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Telephone conversation # 13710, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/3/1968, 1:54PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • 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
Telephone conversation # 5628, sound recording, PRESS CONFERENCE (with LBJ), 9/21/1964, 12:29PM (Item)
  • "SEP 21 PRESS CONFERENCE"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ANSWERS QUESTIONS ABOUT POLITICAL AND NON-POLITICAL NATURE OF HIS SPEECHES, SPEECH TO STEEL WORKERS TOMORROW, ELECTION DAY PLANS, UAW NEGOTIATIONS, THEN INVITES PRESS TO GO FOR A WALK WITH HIM
  • Telephone conversation # 5628, sound recording, PRESS CONFERENCE (with LBJ), 9/21/1964, 12:29PM
  • PRESS CONFERENCE
Telephone conversation # 4919, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/14/1964, 11:34AM (Item)
  • "PRESS BRIEFING"; REEDY ON HOLD 0:40; STATIC CAUSED BY GREASE PENCIL ON ORIGINAL DICTABELT
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF ITEMS FOR PRESS BRIEFING; SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET ESTIMATES; LBJ'S WEEKEND PLANS AND HIS INABILITY TO ANNOUNCE PLANS TOO FAR IN ADVANCE; PRESS COVERAGE AT RANCH; LBJ COMPLAINS THAT PRESS INTERPRETS HIS REMARKS AS JABS AT GOLDWATER
Telephone conversation # 11204, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 12/26/1966, 10:17AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS STORIES ON ADVERSE PORTRAYAL OF LBJ IN WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK; LBJ DISCUSSES RESIGNATIONS OF WH STAFF; POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO PRESS ABOUT NEWSWEEK ARTICLE; ROWLAND EVANS' STORY ON GEORGE MEANY'S MEETING WITH LBJ; MARVIN WATSON; PRESS SOURCES
Telephone conversation # 2572, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 3/20/1964, 12:55PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • BUNDY ASKS LBJ TO REVIEW DRAFT REPLY TO HENRY CABOT LODGE; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS SCHEDULE, INCLUDING MEETING WITH CLARK CLIFFORD; BUNDY'S WEEKEND PLANS; POSSIBLE PRESS CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK; GEORGE REEDY AS NEW WH PRESS SECRETARY
Telephone conversation # 4387, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/29/1964, 11:35AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF HANDLING COMMENTS TO PRESS ON GOLDWATER'S CONFLICTING STATEMENTS ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AS NOTED IN BALTIMORE SUN STORY; PRESS BRIEFING ON CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC POWER SETTLEMENT; LBJ EMPHASIZES HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SETTLEMENT
Telephone conversation # 5027, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/19/1964, 11:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • REEDY REVIEWS PRESS STATEMENT ON RELEASE OF AUDIT OF JOHNSON FAMILY FINANCES; DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE PRESS QUESTIONS ABOUT DEFEAT OF BILL SUSPENDING FCC EQUAL TIME RULE TO ALLOW PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES; NORRIS COTTON
Telephone conversation # 5047, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/20/1964, 11:10AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • ROBERT SARNOFF'S INVITATION TO LBJ, GOLDWATER TO APPEAR ON "MEET THE PRESS"; CIVIL RIGHTS, LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT PLATFORM PLANKS; POSSIBLE PRESS QUESTIONS ON DEBATES; GOLDWATER'S TONKIN GULF STATEMENT, FINANCES; STATEMENT RELEASED ON LBJ'S
Telephone conversation # 5611, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/19/1964, 1:45PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS QUESTIONS ABOUT LBJ ATTENDING FUNERAL OF J. FRANK DOBIE; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT LABELING HIS APPEARANCES AS POLITICAL OR OFFICIAL; DISCUSSION OF TIMING OF DELIVERY OF WARREN COMMISSION REPORT ON JFK ASSASSINATION TO PRESS, TO LBJ
