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Telephone conversation # 8126, sound recording, LBJ and DICK BROWN, 6/12/1965, 9:17AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • BROWN ASKS LBJ TO MEET DR. E. L. "BUD" SHANER WHO HAS DEVISED THEORY ON EFFECTIVE DECISION-MAKING; LBJ RESPONDS THAT HE CANNOT MEET WITH SHANER NOW BUT SUGGESTS HE TALK TO JACK VALENTI, DISCUSSES PRESS LEAK ON POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT FOR EDWARD CLARK
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 # 9677, sound recording, VICKI MCCAMMON and ROBERT WEAVER, 2/26/1966, 1:25PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCCAMMON TELLS WEAVER THAT LBJ CANNOT TAKE WEAVER'S CALL NOW BUT WILL CALL HIM LATER, READS LBJ'S ANNOUNCEMENT AT TODAY'S PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT APPOINTMENT OF ANDREW BRIMMER TO FRB, AND RELAYS LBJ'S REQUEST THAT WEAVER CALL BRIMMER
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 # 10572, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/5/1966, 1:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • NEED TO COUNTERACT RFK'S INFLUENCE WITH PRESS, EMPHASIZE SENATE INACTION ON VARIOUS ADMINISTRATION BILLS FOR CITIES; MCNAMARA'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNNAMED POST: DOUGLAS DILLON, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, ARJAY MILLER; LBJ'S ACTIONS ON AIRLINE STRIKE
Telephone conversation # 12404, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 11/30/1967, 10:30AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • APPOINTMENT OF LEONARD CHAPMAN; LBJ ASKS TO MEET WITH MCNAMARA; MCNAMARA SAYS HE CANNOT MEET WITH LBJ TODAY; PRESS REACTION TO MCNAMARA'S RESIGNATION; LBJ SAYS HE WILL DISCUSS CHAPMAN, OTHER APPOINTMENTS WITH EARLE "BUS" WHEELER
Telephone conversation # 12501, sound recording, LBJ and EDWARD LONG, 12/6/1967, 9:55AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LONG DISCUSSES RESULTS OF MISSOURI POLL ON 1968 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES; LONG'S RE-ELECTION RACE; MISSOURI POLITICS; WARREN HEARNES' OPPOSITION TO LBJ; RFK AND LIFE MAGAZINE STORIES ON LONG; THOMAS EAGLETON; LABOR SUPPORT FOR LONG; MISSOURI PRESS
Telephone conversation # 12603, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 1/9/1968, 7:48PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TO PRESS
Telephone conversation # 13130, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 6/21/1968, 3:48PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ IS APPARENTLY READING PRESS STORY ON SUPREME COURT; HOMER THORNBERRY AND CHARGES OF CRONYISM IF HE IS APPOINTED TO COURT; RELEASE OF EARL WARREN'S RESIGNATION LETTER; HUGO BLACK'S REACTION TO WARREN'S RESIGNATION; OTHER POSSIBLE APPOINTEES
Telephone conversation # 13149, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 6/28/1968, 8:53AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF OPPOSITION TO SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS OF ABE FORTAS, HOMER THORNBERRY AND LBJ'S MEETING WITH TIME MAGAZINE REPORTER LAST NIGHT; LBJ'S PERSONAL ASSOCIATION WITH FORTAS; PRESS STORIES ON CHARGES OF CRONYISM IN NOMINATIONS
Telephone conversation # 11553, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 2/18/1967, 8:30AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCNAMARA DISCUSSES RESPONSE TO DON OBERDORFER STORY ON LOCKHEED CONTRACTS; JFK ADMINISTRATION'S INVOLVEMENT IN DEFENSE CONTRACTS; AWARDING CONTRACTS IN DEPRESSED AREAS; LBJ REITERATES WH POLICY ON DEFENSE CONTRACTS; PRESS STORY ON CIA, TEXAS
