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Original hotline message, Kosygin to LBJ, 6/5/67, 7.47 AM (Item)
  • June 5, 1967. "This day began with the 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” Diary) At 4:35 AM
Original hotline message, Kosygin to LBJ, 6/5/67, 7.47 AM (Item)
  • ." (Lady Bird Johnson in her diary) At 4:35 AM LBJ receives a call from Secretary of State Dean Rusk who tells him that war has broken out in the Middle East. Over the next