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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they had called up the guard, getting it to Los Angeles on time because a lot of them were in San Francisco and that area. I do remember that day trying to get the President to approve the use of air force planes to bring the guard down, and also to prove

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

some resemblance of an organization which would collect delegates, have delegate votes committed, and go in to the Los Angeles convention with a sufficient show of strength to stop Kennedy on the f irst b allot, which then presumably would lock up
Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and as a result did not line up delegates for President Johnson. F: When you reached Los Angeles, you said you met Mr. Johnson for the first time. H: How did that come about? Well, Mr. Johnson met--Many of us were asked to come and talk with the President

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from Los Angeles to San Bernardino, and we're going to have to get that start pretty soon or we're going to be late." it all right." "Oh, we'll make He couldn't tear himself away, but finally, maybe an hour and a half before time for his address

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

moment in Los Angeles, to urge him to put Mr. Johnson on the ticket. And this was thought to have had some influence on the decision--in my opinion, it had about the influence of a feather in the balance--but it was a very narrow balance. Bobby Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 7, 1970 This is an interview with the Honorable Sam Yorty, mayor of Los Angeles, in his office on Saturday morning, February 7, 1970. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Mayor, let's talk at the beginning about

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the outbreak in Watts and Los Angeles. Could you pick up the story there and go on? C: The Watts riots began August 11, '65. The federal government really had not been involved in, and had only casually observed, riots that were rather substantial in 1964

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

everything it took. So then he said, "Well, I want every one of you to go back home and start working now on the delegation that your county will send to the state convention so we can have a solid delegation in Los Angeles." And Cliff Carter said, "Well, we
in his bid to become the presidential nominee; the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and Rayburn's involvement in the decision to choose LBJ as JFK's running mate; Rayburn's death; opposition to LBJ accepting the vice presidential

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

delegation and I was the first one that said Lyndon Johnson. She looked like somebody had just been shot. F: Did you have any real hope that Johnson could make the presidential nomination here in Los Angeles? P: I did at various times. But just before

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have committed the National Guard to Los Angeles upon request of the Mayor. B: This was at the time of Watts? C: At the time of the Watts riots and as you may remember Governor Brown was then out of the state and Lt. Governor Anderson

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

is wholly owned by the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times. And at one point Valenti made a call to the president of New American Library from the office of Otis Chandler, president of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Company

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Johnson because he said, "We'll all get defeated, forever, if we go against Johnson." Bill Brawley, who was later assistant postmaster general, was at that time working for President Johnson. He and Bill Cochran came out to Los Angeles--I reckon Bill

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for Senator Kennedy -- also served in the House with him -I felt that Virginia's best interests would lie with the nomination of Senator Johnson for the Presidency. So when the State convention carne on prior to the Los Angeles convention, to nominate

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

had swings. The teams that he organized--we did go, too--because I was the girls' coach of the girls' team, and we went to Los Angeles and Millett and Artesia W~lls. At that time, they all had their own.schools. All of those schools are gone now
in Cotulla at that time; LBJ's rapport with other teachers.

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I thought it was a good choice, an excellent choice. It was smart for Kennedy's part. F: Did you cover the campaign on the scene? P: I might say in regard to that Democratic convention in Los Angeles, I talked to Senator Johnson at the time

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a really long-range look. I don't know that I could claim to have ever seen that in what we were all talking about. Yes. I wonder if in fact that has happened. In Los Angeles the local community action agency finally fell on hard times. Maybe that's

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that I was getting my hair combed in the car. F: From the airport to the rally? A: No, from Los Angeles, from my house to the airport. I don't know what happened, but he was combing my hair in the car. and then he changed cars, and my husband

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--2 a resident of New York or Los Angeles or Washington in order to get a good lesson in physics or chemistry or to have an outstanding teacher talk about

Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: GERRI WHITTINGTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Ms. Whittington's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You were saying that you went with him [LBJ] to California. W: Yes, to San Francisco and Los Angeles. G

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

boom on and Stevenson possibly could tie up the delegation to preclude a first ballot nomination. One individual, for example, was the Chairman of the state Democratic Party at that time, he's now a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles, by the name

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was coming from Los Angeles that night, you know, that getting up early and staying up all night, and you got twenty-five or thirty people asking for Scotch and sodas and God knows what else, there's no leisure time for you because the job you've got

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and then trying to get things lined up in Los Angeles. C: Very extensively. Here is where a major commitment of time was made from the last week in January of 1960 on. We opened the Johnson for President headquarters in Harris County the last week in January

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Washington, found myself in radio about a year before graduation and wanted to specialize in news. [I] gravitated down the West Coast and eventually wound up in Los Angeles, and was there until 1955. I was employed by NBC and the first of the year 1956

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS H. KUCHEL INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Kuchel's office, Los Angeles, California Tape 1 of 1 G: You came to the Senate in 1953, I suppose. You were appointed to replace Vice President Nixon, as I understand it. K
; public works; LBJ manipulating Senate votes; LBJ’s reputed power of persuasion; LBJ’s time in California as a youth.

