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  • "TRANSCRIBED" WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE CONTAINING DICTABELT; NIXON ON HOLD 0:30; OFFICE SECRETARY SPEAKS WITH HIM BRIEFLY; LBJ APPARENTLY ON SPEAKERPHONE
  • LBJ SAYS ANNOUNCEMENT OF ROBERT MURPHY AS NIXON'S LIAISON WITH STATE DEPT WAS MISCONSTRUED AS AGREEMENT THAT MURPHY, NIXON WOULD APPROVE FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS; NIXON SAYS HE WILL NOT INTERFERE, HE SUPPORTS LBJ ON VIETNAM, NATO, NON-PROLIFERATION
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13736, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/14/1968, 4:33PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • LBJ CONGRATULATES NIXON ON RECEIVING REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION, OFFERS HIM BRIEFING ON VIETNAM; LBJ'S UPCOMING MEETING WITH HHH; TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR BRIEFING FOR NIXON AT LBJ RANCH BY DEAN RUSK, CYRUS VANCE; NIXON'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13304, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 8/8/1968, 4:09PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • NIXON DISCUSSES EVERETT DIRKSEN'S CALL ABOUT NIXON'S ASSOCIATES ENCOURAGING SOUTH VIETNAM NOT TO JOIN PEACE TALKS, SAYS HE WILL COOPERATE WITH LBJ, GO TO PARIS OR SAIGON IF NEEDED; LBJ REVIEWS HISTORY OF PEACE TALKS, BRIEFING OF CANDIDATES; LBJ
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13710, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/3/1968, 1:54PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • NIXON SAYS HE WILL NOT NAME US AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY NOW, WILL APPOINT ROBERT MURPHY AS HIS REPRESENTATIVE ON FOREIGN POLICY, VIETNAM DURING TRANSITION; LBJ PRAISES MURPHY, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT USSR DURING TRANSITION; NIXON'S CONTACTS
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13735, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/14/1968, 10:56AM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • "FIRST 1/2 ONE CALL"; "SECOND 1/2 IMPORTANT (NIXON)"; "22 NOV 5:50PM TOP THEN BOTTOM"; "NIXON" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT, "TRANSCRIBED" ON ENVELOPE; LBJ SPEAKS TO TOM JOHNSON WHO IS MEETING WITH HIM DURING CALL; TOM JOHNSON IS INAUDIBLE; CONTINUES
  • NIXON THANKS LBJ FOR MAKING PLANE AVAILABLE FOR FLORIDA TRIP, DISCUSSES NAMING HHH AS UN AMBASSADOR; LBJ SAYS HE HAS TALKED WITH HHH AND WILL MEET WITH HIM TONIGHT; NIXON DISCUSSES HIS EXPERIENCE AS FORMER VP; DISCUSSION OF VIETNAM, PARIS PEACE
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13759, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/22/1968, 5:42PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • "SUNDAY"; "SUMMARIZED"; POOR SOUND QUALITY; NIXON IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13306, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 8/18/1968, 5:01PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • NIXON STATES HIS POSITION ON VIETNAM BOMBING HALT; LBJ READS LATEST CABLE FROM CREIGHTON ABRAMS ON BOMBING EFFECTIVENESS, POSSIBLE ADVERSE AFFECTS OF HALT; LBJ SAYS HE IS TRYING TO RUN THE WAR, NOT THE CAMPAIGN, DISCUSSES CONDITIONS NECESSARY
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13433, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 9/30/1968, 6:45PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • NIXON'S VISIT WITH DWIGHT EISENHOWER; LBJ SAYS EISENHOWER SUPPORTS VIETNAM POLICY, READS MEMO ON 1954 GENEVA TALKS AND CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEMO ON HHH'S, MELVIN LAIRD'S STATEMENTS ON TROOP LEVELS; DISCUSSION OF NYT STORIES, US CONDITIONS FOR BOMBING
