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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • idea how that got under way? R: I don't know how that got started. started it. I did do one thing. I was not with him when he I went to Boston, I think with Siegel and talked to Vannevar Bush and George Kistiakowsky at Harvard, who were two
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conversation and mainly telling stories, some political and some family. He enjoyed kidding people that he was close to. G: We're going to use 1960 as a watershed here. Can you describe some of your travel s with him before 1960? W: Yes. My first
  • Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Record copy, Senator Johnson Announces His Candidacy for U.S. President, Auditorium, New Senate Office Building, 7/5/60 (Item)
  • be -- will not be a hero President known to the world, it is many times more important than ever that he be able to make our freedom secure by making our system fully work. The next President or a traveling President. is not going to be a talking President He is going
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all, he would put in a plug for Johnson to try to help him and so forth. But he did make some trips. Detroit and it seems to me to a Midwest meeting. Albuquerque I think to a New Mexico state meeting. He went to He went to He did some traveling
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with it, and he visited all these countries trying to bring them together. M: He was a great traveler. S: Oh, gee, it kept him on the go all the time. And any time he'd come in, he'd call me and say, "Can you get your subcommittee together," and we'd get
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the studio-again, Woody was there--and we got things arranged. Then, like a great tornado coming out of the sky, the Johnson motorcade descended on this studio. It was the first time I had met Bill Moyers. ing with the majority leader. He was travel- He
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that of course the then-President Kennedy had announced that he was going to give greater responsibility to Vice President Johnson, as almost every President in recent times has said he was going to do for his Vice President. And the travel that Mr. Johnson did
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of difficulty that they had, the difficulty of the FBI acting on information from another law enforcement agency that someone in the vicinity of O'Hare Airport, Chicago, on a route that the President or a candidate for President would travel going in from
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the byline that they read . F: B: Did you tend to travel separately or did you gang up? Some of us traveled separately, some traveled together . Most of the time Acheson of the Times Herald rode with me, I can't recall his first name . F: B: F: B: F: B
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, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was there, Cantinflas was there, the Vice President was there . F: Did Cantinflas come at his own expense? B: Mr . Johnson told him that he would be reimbursed for his travel expenses ; however, Cantinflas didn't ask this . Then we started into-­ Did Cantinflas know
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Criminal Division of highly experienced trial lawyers and appellate lawyers who are equipped with expertise, specialties. For instance, complicated fraud cases. We have a number of lawyers who travel the country supplementing the efforts of the United
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out in, I think, Peoria or some damn place when I was traveling with Humphrey. It was an open-air speech. I was in the crowd listening to Humphrey, and the Secret Service tapped me on the shoulder and said, "The President wants to talk with you
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • friendly visits--the two visits you had with him? M: Yes. F: Did he tend toward a woman to be sort of courtly, or all business, or what was he like? M: You see, I was in Russia. in Russia. I was there three months, traveled 1,200 miles Of course
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • think if Vietnam had been settled before the election or one month before the deadline for the election, he would have run. But I felt badly and I have been around. the United Nations and been traveling throughout the world. bit about history, Mr
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • him, I believed him. G: Of course you did. H: There was that wonderful thing. And that was a marvelous memory, actually. It was a great day. We traveled--they were using him on the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . I think it was tragic that the President didn't talk to him, to get the feel, you see, because here is a fellow that was over there--how many years?--eight or nine years. M: Eight or nine, yes. H: Traveled all over in a jeep with a carbine
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the shower and he was just furiousthat his advance people had been so inept, had confused things so as to cause us to travel back and forth between the Biltmore and the Carlyle, and he apologized. He was really ungracious and very, very harsh on his
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to have Mrs. Johnson and the Senator and part of his staff traveling with him to dinner with us that night before they went on to Houston. We were watching the TV and after we got through dinner, I took them on out to the airport and they went
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you Why did you acquire a place in Virginia? Did you just like the country, or would it bring you near Washington? B: Back in those days, you traveled by DC-3's . If you got hung up in New York or Washington on Friday and you had to be back
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , no. But there would be more cooperation with them. were not antagonistic. them. They I always felt that I had a day in court with I never worked with a bad Secret Service man, I honestly can say that, and I must have traveled with about sixty of them, a hundred
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have no closeness really with the person who is undertaking the travel . Ba : Did Mr . Johnson's rather flamboyant style go over well in London when he would visit there? B : I believe the British generally considered him a picturesque character
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)