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Telephone conversation # 11028, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 11/11/1966, 8:59AM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • POSSIBLE MEMBERS OF CONGRESSIONAL TEAM TO VISIT INDIA, INCLUDING W. R. "BOB" POAGE, GEORGE AIKEN, BOB DOLE, JACK MILLER, TO STUDY FOOD SITUATION; LBJ'S IRRITATION WITH GEORGE MCGOVERN AND "GIVE-AWAY" AID SPENDING; FREEMAN SAYS HE WILL BE TOUGH
Telephone conversation # 11058, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 11/27/1966, 7:30PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ'S HEALTH; PRESS LEAK ON USDA TRIP TO INDIA; FREEMAN DISCUSSES HIS MEMO ON INDIAN FOOD SITUATION; INDIAN SELF-HELP EFFORTS; EFFECT OF LACK OF MONSOON RAIN; LOCAL FOOD SHORTAGES; LAST YEAR'S FOOD AID; UPCOMING INDIAN ELECTION; NEED
Telephone conversation # 11059, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 11/27/1966, 7:30PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • INDIAN FOOD SITUATION; POSSIBLE INDIAN COMMERCIAL GRAIN PURCHASES; UPCOMING CONGRESSIONAL TRIP; FREEMAN PROPOSES US PROVIDE LIMITED FOOD AID UNTIL AFTER INDIAN ELECTIONS, CROP HARVEST; LEAD TIME FOR SHIPMENTS; LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT CONTINUING
Telephone conversation # 11061, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 11/27/1966, 7:30PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • INDIAN FOOD SITUATION; LBJ SAYS INDIA SHOULD GET AID FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND HE WANTS CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF NEW AID; SORGHUM SHIPMENTS INSTEAD OF WHEAT; INDIAN POLITICAL SITUATION; PRESS STORIES ON INDIAN FOOD SITUATION
Telephone conversation # 1895, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 2/5/1964, 12:58PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • BUNDY REPORTS ON CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS IN LONDON; SITUATION IN GHANA, KWAME NKRUMAH, QUESTION OF FOREIGN AID TO GHANA; LBJ REQUESTS CIA REPORT ON AFRICA; AVERELL HARRIMAN
Telephone conversation # 596, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 12/20/1963, 6:06PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ, MCCORMACK DISCUSS OTTO PASSMAN, CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETING ON FOREIGN AID BILL; GERALD FORD'S POSITION ON BILL; PASSMAN'S AGREEMENT WITH LBJ ON BILL; LBJ EXPRESSES DISGUST WITH PASSMAN, DEFENDS FOREIGN AID, SAYS CUT IN FOREIGN AID
Telephone conversation # 9607, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 2/2/1966, 10:01AM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • FREEMAN DISCUSSES LBJ'S MEETING WITH B. K. NEHRU, UN APPEAL FOR WORLD FOOD AID FOR INDIA; LBJ DISCUSSES NEED FOR INDIAN SELF-HELP, CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF FOOD AID, WORLD FOOD AID, INDIAN CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; INDIRA GANDHI VISIT; PAKISTAN
Telephone conversation # 62, sound recording, LBJ and HORACE BUSBY, 11/26/1963, 1:25PM (Item)
  • "TRANSCRIBED"; LBJ IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH BILL MOYERS, WALTER JENKINS AND ABE FORTAS? AT TIME OF CALL AND OCCASIONALLY SPEAKS WITH THEM; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993
Telephone conversation # 1612, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 1/29/1964, 10:30AM (Item)
  • PANAMA NEGOTIATIONS, CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP MEETING ON PANAMA; PANAMA TREATY; OAS PEACE COMMITTEE; CYPRUS; UK; NATO; LYMAN LEMNITZER; CARL VINSON AND MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS BILL; BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; WALTER JENKINS; EVERETT DIRKSEN
Telephone conversation # 1615, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 1/29/1964, 11:11AM (Item)
