Telephone conversation # 8132, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 6/15/1965, 10:06AM

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Title:

Telephone conversation # 8132, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 6/15/1965, 10:06AM

Duration: (min: sec):

1:50

Reference No.:

8132

Description:

RUSK REPORTS THAT HE RECEIVED URGENT CALL FROM DAVID BRUCE, ASKING THAT GEORGE BALL APPEAR ON UK TV PROGRAM TO DISCUSS US VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ RESPONDS HE WILL CONSIDER MATTER AND CALL RUSK BACK WHEN HE HAS FINISHED HIS MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS

Contributor:

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994

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:

DEAN RUSK

Other Speaker(s):

OFFICE CONVERSATION

Location of Speaker 1:

Oval Office or unknown location

Subject:

Congressional relations; Defense; Diplomacy; Press relations; Public relations; Vietnam; Vietnam criticism; Western Europe

Archivist's General Note:

"RE BRITISH TV PROGRAM NATIONWIDE ON VNAM, AMB. BRUCE ASKING FOR GOV'T OFFICIAL OR STATESMAN TO APPEAR, PRES & RUSK AGREED #1 LODGE OR #2 ACHESON COULD APPEAR"; POOR SOUND; LBJ IS MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS, SPEAKS WITH JOHN MCCORMACK DURING CALL

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted, see copyright note in Collection Description

Specific Item Type:

Telephone conversation

Type:

Audio

Format:

Dictation belt

Identifier:

tel-08132

Date:

1965-06-15

Time Period:

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

Citation

Telephone conversation # 8132, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 6/15/1965, 10:06AM, Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed May 01, 2025, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/tel-08132