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  • on this. I had no This wasn't related to Agriculture. Well, out at a Japanese cocktail party that night I tried to figure out what to do and didn't learn much. traveled all night. I got home real tired, you know-- Well, at 2 o'clock in the morning our own
  • not cer- tain whether he used a helicopter at the time. F: No~ that was not until 1948. J: But he traveled by air quite a lot, he just flew by air. In the end, he was almost certain that he was elected. I think that he'd received congratulatory
  • time to work, to travel for a primary campaign. But then he did try for the nomination for president in spite of the New York attitude. After the 1960 election, I did see him at The Elms sometimes, and I enjoyed being with Mrs. Johnson. She invited
  • . The rest of rail safety staff, who were travelling inspectors, were assigned a conference room, only they didn't have a key to it, and it was kept locked. I got back to Washington and launched a program to look at every rail office and see what we had
  • 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
  • they are sensitive to the concept of a social medicine, socialized medicine, to feel that this was a program the federal government was going to run. So I had to do a great deal of cross-country traveling; meeting with groups of the medical profession of various
  • was the Leader in the Senate during 6 of my brother's eight years. Not only did I see him in a friendly, informal, wholly non-official way in Washington, but on several occasions we found ourselves traveling together. For example, I remember when I accompanied
  • . I was traveling back and forth to Vietnam quite a bit at this time. I saw Seaborn in Canada, of course, and I saw LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • into the Great Depression, into poverty. My father had lost his job as a salesman, as a traveling salesman for a wholesale grocery company in 1929, and then had the misfortune to die in about 1930. So I had never had any money, I had struggled going through
  • saddened in this state, as I would say the people of any state, about the tragic killing of the President, which plays up what we've been talking about, that not even a man who is president of the country can go in safety any longer in travel, nor can
  • than printing. Existing staffs were used; I think we got for our six or eight months in Washington full-time and many months thereafter part-time, traveling back and forth--I think we got the grand total of $3,000 in expenses for the three of us. F
  • setting standards for interstate travel--railroads, airplanes. Any interstate water had to meet Public Health Service specifications. Therefore, since there were so many things involved in where you got your water supply for that, it essentially
  • , and the business community primarily. The more substantial business people who travel backwards and forth to this country--they were usually very sympathetic. Perhaps it was in their interests to be. The president of Volvo automobiles is very pro-American
  • with the President on several occasions. And then, of course, Cyrus Vance showed up, and so I was staying with him for those four days--traveling the city with Cyrus Vance, and then there was Under Secretary David McGiffert of the Army who was involved, and the man
  • things. M: That's consistent with why you say he liked the Tuesday lunch. He knew the people. H: Yes. So that I just stayed in town and did not travel during these years because I felt I could serve him best that way. During all the time that I
  • to be quite friendly. G: Did you travel with him any in 1953 when he made that trip around the state in preparation for next year's campaign? I've got an itinerary there on the outline, the last couple of pages, I guess. H: I did not. Let me see. Now
  • not have needed that trip if-We liked to travel in those days. get the nomination or the election, or indeed whether or not he would make a good president? H: I had reservations whether or not he was going to be nominated, to be frank with you. Let me
  • ? 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
  • trips--you remember when Katzenbach and I went around on our various travels--he said: "Of all the troubles we can have next year" (this was the end of '67), and that was a comprehensive category, "the one I want least is a trade war and a return
  • . A fourth and very minor purpose was the possi- bility of getting into North Korea. But this really didn't interest me very much. So preliminary to that trip and before going abroad I had the State Department clear my passport for travel to China, North
  • him occasionally or he would telephone me. That was a very interesting race, I think, from the standpoint of political philosophies. Stevenson barely campaigned, as you'll recall. As I remember, Booth Mooney was traveling with him, writing his
  • : No, not really. A year and a half ago, or so, there was formed, I believe at his suggestion, a group of younger staff members which travelled under the label of bright young men. I was one of the older, and we had a couple of interesting meetings with him which
  • became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was Ā¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I
  • --we haven't had any problem with her travels up in those waters. The Russians have not, as far as I know, I might be wrong about this, but as far as I know they haven't sent their ice breakers across the top of Alaska or the Canadian Arctic
  • /show/loh/oh Martini -- I -- 11 I have traveled with him and gone places with him that I would have never seen before. He took us along to Central America with him. F: This last June? M: June or July, whenever it was. He took us along on that trip
  • towards the end. McC: No. I didn't see any changes in his attitude towards that except a very, very intense attempt to get the Paris Peace Talks going. McS: Mr. Johnson had several occasions, both in his traveling abroad and here in the United States
  • -- 8 G: Sure. We're talking here about the advisory period. Were there many restrictions on your travel? M: Not really. Transportation only, the availability of transportation was really the only thing that limited it. G: How did you usually get
  • to go down each year to travel around among our papers--and he was my host in Fort Worth. This was before he had come here. There was no better. I liked LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson