Telephone conversation # 8116, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/10/1965, 6:40PM

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Title:

Telephone conversation # 8116, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/10/1965, 6:40PM

Duration: (min: sec):

15:18

Reference No.:

8116

Description:

JCS MEETING ON 2 PLANS FOR MORE US FORCES IN VIETNAM; POSSIBLE EISENHOWER BRIEFING; NUMBERS OF TROOPS IN EACH PLAN; EXTENSION OF TAYLOR'S APPOINTMENT; MIKE MANSFIELD'S, GEORGE AIKEN'S VIEWS; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; DETERIORATING VIETNAM SITUATION

Contributor:

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; McNamara, Robert Strange, 1916-2009

Collection:

Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

White House Telephone Recordings and Transcripts

Speaker 1:

LBJ

Who Placed the Call?:

Speaker 2

Speaker 2:

ROBERT MCNAMARA

Other Speaker(s):

OFFICE CONVERSATION

Location of Speaker 1:

Oval Office or unknown location

See Also:

Collection highlight

Subject:

Appointments and nominations; Congressional relations; Defense; Diplomacy; Latin America; LBJ personal; Pre-Presidential; Presidency; Press relations; Public relations; Vietnam; Vietnam criticism

Archivist's General Note:

"SUMMARIZED"; BRIEF OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH HARRY OPPENHEIMER AND IS ALSO APPARENTLY MEETING WITH JACK VALENTI AT TIME OF CALL; POOR SOUND; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE SO.02; SELECTED AS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION COLLECTION

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted, see copyright note in Collection Description

Specific Item Type:

Telephone conversation

Type:

Audio

Format:

Dictation belt

Identifier:

tel-08116

Date:

1965-06-10

Time Period:

Presidential (Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 20, 1969)

Transcript:

Transcribed by LBJ's staff. Transcript not yet digitized.

Citation

Telephone conversation # 8116, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/10/1965, 6:40PM, Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed April 25, 2024, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/tel-08116