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- . This came up prior to completion of my thesis. M: This was the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles? R: This was the Citizens National, right. It is now the southern division of a very large West Coast bank called Crocker. I was directed
- from seeing bank examination reports; LBJ’s affect on banking; Supervisors Act of 1966; working with Bill Mazer and Joe Califano at the White House; criticism from Wright Patman in regard to inspection record; the importance of confidentiality; Bill
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- 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
- to the newspapers that he was there during this incident, Margaret Mayer ofthe Dallas Times Herald, the reporter, not only saw him there but she had asked her photographer that was with her to take a picture of him standing on the curb in front of the Adolphus Hotel
- : No. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? P: No, I didn't go to any--I have been to a convention. F: I know. P: Running a law office is enough. F: Did you have any inkling at all that he might be offered the Been to one, been to [all]. LBJ
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- than some, saw what it already meant to the people of our state ... and what it could mean in the future. The primary had scarcely begun when Downey withdrew from the race. Manchester Boddy, the owner and editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, my friend
- and uncommitted. He refused to give way to the increasing pressure for a Kennedy endorsement. So that on the first ballot in Los Angeles at that convention--which I didn't attend, I was not in politics nor even fairly interested in politics at that time. I
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- throughout the world, they were not paid. So the American press didn't come back and say the Vietnamese ambassador refused to pay Madame Nhu's bills, they carne back and said, Madame Nhu jumped a hotel bill in Los Angeles. myself. I read that in the press
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- the Arizona delegation go to Los Angeles in 1960 committed or uncommitted? H: I'm trying to recall when the view of Arizona was decided. It was pretty well committed as I recall. man of that committee. Stewart Udall was the chair- That was an interesting
- of the things in my background that was interesting to the Attorney General was my having participated in the McCone :Commission report and having followed such matters in Los Angeles thereafter. B: Then, what happened that weekend \vhen the Newark riot broke
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 7, 1970 This is an interview with the Honorable Sam Yorty, mayor of Los Angeles, in his office on Saturday morning, February 7, 1970. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Mayor, let's talk at the beginning about
- a commitment, so I appreciated it. Later he was to give Jack Anderson this story, who then was writing under Drew Pearson's name, and Jack Anderson made that a basis of a column on the day of the nomination in Los Angeles, and his suggestion
- everything it took. So then he said, "Well, I want every one of you to go back home and start working now on the delegation that your county will send to the state convention so we can have a solid delegation in Los Angeles." And Cliff Carter said, "Well, we
- in his bid to become the presidential nominee; the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and Rayburn's involvement in the decision to choose LBJ as JFK's running mate; Rayburn's death; opposition to LBJ accepting the vice presidential
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- tell you an interesting little side light to show you the way Jack Kennedy operated and why he was so loveable. At the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles I was there as an observer. I was not a delegate but the Texas delegation had a caucus
- ://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
- at that time was that I would line up my Congressional district, get friends of mine that I knew were supporters of his to start working to get on the delegation, to go to the Convention in Los Angeles. I made no public announcement, I just went home and I
- other places. For example, the Juvenile Delinquency Committee in Los Angeles was the core of the initial poverty program there although it was restructured. And in cases of this kind, the effect of 3 LBJLBJ Presidential Library Presidential Library
- result was he had avoided the trial that resulted from the break-in. That he was in possession of this material was known at the time of this trial, as I was to learn that Drosnin visited the Los Angeles FBI office in July of 1976, represented himself
- moved to California where I finished prep school, went to Stanford, got my A.B. degree in 1937, then my LL.B. at Yale in 1940. Returned to Los Angeles to practice law at O'Melveny and Myers, and then into the service as a navy test pilot. M
- in Massachusetts? What are you doing, sleeping on the job?" But I did work in that capacity prior to the Los Angeles convention. I was one of six people chosen to work on the floor of the convention as a liaison between the Johnson camp and the various
- 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
- 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
- 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, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- , of course, was very, very happy to do . By the way, I have a copy of the speech that I made, the nominating speech, on tape . F: You probably have it too, or you will get it . I would like to have it, yes, if we don't . Let's wind up 1960 here in Los
- example of that kind of thing? R: The most important example of all of course was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which was made possible because a very careful examination of the position 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- Carolina!" D: Did you go to Los Angeles in 1960 to cover the convention? D: Yes, I went there. F: What did you do out there? D: I wrote back to my paper. F: And saw the Republican convention? D: And Lyndon came by San Francisco
- 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
- 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
- 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
- out there to help him. When I got there, we got information regarding his opponent who had come from Des Moines, Iowa to Los Angeles. but no one knew it. She was a divorcee, She carried her maiden name, always used her maiden name, had for fifteen
- Connally was more or less the head of it in many ways. He opened an office in washington at a hotel there, called me and asked me if I could travel some in this effort to see the delegates that were going to Los Angeles that year. We wanted to see if we
- , 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
- 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
- it done without one single My next responsibility word of criticism on the floor of the House . was to see that the registers were voided so that the Democratic people who had not taken the examination because they felt, in good knowledge
- , when the riot broke out, the governor was out of the state and the mayor of Los Angeles was away. M: Right. B: Did you have difficulty getting information from on the scene because of this? M: I can't answer that very well.I don't know how
- was too because I'd been at the Los Angeles convention. Most of them--those people were rather sympathetic. They did--there was a certain degree of complaint that he wasn't speaking out. M: A strange complaint about him. R: It was. But you know
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb
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- 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
- 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
- to try to find out what we could do to repair the neighborhoods, and so forth. Ramsey went as the head of that task force. I remember he and I talked over the phone. The first time the name and the voice comes to my mind was that he was in Los Angeles