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Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • call "within area" placement, rather than taking them away . If there is a family that needed a job and we knew say, there is a job in Los Angeles or Chicago or some other place, our program has been to rmve that family to where this job is, but because
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh the national committee was not giving anybody else any play whatsoever. They felt that Kennedy had it, and that was it. F: At the convention in Los Angeles, there was some charge
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • involved. F: No. J: Coming on forward when you get down to 1960, is he talking with you at all about his plans or lack of plans for the Los Angeles convention? F: Not so far as I remember. J: Did you have inkling that he would accept the Vice
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • feeling now that he went about it the wrong way. B: Were you in Los Angeles for the convention in 1960? M: I was. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember what city it was in? R: Chicago. Every convention I went to--well, not every one--the conventions that I did go to were in Chicago, and I went to three at least there I think. And I went to the one in Los Angeles in 1960 and the one in Atlantic
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , who share the communications industry jurisdiction internationally, we belong to the same organization, we made a pack out in Los Angeles . he was for Johnson . I was for Kennedy and So Daugherty agreed that if Johnson got the nomination he'd
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Leader, and since the session was not over, he had his responsibilities. He had to stay home and tend to the store, as he said. ., He said, "No, I will not go to Los Angeles until we adjourn LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
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, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Hackett -- I -- 7 I'll give you another example. In Los Angeles, they set up, to meet our criteria, a new non-profit organization which consisted of a representative of the state government as well as the county and municipal
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • set aside who wrote Mr. Truman's speeches for the campaign. I think at that time I met Mr. Johnson briefly when he was here for some trip. Really I first got to know him in 1951 when I came here to work with the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Did you take any part in the preliminary maneuvering before Los Angeles or in joining the Johnson team? 11:.1ell, I don't remember the details, but we were all involved at that time. If youtd kept a diary as to what was done,it would be very useful
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • finally that I did. And as I said to him at the time, "Well, Mr. Vice President, I'll come to Washington at your suggestion; I know it'll be a good experience and I'll enjoy it, but lId like to do it on the basis of a limited stay. I'll come
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • GOSSETT -- I ~- 17 knew that and was smart enough to talk Mr. Johnson into becoming his running mate. I think there would have been almost a southern rebellion without Mr. Johnson on the ticket at that time. M: When you went to Los Angeles
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and as full of asperity and hot temper as he could be, and the whole thing was irritating the hell out of him. He'd made the southerners mad. Here he was, going to Los Angeles as a nominee, probably, or if he did go, he would go as the southern nominee. And he
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, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the community immediately adjacent to Palo Alto. I attended Stanford University and for one semester attended the University of California at Los. Angeles. war. This was while I was in the V-12 Program during the second world I returned to Stanford Medical
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, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years. F: I was going to ask you, did that more or less set up a confrontation between you and the southern delegation? H: Yes. It was, in all honesty, a political albatross, particularly at that time, because the southerners dominated the Congress
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • called me "his legislative angel ." But those tyro--Mr . Rayburn and Mr .,Johnson--are two of the greatest people I think I've ever known in my time here on the Hill . F: I judge the Speaker and McCormack became close friends with Lyndon Johnson? M: Oh
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with in the final analysis, as we headed toward Los Angeles, were Catholic pros. David Lawrence was governor of Pennsylvania; Mike DiSalle was governor of Ohio; Dick Daley was the kingpin, of course, in Chicago and, therefore, Illinois. In each instance
  • Virginia primary and what JFK learned from it; the JFK/Nixon debates; JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs incident; O'Brien meeting with each cabinet member to review roles in the Kennedy Administration; JFK's and O'Brien's time spent learning their roles
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • moved out in their [areas] back home, they would swing delegates. didn't ,happen It just that way. M: It didn't work that way. S: No. M: Did you go to Los Angeles? s: Oh, yes, I went to Los Angeles. M: Were you a member of the Texas
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No. P: And I was in Los Angeles. F: UnoffiCially or as a delegate? P: No, no, I wasn't a delegat.e, but I was out there for the convention . and I spent a great deal of time at Mr. Rayburn's apartment which was in the Biltmore Hotel on the same
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : He spent most of the time, I guess, in San Bernardino. H: In and around Los Angeles and that vicinity, and maybe San Bernadino was the place. I don't recall. G: I'm wondering why he stayed as long as he did. H: I think it was kind
  • LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s trip
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Watts all about? We did have information from people like Warren Christopher, who was practicing at that time in Los Angeles. He was later to be Deputy Attorney General. And from John McCone and from the Chandlers [Norman and Otis], who run
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you were appointed to the Office of Emergency Planning? P: I would say that from the time LBJ was nominated in Los Angeles that I was a very good friend and a supporter of his. I do recall .that he came to Massachusetts soon after the convention
Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: NORBERT A. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Sch1ei's office, Los Angeles, California SCHLEI Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with your initial involvement in the Justice Department and any experience there that led to your work
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not discussed it because it was a matter of such vast importance and still is a matter that's of tremendous importance and is very much before the public and before the Congress at this time . That [matter] deals with the deregulation of natural gas
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • predicted it would be. M: It's a difference of prophets then and not a difference of some lack of work or non-professional outlook. V: Right. M: You went to Los Angeles in the summer of 1960, I believe. V: Yes, I did. M: Did you go as the stated
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. There's no excuse for those towns now, because they can go to the county seat in less time in an automobile on a good highway than they could get in a horse-and-buggy or a wagon into the town and do their shopping and get back out to home in time to milk
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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the last fleeting moments prior to that first ballot in Los Angeles in 1960 with the Johnson people and others. There were a number of candidates and a degree of unity among them at the moment. They didn't know where they were going if they succeeded
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The people in Dallas were no more responsible for President Kennedy's death than Los Angeles was responsible for his brother's death. I got on the plane the next morning and went to Washington and there was a newspaper columnist on the plane. I did not know
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he was at that particular time or not I'm not sure. The President, as was so often the case with President Johnson, engaged more or less [in] a monologue. dialogue. It certainly wasn't quite a But the President was, as he was so often during the few
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and telling you to put on some weight, and how he said he was going to see Roosevelt and request active duty overseas. J: All right. or Seattle. Well, I was out in Denver. He called me from Los Angeles He and John Connally--John was an ensign and he
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, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • correspondenc~ with Aunt Effie--until one' rainey Sunday Afternoon early in 1942:: she· called me from a hotel in Los Angeles.. I was living in Hollywood and my husband was; sick in bed with the flu, so we made plans to meet for lunch Monday at Bullocks.; Te81
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: W. ERVIN II REDII JAt1ES INTERVI HJER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. James' office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: I first met Lyndon B. Johnson sometime in the mid 1930s. I was a clerk in the old WPA. At that time Aubrey
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on Poverty legislation? T: Mainly the same kinds of concepts were involved here. things that were interesting: A couple of One is, we espoused in 1963 in our national conference in Los Angeles, when Whitney Young first came out with this idea
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Convention in 1960 in Los Angeles was over--and I was there, right in the middle of it, I was called in by Robert Kennedy. We talked about some of the problems. Mr. Jack Kennedy later obtained information from me about some of the things, and he went out