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- DAILY DIARY LISTS TIME OF CALL AS 8:05P; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
- POSSIBLE COMPOSITION OF FUNERAL DELEGATION IF ITALY'S PRESIDENT ANTONIO SEGNI DIES: LADY BIRD JOHNSON, EARL WARREN, EISENHOWER; POLICY THAT LBJ WILL NOT LEAVE COUNTRY; CHANGES IN VIETNAM GOVT; RFK, ADLAI STEVENSON, ROBERT WAGNER AND NEW YORK SENATE
- OFFICE CONVERSATION ON RFK, HIS DECISION TO RUN FOR NEW YORK SENATE SEAT PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH KEN O'DONNELL AT TIME OF CALL
- CALL NOT LISTED ON SLIP; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; YOUNGBLOOD ANSWERS TELEPHONE, ASKS IF MCNAMARA CAN HOLD; MCNAMARA ON HOLD ABOUT 4:00; MCNAMARA AND LBJ ARE DIFFICULT TO HEAR
- New York
- "LBJ RANCH"; NEWSOM ON HOLD 4:20; DAILY DIARY LISTS CALL AT 11:26A
- NEWSOM CONGRATULATES LBJ, ASKS APPROVAL FOR DICK RUDDER TO ATTEND MEETING IN NEW ZEALAND; LBJ EXPRESSES DISAPPROVAL OF TRAVEL BY FEDERAL OFFICIALS; NEWSOM INVITES LBJ TO NATIONAL GRANGE MEETING; LBJ'S HEAVY SCHEDULE; CONGRESSIONAL SPENDING
- "SUMMARIZED"; "GEN. EISENHOWER IN NEW YORK"; "RE MEETING TOGETHER IN WASH."; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY
- "SUMMARIZED"; DAILY DIARY LISTS CALL WITH MCNAMARA AT 12:15P
- MCNAMARA RECOMMENDS DEAN RUSK NOT ATTEND NATO MEETING BECAUSE OF CONTINUING CRISIS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, VIETNAM SITUATION; GEORGE BALL; LBJ'S UPCOMING SPEECH ON EUROPE; OAS; "WISE MEN" DELEGATION TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; NEW AIRPLANE FOR PRESS
- TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
- APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM BENNETT AS AMBASSADOR TO PORTUGAL; GEORGE ANDERSON; CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS' VIEWS ON POSSIBLE NEW VIETNAM CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION, BOMBING PAUSE; LBJ'S OPPOSITION TO PAUSE; PRESS LEAKS; SCHEDULE FOR UPCOMING HAROLD WILSON
- TIME AND DATE FROM WH OPS LOGS; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; OFFICE CONVERSATION AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH MARY MARGARET AND COURTENAY VALENTI AT TIME OF CALL
- 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
- "FROM BEDROOM 3-8-68"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER
- 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
- "SUMMARIZED"; SHORTHAND NOTES PRECEDE "TRANSFER (CONTINUED ON NEXT BELT)" ON SLIP ACCOMPANYING DICTABELT; "JUNE 19, 1968, B.1; JUNE 20, 1968, B.1" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
- LBJ READS LETTER FROM PAT NUGENT TO LBJ AND ENCLOSED POEM WRITTEN BY SGT JACK BARRICKLO THAT WAS PUBLISHED IN STARS AND STRIPES; PAT NUGENT'S REQUEST FOR TRANSFER TO NEW DUTIES IN VIETNAM
- "SUMMARIZED"; SLIP INCORRECTLY LISTS DATE AS 02/22/1966; CONTENT OF CONVERSATION INDICATES DATE IS 02/20/1966; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
- RFK'S RECENT STATEMENT SUGGESTING VIET CONG BE INCLUDED IN SOUTH VIETNAM GOVT; CLARK CLIFFORD'S VIEWS ON POSSIBLE NEW CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION ON VIETNAM; PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWERS; MCNAMARA'S VIEWS ON LIMITING US OBJECTIVES IN VIETNAM, PESSIMISM
- "SUMMARIZED"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
- WILKINS THANKS LBJ FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT, PRAISES GREAT SOCIETY SPEECH; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT BUDGET, FUNDING NEW PROGRAMS; CONGRESSIONAL CRITICISM OF GREAT SOCIETY; COMMUNITY ACTION; WILKINS PRAISES HEAD START; OVERSEAS HEAD START PROGRAM; ROBERT
- "JUANITA"; "FROM BEDROOM 3-14-68"; "TRANSCRIBED BY CAROL CURRIE (1 COPY)"; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
- DALEY'S TALK WITH RFK ABOUT RFK'S FUTURE, VIETNAM COMMISSION; LBJ SUGGESTS RFK MEET WITH CLARK CLIFFORD ON VIETNAM; RFK'S CRITICISM OF LACK OF SPENDING ON CITIES, KERNER COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY; LBJ'S MEETING WITH EDWARD
- should not be impatient. Weshould be willing to sit them out. Andjust because they turn something down, I don't think that meanswe nec essarily· have to comeforward with something new. Aboveall, I don't want to get negotiating with ourselves before
- level of defense spending to finance expensive new projects without evaluating the consequences in relation to our fo'reign and domestic policy goals. The question that should be asked is: Would the security of the nation be measurably improved
- , the Sheep Meadow, was in the bandstand, the platform from which the speeches were made, and I heard a reporter for a major New York paper, the New York Daily News, call in, and I may not have the figures exactly right, but I think I even have the figures
- and Teetering 22B: The Pleiku Attack and the Shaping of a New Course 23: Competing Pressures and the Baltimore Speech 24: Negotiations: Word and Deed, Public and Private 25: Shoring Up Proves.Not Enough 26: The June-July Policy Debate: The Framework
- but this may not be s o. We should look again at our programs and examine all ideas without thinking whether or not they can be done without increasing our expenditures . {8) The Defense Department i s studying several new military recommendations made
