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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXII -- 6 turn over to, or get assistance from, the men who traveled with him. (Interruption
  • A women's rally to organize LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign while LBJ was still at the Mayo Clinic; arranging for LBJ to campaign while traveling by helicopter; what it was like to campaign by helicopter; LBJ's efforts to plan for the future; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XL -- 17 didn't care what happened personally in regard to elections. M: After you returned to Washington, you then went to Boston to attend a diamond jubilee birthday dinner for President [Harry] Truman on the occasion
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "the faraway places with the strange-sounding names." It always just whetted my appetite for travel, so long deferred in my life has it been, but so early conceived as one of the main pleasures. Whenever I got an invitation to an embassy, I was very likely
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and decided schedules down the road, points to make in speeches, key people to telephone. G: Did you travel any in that campaign? J: I did. I traveled quite a lot. The funny thing, I must have worn the same beige gabardine 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , chairs made out of slats, quilts. Beautiful country. Ah, how many times I've traveled that road, and I've always loved it. We arrived in Washington and went to an apartment which Lyndon had already obtained for us. It's remarkable that we had such a great
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never did take it out the whole time and did not intend to, because I hadn't met him, and I had plenty else to do. Cecille and I thought that to travel on a boat would be the most glamorous way in all the world to take this trip. In those days
  • Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's impressions
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . They outdid each other in their liking of ice cream. And whenever he went to country towns, he would make a respectful call on the newspaper editor. So he worked at it and he enjoyed their friendship pretty much. G: He did travel the district, though, a lot
  • with private power companies; LBJ's re-election in 1938, 1940, and 1942; socializing with constituents and other politicians; traveling around Virginia with Rebekah Johnson and back to Texas when Congress was about to adjourn; LBJ's interest in the economic
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I remember having a little typewriter, a portable typewriter, and my shorthand book, and the resolve that I was going to learn to be a good secretary, and did take some notes as he talked on the train going out. I always loved train travel. I think
  • Francisco; visiting with other Texans on the West Coast; the Johnsons traveling from the West Coast back to Washington, D.C.; LBJ's decision to no longer accept his congressional pay; LBJ and John Connally leaving for the war; Lady Bird's work in LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in the Library. As people began to travel more, by 1949--well, I know it was 1956 before we took our trip, but everybody had been going to NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] for ages before we went. Each wife returning from an interesting trip was likely
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Senator Robert Taft stepping down as Senate majority leader in 1953 and later dying; the Texas drought; LBJ's travel throughout Texas in the summer of 1953; C. T. McLaughlin; Mrs. Ben Powell; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to improve her public
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • England with Lera Thomas. We were looking for antiques. Lera bought a lot of antiques, loved it, and knew a lot about it. I just loved the countryside and traveling. Every morning we would pick up the paper and read about the invasion
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Middleton PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 J: My overall remembrance of the year 1960 is one of total confusion, travel all over the United States
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But then he was mindful of everybody's judgment that he should spend more time in the big cities, and went to San Antonio and El Paso. I think I stayed a little while in East Texas with Daddy. G: Did the children do any campaigning with you when you traveled
  • and his supporters; Lynda and Luci's whereabouts during the campaign; Lady Bird Johnson traveling around Texas attending political events and campaigning; Juanita Roberts; McCarthyism, Alger Hiss and his sister Anna Hiss; Taylor family support in East
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have some words with any of the drummers or travelers or local people who came in, but small talk 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ; Mr. Taylor's relationship with African-Americans and his role in the community; Mrs. Johnson's brothers, Tony and Tommy Taylor; how Mrs. Johnson was named Claudia Alta; Uncle Claud Pattillo; Mrs. Johnson's childhood travels.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Washington and Austin, it seems like this might have felt remote, initially, to you. J: Just the sort of remote that brought a smile to my face. G: What about travel back and forth to Austin or San Antonio? It must have been more difficult then without