Telephone conversation # 7348, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MACY, 4/19/1965, 11:25AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ EXPRESSES IRRITATION ABOUT HANDLING OF APPOINTMENT OF FRANK MCKINNEY AS AMBASSADOR TO JAMAICA; HARRY TRUMAN'S BACKING OF MCKINNEY; MCKINNEY'S PRESS STATEMENT; TRUE DAVIS; LBJ TELLS MACY TO MAKE APPOINTMENT CHECKLIST; FPC VACANCY; PRESS LEAKS
Telephone conversation # 6740, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD FORD, 1/19/1965, 2:29PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ CONGRATULATES FORD ON ELECTION AS HOUSE MINORITY LEADER; PRESS STORY THAT FORD COMPLAINED ADMINISTRATION HAS NOT BRIEFED HIM; LBJ'S PLANS TO WORK WITH REPUBLICAN LEADERS AS HE WORKED WITH EISENHOWER; BELGIAN PRESS LEAKS; FORD'S SUPPORT
Telephone conversation # 11377, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 1/20/1967, 12:55PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ READS PRESS REPORT OF BOBBY BAKER'S TESTIMONY AT HIS TRIAL; LBJ'S MEMORY OF EVENTS; LBJ ASKS ADVICE ON RESPONDING TO PRESS, DISCUSSES BOB KERR'S POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS; QUESTION OF LBJ TESTIFYING AT TRIAL; IRS DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE BAKER
Telephone conversation # 11203, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 12/26/1966, 10:17AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • NEWSWEEK ARTICLE ON LBJ'S RECOLLECTIONS OF EVENTS FOLLOWING JFK ASSASSINATION, HARRY TRUMAN'S SWEARING IN AFTER FDR'S DEATH; WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK; LBJ SAYS HE HAS NOT SPOKEN TO ANYONE ABOUT EVENTS, DISCUSSES PRESS SOURCES, POSSIBLE RESPONSE
Telephone conversation # 159, sound recording, LBJ and LESLIE ARENDS, 11/29/1963, 6:15PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; LBJ SAYS HE HAS TRIED TO CONTACT SOMEONE (CHARLES HALLECK?) BEFORE MAKING ANNOUNCEMENT, ASKS ARENDS TO TRY TO CONTACT THAT PERSON, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT PRESS
Telephone conversation # 1901, sound recording, LBJ and EDWIN WEISL, SR., 2/5/1964, 6:24PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TED SORENSEN REMAINING AVAILABLE TO WORK FOR LBJ WHEN HE LEAVES THE WH STAFF; ANNA ROSENBERG; RFK; BARNEY BALABAN; LBJ REFERS TO NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, COMMENTS ON ADVERSE PRESS CRITICISM AND BURDENS OF PRESIDENCY
Telephone conversation # 1281, sound recording, LBJ and TED SORENSEN, 1/8/1964, 8:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • NUMBER OF APPLAUSES IN STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE; BARRY GOLDWATER'S STATEMENT; PRESS REACTION; LBJ COMPLIMENTS SORENSEN AS SPEECHWRITER FOR STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE
Telephone conversation # 2121, sound recording, LBJ and ALEX ROSE, 2/19/1964, 1:11PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS STORIES ON LBJ; NYT; LBJ ASKS ADVICE ON PROPOSED TRIP TO POVERTY-STRICKEN AREAS OF NYC TO INCREASE SUPPORT FOR POVERTY BILL; COMPARISON WITH FDR TRIPS; LBJ COMMENTS ON ACCUSATIONS OF COMMERCIALIZING PRESIDENCY; WILLIAM WEXLER?; DAVID DUBINSKY
Telephone conversation # 2982, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 4/10/1964, 11:15AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ REQUESTS FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFING FOR REPUBLICAN GOVS.; FOREIGN POLICY, CIA BRIEFINGS FOR MAJOR CANDIDATES, FORMER PRESIDENTS; AVERELL HARRIMAN'S PRESS CONFERENCE ON AFRICA, COMMUNISTS; MLF MEETING THIS AFTERNOON; DOUGLAS DILLON
Telephone conversation # 3768, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT ANDERSON, 6/18/1964, 11:16AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • SUPPORT FOR LBJ IN BUSINESS COMMUNITY; ANDERSON RECOMMENDS BILL DRAPER OR MILTON EISENHOWER AS VIETNAM AMBASSADOR; MAXWELL TAYLOR; JOHN MCCLOY; EUGENE BLACK; PRESS CRITICISM; ADVICE FROM DWIGHT EISENHOWER; LBJ'S CONCERNS FOR VIETNAM, NGUYEN KHANH
