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Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on through, even until the Democratic convention when he was put on the ticket in the second spot in Los Angeles, because it was Rayburn's hand always that was moving the cards. S: What was Johnson himself like in those early days? You say you don't
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, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • working there, but not the total capacity she worked in later. This was when he was still majority leader, and it was before the Democratic campaign and the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. It \'JaS in February of that year. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by 87 votes. Governor LCok~j Stevenson challenged the vote in court, and the courts were sustaining Lyndon Johnson. about that time, we had the state convention in Fort Worth. in September of 1948. But This was And of course one of the functions
  • and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : He'd confide things to me that he knew would We were together all the time . Did you go then to Los Angeles? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convinced at that particular time in Los Angeles, that the Speaker was also opposed to his accepting the vice presidency. F: Did you see Mr. Johnson during the cdnvention? Dr1: Oh, yes. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • ; campaigning in Texas; Ladies for Lyndon; the whistle-stop campaign; how they responded to opposition while campaigning; LBJ as VP; incidents at the Adolphus Hotel with LBJ and Adlai Stevenson; Bruce Alger; the time following the assassination; how
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Koeniger -- II -- 2 But anyway, she needed to talk to Jack, and she called him and in due time he came from Los Angeles, I'm sure, in his limousine with a chauffeur driving for him. She was watching for his arrival and she went out and sat
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • feeling now that he went about it the wrong way. B: Were you in Los Angeles for the convention in 1960? M: I was. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Did you take any part in the preliminary maneuvering before Los Angeles or in joining the Johnson team? 11:.1ell, I don't remember the details, but we were all involved at that time. If youtd kept a diary as to what was done,it would be very useful
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 17 factor in the convention. But neither of those trips produced any delegates to speak of. F: Well, now after he became, obviously, the number two candidate in Los Angeles, most people agree that his only
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • called me "his legislative angel ." But those tyro--Mr . Rayburn and Mr .,Johnson--are two of the greatest people I think I've ever known in my time here on the Hill . F: I judge the Speaker and McCormack became close friends with Lyndon Johnson? M: Oh
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No. P: And I was in Los Angeles. F: UnoffiCially or as a delegate? P: No, no, I wasn't a delegat.e, but I was out there for the convention . and I spent a great deal of time at Mr. Rayburn's apartment which was in the Biltmore Hotel on the same
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Convention in 1960 in Los Angeles was over--and I was there, right in the middle of it, I was called in by Robert Kennedy. We talked about some of the problems. Mr. Jack Kennedy later obtained information from me about some of the things, and he went out
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • installations on the West Coast as Vice President and I had a Time reporter with us who decided that he should have an exclusive interview with the Vice President, and I invited him down to the bar at the hotel we were staying at in Los Angeles to discuss
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • politics. I'll try to talk very freely, and I suspect that some of the comments that I would make negatively about Texas politics Mr. Johnson himself would agree with. I'm sure there are times when he suffered from the very pathology that I went
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and restrictions, however he wishes to make it; and that we will type a transcript, send it to him to edit, and at the same time, give him a legal form with which he can express his restrictions as he sees fit. The tape, t h e transcript, the legal release form
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • been a Seventh Day Adventist, he still would have been a formidable contender, in my opinion. B: He was a very attractive man. You went to the convention in Los Angeles in 1960. Can you trace the story of what you saw and did there? H: Oh, that's
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • - - - -he must be learning all the time. He used to have just kind of kitchen Spanish. F: But he could get around with a non-English speaking group. N; Yes. F: "CNhat do yo:.: 1:'::0"\"· about him as a teacher? Do you remember anything frOT:: :hose
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in touch with me to do some of the public relations work of his campaign. He was not elected, but we got along well; and after- wards he started coming to see me from time to time and said that he had told Senator Johnson of the work I had done in his
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than some, saw what it already meant to the people of our state ... and what it could mean in the future. The primary had scarcely begun when Downey withdrew from the race. Manchester Boddy, the owner and editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, my friend
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • as a legal secretary, and she was on the law review. G: I think that's accurate. I suspect that the time I finished high school had more to do with my going into teaching than anything else, because it was the acceptable, the respectable thing for a woman
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • experience, I did decide it was dreadful that a party like the Democratic party should be without funds. So I had served four years as treasurer of Marian County. I had assisted the state party and some gubernatorial campaigns and when it came time to look
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • paid a courtesy call on Senator McFarland, but went to Lyndon Johnson? D: I think that it WeS very evident that he was the mover in that duo. But, of course, we were controllers at the time. I think that Senator Johnson at that time
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • older than I, he and I became friends. We were con- temporaries, we were both interested in public affairs, and we both knew the same type of people, such as Governor [James V.] Allred and most of the officials. I think that at that time Lyndon had
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • remember, I've had it. And the time then seemed to be a good one in which to enter the political field, as I was just resuming my practice. It might have been more difficult a few years later when the practice was better established--or better re
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , SW. The date is March 10, 1969. The time is 2:50 in the afternoon, and my name is David McComb. Dr. Turman, let me know something about your background first of all. T: Where were you born and when? David, I was born in Fannin County on a farm
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But that was due to Clarence Cannon and Sam Rayburn. M: Have you had opportunity to see Johnson operate in the Senate? H: Oh, yes. I wasn't, not being in Washington much at the time, but I was well aware that he probably was the greatest Senate minority
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . So I came into the bank full time immediately thereafter and have been here ever since. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: You didn't get caught
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • of the organization at that time. Perhaps we should explain that I was associated with you in the International News Service and other projects and that's why you use the tem "we. II K: I think you're a little too generous about my being the brains, but I
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as was possible, so if I ask you things that you think you've written adequately about, say so and I'll just switch off. because we're not trytng to duplicate what Time-Life has printed or anybody else has printed. Let's identify. You're Hugh Sidey, and you
  • Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the President. Lyndon, on the other hand, got in and was very sympathetic with the President and supportive of the President. I've always felt he won the race on the basis. that the Tenth District, at that time, was strong for Roosevelt. Lyndon backed