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Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • us where he wanted us to be in the organization. I got involved early in payroll and personnel matters and travel vouchers. You know, a federal government travel voucher is like a lawsuit, you have to establish a claim for the money. They kept telling
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • explode. F: That was enough of that. Mc: Yes. This was very curious to me. As the trip went on, he had a good press to begin with, and then when he got to Rovaniemi in Finland--this was after several days of very, very strenuous travel, crossing
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to blur the line to the extent that it was practical to do so. Mc: Did you do any traveling in connection with this prior to--? P: No, I didn't. No, I can't think of any trips that I made on the campaign trail, except a couple of trips out
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was. HW: When we first met Senator Johnson, it was at their apartment there in Austin out on Dillman Street. We applied there for a job that they had advertised for, for a couple that would travel. Of course, we thou,ght that this sounded interesting
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The immediate future aspect included a good number of career postal people because you weren't talking about total change. This was sort of travelling two roads that 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • involvement in cabinet meetings as postmaster general and congressional liaison; the usefulness of cabinet meetings and how they were conducted; cabinet members taking advantage of travel opportunities to help Democratic candidates who were up for election
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you arrived here you inherited a commission to study the balance of payments situation and all of its related activities. G: No. I said that what I inherited was setting up a Presidential commission dealing with travel, which was one aspect
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Wilbur Mills, this dialogue, would be interrupted by my travels. In any event, the President was adamant. He couldn't see why I couldn't handle both aspects. I had no alternative but to try to do just that. We put together a little group. One
  • as it existed in 1986 and poor voter turnout; state coordinators; O'Brien traveling the country to have regional meetings; campaign organization as defined in the "O'Brien Manual" and how volunteers were put to work; Eddie Boland as a state coordinator
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, 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, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • rapidly. Therefore in 1961 Kennedy, as you know, sent General [Maxwell] Taylor. I happened to be the man that briefed General Taylor on the situation. I had only been there about three months, so with the expertise of three months' traveling around
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • when he went to visit. He went down there usually twice a year, in the spring and then Thanksgiving time. me along. And he always took And so if the man I was working for didn't travel down there with the President, that was too bad. do without me
  • habits of FDR and LBJ; highlight periods; travel with Truman; changes in the Presidency; campaign tour with FDR; First Ladies; comparison of FDR and LBJ; friction between LBJ and JFK staffs; LBJ's unpopularity at the end of his Administration
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and decided schedules down the road, points to make in speeches, key people to telephone. G: Did you travel any in that campaign? J: I did. I traveled quite a lot. The funny thing, I must have worn the same beige gabardine 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • because I'm prejudiced. F: Yes, well, you can be forgiven that, I think. Did you stay in Austin beyond that first week, or did you come back up pretty quickly? I don't remember. C: We came up here very quickly. F: How were you traveling in those days
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , chairs made out of slats, quilts. Beautiful country. Ah, how many times I've traveled that road, and I've always loved it. We arrived in Washington and went to an apartment which Lyndon had already obtained for us. It's remarkable that we had such a great
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of all, we went up at a time when everyone was talking about cutting travel abroad, and here I was asking for money to send Americans abroad. As a matter of fact the Committee report of the House expressly says that we are helping to fulfill
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : President Johnson, as you said, wanted to--his personality was just different. I don't know how to explain it. I'll think about that when you come back. G: You said that you traveled with him some on some of his trips. W: Yes. G: Do you recall
  • How Whittington came to work for LBJ following President Kennedy's assassination; Whittington's duties; LBJ's secretaries' rotating schedules; traveling with LBJ to the Ranch and Austin; Whittington as the first African American to integrate
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in? G: I went on all of the trips. M: You've mentioned the Adolphus Hotel incident. Did you travel on the whistle-stop tour? G: Yes. M: Can you tell me any of the things that occur to you on that? G: That was lots of fun. This is not very
  • Becoming personal secretary; LBJ’s personal interest in employees; Bobby Baker; characterizing Johnson family members; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; campaign; LBJ as VP; duties as Lady Bird’s secretary; traveling with Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • respect, but of distance. I'm not one of Mr. Johnson's circle. P: Has Mr. Johnson appointed you to any study groups, task forces or commissions outside of Defense? N: I believe not. P: Have you ever traveled with Mr. Johnson or have been asked
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the President was Vice President, whenever he'd be in Texas the San Antonio office would send men to supplement, because as vice president he did not travel with a large complement of Secret 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • : Have you ever traveled with Mr. Johnson or been asked to travel somewhere for him? F: No, I haven't. Just a moment. Going back to the date at which I first saw the President with regard to my nomination, it was on September 9, 1965, and we'll get
