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Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

"--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

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. "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

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of stuck with . . . basically going south, you have two routes--you can go through the Piedmont area where the people are, where the rednecks are, or you can go down through the swamp land to Florida, and you don't see anybody. traveled, and so forth, I

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Harris County convention or not. I don't really think we did, but I'm not sure about that. G: Did Johnson in that battle travel around the state and actively work, himself, against Shivers, do you recall? B: Well, he came to the state and made some

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: It may well be soon. M: When you left office this fall [1968], did you not travel to that area immediately on leaving office? B: Yes, I went out to Cairo to the official opening of Abu Simbel. They had invited Dean Rusk, and the Secretary obviously

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh a clear road to inflation which we are now traveling . 27 One way of looking at this is that without believing it--or perhaps

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that after his heart attack in 1955, and particularly during the vice presidential years, he seemed to have almost a different lifestyle than the early Lyndon Johnson . He travelled a lot, and he seemed to engage in more leisure, more of the lifestyle

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of time at our home. The fact of the business is, after Luci and Lynda got up and started school, they stayed with my wife more than they did Lady Bird. (Laughter) She kept them, because Lady Bird wanted to travel around with Lyndon, and she'd just leave

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

this was probably as much my idea as anybody else's. In an effort to try to avoid some of the complications of this interstate compact system which we have seen working elsewhere, we wanted direct federal control, because air travels so casually and frequently

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a suitcase full of clothes that had just traveled this journey to Alabama, and for some reason which I can't quite understand there was a pair of riding boots and a whole lot of ridiculous gear like that in them. He said, "There's no reason in the world why

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the breach was too great? C: I don't know. You'll have to ask Bill what he thought. M: Okay. Well, did you travel with Kennedy then when he came down? C: No. You see, he was killed the next day, after this--these arrangements were made. So I did

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of everywhere, travelling throughout the United States, seeing the results of Mrs. Johnson's wonderful work. "Up in Waverly, Minnesota," he said, "I stopped and asked the people why they were cleaning up and putting out those trash baskets, and they said, 'Well

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)