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- of the time and paid a lot of attention to his business. T: Yes, he was a very busy man. My father traveled a little. He had very few interests or hobbies outside the little world--and all our worlds were little in those days I guess, thanks to bad roads
- . The farmers? \Ve'd drive to the radio station, he'd make that speech, then we'd start out on the campaign trail. helicopter. Weld travel by car. He was traveling by We tried to make every speech, but at any rate, we had to get to the n90n rest stop ahead
- 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
- Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts, all in one day. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org F: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- with the Peace Corps. I was writing some speeches for him on the Peace Corps and doing some traveling with him. I did go to see the Vice President and asked if he could help me get a deferral from active duty, at least until I finished my graduate studies
- /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
- other positions. So prior to my assuming the national presidency, I had already served in different capacities on the national organization. But it presented me with a great opportunity to travel and become sufficiently aware and cognizant
- 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
- president I've known other than President Johnson. was a friend of mine, a close friend. business and she traveled quite a lot. her. I was in the airplane I often went on trips with She and I became close friends and remained close friends until the end
- the river. We traveled by rail going from Columbia, South Carolina to Fort Sill. There was a salesman on the train and he was talking to me, he said, "You know, you're going into a new area now, a new country. You've been down in Columbia, South
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- 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, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- . But I had very little to do I was either travelling with Jack Kennedy, or I was travelling ahead of him doing editorial advance, so to speak, planning his speeches a few days ahead. And so I really didn't see the Vice President at that time. PM
- Democrats in campus communities--Austin in particular--at Lyndon Johnson's request. F: Did you do other states as well? M: Oh, yes. Yes, I appeared in other states. I traveled with the Vice- President, as a matter of fact, in a couple of joint rallies
- than printing. Existing staffs were used; I think we got for our six or eight months in Washington full-time and many months thereafter part-time, traveling back and forth--I think we got the grand total of $3,000 in expenses for the three of us. F
- became his public affairs officer; handled the press for him individually and for the visiting dignitaries that came to the U.S. while he was ¢hief of protocol; did a lot of travel, both domestically and internationally, the international portion that I