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Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? 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

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: 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

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, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

--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

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/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

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 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

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: 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

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

., 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

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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