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  • "TRANSCRIBED" WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE CONTAINING DICTABELT; LBJ ON HOLD 3:00; OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT ROPER POLL PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH EDWIN JOHNSON AT TIME OF CALL
  • MCCORMACK REPORTS ON OPPOSITION TO ADAM YARMOLINSKY APPOINTMENT; POVERTY BILL HEAD COUNT; TIMING OF VOTES ON TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION, POVERTY BILL; DROP IN UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES; YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT; ROBERT SIKES; MCCORMACK THANKS LBJ FOR REMARKS LAST
  • "(LEGISLATION-POVERTY-VIETNAM)"; MCCORMACK IS MEETING WITH HARRY SHEPPARD, BERNIE SISK, CECIL KING AT TIME OF CALL; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING
  • PARLIAMENTARY DELAYING TACTICS ON POVERTY BILL; ROBERT JONES; CHARLES HALLECK; CLIFFORD DAVIS' DEFEAT IN TENNESSEE PRIMARY; TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; ED FOREMAN'S SPEECH CRITICIZING TIMING OF LBJ'S TONKIN GULF ADDRESS; GALLUP POLL; LBJ GREETS
  • MARVIN WATSON IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL AND ANSWERS THE TELEPHONE; RECORDING OF CONVERSATION IS BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED IN MIDDLE OF THE CALL; POOR SOUND QUALITY AT TIMES; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • LBJ ASKS O'BRIEN IF ROBERT "FATS" EVERETT WILL RETURN TO VOTE FOR POVERTY BILL; LOBBYING EFFORTS OF NAM, FARM BUREAU AGAINST BILL; GOVERNOR'S VETO AMENDMENT; HEAD COUNT; POSSIBLE EFFECT OF TONKIN GULF ATTACKS ON VOTE; TIMING OF LBJ'S ADDRESS
  • RIVERS IS ALMOST INAUDIBLE; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING
  • "SUMMARIZED"; RIVERS IS MEETING WITH JOHN MCCORMACK AT TIME OF CALL; MOST OF CONVERSATION IS BETWEEN LBJ AND RIVERS; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • GOLDBERG'S DENIAL OF PRESS LEAK; TIMING OF BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM POL TARGETS; MILITARY FRUSTRATION ABOUT TARGET LIMITS; NORTH VIETNAMESE COMMENTS ON US OPPOSITION TO WAR; NEED FOR SUFFICIENT MILITARY FORCES; POSSIBLE EMERGENCY MEASURES IF WAR
  • OFFICE SECRETARY ANNOUNCES CALL; LBJ INITIALLY TELLS HER HE WILL CALL MANSFIELD BACK, THEN DECIDES TO TAKE CALL; EDWIN REISCHAUER IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL
  • "FROM BEDROOM 3-8-68"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER
  • "#2"; BRIEF OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; LBJ IS MEETING WITH ELMER STAATS, KERMIT GORDON, MYER FELDMAN AT TIME OF CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 4/1994
  • "SUMMARIZED"; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH LEE WHITE AT TIME OF CALL; WHITE SPEAKS BRIEFLY AT BEGINNING OF CALL; MLK ON HOLD 0:35; OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL
  • DALEY IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; TV OR RADIO PLAYING IN BACKGROUND AT TIMES; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • "SUMMARIZED"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING