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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
Approx. 75 items. Letters and memos and notepad sheet with subject notes. Subjects include: letter (only 1st page found) to Rayilyn Brown on use of political cartoons in schools as teaching aid; NBW response to invitation from World Press Institute to serve on its Advisory Committee for 3 years (8/20/1970); letter to Amer. Acad. of Political & Social Science turning down membership due to approaching retirement; Amer. Institute of Management--same as previous two; letter to Cruz Reynoso; letter to Herbert Klein, White House Communications Director relaying a proposal by John Anson Ford on subject of a West Coast equivalent of the Statue of Liberty; (8/20/1970) memo headed "Expense Reductions"; letter to "The Editor - Columbia Journalism Review on that publication's criticism of LAT over use of "the Susan Atkins memoirs"; letter to Robert Neumann, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; etc.
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Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos, telegrams, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: "narcotics problem" campaign (letter from R. Nixon); Feather River water project; letter to Oregonian Editor Robert Notson, in which Williams writes of new Publisher Otis Chandler that he "will become a great one"; Times-sponsored charity football game & NAACP; correspondence with the Nieman Fellowship Committee; letter of appreciation from columnist Robert Novak, Washington, DC; 3-pp. letter in 1969 to Jack Nightscales (Vancouver Sun) on "the major challenge for [newspapers in] the '70s...will be to make them an essential part of their...audiences' daily lives"; series of letters between editor of the Picayune Item (Mississippi) and Otis C. and Williams about controversial story by LAT's staffer Ken Reich; awarding of the B-1 bomber contract; exchange of letters with Robert Neumann, US Ambassador to Afghanistan; W.'s letter to R. Nixon; exchange of letters involving misunderstanding of fee charged by EX-Times staffer who went into PR; etc.
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1 item: 73-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Otis Chandler, 3/12/1980. Chandler spoke about a hunting trip to Afghanistan in 1977 and traveling in the region of the Himalayas. Later in the tape Chandler discusses the Watts Riots and the aftermath, plus 1964 political endorsements, more.
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1 item: 78-pp. transcript of Marshall Berges' taped interview with Otis Chandler. Subjects appear in this order on the transcript: hunting (Afghanistan, Mongolia, Brazil) ; surfing ; vintage auto collecting ; luxury automobiles ; motorcycles ; experiences while attending Stanford ; the Duesenberg (auto) ; buying and selling cars as an avocation ; Porsches ; car racing.
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Correspondence between Otis Chandler and Howard Leary, New York City Police Commissioner, regarding a luncheon with the editorial staff. Also, notes from Freddie Miller to Otis Chandler.
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Approx. 45 items: event calendars, guest lists, program notes and other material related to meetings and luncheons hosted by Anthony Day and the Editorial Pages staff of LAT, April through June, 1987. Notable names: Patricia Schroeder (Rep., CO) ; Donald Hodel (Sec. of the Interior) ; Rev. Jesse Jackson ; Jeanne Kirkpatrick (former Ambassador to UN) ; Radio Marti ; Bob Martinez (Gov., FL) ; Jeb Bush (Sec. of Commerce, FL) ; L. Paul Bremer (Ambassador-at-Large, Counter Terrorism) ; Alan Cranston (US Senate) ; Edward M. Kennedy (US Senate). Split into two folders.
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