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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, 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, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and lasted through November and I was identified in the leadership of it all the way in. When Johnson was nominated, or agreed to accept rather, the vice presidency in Los Angeles, there was a good deal of discontent in the newspaper here about it, which
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was a delegate to the convention in Los Angeles, for two reasons. One was of course the great issue that was involved in the Kennedy campaign, the religious LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • policies and not criticizing President Eisenhower. I think, probably, it was the only thing Johnson could do, but Stevenson felt that he was not making the issues between 1952 and 1956. PM: What about 1960? N: No, I did not. Did you go to Los Angeles
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but the country. All these things weighed in on the thing. I imagine the offer was as much a surprise to the President as to anybody else. I've never discussed that matter with him so I can only assume. M: Did you happen to go to the Los Angeles convention
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • really had the least chance, I suppose, being Catholic . F: And you weren't at Los Angeles . 0: No . F: And then they came up right after the nomination, the Johnsons did . 0: Yes . F: Let's go back over that briefly . 0: All right . I
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • - - - -he must be learning all the time. He used to have just kind of kitchen Spanish. F: But he could get around with a non-English speaking group. N; Yes. F: "CNhat do yo:.: 1:'::0"\"· about him as a teacher? Do you remember anything frOT:: :hose
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had accepted? M: Well, when I got the news I had just-- we were staying at a little offbeat motel that had just been refurbished out there in Los Angeles quite a ways from the hall, and I was sitting around the patio with a group of members
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the time and paid a lot of attention to his business. T: Yes, he was a very busy man. My father traveled a little. He had very few interests or hobbies outside the little world--and all our worlds were little in those days I guess, thanks to bad roads
  • ; visiting the Ranch at the same time as Mexican President Adolfo Lopez-Mateos; trip to Oaxaca to pick up Senator Douglas; returning part of El Paso to Mexico and related events; experiences with Mexican officials at social events; Mrs. Johnson’s success
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • seem to want the trip made itself, think it was necessary? Y: As I understood it, the trip was really pretty much against his wishes. I don't think he really wanted Kennedy to come to Texas at that time. F: It was part of a package to Texas
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • picture at this time? V: Not to the degree that he later became involved. He was involved in the financial part of it, but I would say that it was later on that Arthur took a role with President Johnson that really superseded everyone else
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • considerable nationwide publicity. The first time I ever met former President Johnson, to the best of my recollection, was at the Convention in Chicago in 1952. Governor of Georgia. I was then I was chairman of the Georgia delegation to the National
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that people did in those days. I did the usual I looked for any kind of a job that would help us pay for the groceries. My dad was working about two days a week and not making an awful lot of money in the mines at that time. The best I could do
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 17,1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES SYMINGTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Symington's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Jim, when we talked last time, we got through the election of 1960 and your memories of that, and so I thought
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that coverage by a group of younger reporters, good journalists, but young mavericks, rebels, young Turks, whatever label you want to put on them. David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of UPI, Nick Turner
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : That would have been some time, I imagine, in the late 1930's after you had moved to New York with American Air Lines. Did you have any close personal contact with him then, either social or political? S: I could not claim I've been an intimate, that would
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had what we called a working card. You had to show your working card before you could get into the meeting. There was a change in one of the offices' recording secretary, and they elevated the former secretary to full time representative. I
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • an assistant to the Governor of New York State, who at that time was Averell Harriman. From 1957 until 1962 you were an assistant to Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania, and from 1963 until 1965 you \'/ere the
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee--started because of the very panicky reaction throughout the country to the firing of the first Soviet space satellite, Sputnik I. At that time our space program was in its incipiency and it wasn't getting a great deal
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • other people. M: If there is economic hard times, are the Latins the first to be laid off? L: I would say so because they're in the fringes, really, of the economic employment force. They're the least prepared really to hold on to any kind of a job
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the same time, enjoying it--in national issues. And that was the only topic of conversation that year. While there, I felt that I should also learn a little bit about my home state, having been there eighteen years in high school~ and then four years
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that campaign about raising money or working money? $: Yes, I talked to him about it several times. Johnson was always willing to talk about raising money. G: Is that right? $: I couldn't tell you, but he got some of it from [George] Brown down in Houston
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • came a couple of months earlier, because he was elected while he was in the service and he didn't take office until about March. So I never let him forget that I'm his senior! F: Put him down every time you can! M: He's a great guy, and his wife
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Who else was there? Lady Bird, Watson, [Larry] O'Brien some of the time, about just how to organize and how to get started. G: Was there a general strategy for 1968? R
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and of course was teaching at that time up in the neighboring state of Minnesota. When we talked about my coming to join him as a staff member at the council, he talked about that paper and he talked about the interests I had had in the distribution of wealth