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

elaborate on that? C: That's a fascinating vignette. I was a supporter of Senator Symington in the period prior to the Los Angeles convention and at the Los Angeles convention, and approximately ten days before that convention Senator John F. Kennedy

Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson as a presidential contender back in 1956 at the Democratic convention? T: No. I don't think anyone took Johnson seriously as a presidential candi- date until the Los Angeles convention in 1960 when there was quite a formidable campaign advanced

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. However, as the time drew closer, I think he actually felt that maybe he would win. I remember about a week before we went out to Los Angeles to the convention in 1960 I was in his office talking with him and I said, "Senator, do you think we have

Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the convention in Los Angeles, and my wife and myself spent about two weeks' during the convention in his behalf in Los Angeles. Mc: ~Jhat kind of work did you do? 1,1: First I was assigned more or less to see what I could do by helping '. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

result was he had avoided the trial that resulted from the break-in. That he was in possession of this material was known at the time of this trial, as I was to learn that Drosnin visited the Los Angeles FBI office in July of 1976, represented himself

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as being a very strategic, effective measure to give hima leg-up at Los Angeles. B: Did Senator Kennedy really seem worried about whether or not he _was going to get the nomination? · S: Yes, I could say that he certainly was not over-confident. He

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the nomination, when he said that he would do it. F: Did you ever meet with Mr. Johnson personally at Los Angeles? P: Yes. We ' d go into some of t he rooms. At times we'd go over to the Bi.ltmore, and in my position I could go in and out of those rooms
LBJ-Rayburn-Price Daniel relationship; details of the 1960 convention in Los Angeles, especially concerning the Texas delegation; poor accommodations for the delegation; the JFK organization in 1960; Texas delegation reacts to LBJ nomination

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

day coming back from the airplane from Los Angeles, "You know, Tom Kuchel is going to run for governor someday." He said, "Fine!" I thought he'd say, "The hell with him! He can't have my job!" But no. He said, "Gee, I hope he does. He'd make a fine

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? K: I don't know. You've heard the President tell it as many times as I have. About all you can take is his word, I guess. I suppose it is pretty hard to turn down. F: Did you see Mr. Johnson at all in the Los Angeles convention? K: Oh, yes

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think to put this in proper focus, my involvement was brief. There were those who were involved informally in the discussion stages. But the actual campaign from formalization until Los Angeles was a short period of time. When you talk about planning
inability to reach LBJ to discuss the Vietnam plank; the location and timing of the convention; frustration with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over the organization of the convention; the possibility of a movement to draft Edward Kennedy; whether

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

utensils and cooked along the way, of course. Angeles. Then we got to Seattle and Los He 'r'Jent into a hotel \'Jhenever we could, but otherwise it was just a camp trip. P: ftirs. Jansen, did very many young girls go about the country like

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they've had about him. of Texas. lIve spent SOIne I'm very much interested in But I was absolutely astounded at Johnson's perception of a national campaign. Well, ofcours e we all went to Los Angeles and we all got HlUrdered. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. C: I thought he had a chance. were swashbuckling. I thought the Kennedys were--you know, they They had the headlines of the Los Angeles Times. They had the walkie-talkies. They were a train that was churning ahead and it was going to probably
qualities of leadership; Lady Bird’s role as a wife of a Senator; 1964 whistle-stop tour of the South; Johnson home-mecca for Texans in Washington; supported LBJ’s unofficial campaign for the 1960 Presidency; covered Los Angeles convention; visit of Mrs

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Incidentally, this is where Dr. Jim Cain comes into the picture almost the first time. Dr. Jim Cain's name will come up in later years in the White House, as you know, as the President's personal physician. But this was really Dr. Jim Cain's first

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--this was early 1960--and he spent the whole time trying to find out what I knew about whether Lyndon Johnson was actually going to be more than a favorite son candidate in the Los Angeles convention that year. This was early 1960. And I never would tell him

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the time they shook hands in Los Angeles that they were a pretty good team. Even though they were two- different kinds of politicians and two different kinds of men with two different kinds of philosophies, they seemed to be compatible . F: Once Johnson

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