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wavelengths. When Lyndon got word that Adlai was coming to Texas, he met him, traveled 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • The presidential campaign in the fall of 1952 and LBJ's involvement; controversy surrounding LBJ's support for Adlai Stevenson; LBJ's travel to campaign for fellow Democrats; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriage in the fall of 1952; Senator Ernest
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Star Steel, and Gene Germany was the head of it. We did a lot of traveling in those days, Lyndon especially, and I just often got taken along. People like Governor [Buford] Ellington and Bob Kerr, and Earle Clements of Kentucky, they were likely to get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • substantial vote, just one hundred thousand or so, it seems to me, lower than Shivers. Later on in that month, I took one of those things I yearned to do, which was travel and had actually not done any of it. Hearing had sort of aroused my colleagues
  • and Ralph Yarborough; Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision and LBJ's opinion of racial issues; how LBJ worked for racial equality; LBJ's Senate race against Dudley Dougherty; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Johnson's public appearances and travel
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to Texas Tech, and to--gee, I think there was one in San Angelo. G: Angelo State I guess it was. Well, did you find that since he did have a much larger constituency to cover that he spent less time at home in Austin? J: Yes. It seemed like traveling
  • LBJ's 1949-1950 concern over the rising cost of defense; LBJ's work on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee; Lynda's first grade school in Austin; Austin family activities, like dance classes and visiting friends; LBJ's travel and social events
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not quite sure. Incidentally, have I said that Harfield came, I think, on May 17? G: Do you recall anything about your education in the radio business, learning from other station owners about the business, going and traveling and talking with other
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We had a cocktail party for them. Spring was the traveling time for constituents, heralded by the Cherry Blossom Festival, and main groups were the DAR [Daughters of the American Revolution], who always came in April and it was impossible to get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Ree, I must say, maintained her good nature and her dignity commendably throughout--nicer than she should. And we all went out to the closest fast food place and ate. But it really was; it was most unpleasant to travel through the South. And Virginia
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • in language they would understand and maybe together we could do something to help Lyndon and then perhaps to change the viewpoint of some of those newspaper people who were traveling with me. And it was a marvelous adventure, utterly exhausting. I never saw
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • traveling by car. Lyndon didn't especially, because he was always in a hurry. First we would go by car, then by train, or perhaps he would go on the train and I would take one of the cars because the cars had to get down there. And he had the Speaker
  • ; Buck Taylor's negative leaflets about LBJ; the many trips between Washington, D.C. and Austin over the years, including a trip by car with Aunt Effie Pattillo and LBJ's Uncle George Johnson; difficulties for African-American employees traveling cross
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just about twenty. Now there may well have been more graduates, but even traveling in the school bus took a little money, and Karnack was a poor area, so I'm sure not everybody came. Back home in Texas it was awfully dry and hot. I know when we finally
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • are at the Ranch~ and so many times when I came up to the Ranch it was associated with traveling over the Ranch to see the deer or it was in deer season and you had to go deer hunting. If anybody was visiting here~ particularly if you were from the North
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? J: I don't remember. That could have been how we heard of him. I think maybe it was through the radio business. G: All of these campaign stops that you mentioned, did you travel with him on any of these stops? J: Some of them. Not as many. You
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a suitcase full of clothes that had just traveled this journey to Alabama, and for some reason which I can't quite understand there was a pair of riding boots and a whole lot of ridiculous gear like that in them. He said, "There's no reason in the world why
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • much out of army contracts, and renegotiation of contracts became something that he applied a lot of investigation, study and efforts to. G: Of course this year we see his investigations required him to be away from Washington to travel quite a bit
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the long roster of people. At one time the Walter Jenkins lived over there I know. And so the question of our "vacation," in quotes, came to a head, and I've already told you I had all these lovely visions of some glamorous foreign travel. It turned out
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . But there was one little tiny bit of finding the world of travel and recreation, and Lyndon had lived a life of work, work, work, which I had gone along, big eyed and enthusiastic. But early that year we went to Florida with Tony Buford and August Busch, and Earle