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  • the nomination, when he said that he would do it. F: Did you ever meet with Mr. Johnson personally at Los Angeles? P: Yes. We ' d go into some of t he rooms. At times we'd go over to the Bi.ltmore, and in my position I could go in and out of those rooms
  • LBJ-Rayburn-Price Daniel relationship; details of the 1960 convention in Los Angeles, especially concerning the Texas delegation; poor accommodations for the delegation; the JFK organization in 1960; Texas delegation reacts to LBJ nomination
  • --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
  • his thanks. about the following morning. F: That was John Connally. But, you, Mr. /Mann, did not do any work prior to the Los Angeles meeting · to~ard M: That's what I remember getting him the nomination for the presidency? No, I wasn't active
  • : Yes. She taught school in Los Angeles, and rve also been told that he would hitch a ride and go to Los Angeles to see his cousin. Then they frequently would drive out to the Kimball R.ailch, who she later married, my uncle [Henry Kimball], and our
  • had a public relation, advertisi ng agency, and I had been involved in the 1954 campaign--! mean from 1948 to 1954. I was con­ nected with KVET from the fall of 1946 until the spring of 1948, at which time I joined Ed Syers and Windy Winn
  • 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
  • there. Bird had been to Battle Creek with her aunt at some time and had learned to eat the proper things. I never did, not at that time. I would always eat things like angel food cake and whipped cream and that sort of thing, but Bird dutifully ate what
  • Subjc c t(s) covered time on tape - 9 .Johnson never could rccogn i.zc that he was no longer the Senator from Texas but the Vici? President of the U. 11 The Kennedy family and staff was treated very syr:ipathet by Johnsun 12 . Transition; Kenney
  • from the Congressional Campaign Committee, [of] which he was then serving as chairman, the sum of two hundred dollars. That might not sound like a big contribution from a congressional cam­ paign committee today, but it was a lot at that time. It came
  • was then teaching public speaking in Sam Houston High School in Houston, hav­ ing graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers• College at San Marcos the year before. He \'las twenty-three at the time. His appoint­ ment to the secretarial position was announced