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Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh ROBERTS -- I -- 5 had ridden in maybe hundreds of presidential motorcades all over the world, and you hear backfires all the time. Motorcycles get hot when they travel at slow speed and they backfire, sometimes they even catch fire
had to LBJ; 1964 campaign; LBJ’s inability to announce travel plans in advance; LBJ choosing a running mate; LBJ lying to the press; comparison of LBJ’s press secretaries; the Walter Jenkins incident; off-the-record interviews; naming Nicholas

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, interviewing soldiers in a hospital, Laotian . Some crazy American doctor said to me and my traveling companion, Tony Day, then of the Philadelphia Bulletin , "Well, you guys don't have an Embassy anymore in Saigon, said, "What are you talking about?" I He

of the Seventh Fleet, we had repeatedly traveled, and so I was certainly somewhat amazed that these PT boats would attack a ship on the high seas as they did. Mc: Well, we had of course been effectively scuttling some of their naval ships in North Vietnam

, because the Maddox presented a far larger radar target than did the torpedo boats that had been involved in the thing. The Maddox was traveling perhaps one-half or less the speed that these boats always darted around at, so even an inexperienced radar

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (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, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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