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Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but there was no question of where he was coming out on these issues. was a tower of strength. tant. I didn't see Hannah being doubtful or hesi- He had a strong commitment. childhood in a way. He Of course, it goes back to my own I remember in Boston there were some
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was with the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federations Insurance Services, and I traveled in that area quite extensively. family. In fact, we were very close. I got to know Mr. Rayburn's When Mr. Rayburn would come down, which he did quite often, to visit, at least once
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • plane fares were always paid by the sponsoring organization. My travel expenses were kept to the modest level covered by government per diem, but the host LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • --of which we had very few, known as the Boston bomber--they wanted all we had to come and assist them in the relief of the actions going on in Vietnam. You see, that brought it immediately under the military aid program, in spite of the fact
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I NTERVIEl~EE : KENNETH O' DONNELL INTERV I EHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr . O'Donnell' s office , Park Square Building , Boston , Massachusetts Tape of 2 M: let ' s get your i dentification on the beg i nning of the tape here , sir
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that there are any intelligent people outside of Cambridge and New York, possibly a few in Boston. And they were laying for him. I think the war in Vietnam had more to do with stimulating and exacerbating the situation than anything else. M: Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Kennedy. I don't think he traveled out there until he was vice president, though. thought he ever went to Southeast Asia. to Middle East, went to Latin America. I never He went to Europe a lot, went Never went to Southeast Asia. Comes the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of White House tours; state dinners; value of using the Sequoia; receptions and stag dinners for Congress at the White House; Lady Bird; Air Force One travel; appointments and congressional recommendations; LBJ's persuasive powers; Everett Dirksen; dealings
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
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • reaction to withdrawal decision; details in planning LBJ’s 1966 travel; LBJ as 'captive president' due to anti-war demonstrations; FBI investigation of potential White House appointments/employments and summaries of files for president; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Very restricted. K: Exactly. A Vice President, as the number two man in the entire country, carries the weight, the prestige and the imagery second only to the President and he is much more available to travel. So in effect a President uses a Vice
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • concerned, and so they started to dip into capital, as we'd say in Boston . M: So one of the questions then--the reason I dwell on this is some of the critics have made quite a point of the timing of DVN units-- B: That is correct . M
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, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , when he said that Kennedy couldn't have gotten the Ten Commandments through Congress., But on the other hand there was a real, I don't know, I hate tee word charisma. M: Hero, somebody from the Boston Globe called him. R: He was gallant
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to blur the line to the extent that it was practical to do so. Mc: Did you do any traveling in connection with this prior to--? P: No, I didn't. No, I can't think of any trips that I made on the campaign trail, except a couple of trips out
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you arrived here you inherited a commission to study the balance of payments situation and all of its related activities. G: No. I said that what I inherited was setting up a Presidential commission dealing with travel, which was one aspect
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of investment credit with Vietnam War; Bill Martin; credit crunch; Senators Russell and Stennis; tax policies; TROIKA; Quadriad; 1968 travel tax; raising debt; limitations removal of gold limit for Federal Reserve Notes; close communications with other
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of all, we went up at a time when everyone was talking about cutting travel abroad, and here I was asking for money to send Americans abroad. As a matter of fact the Committee report of the House expressly says that we are helping to fulfill
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in corridors and receptions and shook the hands of the great men. him, both times probably. I do recall meeting I was very nearly delegated by Mr. Bowles, the under secretary, to travel with Vice President Johnson on his famous trip to Asia. jq: Very nearly
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the committee in Alaska, they paid their own travel expenses. If they couldn't afford to pay their own travel expenses, they passed the hat and people got them back here. M: Was your husband ever involved in getting financial support for these various
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the President flies, we do have a FAA gentleman that we call. He's aware of the President's travels and, of course, the President has priority at all times on all fields and in all the air. Go: That means that no other planes--? Gu: For the president's
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then, there were delays in getting that information through. Some of it had to find its way by way of a traveler coming out. going to Mexico and There wasn't a great deal of instant communication because of the restraints of travel and communication and so
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • That s perfectly all right. 1 Rusk says, 11 There are times when Secretary of State Look, I don 1 t know. 11 Did you ever travel with him when he was vice president? A: No, I did not. I went with him as president on the trip to Manila
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, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with . Like all Postmasters General, he loves to travel . They the people who all appreciate the attention they get in the press and from deal with them . and Mr . Watson has been in office now less than a year, sure his yet he has gone to forty-eight
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Personal opposition to official policy in Vietnam; National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; SANE; MOBE; NCAC; role of television; counterculture; assignation attempt of Dellinger; travels to Vietnam; meeting with Ho Chi Minh
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the persuasiveness that he was able to marshal in the task of getting bills passed? W: Again, as I have explained to you before, not being on the Majority Leader's staff, but merely being around and with him socially and travelling with him, you were always aware
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, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • more than that and then hung up the phone. He didn't tell Of course, he was traveling that 450 miles during the day, and it was quite a task to get all these things together. F: Had they decided rather suddenly to get married? Q: They must have
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , handling it. When the Vice President went on his trips abroad, for example the time he went to Pakistan, and so forth, our office handled all VIP travel abroad. functions of it. That was one of the So we naturally got into the make-up of his itinerary
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
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the department where it ought to be for for those two items . We considered the U . S . Travel Service and the Weather Bureau and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in your background, who you were, what you were doing, and if he could help you in any way . G: Do you think he liked campaigning, traveling around the state making speeches? B: I don't think anybody likes it, because it is really hard work
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • York during that entire time. I traveled both to San Diego and Fort Worth, where Convair had major interests, but I don't believe at any time when I was in Texas at the Fort Worth plant that Senator Johnson was there. M: Of course, the obvious
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