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13523, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 10/7/1968, 5:11PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • "6:45-7:10PM"; "(TRANSCRIBED)"; NIXON ON HOLD 1:25; JIM JONES ASKS NIXON TO HOLD BECAUSE LBJ IS IN A MEETING; WALT ROSTOW IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; POOR SOUND QUALITY; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • NIXON ASKS ABOUT HHH'S SALT LAKE CITY SPEECH ON HALTING BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM, ASKS IF US POSITION HAS CHANGED; LBJ READS FROM CREIGHTON ABRAMS' CABLE ON POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF BOMBING HALT; PEACE NEGOTIATIONS; ROSTOW SUMMARIZES ABRAMS' MORE RECENT
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13432, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 9/30/1968, 6:45PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • CLARIFICATION OF RICHARD NIXON'S STATEMENT WHICH PRESS MISCONSTRUED TO MEAN THAT LBJ HAD AGREED TO GET PRIOR APPROVAL FROM NIXON FOR DECISIONS DURING TRANSITION; ROBERT MURPHY'S ROLE AS NIXON'S OBSERVER AT STATE DEPT; NEED FOR OBSERVER FOR NIXON
  • RICHARD NIXON'S OFFER TO NAME HHH TO UN POST; LBJ ADVISES NIXON TO KEEP CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS AT VA, GSA, FBI, CIA; J. EDGAR HOOVER; CARTHA "DEKE" DELOACH; NIXON'S FRIENDSHIP WITH BEBE REBOZO; SALE OF SMATHERS' HOUSE TO NIXON; SMATHERS' PERSONAL
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13760, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/22/1968, 5:42PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • LBJ'S MEETING WITH ANATOLY DOBRYNIN ON SOVIET INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA; US NEGOTIATIONS WITH USSR ON ARMS CONTROL ISSUES; THREAT OF SOVIET INVASION TO US INTERESTS; CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY BY DEMOCRATS; NIXON'S CONCERN ABOUT COMMENTS BY HHH
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13309, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 8/20/1968, 11:22PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • DISCUSSION OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF ROBERT MURPHY'S APPOINTMENT AS RICHARD NIXON'S LIAISON WHICH WAS MISCONSTRUED BY PRESS AS AGREEMENT THAT NIXON WOULD APPROVE DECISIONS DURING TRANSITION; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT USSR; MEANS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LBJ
  • LBJ DISCUSSES NEED FOR CLARIFICATION OF RICHARD NIXON'S STATEMENT WHICH PRESS MISCONSTRUED TO MEAN LBJ HAD AGREED TO GET PRIOR APPROVAL FROM NIXON FOR DECISIONS DURING TRANSITION; ROBERT MURPHY'S ROLE AS NIXON'S LIAISON, OBSERVER IN STATE DEPT
  • SMATHERS DISCUSSES RICHARD NIXON'S REQUEST TO BUY SMATHERS' HOUSE, NIXON'S PLAN TO OFFER UN POST TO HHH; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HHH, PROBLEMS OF PRESIDENCY, HIS REGRET ABOUT NOT REPLACING JFK APPOINTEES, OFFERS ADVICE TO NIXON; DNC'S
  • "RE HIS SWEARING-IN PRESIDENT-ELECT NIXON, AND NIXON ASKING HIM TO REMAIN ON THE COURT"
  • WARREN GIVES LBJ BACKGROUND OF PRESS STORY THAT RICHARD NIXON HAS ASKED WARREN TO REMAIN ON SUPREME COURT FOR REST OF COURT'S TERM; LBJ DISCUSSES SPECIAL SESSION TO RATIFY NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY, RECESS APPOINTMENT FOR ARTHUR GOLDBERG
