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Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • family, or his four or five brothers and a couple of sisters and his mother, had all moved from Denver to Los Angeles. In the meantime he had gone into the contracting business, the oldest boy had. He had gotten along in years by this time, and held
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and then had considerable contact in Los Angeles with Jim Wright, who was trying to round up delegate votes for Johnson . M: You were following his campaign then? B: Yes, I was following his campaign, although that was not my principal assignment
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • desalting plant of about 125 million gallons a day near San Diego for Los Angeles. Isn't that true? F: Right. L: But this is merely an outgrowth of that interest. You know, if you interest him in a subject, his mind immediately sees a whole vista
  • Biographical information; the source of Lasker’s interest in health programs and beautification; becoming involved with politics; early encounters with LBJ; legislation and funding for housing the elderly; 1960 election and convention in Los Angeles
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, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson really didn't come until we started our plan for the 1960 or 1964? F: 1960 was the Los Angeles meeting. C: 1960 was the Los Angeles meeting. That's right, Kennedy was nominated in 1960. F: 1964 C: That's right. viaS the one up in Atlantic
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, 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, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • park in San Francisco Bay; we bought land in Los Angeles, in Chicago; we bought land at Florida, in Biscayne Bay in Miami, which is now right south of where President Nixon has his house; and we were in the cities up to our neck. Now this involved
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of people in- Some individual started it. It was furthered by Dr. [Eliot] Corday of Los Angeles through the College of Cardiology; he obtained a special bill from Congress for intensive coronary care centers with LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . In private sessions there--I remember in the famous rump session of 1960 when he and Johnson came back from Los Angeles and tried to get this legislation through, one of the bills that was up then was the minimum wage bill. He was dealing at that time
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go back and see what's happening in the way of population growth to my home State. I came to Washington on my third tour of duty in 1961, as Assistant Superintendent of National Capital Parks. At that time we had a quite different organizational
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Pennsylvania Commission. 0: Pennsylvania Avenue Council . F: Let's talk a little bit about the formation of that . 0: I didn't have any connection with any presidential candidates or anybody aspiring to same . The first time that we really heard about
  • historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird’s time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon’s interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the bill, saw to it that the language got incorporated into the act, against the wishes of the Bureau of Public Roads at that time. So in that back-hand, off the record matter, it seems to me that we did have something to do with that aspect
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • through my husband in about 1956. I believe it was then that we perhaps had dinner with them two or three times. F: You didn't have more than a casual social relationship during his early days as a Senator? G: No, we knew them a little bit, but I
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • physical exams out at Kelly My heartbeat was then at the maximum, but it had come down from Field . 172 to the time I took the physical exam which was about three weeks later-­ M: Was this due to being struck? B: Yes . M: Caused your heart
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -time resident and valued its parks and its beauty, but I didn't realize what LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • -- 2 T: I knew President Johnson when he was on the staff of Congressman Dick Kleberg of Corpus Christi. At the time I represented the national cotton council and endeavored to activate beneficial legislation for the cotton interests of Texas
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a payment acceleration, and in addition, I think I'm right on this, the postponement of some of the excises. M: Apparently the economy was heating up at that time, is that right? S: Well, yes. All of this really gets into the beginning of the whole
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to it. B= All right sir. Have you had at any time during your career any direct contact with Mr. Johnson, either as a Congressman or Vice President or President? W: Yes, I have had some, they've been rather infrequent. While Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 R: That's right, '61; this report initiated in '58, presented in '61. So we had the pleasure of meeting him for the first time, and he received our group representing
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , relatively, for me to raise hell about it, because what the hell! Dean was deeply involved with Vietnam, an Arab-Israeli war, and with Pueblo , and things like that, and why should I take up his time with things which, in the long run, were not truly
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tocker -- II -- 5 G: Do you remember at the time what you thought about why this was occurring
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ALAN L. DEAN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Dean's office, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Now, last time we were talking about the task force under Mr. Zwick in which you worked to set up the initial
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 3) January 11, 1969 M: This is the third session with the Secretary of Transportation, Alan Boyd . The date is January 11, and the time is 2 :30. To continue where we left off again, I was asking you about the forming
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 18, 1968 M: To identify this particular tape, this is the second session with Secretary Boyd of the Department of Transportation . The date is December 18, and the time is 11 :15 . To take up