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  • , is what I believe to be one of the factors that certainly motivated him to withdraw. M: What about other measures, such as non-trade measures, such as the Consular Treaty and Air Travel to the Soviet Union? Mundt: Some I opposed, and some I approved
  • , and I had to sign a poop sheet that says that if your orders are never issued, or revoked or something, or are never issued, you're stuck with paying for the travel of your family, and private automobile, and they let you take a few things over to Hawaii
  • the Viet Minh had left and the Vietnamese army had moved in. So we visited that area; it took us at least half a day, traveling on boats, by canals and everything, to get there. And there were no bridges; the Viet Minh had blown all the bridges
  • : He would dash in and out of the office, would maintain, of course, a heavy schedule. He would have a staff man along. I never traveled with him, but he would have a staff man along on-the trips, or one of the ladies, who would keep a battery
  • ., who was with the firm at the time, went to Brown and Root--was the vicepresident and general counsel--and I was working with him. The work I was doing involved an awful lot of travel to Houston and so forth, and I was really not too happy
  • dad was a traveling salesman, my mother was a When we got ready for me to go to college, it was the end of the depression and my two brothers had gone to the University of Florida, but we were out of money and I was lucky to get a scholarship
  • able to get my message across to the people. quite young. Television then was There was one station in the entire district, but in traveling over the district, I could tell that three out of every five farmhouses, for example, had television antennas
  • traveler. interest. As you know, he then began to become more of a In that respect, he couldn't help but increase his It was somewhat increased; but again, it was not evident to us in the House, because then, as president of the Senate, his primary
  • he changed some of his travel plans because a lot of that had leaked. Certainly a guy like Hugh Sidey will tell you he changed a U.S. domestic trip and a budget total and so on, because of the press. When you come to Vietnam itself, I think
  • the school bus. And when they're up in Dakota and someone gets a fever, they say, "Have you traveled out of the country lately?" You know, they don't write everything off as pneumonia. Now, I'm not recommending a Vietnam-type experience as far as continuing
  • of them I should say. F: And there's no eight-to-five quality about it at all. L: They're always traveling around on a moment's notice. F: Particularly with President Johnson. L: That's right; he'd take off. But I'd say most of the reporters had
  • on foreign affairs, traveling abroad, summit conferences, State Department, the Hill, wherever the foreign policy story developed. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • young lawyers that would travel and work very hard, and we were pretty successful in doing that. And a large part of that building up the division was moving people out of it that had been put in it in 1957 when the division was created because they were
  • be willing to travel throughout a bunch of little African countries and entertain and get involved in local school projects and sing impromptu performances in all kinds of situations where the Robert Shaw Chorale would simply not go.And the Robert Shaw
  • crisis, which was mammoth, at the Christmas period. We got to that period while I had attention directed to postal reorganization. Once that was launched publicly, more and more you found yourself involved. By then, I also had to do some traveling. But I
  • "--which was true. "These costs incurred over the last several years, in addition to my loss of time, are in the amount of $18,700 and include accounting and legal fees, travel, hotel and long-distance telephone"--because I had to move back and forth from
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] PICKLE ~- II -- 18 ·that those two cities could be bombed, or that we could travel them, to sh.ow how fast the times were changing; and that we had to get . . away from the old plodding, conservative type that·Coke wouldoffer
  • , to attend the funeral of Russell's mother. R: Yes. Oh, sure. He wouldn't have missed that for [anything]. G: Now, you have here the travels there, that schedule, Austin, Lubbock, Houston. R: Yes, but I'm looking at this August 21, when he flew
  • look up startled as we went by. I was traveling in the press car. We had a Turkish chauffeur and he was pointing out to us how few people there were. And at one point I saw a man standing on the street corner cheering, and I said thank God, he's got
  • . "To what extent was the southern insurgency a communist movement?" Well, it had a bit of--it was a communist movement. There were some fellow-travelers who thought they could get along, many of whom regretted it--I mean, those who survived
  • 24617781] 8 the spice agency and th,2 equal emp~o1menc thing, and neither of them fulfilled him -­ foreign travel was a grea• outlet. But th,2 Berlin thing was sornething which Kenn·2dy regard2d as absolutely essential. F: And ·:hen th,2re were all
  • it at all." There was a lot of question in everybody's mind. So we had meetings about getting this done, and I did a lot of traveling and meeting with organizations and so forth. In consequence, we had a lot of ideas about what we were going to do and how we
  • didn't like that a damn bit. But Tom grew. My job in the Governor's office--I was called departmental secretary--I was traveling secretary and speech writer for three years. And then in 1948 after [Thomas] Dewey and Warren were defeated--and that's
  • . One of the ways was to suggest that he travel. This worked both ways. If the Vice President's staff proposed a trip, the White House staff would try to downgrade it or postpone it or alter it in some way. This did not, of course, include trips which
  • of the State. I worked in this capacity, doing a good deal of traveling, building county organizations, all through the year of 1959, and I guess up until about April of 1960. Then I resigned when it got time to get ready for another race for Congress. B
  • , I want you to know that I expect service from my staff." And he turned to old Carl Rowan, who was travel ing with him, and said, "Carl, what the hell's the matter with these information people? You're supposed to get these things out when I want
  • and industry leaders, we would establish certain goals with respect to the exports, imports, foreign investments, foreign travel and other ingredients which work toward the balance of payments equation and keep score on a measurement basis month by month so
  • mentioned before we got started, where you couldn't spend any government money on the National Service Corps or anything that traveled under a similar name, any other name. So I was familiar with some of the discussions that were going on. Then, of course
  • because we had tried on other occasions to use the Canadians who had the opportunity to travel back and forth from Saigon and to Hanoi to sort of pass messages and get a sense of mood and so forth. The fact that the Pole was occupying this role made
  • know, he received whether it's still it . I don't know what he ever did with it, someplace around . G: Had he started acquiring art from his travels before this? C: No, I don't believe so . G: When did he C: I can't remember first start
  • was in the Territory--the Vietnam War had heated up, and I think that I would have liked to go on to Vietnam. I wanted to at that time, but this would have meant probably another week or so of travel and, also, I was aware that there were so many people going
  • would have great difficulty to reply to them in Bulgarian. became what you would call fluent in the language. I never I did gain enough proficiency so that when my husband and I traveled around the country, I could order things from menus and, you
  • said, And I said, "\4ell, that's fine. W e ' ' l l take care of it immediately after the first of the new session." The next thing I knew of the President I turned on the radio by inadvertence, because I never use a radio in travelling, and just