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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, 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, 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, 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. 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, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , ultimately was a strong supporter of Mr. Johnson in 1960. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? W: No. Or had you left the paper by then? Because I came to work for the Times in May of 1960. The conven- tions were in July, as I recall. F: Yes. W: And I
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • against civil rights and he was a true representative in voting against every bill. he became a United States Senator, the situation changed. And then when Texas was about half and half at that time on civil rights, so his votes were divided a lot
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thesis. That \'1as turned in in April, and that was about it for my senior year, really, except waiting around to take final orals. I had become friendly with Bill. At that time Bill had left the Vice President's staff, Mr. Johnson's staff, and gone
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • - In the 1960 Convention, the late President designated me to handle his campaign in the Convention in Los Angeles and that meant, of course, on the floor of the House with Senator Ribicoff , because of my knowledge of parliamentary law, I assumed, and the many
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and being Bobby Baker we were very concerned . M: Some justice, no doubt. O: Yes. M: The events at Los Angel es that year had been reported and over­ reported, and I certainly have no intentfon of havi ng you repeat th i ngs that are public record
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but-T: By recollection is about three ,veeks. It could have been four, but roughly three '-lecks. F: So there's a lot of time to whittle and hone. T: That's right. And you'll recall that, at least the aftermath accounts indicate they uere r
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 24, 1969 F: Let me make a brief introductory statement. This is an interview with Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, in the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Austin, Texas, on November 25, 1969
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 2 occupy, and that must have been 1946 or 1947. By the time I was in college and began to get really interested in public affairs, like a lot of other people, it certainly wasn't
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ~ and then when he would still call. It was~ "This Also when a man voted He satd to me one time, just \n visiting, that you want to find out exactly why, and then start doing your groundwork for the next time. But I think this was so true. I've heard men who
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • never heard of anything like this, and I doubt that it's true. I don't think that we were in any way organized at the time of Dien Bien Phu to have been assisting the French in any logistical way. G: Well, live asked a couple of military officers
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Komer's office, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Bob, let's talk about what we were talking about at the end last time. We were talking a bit about Libya, and I wanted to get Libya sort
  • “pacification”; comparison of Ky and Thieu; differentiating between ambassadors in Vietnam; working with General William Westmoreland; Bill Moyers; problems with being the only full-time high-ranking government official workingon the Vietnam situation; who
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there in 1952 and took command of the 25th Infantry Division. General Van Fleet, one of the best in our army was 8th Army commanding general. I stayed with that elite division and that assignment up until the time I left Korea, which was shortly after
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whitney Young -- Interview I -- 2 the statement many times that some of the best liberals
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get him out of the country . And I was chargé at the time ; so it was very interesting . F: And then to Quito? B: Yes, then I went to Quito as Deputy Chief of the Mission . F: Did you anywhere--we'll move ahead--prior to 1960, ever run
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . definitely a little bit of a number game. I do remember They were very much inter- ested in being able to announce that the number of advisers was dramatically reduced from sixteen thousand to fifteen thousand, because at that point in time it had been up
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time was in the Treasury Department. So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • did. I worked with a guy named Oudone Sananikone--O-U-D-O-N-E S-A-N-A-N-I-K-O-N-E--who was a lieutenant colonel in the army at the time, and who was a wonderful guy. some success with that program. politics and other problems. We had But that mired