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Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

not permit anybody to carry any sign at all--only the signs we provided, and placards. We also used great numbers of Negro policemen from the major cities along the eastern coast all the way from Richmond to Boston, and had thousands of them there who knew

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The farmers? \Ve'd drive to the radio station, he'd make that speech, then we'd start out on the campaign trail. helicopter. Weld travel by car. He was traveling by We tried to make every speech, but at any rate, we had to get to the n90n rest stop ahead

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people who had known him in the Senate and knew him as a dashing young patrician from Boston and Harvard. There were some people who actually knew him--I think Rowland Evans was a personal friend of Kennedy's. He covered a lot of the Kennedy events

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, a whole bunch of hats, and those are what Lady Bird wore for the next month. She never wore black, and the reason she didn't is that he didn't like it. But I happened to think, one, it was chic, and, two, it was good for traveling. I was going

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. much on a personal basis. But it was conducted very Ted Kennedy came into the State; Senator Robert Kennedy came into the State; and a lot of workers were picked to travel the State. were also named. Partisans of Senator Johnson and Senator

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, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Then, there were delays in getting that information through. Some of it had to find its way by way of a traveler coming out. going to Mexico and There wasn't a great deal of instant communication because of the restraints of travel and communication and so

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

anything, but to the best of my knowledge was made at the level of the White House staff. I was standing by the car when President Kennedy made the decision himself to travel in an open top--I mean they had this bubble top. about it. There was nothing

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, 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, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. F: Well, what did you do? Travel the state with him? B: He did not make an extensive campaign that year. As I recall, the year before [in] 1953, he went over the state making speeches and building up his organizations, and I covered him

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and my wife was privileged to sit by Truman . I first met Truman, and he always recalled me, traveling from St . Louis to Washington on a railroad train when he had not even been at that time the chairman of the investigating committee that made him

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

reversed. And I think it has been reversed in the sense that we're traveling more and more miles with more and more vehicles on more and more highways and while the death rate in numbers perhaps is still rising, when you consider the other factors it's my

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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 ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in any danger in San Jose? T: No, I never did. As a matter of fact, I traveled throughout the country. I went up into the mountains, to the little villages, several times-F: You were known as the grass roots ambassador. LBJ Presidential Library

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