Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items. Letters and memos. Much of the material in the file involves the operation and activities of the Washington Bureau, reflected in a series of letters between Nick Williams and Robert Hartmann, bureau chief. Other specific subjects: LAT staffers to be making visits to DC; 2-pp. "Summary of 1957 Activities of the Times Washington Bureau"; contracts for Washington Capital News Service; Nixon goodwill tour of Europe, 1957; chart with breakdown for years 1953 - 1956 on Wash Bureau "Stories Filed," "Subjects Covered (i.e. Executive Branch, Congress, Misc.); multi-page report headed "MEMO for Mr. Hotchkiss--Times Washington Bureau," which outlines the operations of DC Bureau in theory and practice; letters between Editor L.D. Hotchkiss and Hartmann; etc.
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Approx. 12 items: LAT clip, 2/10/1963, "Times opening Wall St. Bureau, broadens financial news coverage"; handwritten list - bureau locations, start dates, staffers; articles>, Among Ourselves, 11/1928, "Our Washington Bureau"; AO, 10/1965, "Zeman heads Times bureau in Sacramento"; AO, 4/1966, "Times bureau in New York opens May 1"; Editor & Publisher, 8/16/1980, "New bureau offices visited by Carter"; tear sheet & copy, Women's Wear Daily, 8/4/1980, "Eye" (name dropping column) - described cocktail party to open DC bureau; article, Wash. Post, 8/1/1980, "The best of Times, all night long"; etc.
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Approx. 45 items: notes, letters, memos, reports and clips related to the LAT Washington Bureau. Includes: material on the operations, reorganization, and profile of the bureau ; 7-pp. article copied from WJR (Washington Journalism Review), 12/1983, on Jack Nelson, Bureau Chief ; lease agreement (1978) for the Washington Bureau's offices ; more.
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Approx. 25 items: exchange of several letters between OC and Harold Gray (Board Chair, Pan American World Airways) ; "Inaugural Flight Certificate" to "certify that Otis Chandler flew aboard PAN AM's direct Jet Clipper Service - New York to Moscow," 7/15/1968 ; other material related to the flight and the new service between NYC and Moscow.
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1 item: LAT Biography for William J. Eaton, dated 9/1983, handwritten note, "Currently Moscow Bureau Chief."
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Approx. 15 items. Material includes: 28-pp. transcript, dated 2/17/1981, of remarks by Robert M. Garrick, to a breakfast meeting with LAT Wash. Bureau; LAT article by Jack Nelson, 2/18/1981, "High Reagan aide (Garrick) backs off issuing of leases to drill for oil in protected regions off California coast"; 2 cps., list, dated 7/6/1977, but titled "1972 Washington Bureau"; article, 3/15/1969, "Kraslow-Loory peace mission rates prize"; clippings, various publications, on staff cuts initiated by Mark Willes, 1995; etc.
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