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Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • feel a little more comfortable at that particular time. B: Was the position of White House physician formally offered to you? H: Yes. The first time this was discussed was shortly after he became president. At that time Dr. [Janet] Travell
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Yes. Did you travel with him much? In 1961 or 1962 I traveled all over the country--he was cam- paigning--with him. In fact, that was the closest time I've come to getting in trouble. I left his pillow in Fargo, North Dakota, I believe. G
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Biographical information; LBJ; Sputnik; committee work; NASA; space legislation; U.N. and space; conferences; visiting the Ranch; space law; reports; foreign travel
Oral history transcript, Francis C. Turner, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the number of gallons that would be used. This, in turn, is a function of the miles traveled by different classes of vehicles. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • quite often as they traveled the state and tried to have what impact they could on the election. We had a few polls, if polls are indicators, that we were having a difficult time in Texas in 1956. P: You're indicating in part that this was from
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I could travel. The first jaunt that I took on a leg to go around the world ostensibly was to Dallas, Texas. 1919. I arrived in Dallas on December 1, I came on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, which I had connected to at Memphis, Tennessee from
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Dr. Janet Travell was actually physician to the president, and Dr. Burkley was White House physician, and we had a small treatment area. We did lab work, was able to do lab work, and we did ear, nose, and throat, the routine-type treatments. 1 LBJ
  • Mills' work under Dr. George Burkley, the White House physician; giving LBJ massages; Mills' background; Christmas 1963 at the LBJ Ranch; traveling with LBJ and living arrangements while working at the Ranch; LBJ as a patient; LBJ's diet; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • associates were taking me to TV stations, and there was going to be a cocktail party hosted by the Dallas Cowboy people to get acquainted. During the course of the day, the mayor and his associates felt that I would want to travel the route a little bit
  • who attended; confirming the succession procedure in case LBJ died; changes in presidential travel security after JFK's death; accessibility of the president and the White House; LBJ's relationship with RFK and Ted Kennedy; JFK's relationship with RFK
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that we also, at that point, were very, very dominant in terms of the air, in terms of commercial aviation, simply because we made all the airplanes. It didn't matter if you were traveling KLM or BEA or Scandinavia or Air France; you were traveling
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reporters got to fly If they did, it was unusual Probably just because of the capacity . and probably just very If there was anybody on the helicopter with him it was probably some of his aides . G: Did the reporters travel B: I almost always made
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that is correct . While Lyndon was talking to Harry Drought, Bob Smith and I were going into more details, partic­ ularly with reference to our travel allowance and expenses and the manner in which they had to be approved, in some outline . I think that's
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and other people had set it up--she wanted it to go smoothly. That was part of her personal feeling and her own personality, that expressed her as it went well, went smoothly and so on. It was a very happy circumstance to work with her, travel with her
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of orientation, or giving him a better sense of what the world was like? G: Yes, marginally, would be my comment because he was a very--yes, unquestionably he learned, and trips do--travel is valuable. I've maintained that for years, and travel money
  • health; LBJ’s vice-presidential staff; LBJ’s interaction with foreign heads of state; leaving LBJ’s staff around the time of JFK’s assassination; LBJ’s lack of interest in foreign policy and preference for domestic policy; the role of travel in LBJ’s vice
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to publishers about stories which displeased him. M: And of course this just had the absolute negative reaction for a reporter. A: He never understood; he never will understand, M: That's probably right. How frequently did you travel with the President
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of time with Mrs. Johnson? B: On the first occasion? F: Yes. B: I was sitting next to Mrs. Johnson at dinner. F: I see. B: At that time we had a conversation, if I remember~ about traveling in Mexico and how much you could travel as a person
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the committee in Alaska, they paid their own travel expenses. If they couldn't afford to pay their own travel expenses, they passed the hat and people got them back here. M: Was your husband ever involved in getting financial support for these various
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was built in here, which is while the strike was enormously disruptive of travel by businessmen, it didn't rise to the level of emergency in the sense [that] the whole country would be economically ruined. G: Was the fact that it was during the tourist
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to stay here in Washington and he couldn't be bothered traveling around the country, visiting this state and that state and the other state; that he had the B-70 to worry about, he had the Medicare bill to worry about, he had this, that, and the other
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 12 I'd get so disgusted with this crap. But anyhow, he said he and Eloise and David and little Molly were all going to travel in that little Plymouth through that snow
