was still suffering from the ileitis operation, as I
  • , or any contractors who were dOing much in space. staff break down states where the money was going. down California. I used to have the I asked them to break Well, sure enough, down in Santa Clara County, in San Mateo County south of us you got a lot
  • to California, attended the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford Law School in the forties. 0: Right. B: Law practice in San Mateo, active in politics in California. You had important positions in the Stevenson campaign there in '56 and in Pat
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McClendon -- I -- 24 M: After we got the Ranch? F: Yes. M: Yes, we did. there. I know it was shortly after López Mateos had visited I really enjoyed