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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 74, January 2001," LBJ Library (Item)
  • lobby. Library Security Gets New Look Officer Phil Guerra takes a last look at the old ... . . . and Officer David Samuelson models the new. 14 A Narrow Escape in World War II The Los Angeles Times recently reported the death, at age 84, of Saburo
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/1/1968 (Item)
  • Post Bill Eaton, Chicago Daily News Jim Millstone. St. Louis Post Dispatch Ted Sell. Los Angeles Times John Pierson, Wall Street Journal Karen Klinefelter, Dallas News Saville Davis, Christian Science Monitor Day 1, 1968 Date Apri • Da the Whit e
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, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was coming from Los Angeles that night, you know, that getting up early and staying up all night, and you got twenty-five or thirty people asking for Scotch and sodas and God knows what else, there's no leisure time for you because the job you've got
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and then trying to get things lined up in Los Angeles. C: Very extensively. Here is where a major commitment of time was made from the last week in January of 1960 on. We opened the Johnson for President headquarters in Harris County the last week in January
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
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/29/1968 (Item)
  • VHTE tSuu >ENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON DIARY President began his day at (Place) THE Time Telephone In Out 11 Lo 7:04p f Jack 8 D ay MONDAY y (include visited by) LD 7:45p Valenti in Los Angeles re: the reappointment of Judge Quinn
Folder, "Unidentified Flying Objects," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 300 [3 of 3] (Item)
  • sensibly in difficult situations. to my favorite Thanks again for listening 1 C. ~~tWt c. Gordon Bell General Manager peeve. Philomene 9/19/66 UFO's Mel Noel (2760 Hollyridge a Los Angeles airplane pilot, LA Coata Rican consul (I signed can contact
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/28/1967 (Item)
  • Date April PIESIOENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON OARV WARY 28, 1967 White House Friday The The President began his day at (Place) Day T- „ Telephone . _ Entry Time £_ { Expendif jyj 1 1 Activity (include visited by) ture Code Lo LD fif In Out _____ _j
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/28/1966 (Item)
  • ) JV (Pl) McGeo Bundy To mansion for ^LUNCH w/ JV _^_____ ' Robert Thompson of the Los Angeles Times BM(pl) "H I Jack Homer of the Evening Star joined (Jack Homer had asked for an opportunity o see the President just to get filled in on how he looks
Folder, "Quality of the Environment," Office Files of Joseph A. Califano, Box 63 (Item)
  • .Angeles a series of field hearings to gather as mucb on-the-spot information as possible. In addition to Los An~eles, hearings were held in Denver, Chicago, Boston, New York, anct Tampa to gather,. at first hand, a fund of information on the kinds
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS H. KUCHEL INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Kuchel's office, Los Angeles, California Tape 1 of 1 G: You came to the Senate in 1953, I suppose. You were appointed to replace Vice President Nixon, as I understand it. K
  • ; public works; LBJ manipulating Senate votes; LBJ’s reputed power of persuasion; LBJ’s time in California as a youth.
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • elaborate on that? C: That's a fascinating vignette. I was a supporter of Senator Symington in the period prior to the Los Angeles convention and at the Los Angeles convention, and approximately ten days before that convention Senator John F. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson as a presidential contender back in 1956 at the Democratic convention? T: No. I don't think anyone took Johnson seriously as a presidential candi- date until the Los Angeles convention in 1960 when there was quite a formidable campaign advanced
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/31/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • r e p u lle d c lo s e and we s le p t u n til n in e t h i r t y . T h a t w as a s good a p r e s e n t a s a d ia m o n d rin g ! T he only h a r d p a r t of th e day f o r m e w as lu n c h w ith Hugh Sidey and J e a n F r a n k l i n of T IM
  • Johnson to Milwaukee, San Francisco and Los Angeles; Ranger 7 space flight
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . However, as the time drew closer, I think he actually felt that maybe he would win. I remember about a week before we went out to Los Angeles to the convention in 1960 I was in his office talking with him and I said, "Senator, do you think we have
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
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/19/1968 (Item)
  • DIARY The President began his day at (Place) THE Entry . ^ Activity f Time Telephone In Out Lo or t (include visited by) Armand Hammer, President, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, 10889 Los Angeles, California into oval office with President
Folder, "Ex PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 23 (Item)
  • to be held in the following cities beginning in June: Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Hartford, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Washington (D,C.), Milwaukee, Atlanta and St. Louis. COUNSELORS RETURN TO SCHOOL. Fifty
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 62, 1 April 1996," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . Everything about that event impressed him, particularly LBJ's style. As they were leaving, he asked his mother: "Why does the President talk like a cowboy'?" Irving Bernstein, Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/29/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • sponsors fo r the Houston Symphony when it plays tonight in Constitution Hall, MEMORANDUM c T H E W H ITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Saturday, F e b ru a ry 29, 1964 Page 2 The angel of the Symphony, i s a s o r t of Duchess of Houston, in a cultural way. M
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/24/1964 (Item)
