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Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Los Angeles, I decided to go back to Dallas to pick up my business again and just assumed that Senator Johnson, being the vice-presidential candidate, wouldn't need me, that the Kennedy people would run the car.npaign anyway . Well, I was home about

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the first ballot. F: Was there ever any meeting of the other-than-Kennedy candidates to talk about how to head off the so-called Kennedy steamroller? J: I'm sure there were some. I wasn't privy to them except one or two after we got to Los Angeles. F

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

for some time trying to get into the radio field; in the meantime married a young lady whose family lived in the same community--actually she lived over in Hollis, Oklahoma--Inda Scott, I-N-O-A. By the way, we've been married thirty-one years now, have

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

own and gone to Los Angeles to see the guy she was going with, this actor, George Hamilton, at the time. Anyway, we came back. I remember Mike Mansfield was on there. It's interesting the things that you remember and the things you don't remember

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

husband kept that commitment with Humphrey, didn't he? R: Yes. And then of course Humphrey was defeated in the primaries oyt [John] Kennedy. And then you know the story of Jim [Rowe) and Johnson and Phil Graham and all the people at Los Angeles. I

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the change took place because he didn't belong there. I wasn't at that convention when it was in Los Angeles, the 1960 convention. Suddenly I got a call from Arthur Goldberg. question I asked was, "What's doing?" And the first He says, "It looks

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

first learned. It was soon after noon, in Los Angeles, on the day of the nomination for the vice presidency. So I was surprised or shocked. But upon reflection and analyzation of it, I can see Mr. Kennedy's point, and I can also see Mr. Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

down to Washington with him. What did that do to your own lifestyle? You had to go off and leave all your little friends. H: Well, I don't know whether I had that much of a lifestyle by that time. Actually, my growing up was suburban Maryland. I
National Convention in Los Angeles and Humphrey Jr.'s refusal to nominate JFK as presidential candidate; attending an informal meeting of foreign dignitaries after JFK's funeral.

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

about 1960? Did you go to the convention in Los Angeles as a Stevenson supporter still? H: No, I did not. M: You had become a, what, Kennedy [supporter] at that time, or Johnson? H: Frankly, in 1960 Senator Sparkman was up for re-election

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh McKnight -- I -- 26 G: Good. M: We had made the deal to buy his station in Austin, and then all of the hierarchy from the Los Angeles Times Mirror [Company] came down, signing of the contracts and so forth at the Ranch. Lyndon, and I

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

immediately launched an investigation. this cable. He never could find Now this is just a sidelight, except for one circumstance. You'll find in the book which the Washington Post correspondent and the Los Angeles Times correspondent wrote about Marigold
Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

installations on the West Coast as Vice President and I had a Time reporter with us who decided that he should have an exclusive interview with the Vice President, and I invited him down to the bar at the hotel we were staying at in Los Angeles to discuss

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

: Yes. She taught school in Los Angeles, and rve also been told that he would hitch a ride and go to Los Angeles to see his cousin. Then they frequently would drive out to the Kimball R.ailch, who she later married, my uncle [Henry Kimball], and our

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

meetings the last time we broke up, and I'd like a little sort of assay of what they were like. W: It's a little difficult to dredge this out of mind. those that normally stick very deep. staf£ ~eetings It 1 s not one of I don 1 t think we had any

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

one of them--Anna Lord Strauss, the former president of the League of Women Voters, formerly a delegate to the United Nations. Mrs. Norman Chandler, the wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, whom I hadn't known before. he had asked one

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Anything else you remember about that occasion? T: Not particularly. We didn't stay very long, just overnight. G: LBJ ran for president in 1960. Do you recall that? T: A little bit. [Inaudible] California. Los Angeles, I believe. G: Did you go out

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as somebody--it was Collins we sent to Los Angeles, not Calvin Kytle. G: Another dimension here: a conflict between the Justice Department Civil Rights Division and CRS. CRS getting in the way in the South, of leaking things to the press. As someone

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, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

out to California when Earl Warren was still governor, wonderful, progressive, and I did a series and of course it appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle picked it up. I had not met him yet, I wanted to do the hospitals

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

well on the record except for one thing. Why was Congressman Powell so insistent upon separating you from Dr. King? R: The Democratic convention that year of '60 was in August, was it? B: Yes, sir, in Los Angeles. R: In Los Angeles. Now in July

