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Original hotline message, Kosygin to LBJ, 6/5/67, 7.47 AM

June 5, 1967. "It began with that most dread and frightening sound that can happen in this house: the sudden ringing of the telephone in the middle of the night. It can never be good news." (Lady Bird Johnson in her diary) At 4:35 AM LBJ receives…