Telephone conversation # 3769, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT ANDERSON, 6/18/1964, 11:16AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF MILTON EISENHOWER, MAXWELL TAYLOR; LUCIUS? CLAY, DOUGLAS DILLON, JOHN MCCLOY, OR GEORGE CHAMPION AS VIETNAM AMBASSADOR; DWIGHT EISENHOWER FOR WILLIAM SCRANTON; BARRY GOLDWATER; WOMEN'S, JEWISH VOTE; PANAMA; LIBERALS, PRESS, VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 3904, sound recording, LBJ and C. V. "TED" CLIFTON, 6/25/1964, 7:45PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF USE OF BACK-UP JETSTAR PLANE FOR LBJ'S TRIP TO DETROIT, MINNEAPOLIS, MAYO CLINIC; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT SECRET SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS; DISCUSSION OF CHARGES FOR USE OF AIRCRAFT, PRESS PLANE FOR DETROIT AND ROCHESTER
Telephone conversation # 4899, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/12/1964, 6:01PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE ON JOHNSON FAMILY BUSINESS; RELEASE OF AUDITOR'S REPORT; BARRY GOLDWATER'S STATEMENT ON USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS; POSSIBLE PRESS QUESTION ON SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION FOR PRESIDENTIAL
Telephone conversation # 5176, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 8/25/1964, 11:06AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • ITEMS FOR REEDY'S BRIEFING; LBJ'S SCHEDULE; RFK'S ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SENATE; WH STAFF CONVENTION ACTIVITIES; LBJ READS STATEMENT IN WHICH HE DECLINES TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT, EXPRESSES DISCOURAGEMENT WITH PRESIDENCY, PRESS, CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT; US
Telephone conversation # 5686, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 9/24/1964, 8:39PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ TEASES MCNAMARA ABOUT HIS TEXAS TRIP, GOLDWATER'S REMARKS ABOUT "JOHNSON'S WAR"; DISCOURAGING CABLES FROM MAXWELL TAYLOR ABOUT VIETNAM; DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ISSUE; MANLIO BROSIO VISIT TO SAC HEADQUARTERS; PRESS
Telephone conversation # 5607, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 9/18/1964, 7:54PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS STORIES ON LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S OHIO TRIP, LYNDA JOHNSON'S TRIP TO GREECE; STROM THURMOND'S SWITCH TO REPUBLICAN PARTY; SOUTHERN NEGRO VOTE; PENTAGON REACTION TO TONKIN GULF INCIDENT; POLARIS A-3 MISSILE; GOLDWATER CAMPAIGN; PHOTOS OF LBJ
Telephone conversation # 6610, sound recording, LBJ and DWIGHT EISENHOWER, 12/14/1964, 10:15AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ INVITES EISENHOWERS TO INAUGURATION; EISENHOWER DECLINES BECAUSE OF MAMIE EISENHOWER'S DIFFICULTIES TRAVELING, DISCUSSES PRESS STORY THAT MISREPRESENTED REMARKS HE MADE; LBJ DISCUSSES WORKING WITH DWIGHT, MILTON EISENHOWER IN PAST; ROBERT
Telephone conversation # 5980, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 10/28/1964, 11:43PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ'S PRESS COMMENT ABOUT SCANDALS IN PAST ADMINISTRATIONS; WALTER JENKINS INCIDENT; LBJ ASKS KATZENBACH TO RESEARCH WHAT ACTIONS WERE TAKEN ABOUT EISENHOWER STAFF MEMBERS, DISCUSSES MEETING WITH JFK ABOUT POSSIBLE INDICTMENT OF EISENHOWER STAFF
Telephone conversation # 5981, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 10/29/1964, 7:27AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS CLIFFORD'S ADVICE ABOUT HANDLING OF LBJ'S COMMENTS TO PRESS IN SAN DIEGO LAST NIGHT ABOUT CHARGES AGAINST INDIVIDUALS IN PAST ADMINISTRATIONS; WALTER JENKINS INCIDENT; PETER LISAGOR; PHIL POTTER; DOUGLAS KIKER
Telephone conversation # 5982, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 10/29/1964, 7:27AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF HANDLING OF LBJ'S STATEMENT TO PRESS LAST NIGHT ABOUT CHARGES CONCERNING INDIVIDUALS IN PAST ADMINISTRATIONS; WALTER JENKINS INCIDENT; CLIFFORD ADVISES LBJ ABOUT HANDLING REST OF CAMPAIGN
Telephone conversation # 5983, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 10/29/1964, 7:52AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • KATZENBACH REPORTS ON INFORMATION HE HAS RECEIVED ON CHARGES CONCERNING STAFF MEMBERS IN EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION TO CLARIFY STATEMENT LBJ MADE TO PRESS LAST NIGHT ABOUT PAST SCANDALS; WALTER JENKINS INCIDENT
Telephone conversation # 5486, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 9/4/1964, 12:32PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • REEDY REPORTS THAT UPI AUSTIN QUOTES FRANK ERWIN SAYING THAT THERE WAS A PLOT TO ASSASSINATE LBJ ON FINAL DAY OF CONVENTION IN ATLANTIC CITY; LBJ TELLS REEDY HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT IT; PRESS INQUIRY ABOUT LBJ'S LABOR DAY SPEECH MARKING OPENING
Telephone conversation # 7057, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT ANDERSON, 3/11/1965, 9:16AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • NOMINATION OF SUCCESSOR TO DOUGLAS DILLON AS TREASURY SECRETARY; PRESS LEAKS; DON COOK; WRIGHT PATMAN AND FRB; JOHN LOEB; DAVID "KENDALL" (KENNEDY?); RUDOLPH PETERSON; DAVID ROCKEFELLER; WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN; MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE; MONETARY
Telephone conversation # 7165, sound recording, LBJ and LEE WHITE, 3/26/1965, 9:27AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • WHITE REPORTS ON CALL TO ANTHONY LIUZZO, WIDOWER OF CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER VIOLA LIUZZO; LBJ TELLS WHITE TO SUPPLY MORE ITEMS TO PRESS; HARRY MCPHERSON; NEED TO APPOINT CALIFORNIAN AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF INTERIOR; STEWART UDALL
Telephone conversation # 8576, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 8/19/1965, 7:13PM (Item)
  • "SUMMARIZED"; WIRTZ ON HOLD 1:30; NEWS REPORT OF BILL MOYERS' PRESS BRIEFING ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LBJ, EISENHOWER AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND; INAUDIBLE OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL
  • Press relations
Telephone conversation # 8154, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD FORD, 6/17/1965, 7:50PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • FORD'S SON'S ACCIDENT; B-52 BOMBING RAID IN SOUTH VIETNAM; MELVIN LAIRD'S STATEMENT; LBJ DISCUSSES PROPOSED ROLE OF US GROUND TROOPS; FORD REQUESTS MEETING ON TROOPS; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT MISLEADING PRESS STORIES, LEAKS; GOODPASTER'S BRIEFING
Telephone conversation # 8170, sound recording, LBJ and EDWIN WEISL, SR., 6/21/1965, 12:29PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS WEISL ABOUT RFK AND NYC MAYORAL RACE; PRESS STORIES ABOUT DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN AS CANDIDATE; RFK'S SUPPORT FOR MOYNIHAN; LBJ'S HEAVY SCHEDULE; SUPPORT FOR LBJ, RFK IN NYC; ROBERT WAGNER'S DECISION NOT TO RUN; ABRAHAM BEAME; FDR, JR.
Telephone conversation # 8221, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/30/1965, 7:35PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS HANDLING OF MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS TO VIETNAM?; TODAY'S MEETING ON VIETNAM (WITH EISENHOWER?); LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA TO TALK WITH RFK ABOUT VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ EXPRESSES DOUBTS ABOUT ALTERNATIVES TO CURRENT POLICY; MCNAMARA REMINISCES ABOUT BAY
Telephone conversation # 8906, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 9/28/1965, 8:12PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • EMANUEL CELLER'S RECOMMENDATION OF EDWARD WEINFELD FOR US APPEALS COURT; APPOINTMENT OF WILFRED FEINBERG TO POST; PRESS STORIES ABOUT FRANCIS MORRISSEY APPOINTMENT; RFK'S REQUEST THAT LBJ APPOINT MORRISSEY, PARDON FRANK BOYKIN; DAVID BRESS
Telephone conversation # 9653, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY LUCE, 2/21/1966, 11:56AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • 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 # 9684, sound recording, LBJ and RUSSELL LONG, 2/28/1966, 9:32AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LONG REPORTS ON FOREIGN AID BILL IN FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, SUGGESTS HHH, MCNAMARA MEET INFORMALLY WITH SENATORS; LBJ DISCUSSES HISTORY OF POLICY ON VP TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS; PRESS STORIES ABOUT FULBRIGHT'S CRITICISM OF HHH'S ASIAN TRIP