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Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. This is what we did. So in the process of that and then going out to a lot of these and touring and traveling the country myself, which I did, and spent a lot of time, and the only time--not 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

- Humphrey in 1964, and in this capacity I traveled extensively over the country with the two Johnson girls. And I think this tended to solidify the personal basis, because most fathers appreciate people who do things with their youngsters; and as these gals

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought she would betray him and other words short of treason. And I said, "What has she done?" She didn't come to the meeting at the White House. I said, "Mr. President, she doesn't know about it. She couldn't have known about it. She was traveling cross

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I think it was tragic that the President didn't talk to him, to get the feel, you see, because here is a fellow that was over there--how many years?--eight or nine years. M: Eight or nine, yes. H: Traveled all over in a jeep with a carbine

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Mrs. Jansen and three other teachers traveled to California in 1923 in a Model T Ford. Their car broke a spring in the Arizona desert and they were rescue by LBJ and friends who were returning from California to Texas.

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, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Yes. J: Oh, God! Well, you know, I talked to Germans from morning to night day after day, day after day. I not only went to Berlin, but I travelled all through western Germany to Bonn, to Stuttgart, to Cologne, to all of the major cities

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

indicates the double meanings of words: Where can a man buy a cap for his knee, or a key for the lock of his hair, Can his eyes be called a school because there are pupils there? In the crown of his head what gems are found, Who travels the bridge on his

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, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Four Senator Eastland and I both met her and she was traveling east-west and we met her at Biloxi. He made the difference in that 1960 campaign. He carried enough of the South anyway to make the difference. F: Do you think it was just a matter

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that disagreement with John Connally where Connally insisted that they announce it? T: I don't remember that, no. G: You didn't travel with the candidate at all, did you? T: Not at all. G: You weren't with him when he went to Bogata? T: No. Never. He

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Caldwell's on the road, and there's a little old restaurant there, or was at that time, at the intersection. And just before you go under the interstate, where throughout the year, being a driver, doing most of my traveling by automobile, I had a hundred

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

with the domestic press as well, the people who travel with the President, foreign correspondents for American newspapers. H: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. That's primarily what you work with. You work with the press in the country, but your main thrust, your major

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

lines and the ocean freight forwarders who are travel agents, except for cargo instead of people. The type of regulation we do is designed also to see that the shipper, who in our language is the exporter-importer, gets a fair break from the steamship

Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, and he was kind of a roustabout. He traveled a lot, and back and forth, but when Lyndon was born, he was back there on the ranch. And he had cattle and he had charge of a lot of things about. Well, he was at the Legislature at the same time. I: Well

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but that frequently existed for schools in those days. For example, a very large group of students was suspended from school for a few days because they had attended a traveling show on Wednesday night. The school and the churches and the homes were the centers

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wished he had more time to sit and talk with them. But of course Texas is a big area. There are a lot of people and there are a number of wealthy people. there~ By that I mean they were able to travel to Washington, see Washington, and so

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, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

take over some of the social jobs and the travel and some of the tedious things like that. But now I didn't get this LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of experience in managing anything of that sort, that we began to realize there wouldn't be any campaign unless we helped him with everything we had. And ultimately we had about thirty representatives of different CIO unions traveling all over Texas

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, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

some Washington experience, so I came here. After five years of editing the National Farmers Union newsletter and traveling all over the country--actually, I'd say that the Farmers Union newsletter was the organizing vehicle for Democrats throughout

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, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the shower and he was just furiousthat his advance people had been so inept, had confused things so as to cause us to travel back and forth between the Biltmore and the Carlyle, and he apologized. He was really ungracious and very, very harsh on his

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

bus traveling down the same road, picking up children, dropping them off at the Negro school and dropping them off at the white school. B: A third major area of Congressional criticism has been what the critics call a selective enforcement in your

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to have Mrs. Johnson and the Senator and part of his staff traveling with him to dinner with us that night before they went on to Houston. We were watching the TV and after we got through dinner, I took them on out to the airport and they went

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, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

would go 24 hours a day. M: Did you travel by automobile then? W: He did, yes. I didn't go with him. I would have to stay in one place and run the organization. M: Where were your campaign headquarters? W: I ran it out of my office, over here

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and he was from Tennessee, and his old shoes were wearing out, had a hole in them. Walking along the side of the road, that gravel was making his feet sore and wasn't getting any better. traveled together three or four days. We'd The boy was kind

Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)

the nature of his operation as head of this organization. Now, I gather-- you have already said, some of you--he did a lot of traveling. You h_ave just said that, Bill, and he went around and saw a lot of people. But how would you describe the most

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a great believer in concealing all things that were unsightly, concealing them from people traveling across the country, which included automobile LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

know. At that time I was a very visible, aggressive, reasonably young scholar, who was traveling a hell of a lot, and I was on a trip. I think I was on a trip to Washington, D.C. I didn't even know that they were going to have a presidential commission

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- II -- 17 excellent job on that. G: Did Franklyn Johnson pretty much confine his activities to traveling

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

happened to me, because it gave me a world view. I traveled all over the world. It was one time when I realized that when something bad happens to you in life, don't worry about it. It's going to change; sooner or later, it's going to change. And I've

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he became vice president, of course, he-- M: He went to a lot of them. G: Yes. Well, he traveled abroad so much. M: Well, he did, that's right. That's right. When you don't have anything else to do, when you don't have to keep up your political

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mankiewicz apparently had carved out a role of traveling with McGovern through the campaign. He would be at his shoulder and his key adviser. There was no perceivable coordination in the offing to ensure there was a good mix and a maximizing of what potential

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the news traveled very fast and was shocking to 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Kennedy. As I told you, I nominated him in 1956, I had been to his wedding, and all this sort of thing. We had traveled around together and we were very close personal friends, although I didn't agree with his philosophy as much as I did with Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)