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Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • --of which we had very few, known as the Boston bomber--they wanted all we had to come and assist them in the relief of the actions going on in Vietnam. You see, that brought it immediately under the military aid program, in spite of the fact
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • discussing I assume must have been the period--I hope I'm correct on this--when I received a call from the President in Boston where I was scheduled to speak at a function. I believe the President was on a trip outside the country. The call came
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: Is Lynda as good a traveler as her mother? C: Lynda was a wonderful traveler. She was just delightful, Joe. The press liked her very much. You know, I have some wonderful impressions of Lynda and Luci. They are bright, sweet, sensible
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be surprised, because I don't think he would have tried to travel that route if he had anticipated the attitude that would be expressed. Then you go on from there--these are little things, but I think they go into the equation. The majority leader's office
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, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that there are any intelligent people outside of Cambridge and New York, possibly a few in Boston. And they were laying for him. I think the war in Vietnam had more to do with stimulating and exacerbating the situation than anything else. M: Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then with you? Well, it was to get more support, too, from the--Texas being somewhat interior, not as navy-minded as Bremerton or Puget Sound Navy Yard or Norfolk and places like that, or Boston. Lyndon liked it very much. He liked the work. It turned out
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • John Kennedy's background. The lace-curtain Irishman from Boston and so on in the East and he's a Middle Westerner. I lost twenty dollars. I bet twenty dollars that Freeman would be Kennedy's vice presidential nominee because I thought he would bring
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but it was Boston and Canada, and that the landline to Moscow was down. I told him I thought he should get out of the car and get to some regular phone somewhere. I set about trying to figure out what to do. The President called Cross, who was his pilot, Jim Cross
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conversation and mainly telling stories, some political and some family. He enjoyed kidding people that he was close to. G: We're going to use 1960 as a watershed here. Can you describe some of your travel s with him before 1960? W: Yes. My first
  • Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was at Rice Institute as the Rice reporter for the Houston Post . So he knew I had some talent in reporting, and I was given that position . So I traveled then with Lyndon Johnson throughout the state, with the retinue of newspaper people who were
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been with the First National Bank of Boston in Buenos Aires for about five years, or had been . He has a thorough knowledge of Spanish, and of the agriculture and economy of South America, particularly Argentina and Chile and I just don't need
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't get to talk with Senator Jotmson very much because he was out traveling and awfully busy, but I got as much 'Briefing as I could froze Walter Jenkins � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they were traveling in Dallas. And Johnson was ever so grateful and kept talking about Rufus and how heroic he had been. He also was looking at TV, sipping orange juice. He would occasionally look up at a photograph of Sam Rayburn that was on the wall
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, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Elspeth Rostow to the UT faculty; the White House suggestion of Gale McGee or Orville Freeman for dean; meeting with Freeman to discuss the deanship; York Willbern; traveling to visit potential candidates and how travel affected Livingston’s teaching
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, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • secretary--Dean Rusk was traveling somewhere at the President's request--got in touch with me to sound out whether I would be interested or not. I said I would, but not until September, because I was way behind on my work for Harvard by this time. I felt I
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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with him. But his assignments often were basically--it's true today [of] the role of the vice president: you do some foreign travel; you are the number-two fellow that fills in the gaps, you're called upon by the president to engage in a lot of activities
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --the demographic yearbook and the statistical yearbook--and do some world traveling and 1;vrite a similar sort of a book--this one on my own without Scammon.,--about what that data showed. I spent the spring of '66 traveling in Europe to UNESCO and World Health
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: W 5, 1981 ILLIAM M. CAPRON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL PLACE: L. GILLETTE Professor Capron's office, Boston, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 G: Well, let's start, Professor Capron, with your earliest involvement with what became the research on the War
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , that's not half as good, that's twice as good, because this means I'm offering two programs to interested young people and if they don't want the one, they may be interested in the other." So I went to eight or nine colleges in Boston and Pittsburgh
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with him over the years regarding his experiences leaving that town and attending Harvard Law School. He couldn't acclimate himself to Boston and New England. I sat in this little living room; his wife Polly joined us at times. But she and Elva spent most
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the first place." And he was right. We shouldn't have, but we did. So what was done, Priscilla--Priscilla of Boston, the designer--had a friend who did have a union house, not a bridal house, but who had a union shop, and the dress, I believe was cut
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the chairmanship of the council, as I remember in '66, Senator Maureen Neuberger, who had determined not to run in the fall again for the Senate- - she had reITlarried and was leaving her state of Oregon to ITlove to Boston--consented to be the chairITlan; and she
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and a forceful and attractive personality. I don't remembei' his being pushy or fonvard in any G: What did he do in that capacity as an inspector? L: Oh, they worked hard. the weight laws. But 'tidy. They traveled and reported any violations of You know
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • three or four months after I came here that the decision was made on these two college presidencies. During the meantime I was travelling over the country meeting with National Education leaders and I had a telephone conversation every so often with Mr
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • come from the advertising world. I was asked to address the American Advertising Association in Boston, and I asked the President if I could be off to make the speech. He said fine; he did not ask to look at my speech, I didn't show it to him
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ey City, Curley in Boston, the guy in Mis souri, DeSapio in New York- -the whole story of it, that's gone. That's the part that was incongruous to ITle, that Johns on couldn't see that one person--Wayne Aspinall or Ed Johnson or Ed Brown or some
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • arrived we encouraged--requested NASA informally up at Boston to do some work concerning the flight dynamics, flight control system, traffic control system related to these aircraft. They've spent, oh, two or three million dollars up there now on a project
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , stayed with Bob Komer, spent a good deal of time with Thieu and Ky, and traveled throughout the country. We were in every corps [area]. We got over to the Cambodian border, down into the Delta, out into the Navy units' operations, up with the Marines in I
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and an elite group, highly educated, very sophisticated, well traveled and all that, trying to live together in comity in that kind of an environment. I just was certain that wouldn't work over the long haul. So I went on the Board of Education to commit myself
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as far as travel was concerned. We usually did things very clandestinely until the last minute when we moved. The around-the-world trip was a good example of that. Prime Minister Holt was lost in the swimming accident in Australia. The President felt very
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . They reversed it. Well, father was a civil contracting engineer. from Boston Tech. He graduated He built railroads--many of the eastern railroads. When he was but thirty years old, he built the foundations for the Williamsburg Bridge. That was, I think
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, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • all over South Vietnam, and I traveled all over South Vietnam with Ngo Dinh Diem and with Wolf Ladejinsky--he was the land reform man, as you recall . And the only sign you saw in those days, this was the late fifties, you'd see a Viet Cong flag