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Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Johnson because he said, "We'll all get defeated, forever, if we go against Johnson." Bill Brawley, who was later assistant postmaster general, was at that time working for President Johnson. He and Bill Cochran came out to Los Angeles--I reckon Bill
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--2 a resident of New York or Los Angeles or Washington in order to get a good lesson in physics or chemistry or to have an outstanding teacher talk about
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the convention in Los Angeles, and my wife and myself spent about two weeks' during the convention in his behalf in Los Angeles. Mc: ~Jhat kind of work did you do? 1,1: First I was assigned more or less to see what I could do by helping '. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • time around; but they wouldn't altogether close the door on him. F: Were you in Los Angeles? H: Yes. I got out there early to help things along and to do just general staff work -- meeting delegates as they arrived and again talking to the people
  • Biographical information; 1937-1960 campaigns; Congressional secretary to LBJ; lived with the Johnsons; Hardy Hollers; waiting for election returns; appointment as U.S. District Attorney; Herbert Brownwell; Frankie Randolph; Los Angeles Democratic
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . At that time I must confess that I was rather naive about national politics and I assumed that he had a good chance to win. I learned later when I hit the convention in 1960 in Los Angeles that there really was no chance to win, that it was pretty much all
  • Meeting LBJ; Albert Thomas; seeing his wife for the first time; events before and during the 1960 convention; LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Valenti’s role in the 1960 convention; advertising
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • desalting plant of about 125 million gallons a day near San Diego for Los Angeles. Isn't that true? F: Right. L: But this is merely an outgrowth of that interest. You know, if you interest him in a subject, his mind immediately sees a whole vista
  • Biographical information; the source of Lasker’s interest in health programs and beautification; becoming involved with politics; early encounters with LBJ; legislation and funding for housing the elderly; 1960 election and convention in Los Angeles
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the steam right out of us. In that particular campaign, why, we worked all night long getting our committee plans ready. The next morning we'd read the Los Angeles paper, which was being put out with the aid of Mr. Kennedy out there, wherever he sat his
  • 1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by 87 votes. Governor LCok~j Stevenson challenged the vote in court, and the courts were sustaining Lyndon Johnson. about that time, we had the state convention in Fort Worth. in September of 1948. But This was And of course one of the functions
  • and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in announcing. M: Yes. F: Why do you think he did it? M: Nature, that was his nature. F: Just sort of reluctant to stick his neck out? M: Reluctant to give word to the public what was in his mind. F: You were at Los Angeles at the 1960 convention
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to do." Well, we went -- by this time Albert Pena came in and Carlos McCormick and Estrada and Gonzalez and Hank Lopez from Los Angeles, and myself and the two Puerto Ricans. We met with Bobby at the Democratic headquarters there, I think on Avenue K
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] convention out at Los Angeles and made several appearances before some M: of the important committees and some of the delegations from other states . Were you surprised when he took
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had done a lot of campaigning and had a lot of delegates. Again, it was a question of he just had the delegates when he got to Los Angeles. M: What were the feelings in Texas both about [Johnson] running for President LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by telephone from Los Angeles to my home up here. vision. I was watching the convention on tele- He said, liThe arrangement's just been made. Johnson's going LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh those strange individuals that they passed the late wh?was in school that said hereafter that everybody that doesn't graduate by a certain time must take the bar exam . I was working and a number of the other students were
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Angeles. Do you have any recol- lections of the preceedings there, or being in his hotel room? W: Let me say that if there ever was a time when I regret not keeping a diary [this was it], because it was, as we have soon later learned, truly an historic
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Angeles for the convention. Then I That's about it. F: You didn't go to Los Angeles, though, with any hopes? R: No. F: Did you think you'd get past a first ballot? R: No, I couldn't see how. F: So you didn't nurse that kind of forlorn hope
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
  • ticket; LBJ becoming Minority Leader in 1953 and Majority Leader in 1954; time following LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; LBJ vs. Price Daniel on civil rights; Majority Leader LBJ’s attempts to balance his duties to Texas and the nation; LBJ’s talents as Majority
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • vantage point there . O: The 1960 convention, of course, was held in Los Angeles . I was a delegate to the convention from Massachusetts as a delegate for Jack Kennedy . campaign . I had been an advance man on the Kennedy came out with a real
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in touch with me to do some of the public relations work of his campaign. He was not elected, but we got along well; and after- wards he started coming to see me from time to time and said that he had told Senator Johnson of the work I had done in his
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I met my wife, who at the age of seventeen years old was a junior at the University of Wisconsin. I had just gotten out of the Marine Corps and was on the 52-20 Club. I took her out a couple of times and liked her. I asked her to marry me
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Milton S. Eisenhower, in his office in Baltimore, Maryland. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Dr. Eisenhower, very briefly, let's run through your career from the time you were
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 President Kennedy answered, "I just do not think this is the time; I do not see anything in this coming session of Congress." It, needless to say, was an occasion of disappointment to Mr. Wilkins
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • remember, I've had it. And the time then seemed to be a good one in which to enter the political field, as I was just resuming my practice. It might have been more difficult a few years later when the practice was better established--or better re
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But that was due to Clarence Cannon and Sam Rayburn. M: Have you had opportunity to see Johnson operate in the Senate? H: Oh, yes. I wasn't, not being in Washington much at the time, but I was well aware that he probably was the greatest Senate minority
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • time, so I had a license to practice law at nineteen. I went to George Washington to pursue further study of law, feeling that I was a little young to undertake the practice, and chose George Washington largely because the dean of our law school