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Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

his region. Many people considered him conservative and backward by national standards. I considered him a very bold and audacious Southern politician. So I went to Los Angeles sympathetic to his candidacy. of course, he had no chance of winning

Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, right. M: You said just a minute ago that before 1980 you didn't have any contact with Mr. Johnson and little perhaps with President Kennedy. but that you got involved in some respects in 1960 and were a delegate at Los Angeles. Did you occupy a point

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, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to vote for Lyndon Johnson for the presidency, and he was staying with the Minnesota delegation at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. I had gone there to interview several members of the Iowa delegation, and Gene was at the top of the escalator. And he

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the two middle initials, but we like to have them both used if they're going to use any . M: I see . L: I was born and bred in Brenham, Texas, which is now almost a suburb of Houston, some seventy miles away . My father was a long-time member

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

involved sending some kids from the Los Angeles slums to Camp Roberts, California for several weeks of what I guess was supposed to be a vacation experience, I don't know. Somebody remarked that at Camp Roberts it's 110 degrees in the shade only there isn't

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Pennsylvania disaster, and some of the problems in the Los Angeles area and in New York. But undoubtedly in the past five years, six years, there has been a tremendous increase in awareness. poeple are speaking out. More The electric utility industry has

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ZORTHIAN -- I -- 26 incidentally, both in his News~eek days and in his Los Angeles Times days; Ward Just; Johnny Apple ~n his first year and a half almost; Frank McCulloch, when -he was both Time

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and undertook to seek the nomination in Los Angeles, he had every reason, I suppose, to expect me to support him. Certainly, John Kennedy had done me no comparable favors, even though I recognized he was not in a position to give them. But I felt

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it a little sometimes, I gather? C: I'd say that was true. Yes. F: Did you go to the Los Angeles Convention in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated? C: Yes. F: What was the Missippi attitude toward the nomination at that time? C: Well, as far

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, if you will, the issues in that campaign as you saw them. O: We had anticipated--we, the Kennedy people--that 1964 would be a relatively pleasant experience. We were anticipating an easy time of it. Just before the trip to Dallas we had an informal

Oral history transcript, O.B. Summy, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

the only really big town you went to? S: Yes. We were out there near Los Angeles. We stayed out of that town because we didn’t want to get into any traffic jam. G: Who figured out the route? S: We just took a map. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

visitors in the United States pleasant. to a World Affairs Council, for example, in Los Angeles. I went They were thrilled that the Assistant Secretary would actually go to thank them personally for their contribution. raise funds. And this of course

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

earlier because it was Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, and New York. G: Did Vice President Nixon take any measures to correct the problems that he'd had in the first debate, either with appearance or clothes or anything of that nature? Makeup? S: I

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in announcing. M: Yes. F: Why do you think he did it? M: Nature, that was his nature. F: Just sort of reluctant to stick his neck out? M: Reluctant to give word to the public what was in his mind. F: You were at Los Angeles at the 1960 convention

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And then I think perhaps it was exacerbated by this incident in Los Angeles. G: It almost seems that each man became obsessed with the other one after a time. V: Yes. G: Was there a valid perspective on each side, or was it all one's fault or all

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to try to find out what we could do to repair the neighborhoods, and so forth. Ramsey went as the head of that task force. I remember he and I talked over the phone. The first time the name and the voice comes to my mind was that he was in Los Angeles

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 was very strongly for his selection as Vice President. I remember going on the floor of the convention in Los Angeles, [and] making a statement to the press that this showed the wisdom of our new President in selecting

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Ward [of] the Baltimore Sun; Tom Lambert [of] the Los Angeles Times. The network people in those days--John Scali was with ABC; Elie Abel, NBC; Marvin 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Ward [of] the Baltimore Sun; Tom Lambert [of] the Los Angeles Times. The network people in those days--John Scali was with ABC; Elie Abel, NBC; Marvin LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to do." Well, we went -- by this time Albert Pena came in and Carlos McCormick and Estrada and Gonzalez and Hank Lopez from Los Angeles, and myself and the two Puerto Ricans. We met with Bobby at the Democratic headquarters there, I think on Avenue K

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and uncommitted. He refused to give way to the increasing pressure for a Kennedy endorsement. So that on the first ballot in Los Angeles at that convention--which I didn't attend, I was not in politics nor even fairly interested in politics at that time. I

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, but your chance of being murdered is twice as high in Houston; your chance of being raped is twice as high in Los Angeles; your chances of having an armed robbery is twice as high in Baltimore. the nation's capital. aware of it. But we are So

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: He had four years of campaigning; he had it locked up. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? T: Yes. I did. F: Where were you when the word came through that Kennedy was naming Johnson? T: I think I was covering one of the first ladies at the time

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

personally did not think he had much of a chance. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? M: I was not in Los Angeles in 1960. F: Were you surprised when he accepted the vice presidential nomination? 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, New York, and Los Angeles, as well as Chicago, that night. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. At that time, I was 18 years old and wasn't able or permitted to do much but pass out cards and tack up placards and do a little car-driving, which I did in the Bastrop County area around Smithville on weekends when I could get over there from Kerrville. Now

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as you saw them? Bo: Yes, I have a very vivid recollection of that development. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn and Senator Kennedy, all of them, were staying in the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. I was staying out further at the Wilshire which

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] convention out at Los Angeles and made several appearances before some M: of the important committees and some of the delegations from other states . Were you surprised when he took

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Lyndon. His position on a strong national defense was becoming firmer all the time. The Truman Doctrine was coming into being and the Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe was on track and was being evolved by Secretary of State [George] Marshall

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Troutman. T-R-O-U-T-M-A-N. He comes from a fine Atlanta family. He was a Kennedy campaign manager. He was an advance manager in Los Angeles, if I remember correctly. I forget whether the problem was whether it was to be a voluntary program, or where

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and in terms of their citizenship. Then we have that other program we started, which was health services for the poor. We started that with two programs, one in rural Louisiana and one in the Watts district of Los Angeles. One was run down there in Louisiana

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a frightful day and ended up that night-about 10 o'clock at night the President had this message to go on television with. He didn't know whether to go on, because the Secret Service agents in Los Angeles were calling back here saying that Senator Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on and interested myself through conversations with my old associates on the National Service Program, some of whom had low-level staff positions or very intermittent relationships with the task force. It occurred to me at the time, and it certainly occurred

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, I worked with Senator Humphrey from 1955 through the time he went into the vice presidency and then went over with him as his chief of staff in the vice presidency and held a somewhat ambiguous subtitle of assistant for national security. I had

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

there . variance . There's just one little For awhile I was Counsel and not the Staff Director, for a period of about two years, but the rest of the time I was the principal staff person for the Post Office and Civil Service Committee of the House . P: When did

Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and was elected on the Democratic ticket, of course. I served from January 1949 until January 1963, at which time I was appointed secretary of state by the new governor, John Connally. I was his top appointee during the time that he was gover- nor--well

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

had done a lot of campaigning and had a lot of delegates. Again, it was a question of he just had the delegates when he got to Los Angeles. M: What were the feelings in Texas both about [Johnson] running for President LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that he was the logical candidate and did urge it on him. I did go to the Los Angeles convention. F: I've run into some belief that he could have at least carried the convention into at least more than one ballot if he had released the people to work