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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the persuasiveness that he was able to marshal in the task of getting bills passed? W: Again, as I have explained to you before, not being on the Majority Leader's staff, but merely being around and with him socially and travelling with him, you were always aware
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we finished, we presented the first copy to Mrs. Johnson, and she promoted it and used it in her travels. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out their background. I think if the WPA or whatever the referral agency sent us, we accepted them and put them to work if we had the jobs going. G: You must recall some anecdotes of LBJ as NYA director, either as he traveled around or worked
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was the problem of getting somebody to talk to. You'd set up a program. You were going to make three stops or four stops a day. B: You're traveling by car? L: Traveling by car. And you're going to make three or four stops. At each place some people would
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of difficulty that they had, the difficulty of the FBI acting on information from another law enforcement agency that someone in the vicinity of O'Hare Airport, Chicago, on a route that the President or a candidate for President would travel going in from
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • more than that and then hung up the phone. He didn't tell Of course, he was traveling that 450 miles during the day, and it was quite a task to get all these things together. F: Had they decided rather suddenly to get married? Q: They must have
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't know when in the late fifties, 1957/58/59, I had traveled out west with Nixon, and late one night at the Denver airport there weren't but four or five reporters with him and he invited us into one of the airport rooms while we waited for the plane
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on here. I would like to have an understanding with you if I stay on, that I will not do any more advance work and will not travel anymore. I want to stay here and look around and see what I can find." So we made that agreement, but like a lot
Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • tour in Vietnam, we found absolutely, in all my travels and I think Bill Knowlton will tell you the same thing, all of our travels found absolutely no conflict or problem once you got out of Saigon between the military and civilian. They were a team
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with this and had difficulty getting information, attending meetings, and never traveling with the secretary of state. By the time I got to the job, that became easier to do. It turned on the confidence that the secretary of state would place in you, and when
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that I referred to earlier. It would percolate from time to time in discussions. People would suggest we see if we could get the President to travel, south, southwest; could we have the President make some individual spot appearances. There were memos
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • notice that others are now using it. As I travel around the country-F: Now that you popularized it for them. P: --I see more and more candidates using a slogan coined by President Johnson at a very simple little luncheon, but the President said he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. R: Yes, that was exactly right. interstate commerce. You see, you've got two theories of One is that interstate conmerce is anything that travels across a state line. The other theory is that anything that affects interstate conmerce
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in watching the football team here at The University of Texas, and I don’t think he missed another game. He traveled out of town. He went to, of course, all the games here. I remember we played Navy one year right after he got out of school [?], and he
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in September of 1962 in which I travelled on Mr . Johnson's plane for at least part of the way, and I remember getting into a long discussion with Jim Webb and Jerry Wiesner about what was the right way to do the moon landing . Wiesner and I both felt
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the byline that they read . F: B: Did you tend to travel separately or did you gang up? Some of us traveled separately, some traveled together . Most of the time Acheson of the Times Herald rode with me, I can't recall his first name . F: B: F: B: F: B
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that, "never again did we want to send the boys through the flak-filled skies of Europe unprotected." He went on to say, "I've got young men in my campaign, and I have a young man in this traveling with me that was over there in the Eighth Air Force, and he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have some words with any of the drummers or travelers or local people who came in, but small talk 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ; Mr. Taylor's relationship with African-Americans and his role in the community; Mrs. Johnson's brothers, Tony and Tommy Taylor; how Mrs. Johnson was named Claudia Alta; Uncle Claud Pattillo; Mrs. Johnson's childhood travels.
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with this and had difficulty getting information, attending meetings, and never traveling with the secretary of state. By the time I got to the job, that became easier to do. It turned on the confidence that the secretary of state would place in you, and when
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • stop and relax as they are traveling * through. He said he wanted the neighborhood kids to have an opportunity to learn how to swim. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of time--and this didn't really become apparent for a long time. Well, it won in the short range. When I went down in the Delta after Tet, after I left Hue, you could travel from one end of the Delta to the other by jeep in that period immediately after
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] to summarize Kennedy and then we'll go to LBJ's style. The Kennedy I first knew was a fellow who had decided to run for statewide office in Massachusetts. As he traveled the state to become acquainted beyond his congressional district, he had a set speech
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reserve." And it had to do with the fact I was traveling a lot with him. I think the plan was, when they called me, I'd be on active duty, and then when I got back home I'd be off of active duty. I guess on the phone I sort of procrastinated or whatnot
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Washington and Austin, it seems like this might have felt remote, initially, to you. J: Just the sort of remote that brought a smile to my face. G: What about travel back and forth to Austin or San Antonio? It must have been more difficult then without
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wavelengths. When Lyndon got word that Adlai was coming to Texas, he met him, traveled 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • The presidential campaign in the fall of 1952 and LBJ's involvement; controversy surrounding LBJ's support for Adlai Stevenson; LBJ's travel to campaign for fellow Democrats; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriage in the fall of 1952; Senator Ernest
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Star Steel, and Gene Germany was the head of it. We did a lot of traveling in those days, Lyndon especially, and I just often got taken along. People like Governor [Buford] Ellington and Bob Kerr, and Earle Clements of Kentucky, they were likely to get
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • traveling and he wants a visa. It has nothing to do with his conduct. We've had some cases where several years after a person has made a call to travel, say, to a country in eastern Europe--he's involved in a stock fraud charge or something like that. Well
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side here? D: On the doctors? Well, as nearly as I can remember, it was just that a physician could make so much more in civilian life that, unless for some reason he happened to enjoy military life and the change of assignment and the travel
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • out. B: Mrs. Johnson must have been in effect on stage for the whole trip. A: Yes, she was, and it was really an exhausting trip for her, but there couldn't be an easier way to make all those stops than traveling with your office and everything
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • made speeches all around the country. I organized the Louisiana campaign, and we carried Louisiana for President Kennedy. B: Did you travel with either of the parties of Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Johnson? Bo: I travelled once or twice with them. B
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the election, and he started to m3nd _ his fences immediately. M: So you were called in as a political aide? K: That's right. M: Were you willing to help him? K: Sure. Sure, I traveled the country for him and with him. I flew with him for two or three
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of campaigning in those days and he just out-campaigned them. In my judgment that's what won for him. G: How did he travel around? D: In an automobile. Carroll Keach drove him a great deal of the time and there may have been other fol ks to drive him
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , handling it. When the Vice President went on his trips abroad, for example the time he went to Pakistan, and so forth, our office handled all VIP travel abroad. functions of it. That was one of the So we naturally got into the make-up of his itinerary
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • anything, but to the best of my knowledge was made at the level of the White House staff. I was standing by the car when President Kennedy made the decision himself to travel in an open top--I mean they had this bubble top. about it. There was nothing
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , interviewing soldiers in a hospital, Laotian . Some crazy American doctor said to me and my traveling companion, Tony Day, then of the Philadelphia Bulletin , "Well, you guys don't have an Embassy anymore in Saigon, said, "What are you talking about?" I He
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • evening clothes than other She needs large assortments of clothes for trips. on where they are going. to campaign in. travel well. It depends If they are campaigning, she needs clothes If they go on state visits, they need clothes that Oh, they need
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Woods -- IV -- 20 W: Yes, and San Marcos, too. G: Did Sam Fore travel with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of congressional relations, include more people in the White House, all of that went on. On the congressional relations side, there were indications that concern regarding Vietnam was growing on the Hill. As time went on and I had opportunities to do some traveling
  • -finding and support for LBJ in his travel throughout the country; growing concern among Democratic leaders about Vietnam; presidential campaign work and organization prior to 1968; problems in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries; lack of support