Telephone conversation # 11628, sound recording, LBJ and JACK VAUGHN, 3/10/1967, 1:56PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT AT VISTA, STATE DEPT OR PEACE CORPS FOR BILL MOYERS' FORMER SECRETARY; LBJ DISCUSSES PRESS LEAKS, VISTA AS POLITICAL ARM OF POVERTY PROGRAM, SUGGESTS VAUGHN TALK TO MOYERS; VAUGHN DISCUSSES JOB FORMER SECRETARY HAS NOW AT PEACE
Telephone conversation # 11637, sound recording, LBJ and EDMUND MUSKIE, 3/13/1967, 6:48PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT FOR JOHN REED; CANDIDATES FOR APPOINTMENT OF REPUBLICAN AS ASSISTANT TO FARRIS BRYANT; PRESS STORY ON SENATE DEMOCRATS' CONCERNS ABOUT ASSOCIATION WITH LBJ; MAINE POLITICS; LBJ REMINISCES ABOUT 1957 CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
Telephone conversation # 11368, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 1/18/1967, 11:37AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES WIRTZ' RECENT LETTER, SAYS HE DOES NOT WANT WIRTZ TO RESIGN; PRESS STORIES ABOUT WIRTZ' POSSIBLE RESIGNATION; JOHN CONNOR'S UPCOMING RESIGNATION; PROPOSED MERGER OF LABOR, COMMERCE DEPTS; LBJ EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE IN WIRTZ' ABILITIES
Telephone conversation # 11510, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MACY, 2/3/1967, 10:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ COMPLAINS THAT RFK'S OFFICE IS LEAKING INFORMATION TO PRESS ABOUT LBJ'S APPOINTMENTS; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT FOR FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN GILLIGAN IN TRANSPORTATION DEPT; APPOINTMENTS FOR OTHER FORMER CONGRESSMEN
Telephone conversation # 11543, sound recording, LBJ and CARROLL KILPATRICK, 2/14/1967, 7:30PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISPELS RUMOR THAT HE IS ABOUT TO ANNOUNCE APPOINTMENT OF RAMSEY CLARK AS ATTORNEY GENERAL; DISCUSSION OF PRESS STORIES ON CLARK APPOINTMENT, VARIOUS MESSAGES TO CONGRESS
Telephone conversation # 11233, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CONNALLY, 12/30/1966, 2:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PLANS FOR LBJ STATE PARK; JOHN BEN SHEPPERD'S APPOINTMENT; NEED TO COORDINATE CONNALLY'S PROPOSED STATEMENT ON LBJ STATE PARK CONTROVERSY WITH WILL ODOM, PREPARE ODOM FOR PRESS INQUIRIES; LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT; LBJ'S PLAN TO MEET WITH JAMES
Telephone conversation # 11236, sound recording, LBJ and A. W. MOURSUND, 12/30/1966, 2:39PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • JOHN CONNALLY'S PROPOSED STATEMENT ON LBJ STATE PARK CONTROVERSY, JOHN BEN SHEPPERD'S APPOINTMENT; NEED TO PREPARE WILL ODOM, JIMMIE DELLINGER FOR PRESS INQUIRIES; BROWN FOUNDATION'S GRANT TO LBJ STATE PARK; JOHNSON FOUNDATION'S CONTRIBUTIONS
Telephone conversation # 10822, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 9/22/1966, 8:30AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TOM CLARK AND WIRETAP CASE; NICHOLAS KATZENBACH'S APPOINTMENT AS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE; STOKELY CARMICHAEL AND DEFEAT OF CIVIL RIGHTS BILL; JUSTICE DEPT VACANCIES; THURGOOD MARSHALL'S APPOINTMENT TO SUPREME COURT; LBJ'S LEGISLATIVE RECORD; PRESS
Telephone conversation # 10906, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM CROCKETT, 10/1/1966, 11:40AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF RAISING SALARY OF UNNAMED PERSON; LLEWELLYN "TOMMY" THOMPSON'S REQUEST FOR MEETING WITH LBJ; ANNOUNCEMENT OF THOMPSON'S APPOINTMENT AS US AMBASSADOR TO USSR; POSSIBLE PRESS LEAK OF APPOINTMENT; ASSISTANCE FOR FOY KOHLER'S TRANSFER
Telephone conversation # 10908, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM CROCKETT, 10/1/1966, 11:55AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • CROCKETT TELLS LBJ THAT ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF LLEWELLYN "TOMMY" THOMPSON AS US AMBASSADOR TO USSR WILL HAVE TO BE DELAYED UNTIL FORMAL AGREEMENT IS RECEIVED FROM USSR; LBJ TELLS CROCKETT TO GUARD INFORMATION SO THERE IS NO PRESS LEAK