  • TAX BILL AND JOHN PASTORE'S STANCE ON EXCISE TAXES; PANAMA SITUATION; OAS PEACE COMMITTEE; BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; WALTER JENKINS AND QUESTION OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE, WH STAFF TESTIFYING BEFORE CONGRESS; COMPARISON WITH SHERMAN ADAMS TESTIFYING
Telephone conversation # 2674, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 3/27/1964, 11:50AM (Item)
  • BUNDY ASKS ABOUT LBJ'S HEALTH, REPORTS ON LACK OF PROGRESS ON PANAMA NEGOTIATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENT OF MARY BUNTING APPOINTMENT TO AEC; WOMEN APPOINTEES; LBJ ASKS BUNDY TO RELAY MESSAGE TO WALTER JENKINS ABOUT PIERRE SALINGER
Telephone conversation # 3320, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/2/1964, 1:55PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH WALTER JENKINS, BILL MOYERS, JACK VALENTI AT TIME OF CALL
Telephone conversation # 6261, sound recording, LBJ and JACK VALENTI, 11/6/1964, 10:50AM (Item)
  • LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT WALL STREET JOURNAL STORY ON WH STAFF BEING OVERWORKED, WH HANDLING OF WALTER JENKINS' INCIDENT; COURTENAY VALENTI; STEELWORKERS' UPCOMING ELECTION; PIERRE SALINGER'S DEFEAT IN CALIFORNIA SENATE RACE; DIAZ ORDAZ VISIT; WH
Telephone conversation # 5536, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 9/8/1964, 6:40PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH JAMES WEBB, WALTER JENKINS AT TIME OF CALL
Telephone conversation # 576, sound recording, LBJ and DAVID BELL, 12/20/1963, 3:34PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ SAYS HE HAS JUST TALKED TO DEAN RUSK WHO WILL BE CALLING BELL ABOUT FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; LBJ TELLS BELL TO TALK TO RUSK, THEN CALL LBJ BACK ABOUT BILL
Telephone conversation # 580, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 12/20/1963, 3:40PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • MANSFIELD, PASTORE DISCUSS NEGOTIATIONS WITH HOUSE ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL, AMENDMENT ON TRADE WITH USSR; OTTO PASSMAN'S STAND ON BILL; LBJ SAYS IT IS BETTER TO HAVE NO BILL AT ALL THAN ACCEPT CUTS, AMENDMENT; MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE
Telephone conversation # 581, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 12/20/1963, 3:45PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • DEAN RUSK REPORTS ON HIS TALK WITH DAVID BELL ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL, RECOMMENDS FUNDING AMOUNT ADMINISTRATION SHOULD ACCEPT AND SAYS THAT ADMINISTRATION SHOULD ACCCEPT HHH'S COMPROMISE ON AMENDMENT ON TRADE WITH USSR BUT REJECT HOUSE
Telephone conversation # 584, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 12/20/1963, 3:48PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ RELAYS DEAN RUSK'S RECOMMENDATIONS ON FUNDING IN FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL AND ON AMENDMENT ON TRADE WITH USSR, SUGGESTS MANSFIELD ASK GERALD FORD TO CALL LBJ ABOUT FUNDING LEVEL OF BILL
Telephone conversation # 586, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD FORD, 12/20/1963, 4:08PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ DISCUSSES AGREEMENT HE HAD REACHED WITH OTTO PASSMAN ABOUT FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS CONFERENCE REPORT; FORD DISCUSSES HIS UNDERSTANDING OF PASSMAN'S VIEWS; COMPROMISE LANGUAGE ON WHEAT AMENDMENT ON TRADE WITH USSR; NEED TO PASS BILL BEFORE
Telephone conversation # 593, sound recording, LBJ and GALE MCGEE, 12/20/1963, 5:30PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF WYOMING WATER, IRRIGATION PROJECTS; MCGEE REPORTS ON CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETING ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL AND OTTO PASSMAN'S REFUSAL TO COMPROMISE ON AMENDMENT ON TRADE WITH COMMUNIST COUNTRIES
Telephone conversation # 594, sound recording, LBJ and SPESSARD HOLLAND, 12/20/1963, 5:47PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ SAYS FLORIDA FEDERAL PROJECTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN BUDGET; HOLLAND REPORTS ON CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEETING ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; OTTO PASSMAN, REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION TO COMPROMISE; GERALD FORD'S POSITION; LBJ ASKS FOR HOLLAND'S HELP
Telephone conversation # 595, sound recording, LBJ and ALBERT THOMAS, 12/20/1963, 6:00PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • DISCUSSION OF TEXAS FEDERAL PROJECTS IN BUDGET; OTTO PASSMAN'S ACTIONS IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; LBJ EXPRESSES IRRITATION WITH PASSMAN, DISCUSSES AGREEMENT HE HAD REACHED WITH PASSMAN ON WHEAT AMENDMENT
Telephone conversation # 606, sound recording, LBJ and DAVID BELL, 12/20/1963, 7:17PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • BELL CONTINUES TO DICTATE ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL PROVISION CONCERNING EXPORT-IMPORT BANK GUARANTEES FOR SALES TO COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, SAYS DEAN RUSK AND ROSWELL GILPATRIC AGREE TO LANGUAGE
Telephone conversation # 609, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 12/20/1963, 7:38PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ READS LANGUAGE OF PROVISION OF FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL CONCERNING EXPORT-IMPORT BANK GUARANTEES OF SALES TO COMMUNIST COUNTRIES; JOHN MCCORMACK'S TALKS WITH OTTO PASSMAN ON ISSUE; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT WORLD SITUATION, MILITARY ASSISTANCE
Telephone conversation # 623, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 12/21/1963, 4:41PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • MCCORMACK EXPRESSES OUTRAGE THAT CHARLES HALLECK INSISTS CONGRESS ADJOURN WITHOUT TAKING ACTION ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; REPUBLICAN POLITICAL TACTICS; GERALD FORD'S COMMENT THAT DOD IS PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION FOR DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN
Telephone conversation # 188, sound recording, LBJ and DON COOK, 11/30/1963, 1:16PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ, COOK DISCUSS THEIR TEENAGE CHILDREN; LBJ THANKS COOK FOR SUPPORT, ASKS ADVICE ON VIETNAM, LATIN AMERICA; HENRY CABOT LODGE; COOK RELAYS CRITICISM OF FOREIGN AID, EXPRESSES OPTIMISM ABOUT ECONOMY, CONCERN ABOUT FRB; COOK'S MEETING WITH UTILITY
Telephone conversation # 248, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 12/2/1963, 7:01PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ ASKS FOR FULBRIGHT'S VIEWS; FULBRIGHT DISCUSSES KENNEDY CENTER BILL; FUNDING FOR CENTER; AMENDMENTS TO FOREIGN AID BILL ON YUGOSLAVIA, POPULATION CONTROL; LBJ ASKS FOR ADVICE ABOUT ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS, CUBA, VIETNAM; HENRY CABOT LODGE; LAOS
Telephone conversation # 433, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 12/12/1963, 9:20AM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • ALMOST INAUDIBLE DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE CANCELLATION OF MEETING TODAY, MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, LBJ'S MEETING WITH OTTO PASSMAN LAST NIGHT, AID TO INDIA
Telephone conversation # 438, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 12/12/1963, 11:50AM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • BALL SAYS THERE IS NO SUBSTANCE TO RUMOR OF COUP IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, DISCUSSES TIMING OF RECOGNITION OF GOVT THERE WITH SENATE VOTE ON FOREIGN AID BILL, POSSIBLE OPPOSITION BY WAYNE MORSE, OTHERS; LBJ SUGGESTS WH MEETING WITH MORSE AND OTHER
Telephone conversation # 441, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 12/12/1963, 12:00PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ ASKS MANSFIELD TO COME TO WH FOR MEETING (ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC); MANSFIELD SAYS SENATE MAY BE MEETING ON FOREIGN AID BILL; LBJ SAYS WAYNE MORSE HAS ALREADY AGREED TO COME, ASKS MANSFIELD IF EVERETT DIRKSEN, BOURKE HICKENLOOPER SHOULD ALSO
