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Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • who \.,rere preparing late in IJ67 for w'hat you thought was going to be the 1963 campaign. One qu;:;':; rion I have--Hhen you were doing that prelim- inary planning, did travel corne up? Tle;c;tion of whether or not the President could th~ You
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , or was it fairly stiff or what? L: Oh no, no, it was a very nice home; it was·a small house, as I remember it. It was very unpretentious, like any house of any of my other class- mates. Her parents traveled a lot, so I remember her father especially seemed
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Europe and to Asia, made several trips. F: Africa. G: And Africa. He traveled in that year 1961 seventy-five thousand miles around the world. And we had one of our men, Bart McDowell, with him, and a photographer, Volkmar Wentzel. F: Who
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there was a press secretary. I was probably the staff officer that traveled with them more than any other staff officer. We had hours and hours LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • him, I believed him. G: Of course you did. H: There was that wonderful thing. And that was a marvelous memory, actually. It was a great day. We traveled--they were using him on the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the foreign travel that you have had." F: He hadn't softened you up for this at all? M: Nothing at all. He said, "Now if you don't think you are competent, then I will have to look elsewhere." I said in defense, "Of course I'm compe- tent, but you can't
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But I had very little to do I was either travelling with Jack Kennedy, or I was travelling ahead of him doing editorial advance, so to speak, planning his speeches a few days ahead. And so I really didn't see the Vice President at that time. PM
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Democrats in campus communities--Austin in particular--at Lyndon Johnson's request. F: Did you do other states as well? M: Oh, yes. Yes, I appeared in other states. I traveled with the Vice- President, as a matter of fact, in a couple of joint rallies
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . But they were all directly related to whatever I was supposed to be doing. M: Did you ever travel with or for Mr. Johnson? P: No. M: Did you travel very often in your position in Defense? P: Yes. I visited a great many military installations while I
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That was utmost in my mind about the traveling by car, because I was afraid of not having any place to stay that was nice. One thing I must say about Mrs. Johnson, shewas very nice about finding nice places to stay. And if we couldn't stay there, she didn't
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • items. I can recall when he was traveling somewhere, I think it was in Puerto Rico. (Interruption) R: We were traveling in Puerto Rico and [Bill] Moyers was with him, looking at some Peace Corps projects. The man in charge of one of them had a long
  • in support of Henry Gonzalez's campaign for House of Representatives in 1961; LBJ's rapport with the Mexican people; traveling around the U.S. with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Styles Bridges; the China lobby and isolationists during World War II and later
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • over that period of time. While Vice President he followed foreign affairs very closely and traveled to foreign countries a great deal. He sat with us in the National Security Council and sat with us in the Cabinet, and I had many informal talks
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • alone. I couldn't travel My doctor just absolutely forbade me from even taking trips. F: They put a clamp on you. C: They did. And I couldn't go against that. \,-Jith my wife knowing this she was frightened naturally of this, although she took
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • rather foolish because there had been very few Republican governors. I was defeated, but I was thirty-seven at the time and it gave me an opportunity to travel all over the state. It didn't cost anything then. [There was] LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • out of our state party treasury, and we paid the cost of these four or five young men who were traveling . I would imagine that insofar as the Nixon campaign is concerned, aside from the money that was sent directly to the national committee, we
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, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anybody except the two secretaries who always traveled with the President. They always stayed in the big house. I forget who--oh, Oki [Yoichi Okamoto] used to stay there, the photographer, and any other staff people. The male staff people would stay
  • of the war and the information and advice he was receiving; how LBJ obtained information; LBJ's secrecy and relationship with the press; LBJ's travel planning; LBJ's opinion of William McChesney Martin; Joseph Swidler as head of the Federal Power Commission
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • all of the work for all of his appointments and the travel and all that sort of thing and signed Marvin's name to them. They just went into night reading, or went in to the President, Jones with Marvin's name on them. Then I guess after about a year
  • and stable; organizing advance operations; LBJ’s 1965 trip to Mexico; LBJ’s last-minute travel plans; LBJ’s around-the-world trip; Manila Conference; LBJ’s interest in Southeast Asia and Latin America; going to Adenauer’s funeral in Germany; domestic trips
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the time, but Daddy traveled with Mr. Dick. They were very fond of each other. Only thing was Dick drove too fast and scared the hell out of Daddy. He had had no knowledge of politics whatsoever, Kleberg had, and he didn't propose to have. He never
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that election ." Thereafter, no matter who I was traveling with, and even on my own, I try the room key on the door before I leave the room to see if it'll turn the lock . On one other occasion in a VIP suite I found one . What happens, see, is they clean
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about two o'clock in the afternoon; I heard the gunshots going off, and I said, "Oh, my God, they've killed him." Then I was on a path, a trail, obviously a well-traveled trail along a little stream. Then I heard people coming, so I had to quick gather
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • travels through the archives, a memo that you sent to Gardner on this subject, and I believe you copied it to Gaither, in which you said that it 27 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Holton -- I -- 9 and get back home, because he never did want to travel anyplace else. He wouldn't take junkets to Europe or anything else. Whenever Congress would be out, he would be on the train or plane
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in every major civil rights action from the time it started, really. He just did everything, was in every case. [He] travelled over the country and tried cases in the South where he was so unwelcome, and therefore, among the black leaders, legally first
Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over our projects and saw what we were doing that wasn't very much impressed with them. We had a superior program, and I'm comparing it now to what I saw after I got to Washington and traveled over the other states. G: What do you think made Texas
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the precise time or place. I guess the first recollection I have is as a young person in the summer of 1941 travelling with my mother and father. Dad was quite interested in the Senate election that year and while I may have heard of him or known of him before
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This is what we did. So in the process of that and then going out to a lot of these and touring and traveling the country myself, which I did, and spent a lot of time, and the only time--not 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • - Humphrey in 1964, and in this capacity I traveled extensively over the country with the two Johnson girls. And I think this tended to solidify the personal basis, because most fathers appreciate people who do things with their youngsters; and as these gals
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thought she would betray him and other words short of treason. And I said, "What has she done?" She didn't come to the meeting at the White House. I said, "Mr. President, she doesn't know about it. She couldn't have known about it. She was traveling cross
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Mrs. Jansen and three other teachers traveled to California in 1923 in a Model T Ford. Their car broke a spring in the Arizona desert and they were rescue by LBJ and friends who were returning from California to Texas.
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that he'd call her up at six o'clock and say, "I'm bringing over five people for dinner." Most women don't react very well to that sort of thing. And his political life caused him to be gone a lot, travel a lot. She never complained at all, at least
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Yes. J: Oh, God! Well, you know, I talked to Germans from morning to night day after day, day after day. I not only went to Berlin, but I travelled all through western Germany to Bonn, to Stuttgart, to Cologne, to all of the major cities
Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • indicates the double meanings of words: Where can a man buy a cap for his knee, or a key for the lock of his hair, Can his eyes be called a school because there are pupils there? In the crown of his head what gems are found, Who travels the bridge on his