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Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

throughout the world, they were not paid. So the American press didn't come back and say the Vietnamese ambassador refused to pay Madame Nhu's bills, they carne back and said, Madame Nhu jumped a hotel bill in Los Angeles. myself. I read that in the press

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh August 19, 1970 F: This is an interview with Mr. John A. McCone in his office in Los Angeles, California, on August 19, 1970. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. McCone, you have served both the Republicans

Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)

than he I s got to 00 in with or that he 1 ll get after he does. pn,::;;-Jency can uet H for him. I think the I hcive spoken from t1ih1aukee to Chicago to fle1,1 York to Los Angeles to Illinois last night, and G:~·t tj1 sburg and Dallas

Folder, "The Bertrand Russell 'Trial'," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 191 (Item)

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Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 1-10]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

for the examinations for the Foreign Servi:ce. Wedrove in my ModelA. There was another--! took some body along--! can't rememberquite who at the moment. I took somebody along to help out with expenses, and we drove from Los Angeles to Washing ton. At Washington, I

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of business, then, over and even W: Above everything else. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? W: Yes, sir. F: What was your feeling of the climate when you arrived there? above~~? I'm not talking about the weather, lim talking about the political climate

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, of course, was very, very happy to do . By the way, I have a copy of the speech that I made, the nominating speech, on tape . F: You probably have it too, or you will get it . I would like to have it, yes, if we don't . Let's wind up 1960 here in Los

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

it done without one single My next responsibility word of criticism on the floor of the House . was to see that the registers were voided so that the Democratic people who had not taken the examination because they felt, in good knowledge

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

airports of the state. if they were going beyond the state, it would be put on the trunkline aircraft and sent to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Seattle. But if they were going to other parts in the state, then the plane coming in from that other

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

one of them--Anna Lord Strauss, the former president of the League of Women Voters, formerly a delegate to the United Nations. Mrs. Norman Chandler, the wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, whom I hadn't known before. he had asked one

Folder, "Classified Papers - Far East Trip, May, 1961," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)

deferu1e support aid (transmitted .sep&X'.at:tly) examined by • conoa,ic ..f.nd fina.,icia.l group .. JOLTING IBGUT INCOlllll8 maRAII Departmentof Stott ~w Control: I• Redd: FE Info ss G SP SAL L R SB so EUR NF.A ~: Saigon TO: Secretary

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 25-30]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

that I was there. I persuaded your mother stay there, which I did. to go on back to Los Angeles and I would I stayed till her nurse, stayed with her for a time. late that evening. Breeda Murphy There didn't seem muchthat I could do so r went back

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

you say before 1960? S: Before he became Vice President. H: The reason I was asking was because I made a basic personal commitment in 1960 that predated the Los Angeles convention. Had I thought anybody would listen to me, I would have supported

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

had been state executive director for Governor Stevenson's Presidential campaign in 1956. In 1960 I had served on Governor Stevenson's national staff for a period through his defeat in the Los Angeles National Democratic Convention. Mc

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Carolina or, it so happened, Los Angeles in my own state, that I would help him. And his answer was, "I'll get no publicity out of Los Angeles." This was a few weeks before the Watts bonfire. And incidentally, I went out on that, on the President's

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

immediately launched an investigation. this cable. He never could find Now this is just a sidelight, except for one circumstance. You'll find in the book which the Washington Post correspondent and the Los Angeles Times correspondent wrote about Marigold

Folder, "VP Johnson's Trip - Far East - May, 1961," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 1 (Item)

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Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 21-24]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Folder, "Memos, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XVI, 8/16 - 31/64, 1 of 2," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)

to re s o lv e o u ts ta n d in g problem s between o u r two c o u n t r ie s . A f t e r y e a rs o f n e g o t ia t io n s , F u lb r i g h t agreement i s ready to be sig n e d . A f t e r an e q u a lly lo n g p e rio d o f f r u s t r a t i o n

Folder, "Gulf of Tonkin (Miscellaneous), 1964, 3 of 3," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 228 (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interesting and I think moving show of this kind on television the other night looking at Los Angeles and really asking the question, 'Where is this Society going to go?" and making it absolutely clear to everybody watching that if we don't do something about

