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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, it was a queer, offbeat sort of existence. Much more fun for me than for Lyndon, I'm sure. One evening we went to the Tom Clark's and had dinner. That was the first time I remember seeing them. This was in Los Angeles. It took us forever to get there. I vowed I

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

me that his other officer had become quite ill and was going to have to retire. principal officers. At this time the bank had really only two So he asked me if I could break away from the bank in Los Angeles and go back to the bank in Provo. cerned

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that time was that I would line up my Congressional district, get friends of mine that I knew were supporters of his to start working to get on the delegation, to go to the Convention in Los Angeles. I made no public announcement, I just went home and I

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, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a particularly interesting quote in view of what happened many years after that between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Fulbright. L: That's right. B: Then, sir, you said you went to the Los Angeles convention. Did you go as a John Kennedy partisan? L: Yes
LBJ-Rayburn relationship; LBJ as legislator; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; LBJ and his domestic programs evaluated; LBJ and the watchdog committee for the AEC; LBJ's visit to Iran and his influence on the Shah; LBJ asks Lilienthal

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I have There were others the same day. That evening was the evening that Senator [Robert] Kennedy was wounded in Los Angeles, and the following day the activities were interrupted for that reason. F: Yes, I remember. T: And although we finished

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

night so I don't think--I doubt if we ever stayed overnight. I mean even going to California, we went, I remember going to California and we went to Los Angeles. I don't know which year we did that or what trip that was in. G: I think it was 1966. C

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Los Angeles to the 1960 convention to work for Lyndon Johnson. P: Yes, at the Biltmore Hotel, as I had twice. G: What happened when you got there? P: We began to have little meetings around like you usually have at a convention where you
1960 convention in Los Angeles; the Biltmore Hotel; decision to take the Vice-Presidential post with JFK; connection with Johnson family in Oglethorpe County, Georgia; Lady Bird Johnson’s grandfather as founder of Baylor University; the LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and I met him on the morning after the nomination in Los Angeles. What had happened was that I had been campaigning for President [John F.] Kennedy for about three or four years on a part-time basis. I hadn't left my office, but I would go out on trips

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Los Angeles and the East Los Angeles Community Union were others in time. very effective organizations. They were I confirmed in my own mind that my approach was better than the Alinsky approach. Nevertheless, when my son wanted to learn

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the ticket. F: Did you do anything to help him get ready for the 1960 convention in Los Angeles? W: Well, we all did something. There was a heck of a lot to do. The 1960 convention was totally unlike the 1964 convention. F: You knew pretty well in Los
' and Vietnam; LBJ’s public relations and popular public personalities over time; attending White House functions; arranging a mobile home for LBJ to use for freshening up before a Los Angeles appearance; LBJ’s interest in movies and television; 1968 campaign

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in there. M: Did you campaign then for Lyndon Johnson again? S: Oh, yes. I handled all of his senatorial campaigns beginning in 1948, then in 1954, and then in 1960 I was out in Los Angeles with the Johnson For President people. So I've been very
Spears’ youth; Spears’ entry into politics; getting to know LBJ; Spears role in the 1948 and 1954 elections; LBJ becoming favorite son in 1956; Spears’ relationship with Allan Shivers; Shivers becoming a Republican; 1960 Los Angeles convention

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the New York state delegation--who voted for him in Los Angeles on the first ballot. I remember giving a newspaper an interview at the time which said that we shouldn't discount the effectiveness of Lyndon Johnson on the ticket because he brought enormous

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, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

time around; but they wouldn't altogether close the door on him. F: Were you in Los Angeles? H: Yes. I got out there early to help things along and to do just general staff work -- meeting delegates as they arrived and again talking to the people
Biographical information; 1937-1960 campaigns; Congressional secretary to LBJ; lived with the Johnsons; Hardy Hollers; waiting for election returns; appointment as U.S. District Attorney; Herbert Brownwell; Frankie Randolph; Los Angeles Democratic

