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Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and restrictions, however he wishes to make it; and that we will type a transcript, send it to him to edit, and at the same time, give him a legal form with which he can express his restrictions as he sees fit. The tape, t h e transcript, the legal release form
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to that, and I don't remember just when it was, because I've been in the public service for over fifty years, and all of it at times caused me to come back to Washington. And when I was a district attorney in Oakland [California] from 1925 until 1938, I used
  • decisions; conflict between Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; Court opinions reflection of the times; Chief Justice John Marshall; states’ rights; Warren Court; avoidance of decisions on hot issues; WWII and Four Freedoms; prisoners
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the National Capital Housing Authority bring you into contact with him on legislative matters? W: Not too much, no. There may have been an occasional visit, but I don't recall anything of great significance at that time. B: Did you ever meet Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T.H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last we time had gone to the 1960 election, which brings us to John Kennedy's years as president. One of the questions that comes up
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • feeling that Gronouski was having some problems? O: No, I don't think that existed at all. It had to be solely the President determining to retain me in the administration and at the same time saying "I'm not violating any agreement we made." His whole
  • methods; the decline of railroads and growth of trucking; encouraging government offices to use zip codes; overnight mail delivery; monitoring delivery times; increasing postal-window hours and six-day-a-week delivery service; opposition to legislation
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • tried to get Kennedy money against Lyndon. G: That would have been-- I can't name him by name. that's fascinating. D: Lyndon, in the Los Angeles confrontation, called Joe Kennedy a Chamberlain man. There was no love lost. but Joe Kennedy. it didn't
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Service Commission branch offices, which are also regional headquarters for the U.S. government civil service. I believe Dallas was one, Denver was one, Kansas City was one, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and then became dean of the new school of medicine in Jackson, fVJississippi, in 1961. During the time I was there I continued to have contact with NIH and was chairman of the postdoctoral fellowship review conmi ttee over a peri od of some years then. Duri ng
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • version of it. that he would do this. But it appalled some of us there I remember Bob Donavan, the Los Angeles Times, was sitting next to me and we were saying, "My God, how could he do that!" I asked a couple further questions about it in the sense
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, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going to Los Angeles and he wanted me there. G: What for? H: He just wanted me. He thought I should be there. wanted me to talk to Leslie Shaw. And I went. And I did. He He'd appointed that fellow post- master, a black fellow. I've been
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation [third session, fourth tape] of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, we were talking last time about
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was. I'm glad he did. We were over at Mr. Rayburn's--Ann and I --for dinner the night before he left for the convention in Los Angeles. Of course, that's what we were talking about, and there was a lot of talk about [John] Kennedy had it in the bag
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • here in town before the convention started. Then I was on record for Lyndon, along with Mansfield and some other people as you remember. Then Bob Kerr announced me out in Los Angeles--Kerr took that on LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson really didn't come until we started our plan for the 1960 or 1964? F: 1960 was the Los Angeles meeting. C: 1960 was the Los Angeles meeting. That's right, Kennedy was nominated in 1960. F: 1964 C: That's right. viaS the one up in Atlantic
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Los Angeles in 1960? D: No, sir. I went out there, but I know very little about what took place there; I don't believe I could shed much light on that. F: Were you prepared for his, one, being offered the vice presidential nomination, and, two
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, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • come and that was the only information I ever had. B: Sir, to go back a little further in time, had the thought occurred to you, say, in 1965 when the Watts riot occurred in Los Angeles, that such a thing might happen in Atlanta? And didyoubegin
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the position--and perhaps it is right--that this is a private time and she's a private person. On the other hand, when reporters have seen the body in Los Angeles, you do feel like a nut if you're a press officer and have to be elusive. F: Don't know
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • airports of the state. if they were going beyond the state, it would be put on the trunkline aircraft and sent to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Seattle. But if they were going to other parts in the state, then the plane coming in from that other
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to Los Angeles, 12 o'clock, July 5. But you asked me a question while I was fiddling for this date, and I ought to answer it. How did Johnson go about doing this, using his power! I'll give you one example of the use of his power. A lot of people were
