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Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Woods -- V -- 13 G: Did you travel any with the candidate in that campaign? W: I don't believe I did in that campaign. VW: He did not travel
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but anyway it's high octane gasoline. You have to map out your traveling so that you can stop at a place where there is high octane gasoline for helicopters before you run out, and high octane wasn't available everywhere. Sometimes it had to be arranged
  • campaign; the roles of Claude Wild, John Connally, and Senator Alvin Wirtz in LBJ's campaign; LBJ's helicopter travel and how it was planned and arranged; the staff who traveled with LBJ during his helicopter trips; LBJ's imitation of Coke Stevenson; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • traveled to some of the more regal places of the world and then getting on board with Lyndon Johnson, you didn't find yourself at Palm Beach very often. You either were in Johnson City, which wasn't bad; I mean it was reasonable living, but Kennedy had
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of California at Santa Barbara. In 1951 you joined the Travelers Insurance Company and were there until 1964. K: '65. G: '65. Is that correct? From 1964 until 1965 you were the vice president of Travelers in charge of public information and advertising
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Yes, I traveled with him all during the 1960 campaign for vice president. Of course, the reason I asked if we had discussed that was that it became very apparent to those of us that were traveling with him following the Dallas situation that wherever
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with it, and he visited all these countries trying to bring them together. M: He was a great traveler. S: Oh, gee, it kept him on the go all the time. And any time he'd come in, he'd call me and say, "Can you get your subcommittee together," and we'd get
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • other positions. So prior to my assuming the national presidency, I had already served in different capacities on the national organization. But it presented me with a great opportunity to travel and become sufficiently aware and cognizant
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 3 when we spent the night in Brenham, but that was probably the most distant point in the district. was hot. Many of those roads were caliche. It The car that we were in wasn't air-conditioned as I recall. It was a Ford. G: Did you travel
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • ? WD: Well, at the dinner party I thought she was a rather striking looking woman. When she got on the bus to go back to Karnack, of course, she was dressed for travel and she looked like she thought she was still back in the university. G
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • change Johnson's daily routine any? It was farther out. R: No. G: Did he spend more time there than he had at 30th Place? R: No, not really. It was a little further out in terms of distance but not in terms of travel. Les Ormes, The Elms
  • , the East-West Cultural Center in Hawaii, and Vietnam; LBJ's behavior in Vietnam; LBJ's visit to the Philippines; meeting Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei; LBJ drinking too much in Thailand; LBJ's visit with Jawarharlal Nehru and travel in India; LBJ's visit
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at the wonderful reception he got in Sacramento when I was Governor . F: He had a tremendous crowd and great reception . He came out here in the last week of the campaign, and you and Salinger in a sense-- B: Traveled with him . And he had tremendous crowds
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • was the Daily Diary. At that time it had a back copy of it where they could keep the list of traveling expenses and lunches and this kind of thing, which were important. But it was kept, I am afraid, more as a log, but nonetheless the Diary had been installed
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • being in the Far Eastern area, of course with Germany a major sector as - well. The tourist expenditures as well being of primary interest to the [U.S.] Travel Service, which was in the Department of Commerce. Well, all of these factors were reviewed
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the beautification program, which of course led to the passage of the Highway Beautification Bill, and Mrs. Johnson's traveling to publicize the efforts of cities and states in the beautification projects. We had reached a point in time, I believe May, 1967, when
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • led me unexpectedly to North Texas, to Denison and Sherman, where we established a fishing and travel magazine. I had a public relations and advertising agency for roughly ten years. legislature for two terms from North Texas. And I went
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • congressional district. So as such, I had to travel into every one of these counties and visit with the people and get acquainted. is what I did. And this l put in long hours, twelve-fourteen hours, because I would work on the project and then I'd visit
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . They outdid each other in their liking of ice cream. And whenever he went to country towns, he would make a respectful call on the newspaper editor. So he worked at it and he enjoyed their friendship pretty much. G: He did travel the district, though, a lot
  • with private power companies; LBJ's re-election in 1938, 1940, and 1942; socializing with constituents and other politicians; traveling around Virginia with Rebekah Johnson and back to Texas when Congress was about to adjourn; LBJ's interest in the economic
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I remember having a little typewriter, a portable typewriter, and my shorthand book, and the resolve that I was going to learn to be a good secretary, and did take some notes as he talked on the train going out. I always loved train travel. I think
  • Francisco; visiting with other Texans on the West Coast; the Johnsons traveling from the West Coast back to Washington, D.C.; LBJ's decision to no longer accept his congressional pay; LBJ and John Connally leaving for the war; Lady Bird's work in LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and secretary, and for the next--1965, 1966, 1967, and a good part of 1968--Fowler was gone a lot of the time travelling on this idea. Tape 1, Side 2 B: The Europeans--when he first brought this idea up they nearly went through the roof. They couldn't believe
