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Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the vice presidential nomination? H: Oh, I saw the Senator back in Los Angeles. F: He told you he was going to take it? H: Well, that he accepted, and that Sam was influential in it. F: Something switched in the meanwhile. H: Must have, because

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the things that I wanted to do was to identify with the NAACP unit, wherever I was. I found the branches in Anniston, Alabama, when I was in basic training at Fort McClellan; in Los Angeles, California, when we were down at Fort Ord; San Luis Obispo, Camp

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, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Los Angeles? L: No, San Francisco. The main office was in San Francisco, and I had nine branches around the state and also in Nevada--Reno and Las Vegas. pretty well. It grew We became one of the ten largest mortgage banking firms in the country

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

decision had just com~ down and in a way kind of · revived the heat.,. 1.._ any event, I can't honestly say. to Chicago in '56 knowing that.he didn't have a chance. . I feel he went I think he . went to Los Angeles in '60 knowing privately'that he

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Governor Shivers went to Illinois to see Governor Adlai Stevenson, who was the Democratic nominee, and asked him if he would be willing to support the Texas title of ownership--it was even--the matter was in Congress at the time. Stevenson said no, he
Party in Texas; land scandal during Shivers' time as governor; Bascom Giles; a federal farm storage scandal involving Billie Sol Estes and Ralph Yarborough's alleged involvement; Texas Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald; insurance scandals during

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for a couple of hours, and then [by] the time you went back and forth, it was a good six hours probably. Then I was taking exercises. That's gone on and on throughout my life with very mediocre results I would say, but I had the instinct to make the best out
with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's

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, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

]. same capacity. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? L: Yes. F· Did you have any inkling that Mr. Johnson would accept the Vice- And I was in the same capacity in this Congressional district. Pre sidential nomination? L: No, sir. Not the slightest. F

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

. 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

vantage point there . O: The 1960 convention, of course, was held in Los Angeles . I was a delegate to the convention from Massachusetts as a delegate for Jack Kennedy . campaign . I had been an advance man on the Kennedy came out with a real

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, 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, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the highest respect and regard, he has gone off his rocker just the way everybody does in Washington. just hit a little early." It has In a good natured way, he of course completely denied it. Well, when it turned out to be a fact in Los Angeles a few

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Travis County so not to be an embarrassment. I talked to John Connally about it, and I told John, I said, "John, there's only one way we can handle this thing. If--" And we had talked about the Johnson people would go to Los Angeles, and the Shivercrats

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

have some very brief background information on you which I shall state for the tape, and then I'd like to ask you if you could fill in where I've left off. You were at bne time with the United States Civil Service Commission; you were with the Bureau

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, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1970 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY ASHMORE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Santa Barbara, California Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Ashmore, let's talk first chronologically. let's give a very brief resume of your life up to the time that you began to emerge

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a number of times. He and Mrs. Johnson were in our home on at least one occasion for a dinner. at Johnson City. He was a mem- We have been out to their place We weren't intimately acquainted, but sufficiently so to be on a first-name basis when he

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, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was even mad at you for supporting the other position. B: There is absolutely no doubt about that. than I was to Senator Johnson. I was closer to Senator Kerr When he had read the headlines of the morning Los Angeles Times extra edition, that Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would be an [example]. The better acquainted the President and these members became, the greater the tendency was on the part of the southern Democrat to at times even seek opportunities to be helpful without violating his established record and his
Ireland; LBJ's vice presidential trip to Vietnam, Taiwan, and Indonesia; William F. Buckley's article stating that O'Brien had acted inappropriately while in Latin America with JFK in December 1961; O'Brien's Time cover story in September 1961; O'Brien's

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, or wanted recommendations on how to cure rural poverty, poverty in rural America, within ten years. Angeles. And that came just about the time of the riots in Watts in Los That weekend I sat down and did a lot of talking back and forth with my wife who

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GERMANY -- I -- 2 M: My goodness. G: From that time on after my school-teaching period, I went into the "oil business asa geologist having had only two

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

great crusade when I lived in Washington. It remained my crusade, and it still is in a way because I'm still fighting to get people out to vote. When I first knew Lyndon and Bird, which was about 1937, wasn't it, at that time I had just begun to catch

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, 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, 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, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a positive expression to his leadership. It was largely based upon various social values and was not really in accord with the overall trend of liberalism at that time, because liberalism had gotten quite far away· from populism. Unfortunately

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

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to wake up and find ourselves little goody shoes in the trail of the Kennedy crowd, number two: and all being patted on the head. Well, the first headline that I saw was "Symington the Choice." That was, I forget, the Los Angeles paper, one of them

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

in Mississippi. The project in the summer of 1964 was being organized at that time so I--three of us did. One was a graduate student named Allen Lingo, not related to the guy at Alabama who's so famous. He was a graduate student in theology. A person in my class

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview II -- 3 was at Budget and that would be a source in that you could be advised and counselled by Budget, [which] in turn would probably give you a little lead time in some departments and agencies at times so you could
. C. in time for a vote; Bay of Pigs events and JFK accepting responsibility for failure there; JFK's trust in the CIA and military; education legislation; opposition from James Delaney to aid to education; Cardinal Richard Cushing's visit to the White

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

- In the 1960 Convention, the late President designated me to handle his campaign in the Convention in Los Angeles and that meant, of course, on the floor of the House with Senator Ribicoff , because of my knowledge of parliamentary law, I assumed, and the many

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and being Bobby Baker we were very concerned . M: Some justice, no doubt. O: Yes. M: The events at Los Angel es that year had been reported and over reported, and I certainly have no intentfon of havi ng you repeat th i ngs that are public record

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when we entered the White House. One was Sam Rayburn's support of President Kennedy. We shouldn't call it a surprise; it was a pleasant turn of events, because it happened quickly and despite Mr. Rayburn's concern about the ticket back at Los Angeles
separation of church and state; O'Brien's work with the timing of votes before the congressional session ended; 1962 welfare reform bill; the appointments of Byron White and Arthur Goldberg to the Supreme Court; Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Second

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

correct. F: Did you know Mr. Johnson before he became President? Had you ever met him? C: L had never met him personally. I'd shaken his hand a time or two. The first time I saw him at close-range was when I was testifying before the Senate Public

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and saw something of the then-Senator Johnson at that time. The first time I recall talking with Senator Johnson was during the fall of 1956 when Senator Kefauver and I were campaigning throughout Texas with Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson led us
House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

elected in a regular election. J: He had been in office two years--first in a special election and then had been re-elected in one regular election. F: Up until that time had you taken any great part in politics, either campus or otherwise? 1 LBJ

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