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of Science degree at Columbia. What was that in? M: Journalism. G: In 1955 you received a law degree at the University of California in Berkeley. From 1948 to 1952 you engaged in journalistic practice in Washington, D. C. and Los Angeles, is that right

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. So I think a unit rule would fairly well express what we had in mind. F: Now you got out to Los Angeles pretty confident that your man was going to take it. W: Yes. We were sure that our man was going to take it, and we spent most of our energies
Meeting LBJ in 1936; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; the role of the Michigan delegation in shaping the platform; LBJ's record on civil rights an impediment to nomination; Leonard Woodcock; LBJ as a candidate in Michigan; appointment

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Navy, was accepted and in early 1944 I joined the service as a Naval Reserve officer. I came to Washington for a brief time and transferred out to the West Coast and from there worked in the major effort of preparing the offensive that was to take place

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a big situation. We lost that precinct as indeed we lost a good many precincts. F: And you didn't go to the convention in Los Angeles? S: I did not. One other thing--I was pretty active in 1956 when Senator Johnson took over the mechanism

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, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Pacific Coast, and this brought forth very vocal and very strong representations on the part of the Chamber of Commerce and the transportation industry of Los Angeles. Under the original proposal the headquarters for the Pacific Coast would have been

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

proposition. If they had gone anywhere else, they would have had worse crowds than they had-- and no police protection to curtail them that they had in Chicago. Suppose they had gone to San Francisco or somewhere in there--Berkeley. Or gone to Los Angeles

Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the county, Millett, Gardendale, Artesia Wells, Encinal, Fowlerton, Los Angeles, and Valley Wells [?]. We had a bunch of little tiny schools back in those days, so they made a county meeting, what they call a county meeting session, competition. They had

Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1980 INTERVIEWEE : ROLAND BIBOLET INTERVIEWER : Michael L . Gillette PLACE : The Royal Palace Hotel, Los Angeles, California Tape 1 of 1 G: Why don't we start by having you sketch your arrival in Washington and when you came? B: Okay . I

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the postal departments. We set up the Los Angeles air mail and we set up the Chicago air mail in helicopters. After that, I got out of the service and I flew for Skyways in Boston, where we had the first scheduled passenger service from the top of a parking

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in specific events? For example, I have an idea that there was some federal assistance to the police forces in Los Angeles and Memphis in regard to the prison jail circumstances of Sirhan and James Earl Ray. E: This must have come along-- Did you get

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very carp-Fully. But viewing me as a Kennedy man, a Kennedy delegate to the Los Angeles convention, and a Southerner, I don't think that there's any animosity on that score. It viaS just a question of-- his confidence. F: It was a question

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

them and supported the President in his program. M: Now you mentioned that you did not go to the Chicago convention in 1956? N: No, I didn't. Nor did I go to the Los Angeles convention of 1960. 16 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES N. ADLER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Adler's office, Los Angeles, California Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: --sort of living off the land. A: Well, everybody was on somebody else's payroll

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

politics. I'll try to talk very freely, and I suspect that some of the comments that I would make negatively about Texas politics Mr. Johnson himself would agree with. I'm sure there are times when he suffered from the very pathology that I went

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

us to gird up the resources and to try to help and to get involved in it. And it paid off. But again, those problems were relatively more straightforward and easier to address in the Deep South than they were in Boston or Denver or Los Angeles

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

ambition, his drive, and his work, I think, were all because of his great ambition. That's the way I would figure it. M: Well, you two supported him for the presidency in 1960, is that right? MT: In Los Angeles? M: Yes. MT: Oh, yes, I've given

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and another young lady graduated from the Los Angeles school and then went up to Stanford. They were both Kappas. I saw this girl with a red dress crossing the quad one day and decided to find out who she was. Later, of course, I married her. The other

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

president of any of us running, but he can't be elected'" F: No one ever really contested that viewpoint either, did they? K: No, I don't think anybody did. F: Did you go out to the Los Angeles convention? K: Yes. F: Was there any feeling

Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

because I was convinced that he had this touch--this charisma--that the party needed. I think what made me a little sad about the Los Angeles convention was that I thought Adlai Stevenson came upon particularly poor times there. I thought--not Gene
Room; the 1960 Democratic National Convention and Quigley's view of LBJ at that time; JFK's decision to ask LBJ to be his vice-presidential running mate and LBJ's decision to accept; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Abraham Ribicoff

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