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- was with the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federations Insurance Services, and I traveled in that area quite extensively. family. In fact, we were very close. I got to know Mr. Rayburn's When Mr. Rayburn would come down, which he did quite often, to visit, at least once
- . The farmers? \Ve'd drive to the radio station, he'd make that speech, then we'd start out on the campaign trail. helicopter. Weld travel by car. He was traveling by We tried to make every speech, but at any rate, we had to get to the n90n rest stop ahead
- , a whole bunch of hats, and those are what Lady Bird wore for the next month. She never wore black, and the reason she didn't is that he didn't like it. But I happened to think, one, it was chic, and, two, it was good for traveling. I was going
- three or four months after I came here that the decision was made on these two college presidencies. During the meantime I was travelling over the country meeting with National Education leaders and I had a telephone conversation every so often with Mr
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . They reversed it. Well, father was a civil contracting engineer. from Boston Tech. He graduated He built railroads--many of the eastern railroads. When he was but thirty years old, he built the foundations for the Williamsburg Bridge. That was, I think
- is a permission to travel during the war from the local police. Always to them we were foreigners. By then my family didn't know where we were. I was only happy that my child was with the nurse and my mother in the south of France and out of all this. The news
- Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- of investment credit with Vietnam War; Bill Martin; credit crunch; Senators Russell and Stennis; tax policies; TROIKA; Quadriad; 1968 travel tax; raising debt; limitations removal of gold limit for Federal Reserve Notes; close communications with other
- and all, he would put in a plug for Johnson to try to help him and so forth. But he did make some trips. Detroit and it seems to me to a Midwest meeting. Albuquerque I think to a New Mexico state meeting. He went to He went to He did some traveling
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- -- I -- 3 when we spent the night in Brenham, but that was probably the most distant point in the district. was hot. Many of those roads were caliche. It The car that we were in wasn't air-conditioned as I recall. It was a Ford. G: Did you travel
- led me unexpectedly to North Texas, to Denison and Sherman, where we established a fishing and travel magazine. I had a public relations and advertising agency for roughly ten years. legislature for two terms from North Texas. And I went
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- that of course the then-President Kennedy had announced that he was going to give greater responsibility to Vice President Johnson, as almost every President in recent times has said he was going to do for his Vice President. And the travel that Mr. Johnson did
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- traveled I received a call from a man by the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, to my surprise, about four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. duced himself. I went to the telephone. He intro- I told him yes, I had read of him in the papers, of his having come
- ? T: Claude Wild--I believe he had the title of campaign manager. .of course, was the main one running things. John Connally, Horace Busby was also there and was traveling with the Congressman on those helicopter trips. Then there were men out
- of the byline that they read . F: B: Did you tend to travel separately or did you gang up? Some of us traveled separately, some traveled together . Most of the time Acheson of the Times Herald rode with me, I can't recall his first name . F: B: F: B: F: B
- was there, Cantinflas was there, the Vice President was there . F: Did Cantinflas come at his own expense? B: Mr . Johnson told him that he would be reimbursed for his travel expenses ; however, Cantinflas didn't ask this . Then we started into- Did Cantinflas know
- , and Mr. Johnson called on Miss Kate --her name was Dietrich then --and asked if they would take him. This would be safer than his traveling back and forth. Miss Kate told him that she would have to take it up with the school board. She did and he started
- that supported hi::: ,,,hat they thought about Lyndon Johnson, I 'Has quick to tell his tjat he had traveled the country. He was the I:"".:2n who would have to work certainly w~~ever ~"ith He kne,,, the country. ·the Vice PreSident, and he selected we would
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- service. President Truman's health was not good enough to make that at all a suitable way to travel. President Johnson learned about this and he insisted that they should go in one of the presidential planes, and the Trumans agreed to do
- by an act of Congress. So every financial institution, meaning a bank, in the District, regardless of its title, is supervised by this office, which made it a very nice assignment because there was so much work here that there was very little travel
- . I think it was tragic that the President didn't talk to him, to get the feel, you see, because here is a fellow that was over there--how many years?--eight or nine years. M: Eight or nine, yes. H: Traveled all over in a jeep with a carbine
- of experience in managing anything of that sort, that we began to realize there wouldn't be any campaign unless we helped him with everything we had. And ultimately we had about thirty representatives of different CIO unions traveling all over Texas
- was a great believer in concealing all things that were unsightly, concealing them from people traveling across the country, which included automobile LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- of investment credit with Vietnam War; Bill Martin; credit crunch; Senators Russell and Stennis; tax policies; TROIKA; Quadriad; 1968 travel tax; raising debt; limitations removal of gold limit for Federal Reserve Notes; close communications with other
- . F: Well, what did you do? Travel the state with him? B: He did not make an extensive campaign that year. As I recall, the year before [in] 1953, he went over the state making speeches and building up his organizations, and I covered him
- , and my wife was privileged to sit by Truman . I first met Truman, and he always recalled me, traveling from St . Louis to Washington on a railroad train when he had not even been at that time the chairman of the investigating committee that made him
- ? R: Yes, sir. G: What was your role in that campaign? R: Whatever I could do to run errands for him. G: Did you travel with him? R: No no, because I was still working for NYA all the time. As a matter of fact, I had a new Oldsmobile and he
- at the Harris County convention or not. I don't really think we did, but I'm not sure about that. G: Did Johnson in that battle travel around the state and actively work, himself, against Shivers, do you recall? B: Well, he came to the state and made some
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- that after his heart attack in 1955, and particularly during the vice presidential years, he seemed to have almost a different lifestyle than the early Lyndon Johnson . He travelled a lot, and he seemed to engage in more leisure, more of the lifestyle
- Rayburn to go to Dr. Janet Travell, Kennedy's back physician, down at the White House. He finally convinced the Speaker that he ought to let Dr. Travell examine him and see what she could do for him. in the back. So she started giving him shots He