  • "RE AMB SHRIVER REQUESTING CALL BACK TO US TO SEE PRESIDENT-ELECT NIXON"; "SUMMARIZED, YB"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • RUSK REPORTS THAT SARGENT SHRIVER HAS SENT HIM PRIVATE MESSAGE THAT RICHARD NIXON WANTS TO MEET WITH SARGENT SHRIVER ON SUNDAY AND THAT NIXON MAY ASK SHRIVER TO ACCEPT POSITION AS UN AMBASSADOR; RUSK RECOMMENDS AUTHORIZING SHRIVER TO RETURN TO US
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK IF RICHARD NIXON SHOULD TAKE ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ENCOURAGE SOUTH VIETNAM TO JOIN PARIS PEACE TALKS; QUESTION OF NIXON, MIKE MANSFIELD, OTHERS GOING TO SAIGON OR PARIS; TRANSITION ARRANGEMENTS; NYT STORY ON RESUMING ARMS TALKS WITH USSR
  • HELMS TELLS LBJ THAT RICHARD NIXON HAS ASKED HELMS TO REMAIN AS CIA DIRECTOR; LBJ PRAISES HELMS, REQUESTS THAT NIXON HAVE SOMEONE BRIEF LBJ PERIODICALLY JUST AS LBJ HAD SOMEONE BRIEF DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND HARRY TRUMAN, DISCUSSES ROLE OF FORMER
  • "FIRST 1/2 ONE CALL"; "SECOND 1/2 IMPORTANT (NIXON)"; "22 NOV 5:50PM TOP THEN BOTTOM"; "NIXON" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • SMATHERS SAYS HE TALKED WITH RICHARD NIXON ABOUT LBJ'S RESPONSE TO NIXON'S OFFER TO APPOINT HHH AS UN AMBASSADOR; LBJ SAYS HE WILL CALL SMATHERS AFTER LBJ MEETS WITH HHH TODAY; SMATHERS' WISH TO BE APPOINTED TO PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS BOARD OR ANOTHER
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING WITH HHH ON RICHARD NIXON'S OFFER TO NAME HHH UN AMBASSADOR, HHH'S FUTURE PLANS; LBJ PRAISES ROBERT MURPHY, DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF PRESIDENCY, NEED FOR NIXON TO HAVE STRONG FOREIGN POLICY ADVISERS; ANNA CHENNAULT
  • JACKSON SAYS RICHARD NIXON HAS ASKED HIM TO BE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE; LBJ PRAISES JACKSON, ENCOURAGES HIM TO TAKE JOB; JACKSON SAYS HE IS RELUCTANT, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT HIS SENATE SUCCESSOR, RECOMMENDS NIXON REAPPOINT CLARK CLIFFORD; NELSON
  • RICHARD NIXON'S OFFER TO APPOINT JACKSON SECRETARY OF DEFENSE; LBJ ENCOURAGES JACKSON TO ACCEPT, DISCUSSES IMPORTANCE OF JOB; NIXON'S SECRETARY OF STATE; LBJ TELLS HELEN JACKSON THAT HER HUSBAND SHOULD ACCEPT JOB, GREETS JACKSON'S SISTER GERTRUDE
  • TREASURY SECRETARY DESIGNATE DAVID KENNEDY REPORTS ON HIS TALK WITH RICHARD NIXON IN WHICH KENNEDY RELAYED DISCUSSION HE AND LBJ HAD ABOUT FEDERAL BUDGET YESTERDAY, SAYS NIXON FEELS IT IS RESPONSIBLE BUDGET, DOUBTS SURTAX CAN BE REPEALED
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF 1970 FEDERAL BUDGET, NIXON'S OPPOSITION TO SURTAX EXTENSION; MILLS SUGGESTS LBJ ASK CONGRESS TO POSTPONE HALF OF MANDATED SALARY INCREASES AND TELL CONGRESS HE WILL NOT SUBMIT BUDGET THAT INCLUDES SURTAX THAT NIXON DOES
  • HHH SAYS HE DECLINED RICHARD NIXON'S OFFER TO NAME HHH AS UN AMBASSADOR; HHH'S FUTURE PLANS; LBJ SUGGESTS NIXON NAME ROBERT MURPHY TO UN; DISCUSSION OF PRESS STORY QUOTING ROBERT SHORT ABOUT POSSIBLE LAWSUIT TO RELEASE DNC TRUST FUND
  • ';lntry. After the 2.0th President I . . h. . Nixon speaks for th,. country and President Johnson supports im in every um $1.) (f,..j.,' ~r way he _c an. There rill be timely r:flccilugs with Ambassador Murphy now, and later with the s1cretary o~ Stat
  • CHRISTIAN DISCUSSES HIS RESPONSE TO PRESS CONCERNING MISINTERPRETATION OF NIXON'S STATEMENT ANNOUNCING APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT MURPHY AS NIXON'S LIAISON DURING TRANSITION, INCLUDING STORY THAT LBJ WAS IRRITATED WITH NIXON