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was never privy to it, because after this start in El Paso of me traveling with him--and, see, in the second primary it was all airplanes--I didn't spend a weekday in headquarters. I don't know what went on. I was always out with him. G: Did Johnson ever
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and do your story of it. But then you had to go to every other one to be sure something better did turn up or protect against the next day. F: Was Johnson always pretty good at laying out his route of travel so that you could plan? K: As I recall
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • travelled infrequently in that area that I spent so much time in, I have a good many contacts, particularly with the Chinese, apart from travel. And I'm just convinced that the only way to ultimately bring Red China into a viable relationship is the cour
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • can't possibly recall all the many faces or the types of trips, but needless to say, wherever the President went, I was part of the party. On Air Force One now I was traveling first class, whereas before lid been a part of the press party. F
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the studio-again, Woody was there--and we got things arranged. Then, like a great tornado coming out of the sky, the Johnson motorcade descended on this studio. It was the first time I had met Bill Moyers. ing with the majority leader. He was travel- He
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • about the You must have covered that. I covered the campaign of 1960, and the campaign of 1964, although by 1964 we were doing more moving around the country without the candidate-we on the Plain Dealer--than we were actually traveling
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then, there were delays in getting that information through. Some of it had to find its way by way of a traveler coming out. going to Mexico and There wasn't a great deal of instant communication because of the restraints of travel and communication and so
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Republican senators. G: Yes. In 1953, of course, he had that campaign swing around the state to discourage opposition. M: No, I stayed right here. Did you travel with him at all? Reedy traveled with him. I think Sam Houston traveled with him. G: You
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one of those things that you just do sometimes because you think it's the right thing--a hunch. I had some travel orders issued for myself and went down to Mississippi. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Travelers Research Center at Hartford with people who were like-minded and we had attempted to build a group at the Travelers Research Center in Hartford dealing with physical environment as a whole, and that meant dealing not only with the weather
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • meetings in Joe's office, sometimes with Mayor [Walter] Washington there. But other than that I think most of the contacts were not ones in which whatever matter was involved was dealt with in great detail. McS: Did you have occasion to travel either
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • That s perfectly all right. 1 Rusk says, 11 There are times when Secretary of State Look, I don 1 t know. 11 Did you ever travel with him when he was vice president? A: No, I did not. I went with him as president on the trip to Manila
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that of course the then-President Kennedy had announced that he was going to give greater responsibility to Vice President Johnson, as almost every President in recent times has said he was going to do for his Vice President. And the travel that Mr. Johnson did
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • people, many construction companies, connected with it, too; not only Brown & Root, but many others and they continue to be. M: Did Mr. Thomas travel down here with the NASA people to inspect the site? T: Oh, yes, he came at different times
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these liberal programs every day on him. So he got it into his head that I should get out and that Moyers should get out and travel around the country and get ideas. He put it in the context of getting ideas for the State of the Union Message, but what he really
Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and I went. We went horseback riding. We had an older friend who took us horseback riding many times. G: Did you travel much away from Austin, let's say, to San Antonio? M: I remember one Thanksgiving Emily and I went home with Bird to Karnack
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in the Library. As people began to travel more, by 1949--well, I know it was 1956 before we took our trip, but everybody had been going to NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] for ages before we went. Each wife returning from an interesting trip was likely
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Senator Robert Taft stepping down as Senate majority leader in 1953 and later dying; the Texas drought; LBJ's travel throughout Texas in the summer of 1953; C. T. McLaughlin; Mrs. Ben Powell; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to improve her public
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was not the Hubert that I knew, and had known for so many years before. I had traveled with him. I was among those who, years before, had urged him to take on Jack Kennedy in West Virginia. I come from West Virginia, and had 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Kilgore. The thing I remember about this was that nobody asked me, nobody asked my permission to do this to me or nothing like that. Where in the first primary, Woody had traveled with him and I was out on the road being the press man and I was at all
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • went wrong with the Canadian trip. C: Everything else was wrong with the trip, anyway. It was such a messed up thing anyway that it didn't matter. ?: Did other major countries advance as carefully as we did? C: No. Nobody travels like