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  • it was in the bottom of the depression we didn't travel near as much as they do now. PB: How did you raise money to make these trips? TD: That's the $64 question. PB: How many of there were you? TD: We usually took ••••• well, there's two on the team ••••• I
  • the pictures in the paper. F: You still get the Fredericksburg paper? W: Oh, yes. F: Well then, you keep up pretty well, probably better than I do. I was there when Mrs. Johnson brought the foreign travel editors there last spring, you may recall
  • the usual changes on compulsory arbitration etc., and came to the conclusion that there is no good solution to dealing with human problems. P: Have you ever traveled with Mr. Johnson? W: Never. P: Ever been asked to travel for him? W: No. As I say
  • in charge of the strategy here, and he was getting all his signals from Marsh, who was traveling with Johnson in that Senate race in 1941. They were in here twice that I recall, once for a sort of a hand-shaking tour of the downtown with a reception
  • G: Apparently, it was a matter of not being the one to transmit invitations to the senators? O: He refers to invitations to travel on Air Force One, and he took this occasion to pinpoint his concern. He refers to these invitations as "platinum
  • press on her side of the House, she often showed films. And I'm sure at the Library you will have these films which will show her travels. Of course the women who went along enjoyed seeing themselves and doing these things which may have seemed
  • Johnson became the whip . quite a bit to Lyndon Johnson because, McFarland might be Well, then I was exposed especially when Senator in Arizona or out of town or traveling or some­ thing, Johnson would be in charge of the floor . He used to call me
  • -- 12 up that day's paper. F: So I traveled pretty fast that first day. You could have failed to tell your daughter goodbye and she never would have known you had gone. P: That's right. interestin g F: It went fast. th~ng remember~ What
  • ; LBJ and Pickle's wedding; unexpected travels with LBJ
  • with . Like all Postmasters General, he loves to travel . They the people who all appreciate the attention they get in the press and from deal with them . and Mr . Watson has been in office now less than a year, sure his yet he has gone to forty-eight
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jones -- I -- 11 crowd without any problems. Luci and Lynda both did excellent jobs too. One of them traveled two days--I guess it was a four-day trip
  • : Well, it's fascinating, it really is fascinating. K: It's hard to remember it, so it's not left to--I left the AP twenty years ago. G: Did you ever travel with him at all? K: Yes, I went to Cotulla with him, as a matter of fact, to go visit
  • it. G: Yes. Was there anything in his philosophy that would lead to living a rather bucolic or more or less back-to-nature existence? D: I don't know. I don't know what was the source of it. G: Did you ever travel to Austin with LBJ? D: Are you
  • Station, and down to Galveston, down the coast to Brownsville, and up the river to Laredo. F: So you've got a fair amount of traveling. G: Right now, I'm only responsible for Brownsville, but I still travel. I used to take care of Corpus and Brownsville
  • the press reports of my travels--not just the press reports but the post reports, were glowing reports of my travels. B: Of course, I ought to point out in this record that you're hardly an amateur at that. You had made a similar trip in '55, I think
  • have some kind of roof over them most of the time. They were just nice, neat, clean places for travelers to stop and relax and eat. PB: During the years between Mr. Johnson's election to Congress and his election to the United States Senate, did you
  • them to get there? In short, were they actually traveling all day long and that’s why they couldn’t take care of details. Q: Oh, yes. G: Let’s get all the details down about the wedding, Mr. Quill, if you will. They came by automobile. Do you
  • never traveled with the President before, and I didn't expect his marching right into the crowds and shaking hands with everyone. F: There were always new elements of surprise. Did he show any particular interest in press and photographer arrangements
  • was traveling around the state and made some movies of NYA projects in Texas . Do you recall that, if this was for documentary films? B: Yes . There was a film production, shall .we say, or a film project . just don't remember enough about it . pictures
  • England with Lera Thomas. We were looking for antiques. Lera bought a lot of antiques, loved it, and knew a lot about it. I just loved the countryside and traveling. Every morning we would pick up the paper and read about the invasion
  • Middleton PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 J: My overall remembrance of the year 1960 is one of total confusion, travel all over the United States
  • traveled I received a call from a man by the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, to my surprise, about four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. duced himself. I went to the telephone. He intro- I told him yes, I had read of him in the papers, of his having come
  • , was a vote of no confidence . B: That's right . And many of us felt like that Holleman did this believing that Johnson was the better man although many people believe he did it because he felt like it was a route for him to travel to get
  • was not popular; O'Brien's and JFK's relationships with Bryce Harlow and Dwight Eisenhower; congressmen using the navy or air force for travel and Sam Rayburn's opposition to these junkets; providing transportation to bring members of Congress back to Washington D
  • with the foreign travel of the President and just what this involved in the way of getting ready ; in the way of arranging facilities overseas; and anythi ng that you may have run into along t h e way that wa sn't in the sc rip t, whi ch I imagine happened every
  • Experiences with Presidential foreign travel; importance of availability of communication; Presidential speeches; LBJ’s foreign relations; White House staff press briefings; Marvin Watson; 75% free hand with the press; Fortas/Thornberry nomination
  • . But then he was mindful of everybody's judgment that he should spend more time in the big cities, and went to San Antonio and El Paso. I think I stayed a little while in East Texas with Daddy. G: Did the children do any campaigning with you when you traveled
  • and his supporters; Lynda and Luci's whereabouts during the campaign; Lady Bird Johnson traveling around Texas attending political events and campaigning; Juanita Roberts; McCarthyism, Alger Hiss and his sister Anna Hiss; Taylor family support in East
  • ? T: Claude Wild--I believe he had the title of campaign manager. .of course, was the main one running things. John Connally, Horace Busby was also there and was traveling with the Congressman on those helicopter trips. Then there were men out
  • development in the field of foreign affairs came, as I say, only into public evidence, at least,. or into the public domain, when he started to travel around as vice president and when he then was thrust into the ~.Jhi M: te House. As far as your
  • in my memory a congressman in a way for the whole state. He wasn't bound by his district. C: Yes, because he had been NYA administrator, you see. He traveled over the state, and he 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • that idea up to date. I have done many things in my life: I've been an editor, publisher, writer, painter, traveler, diplomat, and friend-gatherer--one of the most important elements in my life. I have many things to be proud of, but since Flair appeared I
  • lot better today. B: Then this just sort of led into full-time formal work for Mrs. Johnson? A: No. I really just wanted to do that because Tyler was traveling so much, and I've never been much of a volunteer type for the Ladies' Hospital Board. I
  • of Florence. Well, he was an innocent sort of fellow traveler, not a party-lining type, but the sort of fellow who found communists plausible, who was told how much they wanted peace and came back thinking he had the keys to the kingdom. And the more you poked
  • . Anything else on that trip to Austin that you remember? K: No, I can't think of anything else. G: Did you do any other travel i.ng with LBJ? K: Lyndon could have been one of the contestants. he was along if he wasn't a contestant. I'm wondering why
  • Personal opposition to official policy in Vietnam; National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; SANE; MOBE; NCAC; role of television; counterculture; assignation attempt of Dellinger; travels to Vietnam; meeting with Ho Chi Minh
  • it's really done. P: Are these on a voluntary basis? G: Yes. And normally the members were offered consulting fees plus travel, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories