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Telephone conversation # 10221, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 6/9/1966, 12:00PM (Item)

LBJ EXPRESSES IRRITATION ABOUT NEWS STORY THAT DIRKSEN RECOMMENDS BIPARTISAN CONFERENCE ON VIETNAM, DISCUSSES EXTENSIVE BRIEFINGS HE HAS PROVIDED CONGRESS AND CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP IN CONTRAST WITH BRIEFINGS HE RECEIVED DURING EISENHOWER

Telephone conversation # 9861, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 3/9/1966, 12:58PM (Item)

LBJ'S TALKS WITH CONGRESSIONAL, LABOR LEADERS ABOUT MINIMUM WAGE BILL; TIMING AND RATE OF PROPOSED INCREASE; GEORGE MEANY'S SUPPORT FOR NEW PROPOSAL; ECONOMIC, POLITICAL EFFECTS OF INCREASE; LBJ'S SUPPORT FOR REPEAL OF TAFT-HARTLEY 14-B; OTHER LABOR

Telephone conversation # 9920, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 3/30/1966, 11:50AM (Item)

DIRKSEN'S HEALTH; LBJ APOLOGIZES FOR DISTURBING DIRKSEN, DISCUSSES NEWS STORY ABOUT DIRKSEN'S ALLEGED DISAGREEMENT WITH LBJ ON FEDERAL BUDGET, POSSIBLE TAX INCREASE; DIRKSEN SUGGESTS HE MEET WITH LBJ TOMORROW

Telephone conversation # 9653, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY LUCE, 2/21/1966, 11:56AM (Item)

LUCE DESCRIBES HEDLEY DONOVAN EDITORIAL ON VIETNAM IN NEW ISSUE OF LIFE MAGAZINE; LBJ TELLS LUCE THAT CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE IN LEADERSHIP ON VIETNAM POLICY IS DEVELOPING, CITES SENATE OPPOSITION, DISSENT IN PRESS; POSSIBLE TROOP INCREASES; RFK; JAMES

Telephone conversation # 9830, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE AIKEN, 3/4/1966, 9:02AM (Item)

LAST NIGHT'S CONGRESSIONAL RECEPTION; LBJ ASKS AIKEN'S ADVICE ON APPOINTMENT OF REPUBLICAN STANLEY TUPPER TO US-CANADIAN COMMISSION; TUPPER'S DESIRE TO GET OUT OF POLITICS; LBJ ASKS AIKEN TO RECOMMEND NEW ENGLAND REPUBLICANS FOR OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Telephone conversation # 9831, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE AIKEN, 3/4/1966, 9:02AM (Item)

APPOINTMENTS FOR NEW ENGLAND REPUBLICANS; MCNAMARA'S MEETING WITH SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE; INCREASED PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HAWK POSITION; LODGE'S REPORT ON PROGRESS, MORALE IN VIETNAM; USSR AND BOMBING PAUSE; AIKEN'S TRIP TO CAMBODIA

Telephone conversation # 9845, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 3/7/1966, 12:15PM (Item)

LBJ DISCUSSES ANNOUNCEMENT OF DROP IN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, NEED TO EMPHASIZE HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES, YOUTH AND CREATION OF JOBS FOR NEW WORKERS; CONCERNS ABOUT INFLATION; NEED FOR MORE VOCATIONAL TRAINING; POSSIBILITY OF HIRING WOMEN, RETIREES

Telephone conversation # 9858, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE MEANY, 3/9/1966, 12:50PM (Item)

LBJ READS MEMO ON ECONOMIC EFFECT OF TIMING AND RATE OF MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES IN PENDING BILL, TELLS MEANY HE WILL TALK TO WILLARD WIRTZ ABOUT PROPOSAL, THEN JOHN MCCORMACK; MEANY SAYS LABOR SUPPORTS NEW PROPOSAL

Telephone conversation # 9529, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 1/24/1966, 11:01AM (Item)

LBJ ASKS ABOUT PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO PREVENT BURIAL OF COMMUNISTS IN NATIONAL CEMETERIES IN LIGHT OF UPCOMING BURIAL OF ASHES OF FORMER NEW YORK STATE COMMUNIST PARTY CHAIRMAN R. G. THOMPSON IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY; TRIAL DATE OF BOBBY BAKER CASE

Telephone conversation # 9532, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KENNEDY, 1/25/1966, 12:44PM (Item)

DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT OF MOTLEY TO US DISTRICT COURT IN NEW YORK, CONFIRMATION HEARINGS; RFK TELLS LBJ HE HAS WRITTEN LBJ PERSONAL LETTER; LBJ SUGGESTS THEY MEET SOON; RFK CONGRATULATES MOTLEY ON HER APPOINTMENT

Telephone conversation # 9621, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 2/4/1966, 7:02PM? (Item)

BUNDY RELAYS SUGGESTION FROM DEAN RUSK THAT AMBASSADORS OF KOREA, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BE INVITED TO ATTEND PLENARY SESSION AT HONOLULU CONFERENCE ON VIETNAM; LBJ TELLS BUNDY HE DOES NOT WANT THEM TO ATTEND

Telephone conversation # 10616, sound recording, LBJ and CLINTON ANDERSON, 8/16/1966, 4:59PM (Item)

ANDERSON DISCUSSES LOCATION OF UPCOMING SPEECH BY LBJ IN NEW MEXICO; LBJ ASKS ANDERSON'S ADVICE ON INTEREST RATE INCREASE; WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN'S ILLNESS; FRB'S THEORY ON MONETARY RESTRAINT; FEDERAL CONTROL OF CREDIT AND MONEY SUPPLY; TAX BILL

Telephone conversation # 10704, sound recording, LBJ and WAYNE ASPINALL, 9/1/1966, 12:11PM (Item)

DISCUSSION OF EMERGENCY BILL TO SUSPEND TREE-CUTTING FOR ONE YEAR IN AREA CONGRESS IS CONSIDERING FOR NEW REDWOODS NATIONAL PARK; LBJ EXPRESSES APPRECIATION FOR ASPINALL'S SUPPORT, PROMISES TO HELP HIM IN THE FUTURE; LBJ'S VISIT TO DENVER

Telephone conversation # 10718, sound recording, LBJ and EDWIN WEISL, SR., 9/7/1966, 11:10AM (Item)

DISCUSSION OF VIETNAM RESOLUTION UNDER CONSIDERATION AT NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; LBJ EXPRESSES IRRITATION WITH INVOLVEMENT OF HHH'S SUPPORTERS IN MATTER, ASKS WEISL'S ADVICE ABOUT LOWERING INTEREST RATES

Telephone conversation # 10719, sound recording, LBJ and AVERELL HARRIMAN, 9/7/1966, 11:44AM (Item)

HARRIMAN DISCUSSES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING VIETNAM WAR OFFERED AT NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AND COMPROMISE RESOLUTION IN LINE WITH ADMINISTRATION POSITION; LBJ SUGGESTS TABLING RESOLUTION; HARRIMAN READS COMPROMISE RESOLUTION TO SECRETARY

Telephone conversation # 10720, sound recording, LBJ and AVERELL HARRIMAN, 9/7/1966, 11:44AM (Item)

HARRIMAN READS COMPROMISE RESOLUTION ON VIETNAM TO BE OFFERED AT NEW YORK STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; LBJ SAYS THAT PRESIDENT AND HARRIMAN SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED IN ISSUE BUT RESOLUTION SHOULD CONTAIN LANGUAGE SUPPORTING TROOPS, CONDEMNING

Telephone conversation # 10727, sound recording, LBJ and ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, 9/7/1966, 11:07PM (Item)

POWELL REPORTS ON UNNAMED BILL (MINIMUM WAGE?); POSSIBLE LOSS OF DEMOCRATIC SEATS IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS; NEW YORK LIBERAL PARTY'S NOMINATION OF FDR, JR. FOR GOV.; APPOINTMENT OF HOWARD GAMSER; CARL ALBERT'S HEALTH; POWELL'S REMARKS TO RFK PRAISING

Telephone conversation # 10735, sound recording, LBJ and CHARLES SCHULTZE, 9/10/1966, 10:30AM (Item)

SCHULTZE DISCUSSES BILL TO BUY LAND IN AREAS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR NEW NATIONAL PARKS TO PREVENT LAND SPECULATION; POSSIBLE VETO OF INSURANCE BILL; NEED TO HOLD DOWN FEDERAL EXPENDITURES UNTIL NOVEMBER; FNMA; EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

Telephone conversation # 10737, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 9/10/1966, 12:33PM (Item)

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 # 10757, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 9/12/1966, 8:35PM (Item)

VETO OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES LIFE INSURANCE BILL; GOLDBERG DISCUSSES PROPOSED SIGNING CEREMONY IN NYC FOR MINIMUM WAGE BILL; NEW YORK POLITICS; LBJ PRAISES JEWISH CEREMONY AT CORRINE BOGGS' WEDDING, ASKS GOLDBERG TO BE HIS LABOR LIAISON; UN

Telephone conversation # 10780, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 9/16/1966, 10:18AM (Item)

LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT WILLIAM BUNDY'S BRIEFING ON FERDINAND MARCOS' VISIT, PHILIPPINE AID; JOSEPH SISCO'S BRIEFING ON CHINA; EFFORTS TO DEFLECT CRITICISM STATE DEPT IS ASIA-ORIENTED BY NEW AMBASSADORIAL AND STATE DEPT APPOINTMENTS; EUGENE ROSTOW; FOY

Telephone conversation # 10782, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 9/16/1966, 11:45AM (Item)

LBJ TELLS WIRTZ THAT ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS NEED TO COMBAT NEGATIVE PRESS AND SPREAD POSITIVE NEWS ABOUT US ECONOMY, INCREASED EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONAL INCOME; COMPARISON WITH ECONOMY DURING EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION WHEN NATION WAS NOT AT WAR

Telephone conversation # 10796, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 9/17/1966, 5:59PM (Item)

LBJ DISCUSSES NEED FOR REORGANIZATION IN AMBASSADORSHIPS IN VIETNAM, FRANCE, USSR; NEED FOR NEW IDEAS IN VIETNAM; TRANSFER OF FOY KOHLER TO STATE DEPT AND CHARLES BOHLEN TO USSR; TRANSFER OF HENRY CABOT LODGE TO FRANCE

Telephone conversation # 10553, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/4/1966, 8:25AM (Item)

CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING; LBJ LISTENS TO TV NEWS AT TIMES DURING CONVERSATION; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR AT TIMES

Telephone conversation # 10555, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 8/4/1966, 10:33AM (Item)

NOMINEES FOR PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY COURTS, WASHINGTON, DC CIRCUIT COURT; LIBERAL NATURE OF DC COURT, POLICY ON NAMING DC RESIDENT; WILLIAM COLEMAN; BYRON SKELTON; HOMER THORNBERRY; EVERETT HUTCHINSON; LEE LOEVINGER; SPOTTSWOOD ROBINSON; WILLIAM

Telephone conversation # 10564, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 8/5/1966, 9:30AM (Item)

LBJ ASKS FULBRIGHT'S ADVICE ABOUT STATE DEPT REPLACEMENTS FOR THOMAS MANN, GEORGE BALL, U. ALEXIS JOHNSON, WILLIAM CROCKETT; CONCERNS ABOUT AGE OF CANDIDATES, NEED FOR NEW BLOOD; DON PRICE; FULBRIGHT RECOMMENDS HENRY TASCA; LBJ ASKS ABOUT DOUGLAS

Telephone conversation # 10243, sound recording, LBJ and SAMUEL NABRIT, 6/17/1966, 7:10PM (Item)

LBJ TELLS NABRIT THAT NEWS OF NABRIT'S APPOINTMENT TO AEC HAS BEEN LEAKED TO WASHINGTON POST BEFORE ALL CLEARANCES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, ASKS NABRIT TO BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT DISCUSSING POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT

Telephone conversation # 10278, sound recording, LBJ and WALT ROSTOW, 6/29/1966, 1:52AM (Item)

ROSTOW SAYS THERE IS NO REPORT YET ON HANOI OR DO SON TARGETS BUT NEW REPORT FROM BOMBING MISSION OF HAIPHONG SHOWS HEAVY DAMAGE; DURING CALL ROSTOW RECEIVES CONFIRMATION BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON HANOI AS SCHEDULED; LBJ ASKS ABOUT HAIPHONG DAMAGE

Telephone conversation # 10423, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 7/25/1966, 3:24PM (Item)

DALEY THANKS LBJ FOR HIS RECENT REMARKS IN INDIANAPOLIS ABOUT RIOTING, DISCUSSES HHH'S NOTE EXPLAINING INACCURATE PRESS REPORT OF HHH'S SPEECH IN NEW ORLEANS; DISCUSSION OF UPCOMING WEDDINGS OF LUCI JOHNSON AND OF DALEY'S DAUGHTER; AEC FACILITY

Telephone conversation # 9351, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 12/31/1965, time unknown (Item)

INVITATION TO RUSK TO MEETING IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA; PRESS INQUIRY ON WH CLEARANCE OF RICHARD RUSSELL'S RECENT SPEECH; PRESS COVERAGE OF VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS; POSSIBLE LBJ PRESS CONFERENCE; WH STAFF'S PRESS CONTACTS; JACK ANDERSON COLUMNS; NEW YEAR'S

Telephone conversation # 9402, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 1/2/1966, 12:56PM (Item)

LBJ OFFERS DIRKSEN NEW YEAR'S, BIRTHDAY GREETINGS; INFLATIONARY EFFECTS OF BETHLEHEM STEEL PRICE INCREASE; WAR-PROFITEERING; LBJ DISCUSSES ESTIMATES OF COSTS OF VIETNAM WAR IN FEDERAL BUDGET REQUEST; DIRKSEN ADVISES LBJ TO USE LOWER ESTIMATE; JOHN

Telephone conversation # 9460, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 1/7/1966, 1:15PM (Item)

LBJ REPORTS ON CALL FROM NELSON ROCKEFELLER REQUESTING FEDERAL DISASTER AID FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY NYC TRANSIT STRIKE, TELLS WIRTZ TO CONTACT OEP, SMALL BUSINESS AND VETERANS ADMINISTRATIONS, CONGRESSMEN ABOUT POSSIBLE AID; NEW YORK STATE POLITICS

Telephone conversation # 9466, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 1/8/1966, 7:34PM (Item)

DIRKSEN TELLS LBJ THAT NYT STORY REPORTING THAT HE AND LBJ HAVE PARTED COMPANY ON VIETNAM IS INACCURATE; LBJ ASKS DIRKSEN TO MEET WITH HIM NEXT WEEK; TIME, ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEETING; LADY BIRD JOHNSON AND MRS. DIRKSEN EXCHANGE NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS

Telephone conversation # 9471, sound recording, LBJ and HALE BOGGS, 1/10/1966, 12:40PM (Item)

BOGGS NOTIFIES LBJ THAT HOUSE IS IN SESSION AND PREPARED TO RECEIVE ANY MESSAGES OR COMMUNICATIONS THAT LBJ WOULD CARE TO SEND; DISCUSSION OF SCHEDULE FOR STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE; FORD OFFERS LBJ NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS

Telephone conversation # 11910, sound recording, LBJ and JULIAN GOODMAN, 6/21/1967, 9:50AM (Item)

LBJ DISCUSSES CONTINUING EFFORTS TO ARRANGE MEETING BETWEEN LBJ AND ALEXSEI KOSYGIN DURING KOSYGIN'S VISIT TO UN AND PROBLEMS THAT NEWS REPORTS ABOUT POSSIBLE MEETING HAVE CREATED; SOVIET PROBLEMS IN MIDDLE EAST, CHINA, VIETNAM; POLITICAL TURMOIL

Telephone conversation # 12105, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN LINDSAY, 8/24/1967, 10:02AM (Item)

"LOCAL SHOREHAM HOTEL"; "TO MAYOR JOHN LINDSAY AT SHOREHAM HOTEL RELATIVE TO NEWS LEAK ABOUT WALTER WASHINGTON BEFORE APPOINTMENT IS DEFINITE..."; "THE PRES IN HIS BEDROOM EITHER EVENING OF AUG 23 OR MORNING OF AUG 24, 1967"; "MAYOR JOHN LINDSAY?"

Telephone conversation # 12604, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE A. BROWN, 1/11/1968, 2:51PM (Item)

NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS; BROWN SAYS HE IS RETURNING TO UK, EXPRESSES SADNESS ABOUT BRITISH DECISION (TO REDUCE DEFENSE EXPENDITURES IN FAR EAST, SOUTHEAST ASIA, PERSIAN GULF); LBJ DISCUSSES NEGATIVE EFFECT OF DECISION; LBJ'S & BROWN'S REGARD FOR EACH

Telephone conversation # 12607, sound recording, LBJ and BEN HEINEMAN, 1/21/1968, 1:16PM (Item)

HEINEMAN DECLINES APPOINTMENT (AS HEW SECRETARY) BECAUSE OF HIS COMMITMENTS TO NEW COMPANY; LBJ DISCUSSES ALTERNATIVES UNTIL HEINEMAN IS AVAILABLE; APPOINTMENT OF WILBUR COHEN AS ACTING SECRETARY; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MANAGEMENT STYLE AS PRESIDENT

Telephone conversation # 12608, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 1/22/1968, 8:27AM (Item)

"CRASH OF B-52 NEAR GREENLAND CARRYING NUCLEAR WEAPONS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. PROPOSED NEWS RELEASE."; "SUMMARIZED"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN

Telephone conversation # 12804, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/8/1968, 10:35AM (Item)

LBJ'S 3/6/68 MEETING WITH FULBRIGHT, MANSFIELD, HICKENLOOPER, AIKEN, SPARKMAN; SENATE DEBATE ON VIETNAM YESTERDAY; LBJ'S TALK WITH RICHARD RUSSELL; AUGUST 1964 TONKIN GULF ATTACKS; NEED FOR MORE TROOPS; DOD BUDGET; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY; RESERVE