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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, 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, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down in Los Angeles. You and Senator Richard Nixon proposed the cancellation of it, and the Senate refused to go along with you. Do you recall just where the opposition to your proposal came from? K: This, really, I can't recollect at the moment
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? P: Well, actually, we dealt with some people out of Los Angeles who had a Southern California chapter of the Scientists and Engineers. I don't recall the fellow's name. loose arrangement, I assure you. It was a very Our activity essentially
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: Right. At Los Angeles, did you have any feeling it could be either Stevenson or Johnson, or did you think it was definitely all Kennedy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 17 factor in the convention. But neither of those trips produced any delegates to speak of. F: Well, now after he became, obviously, the number two candidate in Los Angeles, most people agree that his only
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of business, then, over and even W: Above everything else. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? W: Yes, sir. F: What was your feeling of the climate when you arrived there? above~~? I'm not talking about the weather, lim talking about the political climate
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • difference as far as I know is the war, the war in Vietnam. F: As you come down to 1960, you obviously have got three men in here that are going to play a big role in Los Angeles: Johnson. Symington, Kennedy and Do you get the feeling that a lot
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldwater -- I -- 8 G: I don't think there's any question of it. In fact, I remember the night before he went to the Los Angeles convention. It was a late session, and I stayed. It got to be two or three in the morning and we wound up
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the commission from being a fire department operation. For example, we were called in--by the present administration on the Black Panther thing, we recently got very much pressure to go into Los Angeles on the Salazar killings. we may get more pressure. I
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Humphrey was mentioned at the time. But President Kennedy selected his own running mate in Los Angeles after he was successful in getting the nomination. And as I say, when the campaign started there were no more misgivings about Johnson. He
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
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, 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, 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, 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, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Nixon's aspirations at that B : time, and how much help, if any, you received from the national party . Nixon, of course, flatly denied that he had any Presidential ambitions-that he intended to spend four years in Sacramento . But I hammered away from
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no experience in this area at that time. However, I did graduate in personnel management and later went to the advanced business school at Harvard as pertains to finance and political problems that come in the advanced management program. So I assume
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not? A: Yes, he was. B: Did you immediately become acquainted with him? A: I had met him earlier than that. In 1935 I was National Youth Administrator for New Mexico and he for Texas, and we got acquainted at that time; so that I knew him already
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was. This was a very great challenge for NASA, but one which we were well prepared to meet. The financial status of NASA at the time that I became Acting Administrator was very sound indeed. had been conservative throughout in our programs. The financing We had
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas, worked for Lockheed, [saw] World War II service in the navy, and in 1952 [received] a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas. Then after a time at teaching and as a research psychologist
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Soviet Union being first to orbit a satellite. Then he told Lyndon Johnson that he thought I could help him with outer space hearings. Johnson at the time was chairman of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. So then Lyndon Johnson called
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a reception at the Carlton Hotel for Vice President and Mrs. Truman. F: At the Carlton here? s: Yes. During the reception someone, either Secretary Forrestal who was secretary of the Navy at that time, or Mrs. Forrestal, suggested that my wife and I come
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • when he came to the Senate or even prior to that time, if you knew him as a Congressman. H: Well, I first knew him in early 1947 when I organized the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as its first chairman, and he was a member of that Committee from
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /loh/oh StoUghton -- I -- 2 there when war broke out in December of 1941. Was assigned to an Air Force observation squadron in Fort Riley, Kansas, which had departed by the time I arrived there. F: All the glamour spots, huh? 5: Yes. So
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, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : I'm not sure. I think the first time that I noticed him particularly and he noticed me, as far as I know, was fairly soon after I got to the House. I made a speech--my maiden remarks were rather early in the session when we were considering
  • Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • - tance with him before then? C: No, that was the first time that I had met him. B: What were the circumstances of your accepting that job, sir? That was as Special Counsel to the Special Investigating Subcommittee of the House Committee on Naval
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, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ALAN L. DEAN INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb PLACE: Mr. Dean's office, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Now, last time we were talking about the task force under Mr. Zwick in which you worked to set up the initial
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in 1961 . I assume he was acting on the advice of other people because he had never met me before . The first time I ever saw him was in his office in February of 1961 and on that occasion he asked me to take over the job as Director of Defense
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • theater of World War II. After World War II, I also served in Korea as Division Artillery Commander in 1956-57 time frame. From then on--when I came back from Korea in '57--1 spent the next approximately ten years in intelligence as the Director