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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, Daddy called every sheriff in every county up till he got to E1 Paso. But they traveled by night and slept in the daytime until they got out of Texas. Then of course he ended up--started out picking peaches and working with the other boys, you know
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Justice Department, but they very clearly saw the juvenile delinquency agencies that had been set up, like the ones that you mentioned, like HARYOU, like the ABeD in Boston, and so on, as being the community action groups. This was a very, very early
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and proceeded to work in April, 1935. I went back to law school at George Washington University in the summer, 1935 and was in and out of law school over a period of several years, because at one point [I traveled extensively] for the government. In 1939 I
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of White House tours; state dinners; value of using the Sequoia; receptions and stag dinners for Congress at the White House; Lady Bird; Air Force One travel; appointments and congressional recommendations; LBJ's persuasive powers; Everett Dirksen; dealings
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before they wrote it. In other words, I wanted to be ahead of the Birmingham newspaper or the Chicago newspaper or the Boston newspaper. I wanted to have the story of what was wrong in our operation before any external newspaper or district attorney
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is a permission to travel during the war from the local police. Always to them we were foreigners. By then my family didn't know where we were. I was only happy that my child was with the nurse and my mother in the south of France and out of all this. The news
  • Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ? Is is possible to generalize about it? L: Yes. I left there at the end of 1956, so I don't know--January of 1957--but it must have b.een about the same. You'd take a few precautions. but very few of Ulem. r know You'd travel anyplace. Tfl.ere were some
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • reaction to withdrawal decision; details in planning LBJ’s 1966 travel; LBJ as 'captive president' due to anti-war demonstrations; FBI investigation of potential White House appointments/employments and summaries of files for president; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • this traveling for them and actually attending to this work. We'll handle your expenses." I r.efused this. I told Jake back at that time that I was doing this because I believed in Mr. Johnson; that I was an amateur and that I wanted to retain my amateur status
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the President was in the campaign of 1960. But in 1960 I traveled mainly with Nixon and with Kennedy, so that the answer to your question is that I really had hardly set eyes on the man until early in 1965 when NBC assigned me to the White House as its White
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Very restricted. K: Exactly. A Vice President, as the number two man in the entire country, carries the weight, the prestige and the imagery second only to the President and he is much more available to travel. So in effect a President uses a Vice
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of assignments I have done a fair amount of traveling among federal agencies. I began to become involved with OEO during the task force days when the program was fiBst being created. G: This was from February to April or February to March? LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of priorities? S: Oh, yes. It's more than that, though. I think I can view the thing a little bit more objectively now. I'm not fighting for specific programs that offer a specific budget. I've traveled much more since I left in September than I was able
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • officer who used to travel with me over to the phone. the phone." He came back, and he said, "The White House is on I laughed and said, "It's some drunk. there, Sergeant, and find out who it is." said, "No, it's the ~~hite House." Go on back He came
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • here, based on a plan that had been instituted in Boston, but not very effectively implemented, was that no property would be turned down for insurance if it is insurable in itself; that its location and the condition of its neighbors will not deprive
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XL -- 17 didn't care what happened personally in regard to elections. M: After you returned to Washington, you then went to Boston to attend a diamond jubilee birthday dinner for President [Harry] Truman on the occasion
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • over all the clubs in Boston that wouldn't let him in because he was an Irish Catholic. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if that weren't the reality. 22 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • concerned, and so they started to dip into capital, as we'd say in Boston . M: So one of the questions then--the reason I dwell on this is some of the critics have made quite a point of the timing of DVN units-- B: That is correct . M
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, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • er for the City of New York; Dr. Ford, I believ e it is, who has that capaci ty in Boston and works for the Harvar d Medica l School . The people who conduc ted that autops y were not really the top forens ic pathol ogists in the countr y
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "the faraway places with the strange-sounding names." It always just whetted my appetite for travel, so long deferred in my life has it been, but so early conceived as one of the main pleasures. Whenever I got an invitation to an embassy, I was very likely
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • did you first get any inclination that it was coming about, and then the final offering of it? F: Yes. During the campaign, Johnson's campaign in his own right for the presidency. M: 1964 F: Yes. Udall had traveled, of course, a great deal
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the fourth of July. Of course, you know, you couldn't travel back and forth like you do now, and by then we were on five dollars a day and we didn't have too many votes out here. In 1941 the county did go for Johnson, but O'Daniel never was too strong out
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , when he said that Kennedy couldn't have gotten the Ten Commandments through Congress., But on the other hand there was a real, I don't know, I hate tee word charisma. M: Hero, somebody from the Boston Globe called him. R: He was gallant
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh John W. Black, Former Director, United States Travel Service Paige Mulhollan 1968 Let's get a summary here on your background, Mr . Black, as a means of identification as much as anything else . You came to work originally
  • Biographical information; creation of U.S. Travel Service; imbalance in travel between U.S. and foreign countries; International Travel Act; Lemoyne Billings; Executive Review of Overseas Programs; John Rooney; Mr. Gilmore; travel tax proposal
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not be satisfactory . From that day on, I did come to the White House and cover certain activities which were more familiar to me than to other members of the medical group . THB : Dr . Janet Travell was serving at that time as physician to the President, was she
  • Medical training; first association with White House; President Eisenhower; General Snyder; Dr. Tkach; Kenneth O'Donnell; Dr. Janet Travell; Dr. Eugene Cohen; Dr. Pep Wade; Dr. Hans Kraus; events in Dallas; campaign travel with LBJ; Dr. Cain; Dr
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The issue that then came up, and it came up almost at the end of the congressional process on this legislation, was whether they could charter their planes to a travel agent who could then organize a tour from people who did not have the affinity of being
  • to permit supplemental carriers to charter planes to travel agents for domestic travel; the president's required approval of foreign charter permits; the airlines' appeal to the Second Circuit in New York of the District of Columbia court's decision
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there; but the Sea Lab I and II were successful and it's the reason we decided to go ahead with Sea Lab III. P: Have you ever traveled with Mr. Johnson or been asked to travel somewhere for him? B: Never have. Never have. I've never traveled with him; I guess
  • Biographical information; Contact with President Johnson; President's Committee on Marine Sciences, Resource and Engineering; Environmental Service Administration; Sea Lab III; travel as Under Secretary; Assistant Secretary position; impression
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, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Whittington -- II -- 5 meetings. Robert Kennedy came to the White House several times. They had several meetings but I don't know what they talked about. G: No specifics. W: No. G: Did you travel with him any during the campaign? W: No. G: You didn't
  • Traveling with LBJ; LBJ's staff members; LBJ allowing the secretaries to attend events.
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the ladies ready-to-wear department at Goldstein-Migel Company. After that I decided I wanted to travel, so I picked up a dress line out of Dallas, which was Justin McCarthy line of dresses and did some traveling there. M: What did you do, travel all over
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, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wasn't qualified. I I wasn't told that, but I'm sure there was political reasoning behind the switch. G: But you had been in the district traveling with the Congressman covering the election, so at least you had that familiarity that Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had won a contest in Denmark and was over here under our auspices traveling through the United States at that time. This was previous to 1960 actually. about 1957 or '58. I think it was Mr. Johnson was then Majority Senate Leader, and he received
  • Rusk; communication efforts; travels; foreign programs; Dr. Soharso, Henry Kessler and Douglas Toffelmier; World’s Veteran Federation; appearances before the U.N.