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /Quadriad; FRB; Mark-Franc crisis; transfer of Coast Guard Narcotics division out of the Treasury Department; Warren Commission; Customs Service; Secretary of Treasury duties; surtax proposal; travel tax; B/P; Organization for Economic Development; Group
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Did you travel with him extensively? F: No. M: You weren't involved in any of his foreign trips? F: He didn't go to Europe during the time I was there. It was as simple as that. M: Right. Your speciality was not the Number One topic during
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Geissinger -- 1 -- 5 or the grounds--we would do heavy coverage from positions or areas on state arrivals, and this kind of thing, outside. Travel: President. there were usually two people [who] traveled with the Okamoto would travel
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the President flies, we do have a FAA gentleman that we call. He's aware of the President's travels and, of course, the President has priority at all times on all fields and in all the air. Go: That means that no other planes--? Gu: For the president's
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , travel vouchers, and that type of work. Actually, I never was assigned to any educational phase of NYA. The only thing that I later got involved in perhaps was in the certification of payrolls for student aid programs. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the aircraft. I traveled by car, usually with the man that was--he was an employee of the radio station in Austin and he was an engineer. They wanted him along in case the public address system went bad because it did get a lot of vibration installed
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but lived in that apartment. After Mr. Johnson came back, though, from his military service and then also got through some of the traveling back and forth around the country that he did, they bought the house one day. That's about all I know, except that I
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to find out what happened to all those little kids that were there at that time. G: How about traveling? You've mentioned Mexico and his travel into Austin. Did he take many other trips during his retirement? S: Well, mainly football games. We went
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have now, although they were not quite as dramatic because of the oil thing. And it was thought that people should travel within the four corners of our country, as distinguished from traveling to Europe or to Southeast Asia or wherever they were going
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Berry -- I -- 8 quartet my last two years . educational . That was a lot of fun . It was very We traveled the state, we stayed in homes in these towns all over the state, and that's an education in itself . in the glee
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the train stops, you know, you have to stop there on the railroad track and that's that. But certainly a thing like that is a very colorful kind of--in 1960 many people didn't travel on trains so much anymore. Politicians normally by that time were flying
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you were asked to go along on the trip. H: Well, as you know, when a vice president or a president travels, they often take with them a number of people. Staff people may go, maybe several, four or five. You may need advance people who have helped
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • has given you directions to pursue? F: No. We haven't to my knowledge received any instructions or directions from the White House. We frequently receive questions. Questions with regard to, for example, travel of foreign scientists in this country
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of this, where really an amazingly large retinue and whole logistical establishment were set up. Not that there were that many traveling dignitaries with her, there may or may not have been a few in each case. But the elaborate arrangements, and they were immense
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but then I traveled extensively from there over to Nogales and Guadalajara and all over Mexico. And amazingly enough, at that time, one of the vice consulates in Nogales, Sonora, was a fellow by the name of Charles Adair. Charles Adair and I later met
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • a real personal interest in every little project, no matter how small. G: Were you at these meetings that would go on often in his home? K: Yes, I lived with him at that time. I lived in his home and I drove him as kind of traveling secretary, valet
Oral history transcript, O.B. Summy, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I don’t know much about Model T’s -- they were a little before my time. About how fast did you travel when you were going away? S: I wouldn’t think we were going
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a fantastic job and handled it so smoothly without Sarah knowing what I had told him. But Sarah McClendon, while she did print a lot of things ahead of time sometimes, she was a very good person and I think very loyal in a way. I traveled with the Johnsons
  • Circumstances of joining LBJ’s staff; duties in the Texas office; Arthur Perry; Walter Jenkins; office operation; LBJ and the Texas office; Lady Bird; transfer to the Majority Leader’s office; office staff; traveling with the Johnson’s; Johnsons
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [remarry]. He didn't travel much. Mr. Taylor didn't seem to travel much. M: No. Marshall and Shreveport were about the only places he went. G: Did he have any other interests or hobbies? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • and would bundle them and take them to town and sell them. $0 They were in good demand in the city. he would work up a wagonload of that kindling wood and take it to Montgomery and peddle it out. The money he got from it he would travel over the country