- may object. to the' term. . . --. -·-. .... -· -· - .... - CHICAGO DAILY NEWS Sept-ember 15, 1967 .... - ,,-.---- .. ---- ... ·Connnent ';vI cNa1narciCredibility·Rating Plunges B3 William McGaffin an indiscriminate bombinJ of in private talks
- . This transcript begins with Marvin Watson entering the President's Office at' 2:35 PM_, but according to the President's Daily Diary, Goldberg's meeting with the President was from 1:24-2:30 PM. DATE: 12/6/67 TIME: 2:35 PM CALLER: Arthur Goldberg Pages
- *TRANSCRIPT ONLY; THERE IS NO RECORDING OF THIS MEETING; DAILY DIARY LISTS MEETING BETWEEN LBJ AND ARTHUR GOLDBERG ON 12/6/1967 FROM 1:42P TO 2:50P; MARVIN WATSON APPARENTLY JOINED THE MEETING AT 2:35P
- Council health Council Southern .) year~ Yuntil in the next it almost political triumphal In this Suu himself the admin in sel This Phan Khac Suu ~-~ to the J . in the Navan but stage, somewhat he guided new Charter
- to the Kennedy Administration to have any Admin~tration. contact with Mr. Johnson back in your news career or in private career? D: Only vaguely in my news career. However, in 1955 and 1956, I was on Capitol Hill associated with Senator Estes Kefauver
- one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
- ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
- had been good. But this was the first time that Lyndon Johnson as President saw how the Council of Economic Advisers could perform. From that very moment on, he would expect to be kept up-to-date--to get these daily memos. This is the way the New
- Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
- involved calling up reserves. Secretary Rusk felt that it was important that the new military proposals have civilian (i.e., State Department) endorsement. He thought he should participate in the Congressional testimony. Mr. Bundy suggested
- that would do if we stop the bombing. We've had maybe 200 flickers and Harriman tracks down every probe, but so far there has been nothing." ### August 7, 1967 NOTES ON PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH VIRGINIA PREWETT OF THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, MARCH 14, 1967
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell
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- the President and yourself? Gu: Colonel Cross said, as I recall, I~r. President, this is a new man that I've brought in to be my administrative assistant. He's a Marine." The President said,"I understand from Cross that you can walk on water and replace
- equi;:,ment Washington substantial number But even at the anot~er ½;ii:c Laos.** and flow of new weapons in and perhaps Hanoi * rifles Chinese) became highland border ;:aobili ty basic (mostlv regiment, in If was Cong
- STATES:MIGHT BE MADE'. •-:°'.'-'. .. , .... ' ,,r 1 1I~' • •· . IT WAS LEVISON'S SUGGESTION THAT.':.PEOPLE LIKE-:JQHN KENNETH GALBRAITH,,' . ,_..:;·;-· :: ' KING, JAMES WECHSLER, ·THE EDITOR ·or THE' "NEW ·YORK POST~, DR.,'.JOHN .. BENNETT, PRESI DENT OF UNION
- A State Embtel Top Secret 2096 from Bangkok (Section 2) 3 p 05/19/61 A State Embtel Top Secret 2096 from Bangkok(Xection 3) 2 p 05/20/61 A State Embtel 2751 Secret from New Delhi 2 p 05/19/61 A State Embtel 2767 Conf. from New Delhi 2
- TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh opponents in an election for president. F: Yes. H: But not in the daily routine--well, not routine
- ..,,_ has been considerable, .. ~ inflated_by civilians.·. .. ; ~ .... _ ,,,._ incltli¼io~ ~~ To some extent .... by measures already taken. 2 - Heavy S•E•C ft•E•'f infiltration of both new units is continuing. made prior A strenuous
- measures to cut demands on Vietnamese manpower {3rd country labor, better use of returnees, etc.); {d) develop better procedures here and in Saigon for civil/military review of new manpower demands. {Tab J) Subject: Land Reform Problem: Land reform
- into the retirement program . So, if you do it the way I provided for suggest, you will automatically get the new programs when 2 1/2 million federal employees, and you will not become a target each time improvements that you're bound to want come along ." Mr
- all out because I never spent that much time in the White House. He was very fond of about my closest friend in Washington, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. I think probably, and I hope to goodness somebody does him. M: He's on our list
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- period? J: Well, I would say that the best reporting of the Vietnam situation has been by guys 1i.ke Bob Shaplen of the New Yorker; Sol Sanders, U.S. News and World Report; Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News-- M: You did get one newspaper
- commuter lines are down. 45, 000 commuters will be stranded because of the strike on the New York Central. The Pennsylvania railroad will be crippled. The New Haven and Long Island Railroads may not be able to operate because of picket lines. The Secretary
- . also be covered in new tasking for CIA collection efforts. 1. 2. We should do more to exploit the intelligence as sets of other countries. The Australians, for example, should be encouraged to add at least one officer to-their :.Wlilitary Attache