Manuscripts

Visitors to Times Mirror Square

Description: Approx. 11 items: memos related to visits by the Romanian ambassador and a delegation, the Philippine ambassador, "four top ranking...Foreign Service officers," the ambassadors of Indonesia, New Zealand and Japan, sixteen "Russian [Soviet] newspapermen (and women)" and a letter to Bassett from Robert J. Myers (Publisher, New Republic) ; 2-pp. memo, 9/3/1970, to Nick Williams from Freddie Miller on the subject of "Visiting firemen." "Firemen" seems to be a code word since the list contains dates and names of visiting United States political and military leaders and foreign VIPs such as ambassadors and ministers of foreign nations.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1969 - 1970
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Associated people: Bassett, James E., (1912-1978.); Chandler, Norman, (1899-1973.); Chandler, Otis, (1927-2006.); Conrad, Paul, (1924-2010.); Johnson, W. Thomas, (1941-); Owens, Charles H.
Associated organizations: Los Angeles Times (Firm).; Los Angeles Times History Center.; Times Mirror Company.
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