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Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was to bring the parties together and force a resolution through public disclosure and discomfort. By this time, the traveling public was facing a mess. MG: Do you have any insights on what the White House, the administration, did to try to secure

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

them around. Involve local schools and teachers and so forth in experimental activity, and let, you know, their successes be emulated and travel through the system. In other words, I think what we did--said in the Budget Bureau was, "Don’t try to do

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

. This is not to say there has been reckless spending, nothing of the kind. We've never had sufficient money to work with. But I know that at one time Mrs. Johnson raised the same question I did: Is so much staff travel necessary? She is a very practical woman, a very

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

worked with Bill during-- we ll, from August to December, including some overseas travel. We worked well together. kn0"7 , there was never any acrimony between the two of us. As far as I The re we re some problems here in the press office which were

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you travel around to many of the stops, or did you stay pretty much to the office? J: No, I didn't get out of the office. Oh, I did, too, later on, but it was only to pick up contributions. G: You had said yesterday that you did some work

Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

into the South with a lot of women and face those hostile crowds and travel all through the deepest part of the South and subject herself to this kind of • • • LBJ Presidential Library ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Lyndon was that he was busy and businesslike, but not depressed. G: So then they came back after traveling I guess to North Africa. E: Munich. G: Munich, Naples, places like that. E: I think I must have questioned him a great deal about Naples

Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in it. The norma 1 thingi s of course that the ambassador accompanies the visiting head of state on his journey in the country. I went out a few days before President Johnson and was there to meet him and travel with him throughout his Australian visit. F: Now

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was traveling with Lyndon, and, I don't know, I guess in a campaign. I remember my sister giving aid and comfort and hearing the sniffles, and I thought, "Oh, does she miss her mother!" She was just a little thing. But, as I recall, daybreak came But I

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. MG: Yes, that's great. It's beautiful. Well, by this time Jack Kennedy was traveling around the country campaigning for president. Did LBJ have any thoughts on Kennedy's efforts or his own candidacy? AG: I don't think he had any thoughts of his

Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to travel on a fixed income. Of course, it isn't all that much of a problem. G: Can you tell me about LBJ's relationship with Professor Greene? H: Not anything definiteo dubso thingo All I do know is they were pretty close They would argue certain

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the East. Do you feel he has pushed strongly for the various parts of that program, such as the Consular Treaty and air travel to Russia and things of this nature? H: I think he has been groping for some kind of what we might call an Eastern abutment

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was about, too, although I forget. him in the vice presidency. I never saw As president I traveled with him a few times, and the most memorable encounter was spending five or six hours upstairs in the White House during the 1964 campaign when he just got

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

out in, I think, Peoria or some damn place when I was traveling with Humphrey. It was an open-air speech. I was in the crowd listening to Humphrey, and the Secret Service tapped me on the shoulder and said, "The President wants to talk with you

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mentioned down there in Houston. G: In 1954, Johnson seems to have campaigned the year before in 1953. He came here, I believe, and traveled all over the state. Do you recall that? S: I recall all his trips around here. G: Did he? S: He told me

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of them, and I'm sure he quoted hi s, tooo And that when I got that done I got my secretary trained--I had two secretaries trained to do that. "Then I spent a lot of time out traveling over Texas writing stories for Houston papers, Dallas, Fort Worth

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

friendly visits--the two visits you had with him? M: Yes. F: Did he tend toward a woman to be sort of courtly, or all business, or what was he like? M: You see, I was in Russia. in Russia. I was there three months, traveled 1,200 miles Of course

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

problems with Adam Powell. Got along fine, because I didn t travel with him or anything like that. Adam. But I always had the guts to pick it up I I just went ahead about my business and got along with LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know whether she went to church or You see, there were two churches in Karnack, a Methodist church and a Baptist church. But remember, it was about four or four and a half miles the way we traveled around this winding road to Karnack. Now when we

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

it. G: How did you travel around? W: In an automobile. G: Mr. Wild, at some stage of the campaign, Maury Maverick played a Never did try to defend him. role, didn't he? W: I assume he did. I never did have any contact with him. He came up here

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Are there any other areas that we haven't talked about at all? Did you ever travel with Johnson overseas? N: Not overseas, no. M: But domestically? N: Oh, yes, and that was always an experience, because he'd talk his head off in the plane and that sort

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

How Krimer came to work for the State Department as an interpreter in 1963; biographical information; Krimer's World War II experience; Krimer's first work interpreting for LBJ; Krimer's early impression of LBJ; traveling to Germany to interpret

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

[?], sitting in on committees. I found myself involved with a couple of the PSAC [President’s Science Advisory Committee?] committees, the military aircraft panel and the naval warfare panel, and doing lots of traveling to Washington. And I had never heard

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the street in the Brown Building, and when Mr. Johnson would go out and do a little traveling around the Tenth District, if I could keep up with my work I would slip out sometime and go talk to Senator Wirtz about when I was coming back to work for him. I

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1942; how LBJ's war experience affected him; LBJ's travels in the 1940s.

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went to Texas before be could get away from Congress, and she went traveling around by car with some other lady and a driver going with her, and stopping in places and speaking for her husband. You see, you quote her here on page 12 [of the 1946

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

--they were the world's largest furniture manufacturer--I had a chance to go out on the road as a traveling salesman. I accepted the job immediately, although it was on a commission basis. And remember, this was in 1931, right in the depth of the Depression

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Baker, that I am strictly a volunteer . I have never been on the payroll . I have had a few expenses for travel and things of that kind--when I've been strictly on committee business- either taken care of by the state I was visiting officially

Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

turned on the tape that you and Lyndon Johnson traveled in different social circles. Would you elaborate on that? S: Well, I for one, was rather a bashful country boy. I don't think I had a date till I was probably about the end of my sophomore year. I

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the drawer that night, counted up the gallons of gasoline that he could carry and how far he could travel, like to Tennessee because it was socked in, in Oklahoma City. She has some pilot knowledge that-- 1 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in in high school, and, of course, the Longhorn Band in those days traveled by train to most of the football games we attended, but a cross-country trip, spending a couple of nights on the train--that's what it took then--was something new. I 3 LBJ

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought that since he was on the Naval Affairs Committee, there ought to be somebody there from his office at this event. And he had a willing traveler in me. G: Do you recall LBJ's trip to Alaska and Seattle during early August? W: No, I do not. G

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, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- II -- 14 job needed to be done. I again knew the district extremely well; I had traveled the district with him

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

who filed for that party and had his name on the ballot in November. It freed me to campaign, which I did. I was asked to travel on the Eisenhower train and plane and traveled with him through some thirty-four or thirty-five states of the Union

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

think if Vietnam had been settled before the election or one month before the deadline for the election, he would have run. But I felt badly and I have been around. the United Nations and been traveling throughout the world. bit about history, Mr

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

pictures. Mean~tilitary I was in the public I spent almost five years there, traveling around the Pacific, doing all sorts of photographic jobs, all news and journalistically oriented. While there, I took advantage of another short course that they had

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, four or five girls. F: Where did he go? T: He went down to Kendleton, Texas in Fort Bend County. He went down in South Texas around about 1876. It took them two years to travel from Brenham to down on Turkey Creek in Fort Bend County, they were