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Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. and they had the running know. It was mod. \1 on them. They They made these seat covers for him It had these big balloon tires, you Would you say mod? The way for a young, single man to travel in those days. M: Did you finally go to work for Lyndon

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, 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, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I could travel. The first jaunt that I took on a leg to go around the world ostensibly was to Dallas, Texas. 1919. I arrived in Dallas on December 1, I came on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, which I had connected to at Memphis, Tennessee from

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that is correct . While Lyndon was talking to Harry Drought, Bob Smith and I were going into more details, partic ularly with reference to our travel allowance and expenses and the manner in which they had to be approved, in some outline . I think that's

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, travel vouchers, and that type of work. Actually, I never was assigned to any educational phase of NYA. The only thing that I later got involved in perhaps was in the certification of payrolls for student aid programs. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

a real personal interest in every little project, no matter how small. G: Were you at these meetings that would go on often in his home? K: Yes, I lived with him at that time. I lived in his home and I drove him as kind of traveling secretary, valet

Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

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, 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, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

what the appointment was precisely? WH: The later appointment that he had, I think, was a sort of traveling bus inspector in certain districts of the state where he went as a traveling representative of the commission to check on the operation of bus

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't fly; you had to drive and the roads weren't near as good as they are now. You stayed on the road most of the time. Though we were supposed to work five days a week, it was mostly seven days a week. [We] spent Saturday and Sunday traveling. G

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

youngsters; and of even greater significance has been of incalculable value -- and pleasure -- to tens of thousands of automobile travelers on the hi..,;hways of Texas! We still have those lovely wayside parks on all major highways; they are a thing of great

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

one another. I had a budget worked out for each NYA state office; they were not large budgets; we were providing for a staff of not more than five, six people. The budget indicated a number of employees, the prospective salaries, travel allowance

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of them, and I'm sure he quoted hi s, tooo And that when I got that done I got my secretary trained--I had two secretaries trained to do that. "Then I spent a lot of time out traveling over Texas writing stories for Houston papers, Dallas, Fort Worth

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that election ." Thereafter, no matter who I was traveling with, and even on my own, I try the room key on the door before I leave the room to see if it'll turn the lock . On one other occasion in a VIP suite I found one . What happens, see, is they clean

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that he'd call her up at six o'clock and say, "I'm bringing over five people for dinner." Most women don't react very well to that sort of thing. And his political life caused him to be gone a lot, travel a lot. She never complained at all, at least

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Lee -- II -- 13 L: Either by going to the project or having the division manager come in for conferences. I suppose they had one or two big meetings, but I don't recollect extensive use of large meetings. G: Did you do any traveling around

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

for a profit and came back to Austin. That campaign was an eye-opener, I think, to everybody. We didn't travel over the state with McCraw. We were mostly in his campaign headquarters and did the things that you do: put out releases and got literature out

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his most pressing requests was more money for travel, because they had such long distances between his headquarters and these outlying places, and more need for staff than we had felt that we could afford to let him have . To the extent possible we

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, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

felt like that that--I mean I asked him, to his knowledge, was that ever brought out at all during the campaign. He said Johnson to his memory--of course he didn't travel allover the district with him-never really made it an issue in any

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? R: Yes, sir. G: What was your role in that campaign? R: Whatever I could do to run errands for him. G: Did you travel with him? R: No no, because I was still working for NYA all the time. As a matter of fact, I had a new Oldsmobile and he

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Rayburn to go to Dr. Janet Travell, Kennedy's back physician, down at the White House. He finally convinced the Speaker that he ought to let Dr. Travell examine him and see what she could do for him. in the back. So she started giving him shots He

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

haven't seen him for some time.--and others. And they got out literature on their own steam, maybe using some of the printing presses at the Normal--I'm not sure. bit. I had very little money; I contributed a little Lyndon traveled with me from time