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Telephone conversation # 13510, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 10/2/1968, 10:46AM (Item)
  • "LOCAL CALL TO SENATOR EVERETT DIRKSEN RE PENDING APPOINTMENT-BUSH BROOK"; "FIRST PART OF B"; "TRANSCRIBED-YB"
  • LBJ READS MEMO CRITICIZING APPOINTMENT OF ALBERT BUSHONG BROOKE TO FPC, SUGGESTS WAYS TO GET HIM CONFIRMED; RALPH YARBOROUGH'S OPPOSITION TO UNESCO APPOINTMENT FOR HEW UNDERSECRETARY JAMES MCCROCKLIN; CRITICISM OF MCCROCKLIN'S DISSERTATIONS AND HIS
Telephone conversation # 248, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 12/2/1963, 7:01PM (Item)
  • "#6"; "(TRANSCRIBED)"; "BROOKS AND BOLLING DONE[.] MARK SHOWS WHERE TO START FULBRIGHT."; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 4/1994: FULBRIGHT IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR
Telephone conversation # 8819, sound recording, LBJ and MARVIN WATSON, 9/2/1965, 5:40PM (Item)
  • WATSON REPORTS ON STATUS OF WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE DISCHARGE PETITION; DISCUSSION OF EFFORTS TO GET JACK BROOKS, MARTHA GRIFFITHS, HALE BOGGS, LINDLEY BECKWORTH, LEONOR SULLIVAN, JOHN DINGELL TO SIGN PETITION
Telephone conversation # 8664, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/27/1965, 12:45PM (Item)
  • MCNAMARA TELLS LBJ THAT HARVEY BROOKS HAS DECLINED APPOINTMENT TO UNIDENTIFIED POST AND THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH RUBEN METTLER ABOUT IT; LBJ INVITES MCNAMARAS TO JOIN HIM AT THE RANCH THIS WEEKEND; MCNAMARA DECLINES BECAUSE HE HAS VACATION
Telephone conversation # 4766, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 8/5/1964, 7:06PM (Item)
  • "RE: YARMOLINSKY & LEGISLATION"; OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; LBJ IS MEETING WITH WALTER JENKINS, JACK BROOKS?, OTHERS AT TIME OF CALL; LBJ ON SPEAKERPHONE; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
Telephone conversation # 10016, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 4/5/1966, 4:38PM (Item)
  • POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF UNNAMED PERSON (J. R. PARTEN?); BROOKS HAYS' CANDIDACY FOR GOV. OF ARKANSAS; CONCERN ABOUT PROPOSAL FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE; DREW PEARSON AND THOMAS DODD INVESTIGATION; SUPPLEMENTAL RENT BILL; LBJ'S HEALTH; INDIAN FOOD
Telephone conversation # 13118, transcript, LBJ and RALPH YARBOROUGH, 6/18/1968, 3:59PM (Item)
  • thinks the Senior Judge can appoint him. Jack Brooks said he never agreed to it. A - I don't want to get any fight started. They told me there is a fellow they are considering -- somebody who is head of the clerks who is a good man -- a Yarborough man
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/16/1966 (Sunday) (Item)
  • LBJ and Lady Bird go to National City Christian Church; both watch Hubert Humphrey on TV; LBJ and Jack Brooks discuss redistricting; Lady Bird interviews for chef position; Lady Bird bowls with Liz Carpenter; Johnsons have dinner with several