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Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess, about the time he became NYA director. That's my first recollection of him. F: Did you see much of him in those days? S: Not a lot, not a lot. F: He was just a name that was beginning to emerge? S: Oh, I would see him. I was in Austin
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and left Ed Johnson at home as far as delegates were concerned. But even at that, Kennedy and White only had one-half of the delegates. They didn't have a majority of the delegates until I went to Los Angeles and found out I could no longer support Adlai
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , ultimately was a strong supporter of Mr. Johnson in 1960. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? W: No. Or had you left the paper by then? Because I came to work for the Times in May of 1960. The conven- tions were in July, as I recall. F: Yes. W: And I
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is to go back and kind of figure how you got in the position to know Lyndon Johnson. L: I was introduced to him by Gene Lasseter. F: Yes, from over in East Texas. L: Yes. She was from East Texas. At that time, she was C. V. Terrell's secretary.. He
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a War." Elegant was a reporter I think for the Los Angeles Times then; he's since written two best-sellers on China. He claims that the way the war was reported, particularly on television, a war fought for the first time on our side without censorship
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Practical Minnesota politics, J: Yes . So when the delegation went to Los Angeles, Kennedy had been there . Lyndon Johnson had sent India Edwards to speak for him when we had a big meeting of the party and the representative of each of the potential
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 'till the time you came in. It is history that there's been a surge of concern about the Indian now after a long period of neglect. So I think the best thing you can do is just start off telling what you found, what you tried to do and then I'll
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh those strange individuals that they passed the late wh?was in school that said hereafter that everybody that doesn't graduate by a certain time must take the bar exam . I was working and a number of the other students were
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NASH CASTRO INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Castro's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: Nash, the previous time we met we got up to the point where you had agreed on a site for Resurrection City. Now then, one thing we have
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • be useful to record it. But it would be just as useful to record how you felt about it if you were aware of it at the time. J: Well, yes, didn't take it seriously, didn't encourage it. I personally think he was scared to death of such a prospect
  • The prospect in 1955 of LBJ being a candidate for the presidency; Amon Carter and LBJ's relationship with Carter; John Henry Faulk; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; humorous story regarding suits a tailor was making for LBJ at the time of his heart attack
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Angeles. Do you have any recol- lections of the preceedings there, or being in his hotel room? W: Let me say that if there ever was a time when I regret not keeping a diary [this was it], because it was, as we have soon later learned, truly an historic
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Angeles for the convention. Then I That's about it. F: You didn't go to Los Angeles, though, with any hopes? R: No. F: Did you think you'd get past a first ballot? R: No, I couldn't see how. F: So you didn't nurse that kind of forlorn hope
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the word but I did draft things and write things and so forth. I went out to the nominating convention in Los Angeles and was there as part of the staff for Mr. Symington. But once the nomination had taken place and the ticket was set, well, then I
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . to Cecil. . White was violently anti- I remember after the Los Angeles convention running into Bill up in the Senate press gallery and to my astonishment he said, "It may be necessary to vote for Nixon." I was astonished at Bill's indignation at Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • against civil rights and he was a true representative in voting against every bill. he became a United States Senator, the situation changed. And then when Texas was about half and half at that time on civil rights, so his votes were divided a lot
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recollection--and part of it covered these so-called project grants. If a given community had a certain type of special air pollution problem-let's say for instance, Los Angeles with its smog could apply for a project grant to deal specifically with the L.A
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? P: No, I didn't go to any--I have been to a convention. F: I know. P: Running a law office is enough. F: Did you have any inkling at all that he might be offered the Been to one, been to [all]. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • precautions, as I understand them, are almost unbelievable. V: Well, I think we agreed before--you just can't afford another Oswald-Ruby incident. B: Incidentally, has your office been involved in Los Angeles in the aftermath LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • carried northern California by 93,000 votes, but lost in Orange County and the suburbs of Los Angeles and San Diego--about 62,000 in each--and lost the State by some 35,000 votes. But it was a very strenuous and yet rewarding experience. Mc: Had you had
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it was a very realistic thing for him to do, and I don't think he compromised himself any. I think maybe he compromised some of the support he had, because he had a hard time holding on to some of that. M: Did you go to Los Angeles for the convention? C
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • I first started to work for the Los Angeles Times, I got sloppy, because I felt I had all the space in the world. Well, of course, my editors disabused me of that fairly quickly; I didn't have all the space. I had more space than I had before
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the; r wits, as Stuart Symi ngton told me--I met him at Los Angeles, I went over there and had breakfast LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in his office at the University of Texas. The date is July 19, 1971, and it is 9:10 in the morning. My name is David McComb. Last time we left off with the first committee being dissolved and the Regents appointing a committee to search for a dean. L
  • ; LBJ’s interest in teaching and his title at the School; the state of the School at the time of the interview; selection of the admitted students; the School’s faculty; Gronouski’s views on joint appointments and tenure for faculty; the attention UT
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , going too far, staying too short a time, rush, rush, rush. I was not happily in tune. However, early in April I did have a little taste of [how] maybe I could get in tune. I went to what was billed as a "celebrity breakfast," in quotes, given by Theta
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working all the time, evenings as well I said, "Well, if Idon't get a job I'm going to have to quit studying and go home ." I've got a job for you . He said, "Now, don't do that . You come by my office in the morning . I work in a congressman`s
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thesis. That \'1as turned in in April, and that was about it for my senior year, really, except waiting around to take final orals. I had become friendly with Bill. At that time Bill had left the Vice President's staff, Mr. Johnson's staff, and gone
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Senator Johnson, and the popularity of the highway program on both sides, I think we got some Republican votes like George Aiken and Leverett Saltonstall, people like that who voted contrary to the wishes of the administration. G: At the time these votes
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • productive of the Job Corps centers, located in Los Angeles. They have also involved their people in another area of responsibility; they've opened their residences to girls who've graduated from the Job Corps. I think it is twenty-eight--it may be a larger
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe that .. he ~aited too late to have any chance in Los Angeles. F: You were back in Texas then when the convention went on? R: I stayed in Washington since my parents came back in 1955; I haven't gone back and forth. F: Were you surprised
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was that sensitive with regard to the subject matter or the congressman or senator involved? D: Mostly the subject matter, mostly the subject matter, because I had had some experiences in the Kennedy years and I'd been burned a couple of times. So we straightened
Oral history transcript, Walter Mylecraine, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • ,; ' \! ". ::-:· ill a whole '7aste of time i ' , l ~; !!i ' i' :2 ry : 'j ! pone it . oi i 2 s_: by arguing it out tedious ly for ever and ever j. .I' I and ever los e the public b anef it of ha ving o Jus t do it o It r s the kindes t thi n~ you c a n do
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • that no reporter, when I got down here, really qualified, with very few exceptions--such as Marshall Peck of the Herald-Tribune in New York City, Paul Weeks in Los Angeles--both of whom by the way later joined the War on Poverty--there were no qualified poverty
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ," meaning McArthur of the Los Angeles Times . "What's the matter? George is a good, solid man ." writing a lot of stories ." And I said, "Oh, he's been I said, "Well, what sort of stories?" I knew what sort of stories ; George had run on to some big
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, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Was it 1960? And where was that, Chicago? No, it was somewhere else. G: Los Angeles. J: Yes, that's right; it was Los Angeles, because I got out there early. We had a chance of doing something, of perhaps defeating Kennedy, a chance. It was dependent
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, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. C: Fine. I came to Houston with my family in 1929 from Long Beach, Mississippi, and felt very much a stranger in Texas at that time. the fall of 1930 I entered Sam Houston High School. old. In I was fifteen years President Johnson, then twenty
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • authoritatively about what Lyndon Johnson was doing, what he was like and all that, and to my knowledge, in the four years I was there, the only time he saw the President was at that ill-fated Arts Council display on the South Lawn and it was only a passing thing
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Los Angeles? F: No. M: He didn't go to that. F: No. M: That was the one where Johnson got nominated for Vice President. F: Yes, but he didn't make a success of it. nominated him, you know. vision. John Connally But we listened to it all