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

Folder, "Cables, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XV, 8/1964," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)

their declassification. Please replace the sheets in the m ylar sleeve when you have finished examining them. A p ril 23,2014 COPY LBJ LIBRARY LBJ LIBRARY DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL SHEET D o c # D ocT vpe D oc Info P ag e 1 of 2 C lassificatio n P a g e s D ate R

Folder, "Memos, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XV, 8/1964," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)

and S V N b o r d e r s (se e a tta c he d ). Id ea h a s m aJiy h o o k e rs , b u t m e r i t s to o - e s p e c ia lly f o r a f t e r N o v e m b e r. S u g g e s t we take a good lo o k a t i t i f In d ia jis e v e r flo a t i t . N o te B o w le s

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

had accepted? M: Well, when I got the news I had just-- we were staying at a little offbeat motel that had just been refurbished out there in Los Angeles quite a ways from the hall, and I was sitting around the patio with a group of members

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

known him before. I don't remember. In the late 1950's, I would think. G: Had you had much contact--? T: No. Then I saw how the cards were stacked in Michigan, and I didn't even try to get on the delegation for Los Angeles because Michigan has

Folder, "Presidential Decisions-Gulf of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964-Volume I, Tabs 1-8, 1 of 2," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 38 (Item)

the sheets in the mylar sleeve when you have finished examining them. April 11, 2014 LBJ LIBRARY DOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL SHEET Doc# DocTvpe Doc Info Page 1 of 4 Classification Pages Date Restriction 7/26/64 074 cable MAC SOG 6938/260443Z sanitized 2/23

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 11-20]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

to Washingtonfor my Senate hearing; flew out again the same afternoon. Then we drove on down to Los Angeles. By prearrangement, when I got to Los Angeles, I got the telegram from the Department that I had been confirmed. I went out that evening in Glendale. Wehad

Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [2 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

examine: The feasibility and political-military u. S. tio~~ 'of d'~pioying earmarked forces implica to locations more ·rapid assistance to Iran in the .. . event of Soviet or Soviet- supported attack; that would p~rmit b. The desirability

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

O'Donnell and Godfrey McHugh were obsessed with the idea of getting the plane off the ground, because the county medical examiner had told them that the body couldn't be flown out without an autopsy, and they were determined to get that plane off the ground

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. He gave it to the TV Guide people, and they gave it back to him after they'd used it, and then he gave it to--gosh, 1 think to the Los Angeles Times. I don't know, the latter is a guess. And again, in let's say September 1968--1 don't know what

Folder, "[Manuscript] Chapters 10, 12-16," Papers of William P. Bundy, Box 1 (Item)

, a formal of the over President state speech of ~rom taking the high program the made concern as being South. a specific and in Los Angeles north move both to warn North.Viet he included the following language: "In South Viet Nam

Folder, "[Manuscript] Chapters 17-24," Papers of William P. Bundy, Box 1 (Item)

:impossible, .American 0£ infiltrat:ion government, par1: of 1964 to view is a good point in Saigon th4 nature at which to examine and Washington~ had come by the of and the the conflict role of the 17-4 North.. Why.•had the conflict

Folder, "[September 5, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

targets have been authorized but have been delayed because of bad weather. Also four are inside the lO : mile circle and are being held. These total 18. Of the 51 remaining, 9 have been removed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff after careful examination. Some

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Of course, a lot of things have happened since then. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh But at the time that was certainly heralded

Folder, "3 A (3) Gulf of Tonkin, 8/1964," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 77 (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Communism in government. that there w a s The story that I believe to be true was a luncheon held across from the Mayflower Hotel at which there was a Catholic priest, a fired correspondent from the old Times Herald in Washington, and somebody else

Folder, "[September 12, 1967 - 1:25 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

not recommend 77. Of the 350" which they did recommend, 320 were approved including those that were approved last week. In re-examining the 30, the Joint Chiefs recommended .against 13 of the 30, including small targets s .u ch as 4 or 5 small POL' s

Folder, "The President's file for Korea, Vietnam (Briefings)," Files of Walt Rostow, NSF, Box 10 (Item)

and of the patriotic don't The air law to war. President able international similar the "Pul:!l>lo" are in one respect: we INFORMATION THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON SECRET Wednesday, January 31, 1968 -- 1:00 p. m. I z,) 17 Mr. President: You might