Telephone conversation # 11157, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 12/19/1966, 9:25AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • UK VIEWS ON US BOMBING OF VIETNAM; LBJ ASKS RUSK TO GIVE PRESS EXAMPLES OF HORRIBLE ENEMY ACTIONS TO COUNTER CRITICISM OF US; MESSAGE TO KURT KIESINGER; MARQUIS CHILDS AND RUMOR CLARK CLIFFORD WILL REPLACE RUSK; RFK, CRITICISM OF LBJ AT GOVS
Telephone conversation # 11174, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 12/21/1966, 8:45AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • CALIFANO'S TALK WITH FRANK MANKIEWICZ ABOUT RFK, FBI WIRETAPS; PRESS LEAKS OF FBI, JUSTICE DEPT DOCUMENTS; LBJ TELLS CALIFANO TO REPORT MATTER TO RAMSEY CLARK; LBJ'S OPPOSITION TO WIRETAPS; BILL MOYERS AND APPOINTMENTS OF FORMER WH STAFF; SARGENT
Telephone conversation # 11176, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 12/21/1966, 8:45AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • WH POLICY ON EMPLOYMENT OF FORMER WH STAFF MEMBERS; LBJ LETTER CONCERNING STRIKE AT UNION CARBIDE PLANT; LBJ TELLS CALIFANO TO MEET WITH HARRY MCPHERSON; PRESS LEAKS TO CLARK MOLLENHOFF; RICHARD GOODWIN
Telephone conversation # 11178, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 12/21/1966, 7:09PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC GOVS. WITH WHOM HE MET TODAY, THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT POVERTY PROGRAM, PATRONAGE AND CIVIL RIGHTS; RUSK REPORTS ON QUESTIONS ON ABM, VIETNAM, FOOD FOR INDIA THAT HE RECEIVED AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE; LBJ ADVISES RUSK
Telephone conversation # 11179, sound recording, LBJ and EDWARD LONG, 12/21/1966, 7:12PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • HOLIDAY GREETINGS; LBJ'S MEETING WITH DEMOCRATIC GOVS.; RFK; WARREN HEARNES' CRITICISM OF LBJ'S APPOINTEE FOR MISSOURI OEO DIRECTOR AND OF LBJ'S PUBLIC IMAGE; GOVS.' CRITICISM OF PATRONAGE, CIVIL RIGHTS, POVERTY PROGRAM; PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLOWING
Telephone conversation # 10952, sound recording, LBJ and ALAN BOYD, 10/15/1966, 8:05PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • WATSON? DISCUSSES PROBLEM REACHING BOYD, CONNECTS HIM TO LBJ; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT HIS HEAVY SCHEDULE, EXPRESSES IRRITATION ABOUT PRESS LEAKS, NYT STORY BOYD WILL TAKE JOB WITH RAILROAD LOBBY, NOT AS TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY, ASKS TO MEET AFTER
Telephone conversation # 11047, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 11/22/1966, 12:17PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ'S HEALTH; APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS OF JOB CORPS, VISTA; JAMES MCCROCKLIN; WILLIAM KELLY; WILLIAM CROOK; LBJ SAYS HE DOES NOT WANT TO MAKE RECESS APPOINTMENTS; SHRIVER'S PRESS CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM; SHRIVER REQUESTS MEETING
Telephone conversation # 13593, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 10/24/1968, 11:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TO PRESS
Telephone conversation # 13737, sound recording, LBJ and BRYCE HARLOW, 11/14/1968, 8:03PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • 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
Telephone conversation # 13738, sound recording, LBJ and BRYCE HARLOW, 11/15/1968, 9:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • 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
Telephone conversation # 13739, sound recording, LBJ and BRYCE HARLOW, 11/15/1968, 9:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • 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