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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Four letters of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Governor Ronald Reagan. One of the letters has two attachments.
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Approx. 40 items: ; LAT editorial copy, "California - Man vs. Image," a strongly stated plea to Californians to "understand where reality ends and fantasy begins," asking them to reject the smooth, photogenic Reagan, and to re-elect Edmund Brown as governor, who had, LAT stated, governed the state "honestly, intelligently and compassionately" ; complete original issue, The Nation, 6/22/1974, focus = "The Reagan Years" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/3/1980, "700 attend the Reagan's social appearance in L.A." ; more.
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Three items comprising three pages pertaining to Ronald Reagan, containing memos.
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3 items: two copies of 22-pp. transcript of interview of Ronald Reagan by Bassett, 8/23/1977, both have editing markups ; mailing envelope, stamped "First Class" and mailed 10/31/1977, with Ronald Reagan's return address on Wilshire Blvd. on a label ; attached business card of "Helene Von Damm, Assistant to Governor Reagan," with a brief handwritten note.
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1 item: 33-pp. transcript of interview with Otis Chandler by Marshall Berges, 12/17/1980. Subjects include: describing "phone calls from the breakfast table" of Governor Reagan or Nancy Reagan when they were unhappy about a Conrad cartoon (both Reagans disliked Conrad's work) or an editorial ; description of Dorothy B. Chandler upsetting Ronald Reagan at a private dinner party by "lecturing him" about his behavior toward the University of California Board of Regents (of which Dorothy Buffum Chandler was a member) ; other interesting anecdotes about Dorothy Buffum Chandler, in her senior years, offering her thoughts in the wrong setting or at too great a length ; description of Otis' visit to Lyndon B. Johnson Ranch in Texas, days before John F. Kennedy assassination - a wild hunting trip with Lyndon B. Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson's thoughts about John and Robert Kennedy and how he, Lyndon B. Johnson, deserved better than the Vice Presidency ; more on friendship between Otis and Robert Kennedy (including rafting trip on Colorado River in the Grand Canyon) ; more.
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Two copies of a introduction speech given by Otis Chandler at the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 18, 1969. Also in this folder is a letter to Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, from J. Edward Murray, Program Chairman for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in which he thanks Mr. Finch for his appearance and includes a hand written note to Otis Chandler which states "Excellent job on the introduction."
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