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Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

been with the First National Bank of Boston in Buenos Aires for about five years, or had been . He has a thorough knowledge of Spanish, and of the agriculture and economy of South America, particularly Argentina and Chile and I just don't need

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wasn't qualified. I I wasn't told that, but I'm sure there was political reasoning behind the switch. G: But you had been in the district traveling with the Congressman covering the election, so at least you had that familiarity that Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reporters got to fly If they did, it was unusual Probably just because of the capacity . and probably just very If there was anybody on the helicopter with him it was probably some of his aides . G: Did the reporters travel B: I almost always made

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the aircraft. I traveled by car, usually with the man that was--he was an employee of the radio station in Austin and he was an engineer. They wanted him along in case the public address system went bad because it did get a lot of vibration installed

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and do your story of it. But then you had to go to every other one to be sure something better did turn up or protect against the next day. F: Was Johnson always pretty good at laying out his route of travel so that you could plan? K: As I recall

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in charge of the strategy here, and he was getting all his signals from Marsh, who was traveling with Johnson in that Senate race in 1941. They were in here twice that I recall, once for a sort of a hand-shaking tour of the downtown with a reception

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

have some kind of roof over them most of the time. They were just nice, neat, clean places for travelers to stop and relax and eat. PB: During the years between Mr. Johnson's election to Congress and his election to the United States Senate, did you

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

? T: Claude Wild--I believe he had the title of campaign manager. .of course, was the main one running things. John Connally, Horace Busby was also there and was traveling with the Congressman on those helicopter trips. Then there were men out

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the election, and he started to m3nd _ his fences immediately. M: So you were called in as a political aide? K: That's right. M: Were you willing to help him? K: Sure. Sure, I traveled the country for him and with him. I flew with him for two or three

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 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, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and let me put a steak on the grill and give you some fresh vegetables," and he did. houseful. And everybody just followed. It turned in to be quite a I ran out of steaks. So I was able to give a little hand in that campaign. But I couldn't travel

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't fly; you had to drive and the roads weren't near as good as they are now. You stayed on the road most of the time. Though we were supposed to work five days a week, it was mostly seven days a week. [We] spent Saturday and Sunday traveling. G

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the campaign. But being as close to him as I was and traveling with him, I guess during the campaign I spent more time of course with him than any other one person simply because I did drive him. It was just in most instances he and I, and in some instances

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and I had been a traveling salesman for the Texas Power & Light Company and I was a couple of years older than he was and I had been around, and he hadn't--he was strictly a country boy. him, it seemed like. So anything I'd say would be all right

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mentioned down there in Houston. G: In 1954, Johnson seems to have campaigned the year before in 1953. He came here, I believe, and traveled all over the state. Do you recall that? S: I recall all his trips around here. G: Did he? S: He told me

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, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

would go 24 hours a day. M: Did you travel by automobile then? W: He did, yes. I didn't go with him. I would have to stay in one place and run the organization. M: Where were your campaign headquarters? W: I ran it out of my office, over here

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a great believer in concealing all things that were unsightly, concealing them from people traveling across the country, which included automobile LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not cer- tain whether he used a helicopter at the time. F: No~ that was not until 1948. J: But he traveled by air quite a lot, he just flew by air. In the end, he was almost certain that he was elected. I think that he'd received congratulatory

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to make speeches, he had to be in as many tmvns as he could--had radio in those days but no television; he made some radio talks. But he would travel five or six hundred miles a day, as I recall, in a car. F: He was just going to make up in energy what

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

haven't seen him for some time.--and others. And they got out literature on their own steam, maybe using some of the printing presses at the Normal--I'm not sure. bit. I had very little money; I contributed a little Lyndon traveled with me from time

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

here to retire. We've been here about twelve years, and we spend most of our time traveling. Arizona. We spend the summers in Colorado and the winters in We're fixing to leave on the twenty-sixth. And so that's about it. G: I see. Let me ask you