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from that trip. We built our travel packages considerably different as a result of that one trip. The other main thing we learned was that we're almost totally dependent on in any trip the commercial communications systems that exist, whether
  • Visiting President Truman and a trip to the Truman Library; phones and photographers in the Truman home; lessons learned on a trip to Honolulu; why LBJ did not travel outside the US more often; incident involving LBJ purchasing a dead horse
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Castro -- VI -- 3 C: Dorothy McCardle was one of the society writers of the Washington Post who traveled with us for all the years that Mrs
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would be traveling the primary route; Hubert would avoid the primaries and concentrate on the major industrial states in a direct delegate effort. What I was faced with, moving into the situation at this point, was to quickly organize state-level
Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • articles printed. Then another thing that I admired about her was that she was so adven­ turous. That's when Richard Halliburton was writing his wonderful book, The Royal Road to Romance [published 1925], and she was always wanting to travel that royal
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • how to account for it exactly—can't account for it at all. G: You traveled with him a lot and were around him a lot for the first—well, as you say until May of 1962. Do you recall any instances where he personally advanced civil rights? 5 LBJ
  • LBJ’s feelings about transition from majority leader to Vice President, LBJ’s call to Conrad Hilton to arrange for a hotel room for an African diplomat, his attitude toward travels as Vice President and his approach to diplomacy, search
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , medical support, was gotten to that community so that it could support this rather heavy influx of people being moved out of an area that had been contested by the Viet Cong. And I traveled out there quite a 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the office was making travel arrangements. And in this year in the House and then for the other two years that I was in his Senate office, anytime he was going to Texas or going anywhere, he would have his secretaries book him on as many as--well, on every
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did he want to travel? B: Well, this goes to the nature of the office of the vice presidency. Each vice president has to--in the modern context each vice president wants to do something, wants to find a way to define the office under his president
  • LBJ and the Vice Presidency, Nixon’s precedents and travel, particularly his trip to Venezuela and the inflaming of the situation in Caracas, Tom Mann, LBJ's first vice-presidential trip, Professor Eric Zimmerman, trips to Puerto Rico and Senegal
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these two very well, because the four of us were a traveling road show in the vice-presidential days, where I was secretary, nurse, baggage packer when Paul Glynn wasn't around, typist, recorderCI was the White House communications agency with my little
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Lubbock and Amarillo and Big Spring and San Angelo, the territory I had to travel, including Brownwood and Hichita Falls. themselves. They were busy Lyndon and Jesse Kellam and Hillard Deason and the others were busy conducting and setting up
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • the arrangements, see where he could land his helicopter, line up all of the details of speaking that you might have such as microphones, podiums and all these things. Often the ones in the rearguard had to travel from town to town as fast as the helicopter could
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and entry, et cetera, but as we developed the final form Mrs. Roberts felt that we might be able to do two things. They had found at the end of the year always there was a tax problem about expenses, and whether he traveled on a commercial plane or what
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • country and you shouldn't. ~e.idents--from travelling, But what you should do is try to get some other people over here to offset some of the costs. this very hard. You can't We never worked at There are a hundred different ways in which you can
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • know. The next day one of the newspaper reporters who was covering the campaign, traveling with Lyndon, I saw him there on the street in Abilene before we left town, and he told me he saw me over there at Lyndon's speech and asked me what I thought
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in 1963. G: Business travel was one element of that, that you got. Was that a particularly difficult--? B: Yes. That wasn't the real attempt. The big thing we wanted was entertainment. These high-priced meals, the three-martini lunches, as Jack Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • never did take it out the whole time and did not intend to, because I hadn't met him, and I had plenty else to do. Cecille and I thought that to travel on a boat would be the most glamorous way in all the world to take this trip. In those days
  • Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's impressions
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and sufficiently healthy to join the crew. During that period, we traveled throughout Iceland visiting the different defense bases. We interacted with some of the natives, especially the young people, who were cordial. They detailed some of the history
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in corridors and receptions and shook the hands of the great men. him, both times probably. I do recall meeting I was very nearly delegated by Mr. Bowles, the under secretary, to travel with Vice President Johnson on his famous trip to Asia. jq: Very nearly
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • again. The manual was widely used in the 1970 off-year election. With this reorganization, we were able to have regional meetings around the country. I traveled extensively in 1970 on behalf of candidates seeking election or re-election. In the fall
  • ' photographs of the meeting; O'Brien's speeches and travel during the 1970 congressional elections; O'Brien's stop in Chicago and Mayor Richard Daley's influence there; Hubert Humphrey as the titular head of the DNC rather than LBJ; LBJ's and Truman's interest
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • direct investment part of it was one area that you could do something with . For example, the travel program, that is, limiting the travel of U .S . citizens abroad, which would help the account, has � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http