  • Orange, N. J. Dr. George D. Flemmings, Ft. Worth, Tex. John Frazier, Jackson, Miss. Rev. Theodor e Gibson, Miami, Fla. Dr. H. Claude Hudson, Los Angeles , Calif . Dr. Lillie M. Jackson, Baltimore, Md. Samuel Jackson, Topeka, Kan. Kivie Kaplan, Boston
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as being a very strategic, effective measure to give hima leg-up at Los Angeles. B: Did Senator Kennedy really seem worried about whether or not he _was going to get the nomination? · S: Yes, I could say that he certainly was not over-confident. He
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the nomination, when he said that he would do it. F: Did you ever meet with Mr. Johnson personally at Los Angeles? P: Yes. We ' d go into some of t he rooms. At times we'd go over to the Bi.ltmore, and in my position I could go in and out of those rooms
  • LBJ-Rayburn-Price Daniel relationship; details of the 1960 convention in Los Angeles, especially concerning the Texas delegation; poor accommodations for the delegation; the JFK organization in 1960; Texas delegation reacts to LBJ nomination
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • day coming back from the airplane from Los Angeles, "You know, Tom Kuchel is going to run for governor someday." He said, "Fine!" I thought he'd say, "The hell with him! He can't have my job!" But no. He said, "Gee, I hope he does. He'd make a fine
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? K: I don't know. You've heard the President tell it as many times as I have. About all you can take is his word, I guess. I suppose it is pretty hard to turn down. F: Did you see Mr. Johnson at all in the Los Angeles convention? K: Oh, yes
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think to put this in proper focus, my involvement was brief. There were those who were involved informally in the discussion stages. But the actual campaign from formalization until Los Angeles was a short period of time. When you talk about planning
  • inability to reach LBJ to discuss the Vietnam plank; the location and timing of the convention; frustration with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over the organization of the convention; the possibility of a movement to draft Edward Kennedy; whether
Folder, "Dominican Republic," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • before hie departure, ao could not llllke our flight &J111187• Therefore he has gracioual.7 accepted our otter to be a guest of the State Department and will work vi.th the F.abaaq 1n getting a departure time that vovld suit his peraonal pl.au better than
Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [1 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • been involved. ·The fact that the Detroit riot reached, within a time ·of two . to three hours, the stage that it had taken the Los Angeles riot, two years before,- 36 hours to arrive at, points up the · necessity for municipal authorities to incre·ase
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • utensils and cooked along the way, of course. Angeles. Then we got to Seattle and Los He 'r'Jent into a hotel \'Jhenever we could, but otherwise it was just a camp trip. P: ftirs. Jansen, did very many young girls go about the country like
President's Daily Diary entry, 11/23/1963 (Item)
  • of Los Angeles, Joined the Truman interview t Speaker McCormack t McGeorge Bundy f Mr. Bundy Discussion w/ Ted Sorensen Secretary Wirtz f David Dubinsky ( returning the Pres.' call Walter Heller t Mary Lasker f Sen. Kennedy t Marshall McNeil Harry
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they've had about him. of Texas. lIve spent SOIne I'm very much interested in But I was absolutely astounded at Johnson's perception of a national campaign. Well, ofcours e we all went to Los Angeles and we all got HlUrdered. LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . C: I thought he had a chance. were swashbuckling. I thought the Kennedys were--you know, they They had the headlines of the Los Angeles Times. They had the walkie-talkies. They were a train that was churning ahead and it was going to probably
  • qualities of leadership; Lady Bird’s role as a wife of a Senator; 1964 whistle-stop tour of the South; Johnson home-mecca for Texans in Washington; supported LBJ’s unofficial campaign for the 1960 Presidency; covered Los Angeles convention; visit of Mrs
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Incidentally, this is where Dr. Jim Cain comes into the picture almost the first time. Dr. Jim Cain's name will come up in later years in the White House, as you know, as the President's personal physician. But this was really Dr. Jim Cain's first
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --this was early 1960--and he spent the whole time trying to find out what I knew about whether Lyndon Johnson was actually going to be more than a favorite son candidate in the Los Angeles convention that year. This was early 1960. And I never would tell him
Folder, "Hearings: U.S. Dept. of HEW Public Hearings on Medicaid held in San Francisco (December 27, 1968)," Wilbur Cohen Papers, Box 3 (Item)
  • about ten days ago held hearings in Los Angeles and, I 23 think, they're going through the same process, and I also have 24 in front of me a list of· your agenda, and I see for a minute, 25 Dr. Lee, and Mr./ Williams, and more persons far more
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the time they shook hands in Los Angeles that they were a pretty good team. Even though they were two- different kinds of politicians and two different kinds of men with two different kinds of philosophies, they seemed to be compatible . F: Once Johnson
Folder, "Japan, Sato's Visit Memos and Cables, 1/11-14/65 [2 of 4]," Country Files, NSF, Box 253 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • ,....... . ; .. 1tayf Doe~·Tokyo agree with' Washington on Red China? Communist trade? Other issues? :;?/lo _tliist '.interview, iust before his U.S. trip, ,r,Jm ..... e ·.•.·.•·M .. ... · ~".ister Sato. gives his views to Robert ·,< M,a.,rt1n.:.of ~'U~S. News & World
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was a queer, offbeat sort of existence. Much more fun for me than for Lyndon, I'm sure. One evening we went to the Tom Clark's and had dinner. That was the first time I remember seeing them. This was in Los Angeles. It took us forever to get there. I vowed I