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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; it was a real loss to the staff. G: He was traveling, I think, in Texas when he heard about the accident [in which her brother and sister-in-law were killed]. J: I don't remember that. I don't remember that. G: There was nothing I guess they could do, she
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, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in smoke if he ever read it himself. But it's well worth having. What it shows you is that this was a man who had a traveling American senator's view--and a highly personalistic one--of how he was acting. So that the size of the bed and the shape
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • what the appointment was precisely? WH: The later appointment that he had, I think, was a sort of traveling bus inspector in certain districts of the state where he went as a traveling representative of the commission to check on the operation of bus
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • into account the traveling an Ambassador would have to do to go from one country to another, it would eat that thousand dollars up pretty quickly. M: The current spot--crisis--is Nigeria, which you have more recent experience in than just about anywhere. What
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it usually was in your time. J: I generally traveled with him and helped him in every way I could. M: You saw ~im acting as a personal diplomat. How would you estimate him as a personal diplomat? J: I would estimate him as absolutely superb. I've
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be paid for, having been in an executive position myself and knowing that we had a staff to pay, we had reporters to pay, we had travel expenses to pay. We had quite a financial problem, and it was essential that I know how far we commit ourselves. I've
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of travel involved. These young district men we had out there would maybe be setting up a project in one county seat today and trying to get another one started a hundred miles away the same day_ He might work until eleven-thirty in the morning at one
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh first traveler we ever knew to the Holy Land, and he looked exactly like an old Jewish rabbi. He wore a little black cap on his head and he had a long white chin beard. We had a lot of fun out of him because of course he
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and let me put a steak on the grill and give you some fresh vegetables," and he did. houseful. And everybody just followed. It turned in to be quite a I ran out of steaks. So I was able to give a little hand in that campaign. But I couldn't travel
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't fly; you had to drive and the roads weren't near as good as they are now. You stayed on the road most of the time. Though we were supposed to work five days a week, it was mostly seven days a week. [We] spent Saturday and Sunday traveling. G
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • go? M: As I get it, I was the only one who thought he ought to go. kept kind of threatening me: The people "By God, it's going to be on your head if this thing doesn't pan out." The people in the traveling party thought LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the river. We traveled by rail going from Columbia, South Carolina to Fort Sill. There was a salesman on the train and he was talking to me, he said, "You know, you're going into a new area now, a new country. You've been down in Columbia, South
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • youngsters; and of even greater significance has been of incalculable value -- and pleasure -- to tens of thousands of automobile travelers on the hi..,;hways of Texas! We still have those lovely wayside parks on all major highways; they are a thing of great
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , because the Maddox presented a far larger radar target than did the torpedo boats that had been involved in the thing. The Maddox was traveling perhaps one-half or less the speed that these boats always darted around at, so even an inexperienced radar
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the campaign. But being as close to him as I was and traveling with him, I guess during the campaign I spent more time of course with him than any other one person simply because I did drive him. It was just in most instances he and I, and in some instances
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • impression. I'm not quoting him. G: Fine. It was his impression then that the South Vietnamese people on balance were anti-communist. If I do not misjudge you, that was your opinion also after you had been in country for a time. N: Yes, after traveling
  • Situation on arrival in Vietnam as Ambassador; Chief of MAAG; General McGarr; Taylor-Rostow mission; Ed Lansdale; task force chaired by Roswell Gilpatric; impressions after traveling in the provinces; Viet Cong tenacity; Colonel John Paul Vann
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • - in college Asian Studies was my sort of area of interest, and I'd traveled, after getting out of the service in Korea, throughout Southeast Asia and South Asia, though stupidly I'd allowed an American consular officer in Japan to talk me out of going
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be implemented with respect to any proposals to border taxes or tourist taxes and so forth. Mc: Did you have any work on the travel tax? P: Not very much except to oppose it. Mc: Did you work on the formation of the Department of Transportation? P
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and I had been a traveling salesman for the Texas Power & Light Company and I was a couple of years older than he was and I had been around, and he hadn't--he was strictly a country boy. him, it seemed like. So anything I'd say would be all right
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • traveling the country, talking to the national committee people in his quest for the chairmanship. Additional conversations ensued between Hubert and me. Hubert was busily informing me that the decks were all being cleared; all I had to do was say yes
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in particular that I can recall. When they had some troup of singers back from Viet Nam--a couple of young fellows who traveled around Viet Nam playing guitars and singing folk songs, and they had a ceremony over in the East Room; and these boys sang a couple
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was traveling a lot--and I needed to go where I could just close the door and not worry about it. Because when I'd leave town, I'd worry about them. I'd have one of my daughters come over and check on them, be sure-­ She didn't drive a car, she didn't speak
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
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Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one another. I had a budget worked out for each NYA state office; they were not large budgets; we were providing for a staff of not more than five, six people. The budget indicated a number of employees, the prospective salaries, travel allowance
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but tell me a little bit about the sort of climate in which the Alianza [Alliance for Progress] was projected. B: How was it received in Quito? Oh, very well. work there. Very well indeed. It was really the basis for my It was a basis for traveling
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , thought about what I would do when I finished school; I knew I wanted to travel, I had never been out of Texas, and either perhaps have a job in New York or Washington or Europe. At any rate I happened to be discussing with Judge Powell's secretary one day
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the army--were unalterably opposed to letting these people stay overnight. And we got them out of town the same day. Even though they were sick from traveling so much, we got them out. Resurrection City: 1) they stayed overnight and for an extended period
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at what jet travel has already done to the human condition, whether you want to add that pressure to the human condition, which is an interesting point, one I might say we never--the only person that ever raised that point during the hearings that I recall
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No, although I think some people in the campaign did. Because we seemed to always know. However, it seems--we had the person that traveled with him who reported. was, but I remember that we did. I didn't. I don't know who that That he'd go into a town, go
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • FDR [Franklin Roosevelt] in 1940 and had always kept his nose pretty clean in the Senate, who until that 1962 campaign to which I referred, never once took a reimbursement or a travel expense. Boy, you look at them today and . . . So this guy was known