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • been a Seventh Day Adventist, he still would have been a formidable contender, in my opinion. B: He was a very attractive man. You went to the convention in Los Angeles in 1960. Can you trace the story of what you saw and did there? H: Oh, that's
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the convention in Los Angeles and were active in the Kennedy headquarters, but they V,Jere not really in a position to have any real broadlY based support in this state. B: What was your personal stand? S: I admired Jack. Kennedy. Frankly, at that time 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, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • emeritus at Texas A & H and was working for me at that time, did learn. And that is that sometimes staid 0l d husbands who get out of tmJn on a migratory farm worker trip to Oregon are liable to come home and spend the first three days with a girl
Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that some of the other departments were. However, toward the end of his tenure, we did become the target in the case of the Mexican-Americans because we have very few Mexican-Americans. And in the area offices such as Fort Worth and Los Angeles, San
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Democratic Convention went on a chartered car by train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. F: I was on that car. I rather gather that the attorney generals had a feeling that Kennedy was not their candidate, or at least was not likely to be a winning
  • Meeting LBJ in 1948; the 1960 Democratic convention at Los Angeles; the 1960 campaign; the Texas Senate campaign; the Texas gubernatorial race in 1960 and 1962; Billie Sol Estes and the Agriculture Department; Wilson shifts to the Republican Party
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but at the time, there were there some people who were available for assignment to what at that time was something of a backwater, or at least a place that traditionally had been something of a backwater. G: Did you know Ambassador [Frederick] Nolting? F: Yes
  • . to Vietnam for the first time; Victor Krulak-Joseph Mendenhall visit; Jocko [John] Richardson and John Mecklin; Rufus Phillips; General Paul Harkins; Mike Dunn; Bill Trueheart; security for Ambassador Lodge; Lou Conein; coup of 1963 and meeting Diem an hour
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and had lunch with the Poles, Mr. Rapacki-- M: He was the foreign minister at that time? G: Foreign Minister Rapacki. Mr. [Jerzy] Michalowski, who is now ambassador to the United States but was then their key person in the--he was what they called
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And eventually Kansas, even at the Los Angeles convention, had a deadlock. the convention. Kansas was unable to cast its vote at And Wyoming put Senator Kennedy over the top before Kansas could finish its caucus. B: Were partisans of Mr. Johnson and Mr
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, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Detroit or a piece of New York or a piece of Philadelphia or Los Angeles, whatever, and done it. And my hunch is if even after it passed in terms of the body politic, most people thought that that's what this bill was about. G: How did the status of OEO
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • southern accent in the North that a black That would sometimes keep people from getting jobs. This came out in other things. hearings in Los Angeles. We did a few major public I remember talking to one of the indus- tries there about what kind of voice
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Before that, there was Stu Knight; Stu is now director of the Secret Service. Stu left the vice-presidential detail and went to the Secret Service office somewhere in California, I think San Francisco, maybe Los Angeles. So we had two, and I know
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Vice He didn't have the manpower to. conventio~ I saw in Los Angeles, when he arrived there ~nd] had a couple of press conferences in the delegate-wooing period before the balloting. I remember that two or three of us tried to pressure him
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in America. So there was an effort on the part of people, wherever Khrushchev went, to explain to him the virtues of democracy versus communism. He did not lack for those kinds of lectures on his trip. I think at the same dinner the Mayor of Los Angeles
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Prior to that you had Prior to that you had been a New York Times State Department reporter. Does that pretty well get tbe last ten or fifteen years? J: It does except my last public service was as a member of the American delegation to the peace
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Building, Washington, D.C., and my name is David McComb. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. I know that you've been in Washington for a long time. You've been president of a prominent lumber and hardware concern in this town
  • Macy; possibility of Home Rule; time spent with Congressmen; D.C. Committee; involvement in architectural changes; 1969 budget; working groups of Council; DC’s peculiar problems; commuter tax; Congressman Broyhill; Jack Nevius; Congressman Archer Nelsen
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and simultaneously the fiftieth anniversary of your ordination and your seventy-fifth birthday. L: Yes. P: That's quite an achievement. May I just ask you, when did you first come to Texas, and from where? L: Well, I came from Los Angeles, which was my
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Vice President's decision in Los Angeles to run for the vice presidency. In any case, to our surprise we found there was this lack of contact, but we also sensed that Ed would 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY