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Telephone conversation # 4603, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE SMATHERS, 8/1/1964, 11:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS CRITICISM OF LBJ'S LATIN AMERICAN POLICY; PANAMA; CUBA; BRAZIL; LBJ ASKS SMATHERS TO COMMEND THOMAS MANN; ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS; WH MEETINGS WITH LATIN AMERICAN LEADERS, WIVES; FLORIDA VOTES ON POVERTY BILL; PAUL ROGERS' CANDIDATE
Telephone conversation # 4344, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 7/27/1964, 12:32PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM "BOZO" MCKEE TO NASA POSITION; PRESS REACTION TO REUTERS NEWS STORY ON INCREASE IN US ASSISTANCE TO VIETNAM; AMBASSADOR LEONARD UNGER'S OPPOSITION TO OPERATION IN PANHANDLE OF LAOS
Telephone conversation # 6275, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 11/6/1964, 3:45PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • BUNDY SUGGESTS COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT TALENT HUNT; ANTHONY CELEBREZZE; DOUGLAS DILLON; POSSIBLE CHANGES IN WH STAFF; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT PRESS AT RANCH; CANDIDATES FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL; CLARK CLIFFORD; TOM FINNEY; VISITS BY FOREIGN MINISTERS, HAROLD
Telephone conversation # 6389, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 11/17/1964, 7:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PROPOSED BELGIAN PARADROP IN CONGO; PRESS LEAKS; PROTECTING AMERICAN LIVES THERE; POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR TO JOHN MCCONE AT CIA; FRANK PACE; CLARK KERR; JAMES ALFRED PERKINS; CANDIDATES FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY; TOM WATSON; LEROY COLLINS; JOHN CONNOR; JOHN
Telephone conversation # 7058, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT ANDERSON, 3/11/1965, 9:16AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • FURTHER DISCUSSION OF PRESS LEAKS; JOHN CONNOR AS COMMERCE SECRETARY; CONNOR'S ACTIONS TO ENCOURAGE COMPANIES (TO CURB INVESTMENTS ABROAD?); HAROLD WILSON'S UPCOMING VISIT TO US; UK BUDGET; UK CRITICISM OF US SOUTHEAST ASIA AND VIETNAM POLICY
Telephone conversation # 7191, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CHANCELLOR, 3/31/1965, 11:16AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF INACCURATE NBC STORY BY BOB GORALSKI THAT MAXWELL TAYLOR WILL SOON RESIGN AS AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM; INACCURATE STORY ON TREASURY SECRETARY NOMINEE; LBJ EMPHASIZES THAT PRESS SHOULD CHECK TIPS WITH HIM; EFFECT ON ALEXIS
Telephone conversation # 7192, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/31/1965, 11:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT NBC STORY BY BOB GORALSKI THAT MAXWELL TAYLOR WILL SOON RESIGN AS AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM, ASKS RUSK TO INVESTIGATE PRESS LEAK FROM STATE DEPT
Telephone conversation # 7194, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 3/31/1965, 3:46PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • STORY ON MAXWELL TAYLOR'S RESIGNATION; LBJ'S UPCOMING MEETING WITH TAYLOR; STORY ON US RESPONSE TO EMBASSY BOMBING; EARLE WHEELER'S PROPOSAL TO BOMB HAIPHONG; PRESS LEAKS; PAT COYNE OR RICHARD HELMS AS POSSIBLE CIA DIRECTOR; VETERANS HOSPITALS
Telephone conversation # 7077, sound recording, LBJ and DOUGLAS DILLON, 3/18/1965, 10:40AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TRIP TO LBJ RANCH; BANKERS' MEETING YESTERDAY; TREASURY DEPT PRESS LEAKS; TREASURY SECRETARY CANDIDATES; ROBERT ROOSA; DAVID ROCKEFELLER; EUGENE BLACK; TOM WATSON; CARTER BURGESS; FRED KAPPEL; CRAWFORD GREENEWALT; HENRY "JOE" FOWLER; JOHN LOEB
Telephone conversation # 7122, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE MOORE, 3/18/1965, 7:31PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ TELLS MOORE THAT HENRY "JOE" FOWLER WILL GO TO WORLD BANKERS' MEETING AT PRINCETON TOMORROW, ASKS MOORE TO MAKE PUBLIC STATEMENTS SUPPORTING FOWLER'S NOMINATION AS TREASURY SECRETARY; NEED FOR FAVORABLE STORIES DUE TO SELMA; PRESS LEAK BY WILBUR
Telephone conversation # 7147, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY CABOT LODGE, 3/25/1965, 8:52AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH; LODGE OFFERS TO RETURN AS US AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM; LBJ OUTLINES QUALITIES NEEDED BY AMBASSADOR; JOHN MCNAUGHTON AS POSSIBLE CHIEF OF STAFF, ALEXIS JOHNSON AS DEPUTY AMBASSADOR; PRESS STORIES ON TEAR GAS; CONFLICTS
Telephone conversation # 7410, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 4/30/1965, 11:51AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • REAPPOINTMENT OF LAVERN DILWEG TO FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION; CRISIS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; CUBAN INFLUENCE; JUAN BOSCH; SANTO DOMINGO POLICE CALL FOR US HELP; OAS; MEXICO, VENEZUELA AS INTERMEDIARIES; PRESS LEAKS BY DIRKSEN, FULBRIGHT
Telephone conversation # 7505, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/1/1965, 11:39AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • BUNDY APOLOGIZES FOR DELAY IN RELAYING CABLES TO LBJ, REPORTS ON CHESTER BOWLES' VACATION REQUEST; DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT FOR JOHN LEDDY; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF SAM GILSTRAP AS REPLACEMENT FOR BENJAMIN READ; LBJ INSTRUCTS BUNDY ON PRESS CONTACTS
Telephone conversation # 8412, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 7/28/1965, 7:20PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • GOLDBERG CONGRATULATES LBJ ON PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT ON VIETNAM, ABE FORTAS' APPOINTMENT TO SUPREME COURT; UN RESPONSE TO STATEMENT; GOLDBERG'S TALK WITH U THANT ON PEACE EFFORTS; AVERELL HARRIMAN'S RECENT REPORT; HOUSE REPEAL OF SECTION 14-B
Telephone conversation # 8890, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 9/19/1965, 11:08PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ READS JOSEPH KRAFT COLUMN CRITICIZING GOLDBERG, UN ROLE IN INDIA-PAKISTAN KASHMIR CRISIS, JAMES ROOSEVELT'S APPOINTMENT TO UN DELEGATION, ARTICLE 19 SETTLEMENT; LBJ PRAISES PRESS COVERAGE GOLDBERG HAS RECEIVED
Telephone conversation # 8609, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 8/23/1965, 1:24PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF JOHN GRONOUSKI AS US AMBASSADOR TO POLAND; RUSK'S UPCOMING SCHEDULE AND TRAVEL PLANS, PRESS CONFERENCE, SPEECH TO AMERICAN LEGION; LBJ DISCUSSES RUSK'S BRIEFING AT RECENT WH DINNER
Telephone conversation # 8613, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 8/23/1965, 3:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS BALL TO CLEAR "AGREMENT" ON APPOINTMENT OF JOHN GRONOUSKI AS US AMBASSADOR TO POLAND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO HE CAN ANNOUNCE IT AT UPCOMING PRESS CONFERENCE; NOTIFICATION OF JOHN CABOT OF APPOINTMENT OF GRONOUSKI AS CABOT'S SUCCESSOR
Telephone conversation # 8658, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 8/27/1965, 10:56AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • ITEMS FOR MOYERS' PRESS BRIEFING; LBJ'S BIRTHDAY MESSAGES AND GIFTS FROM FRIENDS, HEADS OF STATE; LBJ'S SCHEDULE; POSSIBLE CANCELLATION OF TRIP TO RANCH; STATEMENTS ABOUT DISABLED VETERANS' BILL; POSSIBLE VETO OF HIGHWAY BILL
Telephone conversation # 9307, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 12/3/1965, 9:31AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ'S MEETING WITH ORVILLE FREEMAN ON FOOD AID TO INDIA; PRESS LEAKS; ROBERT KOMER; CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED MCGEORGE BUNDY; RUSK'S ADMIRATION OF BUNDY; KOMER'S ABRASIVENESS; MEETING WITH LBJ ON VIETNAM; VIETNAM BUDGET; OTHER COUNTRIES' TROOP
Telephone conversation # 9314, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 12/11/1965, 12:18PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • POSSIBLE VIETNAM BOMBING PAUSE; HANOI'S DENUNCIATION OF PAUSE; UPCOMING HAROLD WILSON VISIT; LBJ'S OPPOSITION TO PAUSE, CONCERN ABOUT PRESS LEAKS; US LOAN TO BRAZIL; BRAZILIAN TROOPS FOR VIETNAM; WILLIAM BENNETT AS AMBASSADOR TO PORTUGAL; GEORGE
Telephone conversation # 9317, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 12/11/1965, 12:58PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM BENNETT AS AMBASSADOR TO PORTUGAL; GEORGE ANDERSON; CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS' VIEWS ON POSSIBLE NEW VIETNAM CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION, BOMBING PAUSE; LBJ'S OPPOSITION TO PAUSE; PRESS LEAKS; SCHEDULE FOR UPCOMING HAROLD WILSON
Telephone conversation # 8315, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 7/8/1965, 1:19PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA'S EVALUATION OF CANDIDATE FOR USIA DIRECTOR; DEPUTY DIRECTOR, VOICE OF AMERICA VACANCIES; BILL MOYERS' APPOINTMENT AS WH PRESS SECRETARY; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF JOSEPH CALIFANO OR ADAM YARMOLINSKY TO WH STAFF; WH DOMESTIC POLICY
Telephone conversation # 8333, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 7/9/1965, 3:50PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK ABOUT WARREN ROGERS' STORY THAT STATE DEPT PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMATS DID NOT APPROVE OF APPOINTMENT OF HENRY CABOT LODGE AS US AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH VIETNAM; RUSK TELLS LBJ THAT RICHARD GOODWIN HAS TOLD PRESS THAT RUSK, GEORGE BALL
Telephone conversation # 8357, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 7/19/1965, 8:45PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK REPORTS ON PRESS LEAK TRACED TO EVERETT DIRKSEN; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS TALK WITH DIRKSEN ABOUT APPOINTMENT OF ARTHUR GOLDBERG AS UN AMBASSADOR; POSSIBLE ARAB REACTION TO JEWISH APPOINTMENT; PAUL DOUGLAS
Telephone conversation # 8358, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 7/19/1965, 8:45PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • APPOINTMENT OF ARTHUR GOLDBERG AS UN AMBASSADOR; RUSK ASKS ABOUT GOLDBERG'S WORK WITH ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONS, TELLS LBJ HE APPROVES OF SELECTION OF GOLDBERG; OTHER CANDIDATES; HHH'S PRESS STATEMENT; GEORGE BALL; UN DELEGATION; ANNOUNCEMENT
Telephone conversation # 8360, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 7/19/1965, 9:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • ALMOST INAUDIBLE DISCUSSION OF GOLDBERG'S APPOINTMENT AS UN AMBASSADOR; GOLDBERG'S PRIDE IN HIS JEWISH HERITAGE; TIME OF ANNOUNCEMENT; LBJ TELLS GOLDBERG TO AVOID PRESS LEAKS; GOLDBERG'S ZIONIST BACKGROUND; COMPARISON WITH APPOINTMENT OF NEGROES
Telephone conversation # 7848, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/31/1965, 10:42AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • POSSIBLE APPOINTEES FOR NEW STUDY OF INDIA, PAKISTAN; FRANK STANTON VIETNAM TRIP; MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ON SOUTHEAST ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LAND REFORM; JOHN MCNAUGHTON AS VIETNAM DEPUTY AMBASSADOR; PRESS STORIES ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, OAS; JUAN
Telephone conversation # 7850, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/31/1965, 10:42AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • POSSIBLE APPOINTEES FOR NEW STUDY OF INDIA, PAKISTAN; FRANK STANTON VIETNAM TRIP; MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ON SOUTHEAST ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LAND REFORM; JOHN MCNAUGHTON AS VIETNAM DEPUTY AMBASSADOR; PRESS STORIES ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, OAS; JUAN
Telephone conversation # 8108, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 6/8/1965, 5:05PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • QUESTION OF MAXWELL TAYLOR MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS; PRESS LEAKS; HENRY CABOT LODGE AS US AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM; SENATE OPPOSITION TO BILL ALLOWING WILLIAM "BOZO" MCKEE TO HEAD FAA; SST; FOREIGN AID BILL; SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Telephone conversation # 10138, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 5/25/1966, 11:30AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DIRKSEN'S PROPOSAL THAT LBJ MEET WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ON VIETNAM; RUSK'S MEETINGS WITH REPUBLICAN LEADERS; PRESS LEAKS; DIRKSEN'S HEALTH; PATRICK NUGENT'S MOTHER'S ADMIRATION OF DIRKSEN; LIST OF POSSIBLE APPOINTEES; RFK AND WIRETAPS
