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Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there in Los Angeles and made his plea. But at that time there was no--he had a few votes I think in the delegation. Vic D'Anfuso from Brooklyn, and maybe a few others. I voted for Kennedy in that delegation because I felt that he was, frankly
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the campaign of 1960, and I was exceedingly active in preparation of going to Los Angeles. I was not a delegate, but I did have--this is a rather interesting little human bit of history. become acquainted of course by that time with Cliff Carter. were
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : He'd confide things to me that he knew would We were together all the time . Did you go then to Los Angeles? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Cronin -- VIII -- 8 Senator did not, and wisely not, because at his age then he--being a senator from Alabama, he was a target. G: Later in June you had the assassination of Robert Kennedy out in Los Angeles. Do you remember that? C: I do. I
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • consultant to the--? R: Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee--right. B: You were fairly well acquainted with Horace Busby at that time, weren't you, who was already one of Mr. Johnson's assistants? R: Yes, but only because of my
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about where it will be, or somebody go out and get them? Mail them to me in Los Angeles so they'll get there about the time I do." And I said to him, "I wish I could go with you. I wish I could help you out there," or something like that. I said, "How do
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Collins -- I -- 11 c: I know I didn't sit down with the delegation. F: When you came on toward 1960, did you have an idea that you were going to get involved in that national convention in los Angeles? c: Yes. F
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in May of 1967. What was the nature of your assignment? S: I had been in tactical reconnaissance for a long time, and I was going over to be a tactical reconnaissance pilot in an RF-4C. G: I see, an RF-4. Is this the same airplane they fly
  • " and "Rabbit"; identifying torturers; the attempted rescue at Son Tay prison camp; the Vietnamese POW prison camps where Stavast was held; conditions at Hoa Lo "Hanoi Hilton" prison; religious services in the prison camp; Vietnamese radio; William Schwertfeger
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 it to Los Angeles and brought back
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was for airplane transport into Los Angeles, for which they wanted air force planes, food, and some supplies of various kinds, water canteens, I forget what they were. That Saturday, in the afternoon, I had an enormously difficult time getting through
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • supporters here in Houston to have him risk a House seat to run for the Senate? S: No. I think I was what you would call an old-time or loyal supporter. I thought he ought to make the race. G: Is that right? S: It's my recollection. G: Even though
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • The Pennsylvania delegation was staying in Pasadena, which is a pretty good jaunt from Los Angeles, Huntington Sheraton Hotel plus two motels, but we had the whole because ours was a large delegation. On the Monday morning, if my memory serves me right, we
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the southern California stops. I see that it occurred here on the twenty-eighth of October: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and I did all those stops. It took time to do all four of those cities, so I stayed there for three weeks
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that? R: Yes. And the first idea that Butler came up with was this precon­ vention campaign just to make people think well of the Democratic Party. He brought in some advertising outfit from the West Coast, Los Angeles, who had a reputation
  • ; LBJ announces; the Addison's Disease story; national convention in Los Angeles’ LBJ accepts the VP nomination; Rayburn and Nixon; Connally and LBJ; RFK; Acapulco trip; LBJ’s contribution to the ticket; the Jewish vote; the Adolphus Hotel incident
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , I fel t that it might be useful if I got back to Los Angeles and did. as the riots came ~4der As soon control, we began talking about the need for S.J2e sort of a high level cor:unission on the character of the Royal Commission to look
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, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • or the other. G: What about the relationship between LBJ and Mayor Tom Miller? S: It was a very warm relationship between Mayor Tom Miller and the President. The first time they went to Los Angeles for the Democratic convention, Tom Miller went out
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy came out surprisingly well in the state. G: He did carry the state. C: He carried the state. G: Looking at the earlier phase of the campaign, the primaries and conventions, did you attend the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles? C
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • reminisce about his visit? He arrived January 27, 1967, first. L: January of 1967. G: Yes, I think so. L: He first visited Honolulu on his way back from the Far East. Then Los Angeles. From Los Angeles he went to--what do you call the place near Cape
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: His home in Falls Church, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Ramsey Clark. Sir, last time, we carried the story up to the summer of 1966, which was another
Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • nominee, picked Mr. Johnson for his vice presidential nominee, was there any dismay at that among the ranks of the Negro leaders? R: Yes, there was. As a matter of fact in Los Angeles, we developed a picket line. B: You were at the convention in Los
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN CONNALLY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Governor Connally's office in Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Governor, you and I, I think, share experiences in this. We must have both been undergraduates at the time that Lyndon
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • scheduling out-of-state speakers, senators who came to Texas to speak. I handled their itineraries and things. F: You didn't go to Los Angeles. W: No. F: Was there the feeling among the staff, in the pre-convention days, that he just might get his
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Lehan, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born and when? L: Okay. [I was] born in Los Angeles, California, January 26, 1923. M: And where did you get your college--? L: My college education was at the California
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, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Frank Ikard -- Interview I -- 18 I: That's right. F: Were you involved at all in the '60 move prior to Los Angeles? I: Yes, yes, I was right up to my ears in it I guess. There again, not in the sense that I was a coordinator
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his thanks. about the following morning. F: That was John Connally. But, you, Mr. /Mann, did not do any work prior to the Los Angeles meeting · to~ard M: That's what I remember getting him the nomination for the presidency? No, I wasn't active
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • O'Brien -- Interview XXVI -- 8 Humphrey came into Los Angeles very upbeat. I'll have to say I was upbeat because the reports I received on the Texas venture were upbeat. Humphrey was the old Humphrey, with all his enthusiasm. Actually, it was evident
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the big as t ronaut dinner , following the trip to the moon, in Los Angeles, and Senato r Cranston as a Califo rnia senato r, was not invited . I didn't think Johnson would ever have done that. Certain ly Cranston was no Nixon lnver, but he
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kennedy while in Los Angeles began to feel that Senator Johnson was the best choice for that position. It is my understanding that Bobby Kennedy opposed 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was for, to [Cesar] Chavez at one time. It would have been a demonstration grant. I was just about to mention Los Angeles, the Compton and Watts areas, black population, of strong interest to Gus Hawkins, were big problems. But I can remember talking to Ed Roybal
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was going to be offered to some museum. I knew many people were after it, including the Rockefellers, the city of Baltimore, the city of Los Angeles, the English government, Israeli government and the Italian government. So, I arranged an appointment
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , from the time he went there until he left . F: You were educated entirely in California? B: Yes, both my wife and myself are products of Lowell High School in San Francisco . She went on to the University of California . I went to San Francisco
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • convinced at that particular time in Los Angeles, that the Speaker was also opposed to his accepting the vice presidency. F: Did you see Mr. Johnson during the cdnvention? Dr1: Oh, yes. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • ; campaigning in Texas; Ladies for Lyndon; the whistle-stop campaign; how they responded to opposition while campaigning; LBJ as VP; incidents at the Adolphus Hotel with LBJ and Adlai Stevenson; Bruce Alger; the time following the assassination; how
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of service to the public because you are going to have delays on the ground, for example, in Los Angeles or Chicago, because the airports in New York are saturated and can't handle the number of airplanes. So what you are going to get, and is happening now
Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • allowance, wasn't it? Mc: Yes. Do you remember when Lyndon Johnson took the vice presidential nomination in 1960 at the Los Angeles convention? M: I was in Europe. Mc: You were in Europe? When you heard about it, were you surprised? M: Very! Mc
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Adam Clayton Powell in return for their giving the Labor Committee that responsibility. G: Anything on the 1960 campaign, the convention in Los Angeles? 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • convention in Los Angeles; LBJ's campaign enthusiasm; Sam Yorty's involvement in the 1964 presidential election; Roosevelt's role in defeating the Bolton Amendment; Adam Clayton Powell as chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and the work
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at that time. F: You came on home, then, after that from Los Angeles? T: I think Mrs. Thornberry and I came back here with President and Mrs. Johnson and then went on to Mexico with them. I believe that is what happened. F: Did he seem pretty well
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Koeniger -- II -- 2 But anyway, she needed to talk to Jack, and she called him and in due time he came from Los Angeles, I'm sure, in his limousine with a chauffeur driving for him. She was watching for his arrival and she went out and sat
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • up at the Fort '''orth Club one day and designed this emblen--the LBJ with the Texas hat emblem on it. M: Eventually very well known. K: That's right. M: Then did you go to Los Angeles? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL