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Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not permit anybody to carry any sign at all--only the signs we provided, and placards. We also used great numbers of Negro policemen from the major cities along the eastern coast all the way from Richmond to Boston, and had thousands of them there who knew
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The farmers? \Ve'd drive to the radio station, he'd make that speech, then we'd start out on the campaign trail. helicopter. Weld travel by car. He was traveling by We tried to make every speech, but at any rate, we had to get to the n90n rest stop ahead
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I NTERVIEl~EE : KENNETH O' DONNELL INTERV I EHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr . O'Donnell' s office , Park Square Building , Boston , Massachusetts Tape of 2 M: let ' s get your i dentification on the beg i nning of the tape here , sir
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people who had known him in the Senate and knew him as a dashing young patrician from Boston and Harvard. There were some people who actually knew him--I think Rowland Evans was a personal friend of Kennedy's. He covered a lot of the Kennedy events
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , a whole bunch of hats, and those are what Lady Bird wore for the next month. She never wore black, and the reason she didn't is that he didn't like it. But I happened to think, one, it was chic, and, two, it was good for traveling. I was going
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the Peace Corps. I was writing some speeches for him on the Peace Corps and doing some traveling with him. I did go to see the Vice President and asked if he could help me get a deferral from active duty, at least until I finished my graduate studies
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . much on a personal basis. But it was conducted very Ted Kennedy came into the State; Senator Robert Kennedy came into the State; and a lot of workers were picked to travel the State. were also named. Partisans of Senator Johnson and Senator
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Kennedy. I don't think he traveled out there until he was vice president, though. thought he ever went to Southeast Asia. to Middle East, went to Latin America. I never He went to Europe a lot, went Never went to Southeast Asia. Comes the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 5 had ridden in maybe hundreds of presidential motorcades all over the world, and you hear backfires all the time. Motorcycles get hot when they travel at slow speed and they backfire, sometimes they even catch fire
  • had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to travel around to various places within the United States. Do you have to do things differently now than you did say for Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Eisenhower under similar type circumstances? R: Number one, because of the tragedy we've found we had to have
  • Review of career; dealing with various Presidents; assignment of agents; the Johnson family; effect of JFK assassination on duties; the Texas operation; Presidents traveling abroad; demonstrations; the Dallas tragedy; the Warren Commission's
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, 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, 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, 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, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ? 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
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
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, 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, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but tell me a little bit about the sort of climate in which the Alianza [Alliance for Progress] was projected. B: How was it received in Quito? Oh, very well. work there. Very well indeed. It was really the basis for my It was a basis for traveling
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • pictures. Mean~tilitary I was in the public I spent almost five years there, traveling around the Pacific, doing all sorts of photographic jobs, all news and journalistically oriented. While there, I took advantage of another short course that they had
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of you? F: Well, we had his two servants in the back seat, but one was Chinese and one was a trusted Vietnamese. to travel with Perruche. They had no advance knowledge of my plan I did not feel in great danger, but I pru- dently would not have driven
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went because Bobby wanted to be president, and he was trying to angle himself in. G: Now, he traveled quite a bit during that month of April, went to Chicago to address the broadcasters convention, met with Mayor [Richard] Daley. R: No, I didn't go
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • at about eleven 0' clock, and he travels with an arsenal. and pistols. He even carries a machine gun, shotguns. was supposed to arrive at eleven; at eleven thirty he wasn't there. He carries rifles As I said, he the barbecue was to begin at noon
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --5 T: He made s,uggestions as to people that I might see while I was traveling over the district. Judge Herman Jones was then my law partner, and he gave. him several suggestions about the helpful. campaign~ and they were very I am sure
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • personally? W: Yes. That was the first national campaign I had been in for the New York Times, and I covered it quite extensively. I traveled with Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republican vice presidential candidate, and I made a couple of trips with Mr
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the Atlanta field office? Y: Well, I had been on the White House detail for five years; Georgia is my home; I had expressed a desire to transfer back to Georgia--you must realize that there is an awful lot of traveling on the White House detail and people
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: Well, what did you do? Travel the state with him? B: He did not make an extensive campaign that year. As I recall, the year before [in] 1953, he went over the state making speeches and building up his organizations, and I covered him
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and my wife was privileged to sit by Truman . I first met Truman, and he always recalled me, traveling from St . Louis to Washington on a railroad train when he had not even been at that time the chairman of the investigating committee that made him
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reversed. And I think it has been reversed in the sense that we're traveling more and more miles with more and more vehicles on more and more highways and while the death rate in numbers perhaps is still rising, when you consider the other factors it's my
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on this. I had no This wasn't related to Agriculture. Well, out at a Japanese cocktail party that night I tried to figure out what to do and didn't learn much. traveled all night. I got home real tired, you know-- Well, at 2 o'clock in the morning our own
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to make speeches, he had to be in as many tmvns as he could--had radio in those days but no television; he made some radio talks. But he would travel five or six hundred miles a day, as I recall, in a car. F: He was just going to make up in energy what
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in any danger in San Jose? T: No, I never did. As a matter of fact, I traveled throughout the country. I went up into the mountains, to the little villages, several times-F: You were known as the grass roots ambassador. LBJ Presidential Library