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Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

days, in the senatorial days, he didn't loom as a big influence in the State Department. Now, when he became vice president, his influence became a great deal more, mainly because of his trips abroad; he did a lot of traveling abroad. F: Did you get
humor; camel driver's visit to U.S. and LBJ ranch; travel with LBJ as President; LBJ's selection of presidential gifts; graciousness of LBJ and Lady Bird; ambassadors' visits with LBJ; state dinners; LBJ's concern for people needing help; foreign policy

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, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is a permission to travel during the war from the local police. Always to them we were foreigners. By then my family didn't know where we were. I was only happy that my child was with the nurse and my mother in the south of France and out of all this. The news
Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving

a fantastic job and handled it so smoothly without Sarah knowing what I had told him. But Sarah McClendon, while she did print a lot of things ahead of time sometimes, she was a very good person and I think very loyal in a way. I traveled with the Johnsons
Circumstances of joining LBJ’s staff; duties in the Texas office; Arthur Perry; Walter Jenkins; office operation; LBJ and the Texas office; Lady Bird; transfer to the Majority Leader’s office; office staff; traveling with the Johnson’s; Johnsons

, the owner and publisher of the Chronicle, was alive at that time. Mr. Jones chose Coke Stevenson to support. management to travel with Lyndon Johnson. I was assigned by It was very ticklish, but I will say that we maintained our friendship throughout

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

who \.,rere preparing late in IJ67 for w'hat you thought was going to be the 1963 campaign. One qu;:;':; rion I have--Hhen you were doing that prelim- inary planning, did travel corne up? Tle;c;tion of whether or not the President could th~ You

attitude. Did you ever have any occasion to travel with Mr. Johnson on any of his trips? B: No, I didn't travel with him at all as vice president. M: Did Mr. Kennedy ever talk to you about the effectiveness of Mr. Johnson as a foreign emissary? B

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

graduated from Harvard in 1961, and free-lanced for a while--traveled for a year and then free-lanced writing a book about the travels- then went into the Marine Corps for a brief period, came out and rewrote the book, worked for the Washington Post

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