Manuscripts

Watergate

Description: Approx. 25 items: LAT editorials and news stories, other material from news magazines, etc. Notable items: LAT editorial, 5/10/1974, "The President should be impeached" ; booklet of reprints from LAT, 5/1974, "The White House vs. Television News" ; complete issue of Newsweek (mag), 8/19/1974, "Special Issue" on Nixon resignation and Ford's taking office as President.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969 - 1974
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Press - Role of

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Approx. 20 items: selected articles from Newsweek, New York (mag), The Bulletin (ASNE), The Journal 5 (British journalism mag.) and LAT news stories and editorials on the role of the Press. Of note: booklet, transcript of "A lecture by Wes Gallagher (Gen. Mgr. of AP) - The Press-Enterprise Lecture Series, 1/15/1968, "Truth is in the eye of the beholder."

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Ford, Gerald R

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Approx. 25 items: collection of LAT clips (in plastic sleeve) on Nixon resignation, Ford's presidency and events within that time frame. Also in the file is a tear sheet of Time (mag) article, 11/4/1974, "The Pendulum Problem" on analysis of the "honeymoon" period of Ford's tenure, especially a major Page One article by David Shaw of LAT.

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Government Assistance - Welfare - George McLain

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Approx. 15 items: tear sheets and copies of LAT editorials and news stories related to the activities of pension activist George H. McLain between 1942 and 1954. Also in the folder is an article copy from Frontier (mag), 4/1951, "Lobbyist for the aged," pp. 5-9. LAT was critical of McLain. A 1954 editorial was headed "Pension grab is with us again."

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Nixon, Richard M. - Clippings

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100+ items: columns, news stories and editorials from LAT in the time period 1951 - 1955, plus later articles from periodicals and books on Nixon in the 1951-1955 period. Among the later: article copy, Frontier (mag), 4/1962, "The Crisis Nixon forgot...what the memorist didn't remember about the strings he pulled for Ike while pledged to Warren" ; 4-pp. (pp. 140-143) copied from The Palace Guard, by Dan Rather & Gary Paul Gate; Collection of copies of LAT news stories and editorials from the 1956 - 1958 time frame. Also two similar items from (Los Angeles) Mirror News, 12/4/1958.

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Coolidge, Calvin

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5 items: LAT "news" stories and editorials, on the nomination of Coolidge for president and acts while in office. One 1924 story, exact date not seen, is not so much news as an attack on Hiram Johnson, an opponent of Coolidge. The LAT - Hiram Johnson feud spanned two publishers--Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler.

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Klein, Herb

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9 items: collection of LAT news stories and other material related to Herbert Klein, Director of Communications for the Nixon administration between 1/1969 and 6/1973. Notable items: 5-pp. copy of "Biography of Herbert George Klein," with 11/6/1972 date stamped on it, and note "Library--pls file for Klein biography" handwritten ; LAT news story copy, 6/6/1973, "Klein quits as press director" ; LAT news story copy, 10/17/1974, "Klein supports Ford's giving Nixon a pardon."

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