Telephone conversation # 9886, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/14/1966, 1:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK DISCUSSES APPOINTMENT OF JOSEPH PALMER TO HEAD STATE DEPT BUREAU OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS DESPITE CONGRESSIONAL, LABOR AND NEGRO COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR WAYNE FREDERICKS; LBJ SUGGESTS FREDERICKS BE OFFERED POST WITH AID, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT PRESS
Telephone conversation # 9893, sound recording, LBJ and HERMAN TALMADGE, 3/17/1966, 8:35AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TRANSFER OF W. TAPLEY BENNETT FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO PORTUGAL; PRESS CRITICISM OF BENNETT; COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN US; VIETNAM BOMBING CAMPAIGN; WILLIAM FULBRIGHT; QUESTION OF CARL SANDERS RUNNING AGAINST RICHARD RUSSELL IN GEORGIA SENATE RACE
Telephone conversation # 9852, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 3/8/1966, 10:58AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS STORY ON ABBA SCHWARTZ' RESIGNATION AS HEAD OF BUREAU OF SECURITY, CONSULAR AFFAIRS DUE TO STATE DEPT REORGANIZATION; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF SCHWARTZ AS ASSISTANT ON REFUGEES; QUESTION OF RELEASING LETTER ACCEPTING RESIGNATION AT WH OR STATE
Telephone conversation # 10604, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/10/1966, 3:55PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA'S ADVICE ON UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE CANDIDATES; CYRUS VANCE'S CONCERNS ABOUT HIS FUTURE; ROSWELL GILPATRIC; JOHN DICKEY; J. IRWIN MILLER; FRANK MURPHY; PRESS LEAK ABOUT US TROOP INCREASE; RICHARD NIXON'S VIETNAM STATEMENT; JOHN
Telephone conversation # 10612, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/12/1966, 12:30PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCNAMARA'S VACATION PLANS; CYRUS VANCE; LBJ'S DESIRE TO GET NEW IDEAS IN GOVT, FOREIGN POLICY, STATE DEPT; PROPOSED SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH COMMUNIST CHINA; TOMMY CORCORAN'S PLANTING NEW DEAL MEN IN DEPTS; PRESS REPORT ON CAMBODIA
Telephone conversation # 10637, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 8/24/1966, 10:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ REPORTS SARGENT SHRIVER DECLINED STATE DEPT JOB; LBJ'S PRESS CONFERENCE; BERTRAND RUSSELL TRIAL; CYRUS VANCE OR NICHOLAS KATZENBACH AS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE; OTHER STATE DEPT JOBS; LUCIUS BATTLE; FOY KOHLER; ROBERT ANDERSON; TWO CHINA POLICY
Telephone conversation # 10737, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 9/10/1966, 12:33PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • POSSIBLE NYC SIGNING CEREMONY FOR MINIMUM WAGE BILL; INFLATIONARY ASPECTS OF BILL; COMPLICATIONS DUE TO NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL RACE; LIBERAL PARTY AND FDR, JR.; CANDIDATES FOR US DELEGATION TO UN; PRESS STORY ON LBJ'S MEETING WITH JEWISH WAR
Telephone conversation # 10792, sound recording, LBJ and WALT ROSTOW, 9/17/1966, 5:39PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING WITH EUGENE ROSTOW ABOUT APPOINTMENT TO STATE DEPT POSITION; APPOINTMENT OF NICHOLAS KATZENBACH AS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE; KATZENBACH'S ABILITIES TO WORK WITH CONGRESS; LBJ CAUTIONS ROSTOW ABOUT PRESS LEAKS; JAMES MOYERS
Telephone conversation # 10563, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 8/5/1966, 9:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DAVID BRUCE'S REFUSAL OF UNNAMED POST (UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE?); OTHER CANDIDATES: EUGENE BLACK, DOUGLAS DILLON; PRESS CRITICISM OF LBJ'S FAILURE TO FILL STATE DEPT POSTS; DON PRICE; CONCERNS ABOUT AGE OF CANDIDATES; ELLSWORTH BUNKER; ROBERT
Telephone conversation # 12603, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 1/9/1968, 7:48PM (Item)
  • Press relations
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