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a frequent caller or visitor. F: And he was not one of the sort of inner clique, so-called? V: No, he was not. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? V: Yes, I did. 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

heard of smog and air pollution. At the most it was kind of a local joke in Los Angeles, and that was about the extent of it. It wasn't really until people began to see it in their own communities, hear more about it, until the 1958 and 1962 episodes

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, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. At that time I must confess that I was rather naive about national politics and I assumed that he had a good chance to win. I learned later when I hit the convention in 1960 in Los Angeles that there really was no chance to win, that it was pretty much all
Meeting LBJ; Albert Thomas; seeing his wife for the first time; events before and during the 1960 convention; LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Valenti’s role in the 1960 convention; advertising

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Carolina!" D: Did you go to Los Angeles in 1960 to cover the convention? D: Yes, I went there. F: What did you do out there? D: I wrote back to my paper. F: And saw the Republican convention? D: And Lyndon came by San Francisco

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, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

after the Voting Rights Act was passed and signed, the Watts riots erupted in Los Angeles. What was LBJ's reaction? J: Oh, just appalled. He just felt terrible about the Los Angeles situation, which I believe was the first of the big domestic problems

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, 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, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tell you an interesting little side light to show you the way Jack Kennedy operated and why he was so loveable. At the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles I was there as an observer. I was not a delegate but the Texas delegation had a caucus

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

working in the ghettos together in five cities--New York, Chicago, San Antonio, Los Angeles, and Boston. We tried this test program in going out and working with industry, talking to them and saying, '~e're going to help you and assist you more than

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

got started before it was time to go to Los Angeles. We made a tremendous effort to mount a national campaign. He started much too late. He had his own reasons, presumably. I think there was a genuine doubt in his mind that he could successfully

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, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the steam right out of us. In that particular campaign, why, we worked all night long getting our committee plans ready. The next morning we'd read the Los Angeles paper, which was being put out with the aid of Mr. Kennedy out there, wherever he sat his
1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Connally was more or less the head of it in many ways. He opened an office in washington at a hotel there, called me and asked me if I could travel some in this effort to see the delegates that were going to Los Angeles that year. We wanted to see if we

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: No, I don't really recall. in 1960. I knew him reasonably well before Los Angeles. I came to testify before Congress on a number of occasions and I was with·him a dozen or two dozen times, usually in the company of Hubert Humphrey, prior to his being

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

contender for the Presidency. as a matter of fact, I think he would have been nominated at Los Angeles if he'd been from some other section of the country. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

moved to California where I finished prep school, went to Stanford, got my A.B. degree in 1937, then my LL.B. at Yale in 1940. Returned to Los Angeles to practice law at O'Melveny and Myers, and then into the service as a navy test pilot. M

Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; Cleve. Orchestra, 1943; music dir. Philharmonic Orchestra, Rochester, 1947—56; dir. N.Y.C. Center Opera, 1956; Met. Opera, 1957-61; music dir. Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1962--; guest appearances with Phila. Orchestra, Los Angeles, St. Louis, New Orleans

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the time we went to Los Angeles. tion was in July, and we went out in June. So it The conven- So it must have been in June. M: He didn't talk about it among the staff members? G: No. He M: We just quietly went on our way, thinking and hoping

Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Los Angeles. M: Well, he should have carried the Arizona delegation. felt a little guilty about that. and they were good campaigners. I always kind of But those Kennedy boys came in here, They spent quite a little money, and they were nice fellows

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

always believed the personal preference for it had been my father's. F: You arrived in Los Angeles fairly confident that you would get the nomination? K: Yes. F: So that you could look beyond that. Now then, it's fairly well documented that Robert

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, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to that. When they had the dinner out in Los Angeles, I think we got what was considered a sort of routine invitation that went to all members of the Senate inviting them on out there. And perhaps one might have expected, maybe not for me, but perhaps either my

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Kennedy's acceptance speech was given, in Los Angeles. there. I had rented a car and he and I rode out We spent a good deal of time together. But really at the convention, I was supposed to be the Florida expert. I spent a week in Florida

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