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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ://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
  • 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
  • time I had ever been on a long-distance train. Wetook the train and went out to Los Angeles. Mymemories of this are not very clear, except I do rememberLos Angeles, I do rememberour going downto San Diego. I remembermy father buying a Scripps-Booth
  • than he I s got to 00 in with or that he 1 ll get after he does. pn,::;;-Jency can uet H for him. I think the I hcive spoken from t1ih1aukee to Chicago to fle1,1 York to Los Angeles to Illinois last night, and G:~·t tj1 sburg and Dallas
  • 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
  • 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
  • ll it fro m Q. L y n d o n 's lo o k s a n d m a n n e r , w ith o u t r e a d i n g the p a p e r ^ a l t h o u g h the p a p e r s a y s he r a i s e d a n e s t i m a t e d m i l l i o n d o l l a r s b y s p e a k i n g a t two b ig fu n d
  • Goldwater; Lynda Johnson returns from Hawaii and Los Angeles
  • 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
  • , 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
  • . 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
  • that I was there. I persuaded your mother stay there, which I did. to go on back to Los Angeles and I would I stayed till her nurse, stayed with her for a time. late that evening. Breeda Murphy There didn't seem muchthat I could do so r went back
  • 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
  • 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
  • reporters mistaken for demonstrators. Secretary McNamara said his information was that they had hid their cre­ dentials and went along to the detention camp for the story. SECRETARY RUSK: I am going tomorrow to Los Angeles to make a speech at the same hotel
  • 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
  • /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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • to Washingtonfor my Senate hearing; flew out again the same afternoon. Then we drove on down to Los Angeles. By prearrangement, when I got to Los Angeles, I got the telegram from the Department that I had been confirmed. I went out that evening in Glendale. Wehad
  • 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
  • , 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • , 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
  • . 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ://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
  • , Johnson was in direct and bitter tdcphonic contact with Rich ard Nixon in Los Angeles.'' White says, "What could have been made of an open charge that the Nixon leaders were sab­ oteurs of the peace one cannot guess; how quickly it might, if aired, have