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Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • moment in Los Angeles, to urge him to put Mr. Johnson on the ticket. And this was thought to have had some influence on the decision--in my opinion, it had about the influence of a feather in the balance--but it was a very narrow balance. Bobby Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • is wholly owned by the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times. And at one point Valenti made a call to the president of New American Library from the office of Otis Chandler, president of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Company
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, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • boom on and Stevenson possibly could tie up the delegation to preclude a first ballot nomination. One individual, for example, was the Chairman of the state Democratic Party at that time, he's now a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles, by the name
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Washington, found myself in radio about a year before graduation and wanted to specialize in news. [I] gravitated down the West Coast and eventually wound up in Los Angeles, and was there until 1955. I was employed by NBC and the first of the year 1956
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://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
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on through, even until the Democratic convention when he was put on the ticket in the second spot in Los Angeles, because it was Rayburn's hand always that was moving the cards. S: What was Johnson himself like in those early days? You say you don't
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 it to Los Angeles and brought back
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the southern California stops. I see that it occurred here on the twenty-eighth of October: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and I did all those stops. It took time to do all four of those cities, so I stayed there for three weeks
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was going to be offered to some museum. I knew many people were after it, including the Rockefellers, the city of Baltimore, the city of Los Angeles, the English government, Israeli government and the Italian government. So, I arranged an appointment
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ZORTHIAN -- I -- 26 incidentally, both in his News~eek days and in his Los Angeles Times days; Ward Just; Johnny Apple ~n his first year and a half almost; Frank McCulloch, when -he was both Time
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and undertook to seek the nomination in Los Angeles, he had every reason, I suppose, to expect me to support him. Certainly, John Kennedy had done me no comparable favors, even though I recognized he was not in a position to give them. But I felt
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • visitors in the United States pleasant. to a World Affairs Council, for example, in Los Angeles. I went They were thrilled that the Assistant Secretary would actually go to thank them personally for their contribution. raise funds. And this of course
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 was very strongly for his selection as Vice President. I remember going on the floor of the convention in Los Angeles, [and] making a statement to the press that this showed the wisdom of our new President in selecting
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a frightful day and ended up that night-about 10 o'clock at night the President had this message to go on television with. He didn't know whether to go on, because the Secret Service agents in Los Angeles were calling back here saying that Senator Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I worked with Senator Humphrey from 1955 through the time he went into the vice presidency and then went over with him as his chief of staff in the vice presidency and held a somewhat ambiguous subtitle of assistant for national security. I had
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there . variance . There's just one little For awhile I was Counsel and not the Staff Director, for a period of about two years, but the rest of the time I was the principal staff person for the Post Office and Civil Service Committee of the House . P: When did
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --in Los Angeles at that time--and Fritz Hollings was for Kennedy. We both made speeches to the South Carolina delegation for our candidates. I cited Lyndon's Senate record and showed it was much more conservative than John Kennedy's Senate record
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had been state executive director for Governor Stevenson's Presidential campaign in 1956. In 1960 I had served on Governor Stevenson's national staff for a period through his defeat in the Los Angeles National Democratic Convention. Mc
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the Civil Rights legislation? Yes, it did. McS: Did you play any part in the 1960 Convention in Los Angeles? F: I was a delegate--now wait just a minute--I was there! whether I was a delegate or not. I don't recall. I'm not sure Yes, I was. When LBJ
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had accepted? M: Well, when I got the news I had just-- we were staying at a little offbeat motel that had just been refurbished out there in Los Angeles quite a ways from the hall, and I was sitting around the patio with a group of members