Telephone conversation # 455, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 12/12/1963, 4:01PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • O'BRIEN SAYS LUCIUS CLAY WILL CALL GERALD FORD ABOUT FOREIGN AID BILL; SUGGESTION THAT LBJ ASK DWIGHT EISENHOWER TO CALL FORD, CHARLES HALLECK; OTTO PASSMAN'S COMMENTS ABOUT HIS MEETING WITH LBJ; TAX BILL; COFFEE AGREEMENT; VISIT OF PRESIDENT
Telephone conversation # 665, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 12/23/1963, 1:50PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; MCCORMACK SAYS VOTE IS NOT A DEFEAT FOR DEMOCRATS; LBJ SAYS HE HOPES TO SEE MCCORMACK AND LEW DESCHLER AT WH RECEPTION THIS AFTERNOON
Telephone conversation # 675, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 12/23/1963, 3:01PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ ASKS BUNDY TO CONTACT AL FRIENDLY, DAVID BRINKLEY, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PRESS ABOUT CHARLES HALLECK AND THE FIGHT IN THE HOUSE ON THE FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL, WHEAT AMENDMENT, DISCUSSES EFFECT OF THE BILL ON FOREIGN POLICY
Telephone conversation # 688, sound recording, LBJ and WAYNE MORSE, 12/23/1963, 9:24PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • DAY AND TIME OF SENATE VOTE ON FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL; LBJ'S TRAVEL PLANS; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS THOUGHTS ON REORGANIZING CONGRESSIONAL HANDLING OF MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, LATIN AMERICAN POLICY; LBJ'S VIEWS ON A.I.D., EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
Telephone conversation # 1687, sound recording, LBJ and WALKER STONE, 1/31/1964, 1:32PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ REPORTS ON FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS, DEFENSE SPENDING; COMMENTS ON NYT, WASHINGTON POST, NEED FOR SUPPORT OF THOMAS MANN IN PRESS; INFLUENCE OF PRESS ON FOREIGN POLICY; PANAMA; CUBA; FOREIGN AID; CYPRUS; INDONESIA; PRESS RELATIONS WITH WH
Telephone conversation # 2094, sound recording, LBJ and ALLEN ELLENDER, 2/16/1964, 5:04PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ URGES ELLENDER TO GET FARM BILL PASSED IN SENATE; COTTON PRICES; ORVILLE FREEMAN; FOREIGN AID; CYPRUS; ELLENDER'S RECENT TRIP TO AFRICA; MIKE MANSFIELD; TIMING OF FARM BILL AND CIVIL RIGHTS BILL IN SENATE
Telephone conversation # 2095, sound recording, LBJ and ALLEN ELLENDER, 2/16/1964, 5:04PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ URGES ELLENDER TO GET FARM BILL PASSED IN SENATE; COTTON PRICES; ORVILLE FREEMAN; FOREIGN AID; CYPRUS; ELLENDER'S RECENT TRIP TO AFRICA; MIKE MANSFIELD; TIMING OF FARM BILL AND CIVIL RIGHTS BILL IN SENATE
Telephone conversation # 1155, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 1/2/1964, 3:20PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • FAA CERTIFICATION OF SST; EUGENE BLACK; NAJEEB HALABY; LBJ ASKS FOR PEACE OFFENSIVE PROPOSAL; NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV; CLOSURE OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, STUDEBAKER PLANT, UNEMPLOYMENT AND POSSIBLE PURCHASE BY LITTON CORP; RICHARD RUSSELL; US AID
Telephone conversation # 2929, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 4/9/1964, 11:30AM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • BUNDY REPORTS ON PROPOSED TRIP BY DEAN RUSK, ASKS LBJ'S APPROVAL OF AID TO COLOMBIA, BOLIVIA; BUNDY'S LEAVE PLANS; BUNDY SUGGESTS LBJ MEET WITH RFK ON CIVIL RIGHTS, GEORGE WALLACE
Telephone conversation # 3446, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/13/1964, 5:35PM (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • LBJ'S MEETING LAST NIGHT WITH HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE; NEED FOR ECONOMIC, MILITARY BUDGET SUPPLEMENTALS FOR VIETNAM; MEDICINE FOR CUBA; POSSIBLE LBJ RECORDING FOR JFK LIBRARY; RAID OF CUBA; AID TO LAOS, BURMA, CAMBODIA, INDONESIA; LBJ'S