Manuscripts

United Republican Finance Committee

Description: 4 items: three letters to Norman Chandler, and one reply, all on the topic of fund raising for Republican candidates in the 1964 elections. The letters to Norman Chandler all ask for donations to candidates - in LA County, Congressional candidates in general, and Barry Goldwater.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1964
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Republican Finance Committee of Southern California

Manuscripts

4 items: one letter and various papers related to connection of Norman Chandler and Times Mirror to Republican fund raising activities.

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Chandler, Norman

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Subjects include: real estate coverage; carbon copy (no signature) of a 9/1963 letter to the editor about the "high-flying" Las Vegas lifestyle, and mentioning Frank Sinatra, the Mafia, Peter Lawford, JFK and "Bob" Kennedy, burglary at Norman Chandler's home, a Williams memo to Norman Chandler about Barry Goldwater and the gold standard, etc.

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J - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Subjects include: correspondence with (Eliot) Janeway Publishing & Research Corp.; LAT endorsement of Barry Goldwater in 1964; Tom Bradley's political career; unfunny comics; United Jewish Welfare Fund; angry letter from George Jessel; etc.

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Goldwater, Barry

Manuscripts

Three items. A letter to Otis Chandler from Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. A letter to Goldwater from Freddie Miller, with an attached also written by Miller, but address to M. Stanton, Evans, Editor of the Indianapolis News.

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Chandler, Norman - Tape # 1

Manuscripts

2 items: 19-pp. typed and annotated transcript of "Tape # 1 - James Bassett/Norman Chandler, Transcribed 12/4/1972" and photocopy of the annotated transcript. Subjects include: Nick Williams becomes Editor (pp. 2) ; Norman Chandler's memories of Harrison Gray Otis (pp.4 - 6) ; Norman Chandler meets Dorothy Buffum at Stanford, they married in 1922, Norman Chandler did not graduate - "I wasn't enthusiastic about college" ; Dorothy Buffum Chandler comments that in the 1920s, Los Angeles Times did not mean as much to her and Norman Chandler as it did later, it was just a job (pp. 12) ; In the early 1940s, Norman Chandler began to be motivated to run the paper (Harry Chandler died in 1944, pp. 14) ; the recall of Mayor Frank Shaw, "he was a bad egg and we went overboard in supporting him...which I think was a mistake" (14 - 15) ; politics - Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan (pp. 16) ; Otis Chandler named publisher (pp. 17) ; Bassett asks Dorothy Buffum Chandler if, in the late 1950s, she felt Los Angeles Times needed to "shift more to the middle of the road? - she answered "Very much so."

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Muskie, Edmund S

Manuscripts

Letter from Senator Edmund S. Muskie to Nick B. Williams. Sent to Otis Chandler with Nick Williams' handwritten notes about Muskie and Barry Goldwater.

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