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  • you Why did you acquire a place in Virginia? Did you just like the country, or would it bring you near Washington? B: Back in those days, you traveled by DC-3's . If you got hung up in New York or Washington on Friday and you had to be back
  • 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
  • than getting the yearly passport, the people who traveled all around would use this passport so it was too much of a bargain and you lost money that way. Also, there were many violations of it. The reason it foundered was that there was central
  • of investment credit with Vietnam War; Bill Martin; credit crunch; Senators Russell and Stennis; tax policies; TROIKA; Quadriad; 1968 travel tax; raising debt; limitations removal of gold limit for Federal Reserve Notes; close communications with other
  • for the Nixon-Lodge ticket? T: Well, the way we did it was I always in making my speeches advocated Nixon-Lodge, as well as my own candidacy. Then I traveled with the candidates when they were in the state. They both embraced me, for whatever political
  • return and one of the souvenirs given him of the trip was by photographers who accompanied him, a portfolio of 8 x 10 pictures of his travels through Senegal. They were lying there on the coffee table while you were waiting to see the Vice President and I
  • to Washington on Air Force One. And where did we go in that helicopter, from their ranch to Austin to some speaking or dinner or something that they were having? We went on that helicopter. G: Were they good fliers, good travelers? W: Yes, they were. We both
  • just about twenty. Now there may well have been more graduates, but even traveling in the school bus took a little money, and Karnack was a poor area, so I'm sure not everybody came. Back home in Texas it was awfully dry and hot. I know when we finally
  • -- 25 C: Well, we didn't have any problems until the last year. What we did was we'd make a department pick up the tab for the traveling expenses. (Interruption) F: What happened the last year? C: Well, the last year Congress started passing laws
  • the world on a Ford Foundation Grant. McNamara had said to me, "You know, you ought to put some focus in it. If you travel for two or three months or what have you and you really don't do anything, you get tired of it. You ought to be doing something." So I
  • . I may been--when we handed the message out, I had to brief the press and I may have been stuck talking to the press because I notice that neither Moyers nor I are listed as traveling up there. But I just don't remember. I know I was in the Speaker's
  • had to be in the .ra.ilroad yard. · . travelled any place·~ It wasn't like if he had So we .~ad:an ·ample number of police on hand to see that. tnf.ngs went smoothly.,.: and it did go very smooth. He made a very_ good speech .. B: Duri.ng
  • have different objects on exhibit" and there was no appropriate place to put these. So it was not Lyndon Johnson's desk to give away in the first place, and secondly, Mrs. Kennedy should have known better. But the desk went, and it went to a traveling
  • : He had to be aware that we were there because an FBI agent assigned to travel with him was made fully aware that we were there and spent time in our offices. But I must say again, for the record, that under no circumstances did the President, Walter
  • ' attention. Was there a tendency to focus only on the Community Action Programs that created controversy? JG: Oh, absolutely. I mean, that was good news. the country a lot. Just read the newspaper. You travel around It's those wonderful exciting
  • to his retirement. It could broaden his own experience and enhance his value to the department .. I think that it is a tough job for a young man, as I was, with young children, because you're never home. Never. Traveling a lot. I felt there were
  • --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
  • your responsibilities as Secretary of the Army? R: No, not any other than those that I would normally be a member of as Secretary of the Army. P: Have you traveled with Mr. Johnson or been asked to travel anywhere by him? R: On a few occasions I
  • , no. But there would be more cooperation with them. were not antagonistic. them. They I always felt that I had a day in court with I never worked with a bad Secret Service man, I honestly can say that, and I must have traveled with about sixty of them, a hundred
  • , the President appointed my husband, Stuart, to the National Pollution Board, Water Pollution Board--or commission, I believe it was called, National Water Pollution Commission. In that, we traveled all over the country and I went with Stuart, having hearings
  • advice ever actually got through? l: Not that I know of; not that I know of. There was~ you remember, one television show in the East Room in which he walked up and down with a traveling mike which was a great improvement over previous performances
  • to talk to on this thing. forth. They allowed us a little extra fee for travel and so Yes, there was a good deal of coordinating, but I must say that everyone was eager to work and worked together. of a lot of doing. It took a heck As you know, we
  • 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
  • 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
  • are at the Ranch~ and so many times when I came up to the Ranch it was associated with traveling over the Ranch to see the deer or it was in deer season and you had to go deer hunting. If anybody was visiting here~ particularly if you were from the North
  • Neel -- II -- 10 was I just remember it that way or whether this was part of his manipulating of people waiting on him instead of him waiting on someone else. We traveled a lot together. We would get in the airplane or the helicopter, sort of like
  • down there, if not every day, several times a week. So the only alteration in the travel plan that was made to pick us up was Washington to New York, and then we went directly down to the Ranch. Mrs. Johnson met us at the ramp and took us in to the old
  • the land around the Ranch; donating clothes to a family living on the Ranch; Billy Graham; Ben Heineman; travelling to the Ranch; people sending messages to LBJ through Krim; LBJ’s intelligence and compassion; LBJ’s formidable presence, tendency toward
  • , in mid-April the President traveled to Honolulu to meet with President [Chung Hee] Park of South Korea and Admiral [U. S. Grant] Sharp. Do you recall any details of that? K: Yes, I do, and of course so much was happening during this period that I don't
  • of thing. There were some things that were done.He supported HUD in spending some money to start a bus service in Watts, since one of the problems apparently was that people had to travel such terrific distances to get work. There were [Federal] Community
  • , and a highly intelligent man--very quick, flawless English, flawless Urdu; and he traveled with Bashir and acted as interpreter. And Bashir turned out to be--from a public relations standpoint--a marvelous find, one of those things that you walk into ev1ary