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Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • is wholly owned by the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times. And at one point Valenti made a call to the president of New American Library from the office of Otis Chandler, president of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Company
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I thought it was a good choice, an excellent choice. It was smart for Kennedy's part. F: Did you cover the campaign on the scene? P: I might say in regard to that Democratic convention in Los Angeles, I talked to Senator Johnson at the time
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 28, 1969 M: Let's begin by just identifying you, sir. You're Joseph Alsop, a syndicated columnist at the present time and author of numerous books, and you've been doing this same type work for long enough to watch
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --this was early 1960--and he spent the whole time trying to find out what I knew about whether Lyndon Johnson was actually going to be more than a favorite son candidate in the Los Angeles convention that year. This was early 1960. And I never would tell him
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he was at that particular time or not I'm not sure. The President, as was so often the case with President Johnson, engaged more or less [in] a monologue. dialogue. It certainly wasn't quite a But the President was, as he was so often during the few
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to you that you're not going to win this election unless you take Johnson on for vice president." F: This is long before Los Angeles? C: This is in Los Angeles, after the vote on Lyndon. I had gone earlier to Sam Rayburn--I was out in Los Angeles
  • ; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador
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, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • out to California when Earl Warren was still governor, wonderful, progressive, and I did a series and of course it appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle picked it up. I had not met him yet, I wanted to do the hospitals
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, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of Science degree at Columbia. What was that in? M: Journalism. G: In 1955 you received a law degree at the University of California in Berkeley. From 1948 to 1952 you engaged in journalistic practice in Washington, D. C. and Los Angeles, is that right
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, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lucas had a tough race because Dirksen had tremendous popular support, newspaper support, and Illinois was a state that could go either way, but Senator Myers' defeat was a big shock. Senator [Richard] Russell at this particular time had more votes
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, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and subsequently became chief of the Economic Bureau for President Truman. F: We've interviewed Mr. Keyserling, incidentally. C: At that time I worked at tha [New York] Daily News during one summer only, and there met Lowell Limpus. This resulted in a lifetime
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • D. KRIMER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette DATE: March 2, 1984 PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your background. K: My background? In 1961 I received a contract as a contract interpreter with the State Department. I was at that time
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • activities with that of Mr. Johnson and the events that occurred during his time. You began your news career with the Chicago Sun Times in 1948 and moved into broadcasting in 1950. You went with Station WNBQ, the NBC station in Chicago. From 1950 to 1965 you
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and you were a longtime syndicated columnist with your brother Joseph, whom I also interviewed, incidentally, and later with the Saturday Evening Post, and now with Newsweek regularly. A: That's right M: And the author of The Center, which appeared
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • period when we were enlarging the store. So I came into the store in Sept- ember 1926 and have been associated with the store all during that time. r became president of Neiman-Marcus in 1950, a position which I still hold. F: Where and under what
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "All right, now get that on one piece of paper for me in the morning." I was rather disconcerted because at the time, while we were discussing this, there was a little bathroom off the side of the Oval Room and he was relieving himself in there while
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SARAH McCLENDON (and her daughter, SALLY O'BRIEN) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 16~ Tape 1 of 1 M: I thought you might be interested to know the first time I ever met Lyndon Johnson. I can't
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Texas, and at that time. In addition to being an air person- ality on KTRH, I was also a salesman trying to get sales experience. So I called on Lee. He sponsored--on KTRH--a program called "VOx POp," which also became nationally known. He came up
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Chattanooga Times. The syndication didn't really begin until 1958, and it began slowly, and so my pieces were not widely distributed. But I do remember one occasion when George Reeqy indicated that the leader was very upset by something I had written
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • to call on him--it was one of the first times that I really got to know him--when he was recuperating from his heart attack down on the Ranch. A story had appeared in the New York Times that he was at work building a southern conservative coalition
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beginning. Then later Bill White was of course with the New York Times many years, and then a syndicated columnist. As Lyndon and his aspirations grew beyond being a senator to being a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was a gigantic papermill and that such things as arguing over whether we should be leaders in space--which later President Johnson and President Kennedy solved very quickly-occupied an incredible amount of time. So, to make a long story short--when Kennedy came
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • concluded our session last time--our Ist interview--we had chronologically gotten up to the period of about 1966, and I had just started to ask you about the increased criticism that really began at that point and reached a pretty harsh level. Just generally
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to Washington from your home state in Texas, and you worked with them until 1945. From 1945 to 1958 you were with the New York Times and rose to the position of chief congressional correspondent. In 1958 you left to become nationally syndicated. Your column
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a White House Fellow. This would be in the latter part of the fall of 1965 through one year of the program. had gotteu in~o We how you became involved in the presidentiaJ corres­ pondence, his personal letters. At our closing the l3st time you had
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 2 said that, why, they turned around to me and said, "ls it true? you know about it?" I said, "No, I didn't know about it. wouldn't be up here taking up your time or my time. Did If I did
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • deal . I remember talking with LBJ on this subject one time and I said, "I'm not sure that you understand the aid program in India thoroughly, but I know your grandfather would ." He asked, "What do you mean by that?" I said, "Your grandfather
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • positions, as I have them recorded here, include research associate at Harvard Center for International Affairs from 1961 to '62. At that time I think you were on leave from RAND Corporation. You worked briefly as an economist for the Conference
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Because Eisenhower had a good smile, [was] very diplomatic, and believed in carrying out orders. Winston Churchill was trying to get us involved, to get us to help invade Africa. Every time he'd come to Washington to see * Mr. Johnson's readings
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: 1bis is the second session with George Reedy. Sir, last time we carried this through the election of 1960, which brings us now up to the vice presidential years when you were still on Mr. Johnson's