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Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of you? F: Well, we had his two servants in the back seat, but one was Chinese and one was a trusted Vietnamese. to travel with Perruche. They had no advance knowledge of my plan I did not feel in great danger, but I pru- dently would not have driven

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Four Senator Eastland and I both met her and she was traveling east-west and we met her at Biloxi. He made the difference in that 1960 campaign. He carried enough of the South anyway to make the difference. F: Do you think it was just a matter

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that disagreement with John Connally where Connally insisted that they announce it? T: I don't remember that, no. G: You didn't travel with the candidate at all, did you? T: Not at all. G: You weren't with him when he went to Bogata? T: No. Never. He

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Caldwell's on the road, and there's a little old restaurant there, or was at that time, at the intersection. And just before you go under the interstate, where throughout the year, being a driver, doing most of my traveling by automobile, I had a hundred

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

with the domestic press as well, the people who travel with the President, foreign correspondents for American newspapers. H: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. That's primarily what you work with. You work with the press in the country, but your main thrust, your major

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

lines and the ocean freight forwarders who are travel agents, except for cargo instead of people. The type of regulation we do is designed also to see that the shipper, who in our language is the exporter-importer, gets a fair break from the steamship

Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, and he was kind of a roustabout. He traveled a lot, and back and forth, but when Lyndon was born, he was back there on the ranch. And he had cattle and he had charge of a lot of things about. Well, he was at the Legislature at the same time. I: Well

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but that frequently existed for schools in those days. For example, a very large group of students was suspended from school for a few days because they had attended a traveling show on Wednesday night. The school and the churches and the homes were the centers

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wished he had more time to sit and talk with them. But of course Texas is a big area. There are a lot of people and there are a number of wealthy people. there~ By that I mean they were able to travel to Washington, see Washington, and so

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went because Bobby wanted to be president, and he was trying to angle himself in. G: Now, he traveled quite a bit during that month of April, went to Chicago to address the broadcasters convention, met with Mayor [Richard] Daley. R: No, I didn't go

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

take over some of the social jobs and the travel and some of the tedious things like that. But now I didn't get this LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Lee -- II -- 13 L: Either by going to the project or having the division manager come in for conferences. I suppose they had one or two big meetings, but I don't recollect extensive use of large meetings. G: Did you do any traveling around

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

some Washington experience, so I came here. After five years of editing the National Farmers Union newsletter and traveling all over the country--actually, I'd say that the Farmers Union newsletter was the organizing vehicle for Democrats throughout

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

for a profit and came back to Austin. That campaign was an eye-opener, I think, to everybody. We didn't travel over the state with McCraw. We were mostly in his campaign headquarters and did the things that you do: put out releases and got literature out

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the shower and he was just furiousthat his advance people had been so inept, had confused things so as to cause us to travel back and forth between the Biltmore and the Carlyle, and he apologized. He was really ungracious and very, very harsh on his

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

bus traveling down the same road, picking up children, dropping them off at the Negro school and dropping them off at the white school. B: A third major area of Congressional criticism has been what the critics call a selective enforcement in your

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to have Mrs. Johnson and the Senator and part of his staff traveling with him to dinner with us that night before they went on to Houston. We were watching the TV and after we got through dinner, I took them on out to the airport and they went

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

at about eleven 0' clock, and he travels with an arsenal. and pistols. He even carries a machine gun, shotguns. was supposed to arrive at eleven; at eleven thirty he wasn't there. He carries rifles As I said, he the barbecue was to begin at noon

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

would go 24 hours a day. M: Did you travel by automobile then? W: He did, yes. I didn't go with him. I would have to stay in one place and run the organization. M: Where were your campaign headquarters? W: I ran it out of my office, over here

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and he was from Tennessee, and his old shoes were wearing out, had a hole in them. Walking along the side of the road, that gravel was making his feet sore and wasn't getting any better. traveled together three or four days. We'd The boy was kind

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

know. At that time I was a very visible, aggressive, reasonably young scholar, who was traveling a hell of a lot, and I was on a trip. I think I was on a trip to Washington, D.C. I didn't even know that they were going to have a presidential commission

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, 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 McCarthy -- II -- 17 excellent job on that. G: Did Franklyn Johnson pretty much confine his activities to traveling

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

happened to me, because it gave me a world view. I traveled all over the world. It was one time when I realized that when something bad happens to you in life, don't worry about it. It's going to change; sooner or later, it's going to change. And I've

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he became vice president, of course, he-- M: He went to a lot of them. G: Yes. Well, he traveled abroad so much. M: Well, he did, that's right. That's right. When you don't have anything else to do, when you don't have to keep up your political

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mankiewicz apparently had carved out a role of traveling with McGovern through the campaign. He would be at his shoulder and his key adviser. There was no perceivable coordination in the offing to ensure there was a good mix and a maximizing of what potential

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the news traveled very fast and was shocking to 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Kennedy. As I told you, I nominated him in 1956, I had been to his wedding, and all this sort of thing. We had traveled around together and we were very close personal friends, although I didn't agree with his philosophy as much as I did with Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

you Why did you acquire a place in Virginia? Did you just like the country, or would it bring you near Washington? B: Back in those days, you traveled by DC-3's . If you got hung up in New York or Washington on Friday and you had to be back

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his most pressing requests was more money for travel, because they had such long distances between his headquarters and these outlying places, and more need for staff than we had felt that we could afford to let him have . To the extent possible we

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

than getting the yearly passport, the people who traveled all around would use this passport so it was too much of a bargain and you lost money that way. Also, there were many violations of it. The reason it foundered was that there was central

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Nixon-Lodge ticket? T: Well, the way we did it was I always in making my speeches advocated Nixon-Lodge, as well as my own candidacy. Then I traveled with the candidates when they were in the state. They both embraced me, for whatever political

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

return and one of the souvenirs given him of the trip was by photographers who accompanied him, a portfolio of 8 x 10 pictures of his travels through Senegal. They were lying there on the coffee table while you were waiting to see the Vice President and I

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to Washington on Air Force One. And where did we go in that helicopter, from their ranch to Austin to some speaking or dinner or something that they were having? We went on that helicopter. G: Were they good fliers, good travelers? W: Yes, they were. We both

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, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-- 25 C: Well, we didn't have any problems until the last year. What we did was we'd make a department pick up the tab for the traveling expenses. (Interruption) F: What happened the last year? C: Well, the last year Congress started passing laws