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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to you that you're not going to win this election unless you take Johnson on for vice president." F: This is long before Los Angeles? C: This is in Los Angeles, after the vote on Lyndon. I had gone earlier to Sam Rayburn--I was out in Los Angeles
; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Wisconsin, which I now claim as my home since I went through most of my educational period [there] including two years at the University of Wisconsin. Upon that time, which I was in an aviation program, I left Wisconsin to go into the Navy under a Naval

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from the Congressional Campaign Committee, [of] which he was then serving as chairman, the sum of two hundred dollars. That might not sound like a big contribution from a congressional cam paign committee today, but it was a lot at that time. It came

on the NYA staff in Texas, is that right? Or you and L. E. Jones came on board about the same time. O: L. E. Jones was there answering mail, just stacks and stacks of it, and some friend of mine when I was in shorthand school came busting in one morning

dead now. R: Oh, he is? I didn't know that. G: He was around for a long time. R: He came here in 1919. I used to like to have coffee with him and listen to him talk about what it was back in those days. I believe--well, I know it was Speaker Sam

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