  • November 20, 2008 Reference No. 13909 Processing Note A: represents President Johnson; B: represents Richard Nixon. Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording. A copy of this transcript was interfiled on this date from the Alpha
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS UPCOMING STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE AND STATEMENT HE WANTS NIXON TO ISSUE IN SUPPORT OF LBJ'S REMARKS IN THE MESSAGE ON THE SURTAX
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
  • Telephone conversation # 13909, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 1/10/1969, 5:11 PM
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • HHH REPORTS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES; IOWA, GEORGIA POLITICS; NIXON'S REMARKS ON VIETNAM; PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTION IN CAMPAIGN; CONGRESSIONAL RECESS, NOT ADJOURNMENT, TO SAVE MEDICARE BILL; ETHICS CHARGES AGAINST GOLDWATER, MILLER; BOBBY BAKER
  • SHORT DISCUSSION OF EISENHOWER'S HEALTH; EISENHOWER EXPLAINS HIS RECENT STATEMENT ON VIETNAM; RICHARD NIXON ON US IN VIETNAM; EISENHOWER CONTRASTS KOREAN AND VIETNAM WARS, USE OF ATOMIC WEAPONS; LBJ REMINISCES ABOUT EISENHOWER'S POLICY ON VIETNAM
  • FULBRIGHT'S RE-ELECTION; LBJ DISCUSSES NEED FOR SPECIAL SESSION TO RATIFY NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY; RICHARD NIXON'S VIEWS; EFFECT OF TREATY ON GERMANY, ISRAEL, INDIA, JAPAN; POSSIBLE MEETING WITH USSR; UPCOMING CHANGES IN JCS, SENATE; ANTARCTIC
  • MANSFIELD REPORTS ON HIS CALL TO GEORGE AIKEN ON RATIFICATION OF NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY AND LBJ'S POSSIBLE MEETING WITH USSR, SUGGESTS LBJ CALL AIKEN TONIGHT; LBJ SAYS HE WILL CALL AIKEN AFTER MEETING WITH WILLIAM FULBRIGHT; RICHARD NIXON'S VIEWS
  • ROSTOW REPORTS ON HIS TALK WITH UNNAMED ADVISER (ROBERT MURPHY?) TO RICHARD NIXON (ABOUT LBJ'S POSSIBLE MEETING WITH USSR?); LBJ SUGGESTS DEAN RUSK BRIEF UNNAMED ADVISER; DISCUSSION OF TIME THAT ROSTOW AND HIS FAMILY WILL ARRIVE AT LBJ RANCH TONIGHT
  • LBJ READS DRAFT LETTER TO LEADERS OF HOUSE AND SENATE CONVEYING TREASURY'S PROPOSED TAX REFORMS, SAYS NEXT ADMINISTRATION SHOULD ENACT REFORMS; REPORT OF PAUL DOUGLAS' COMMISSION; RICHARD NIXON'S CHANGING VIEWS ON SURTAX EXTENSION; 1970 FEDERAL
  • LBJ'S HEALTH; LBJ'S MEETING WITH DAVID KENNEDY ON NIXON ADMINISTRATION'S VIEWS ON TAX SURCHARGE, TAX REFORM; DOD RECORD ON HOUSING DISCRIMINATION NEAR MILITARY BASES; RICHARD RUSSELL'S STATEMENT ON USS PUEBLO; PRESS CRITICISM OF NAVY; DOD
  • PROTESTANT OBJECTIONS TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AID IN EDUCATION BILL; EDITH GREEN; CHARLES GOODELL; LBJ DISCUSSES HHH'S KEY ROLE AS LIAISON WITH CONGRESS; JOHN NANCE GARNER, HENRY WALLACE, LBJ, NIXON AS VP; IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION, MEDICARE, APPALACHIA
  • LBJ DISCUSSES EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, 1970 FEDERAL BUDGET, NIXON'S OPPOSITION TO SURTAX EXTENSION; MILLS' SPEECH ON BUDGET; LBJ SAYS HE FAVORS SURTAX, OUTLINES HOW HE WOULD ALLOCATE FUNDS; CONCERNS ABOUT MANDATED PAY INCREASES; FUNDS FOR SAFE
  • 1970 FEDERAL BUDGET; NIXON'S OPPOSITION TO SURTAX EXTENSION; LBJ SAYS HE WILL NOT PROPOSE TAX REFORM, SAYS AGENCIES MUST RESTRICT SPENDING, ABSORB MANDATED INCREASES; POSSIBLE DROP IN VIETNAM SPENDING; ENEMY LOSSES SINCE TET OFFENSIVE; PARIS PEACE