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  • FOR RELEASE 6:30 P. M., EDT Sunday, September 25, 1966 REMAR KS BY MRS. LYNDON B . JOHNSON OPENING NIGHT OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE SPECIA L TELEVISION PROGRAM --BELL TELEPHONE HOUR Office of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Johnson THE WHITE HOUSE
  • Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Opening Night of the Metropolitan Opera House Special Television Program --Bell Telephone Hour, 9/25/1966"
  • worry, I've telephoned Dick Daley and he's taken care of it." I am glad to be here, especially because Mayor Daley is one of the warmest and closest friends we have ever had and I certainly don 1t need to tell you here in Chicago he i s one
  • station will feature a video of Kirk Douglas and Helen Hayes, reading from letters which rs. Johnson and LBJ exchanged White House Telephone Tapes Project Continues The latest release of tape record­ ings of White House telephone con­ versations during
  • of Staff interviews with the flag duty officers, and phone and meeting logs at the White House as well as tapes of telephone conversa­ tions. What struck me as I recounted the situation on August 4 was LBJ's skeptical mood and attitude. At that time more
  • to writing," (histo­ rian) Robert A. Divine noted in a 1985 article on the LBJ Library. "Johnson preferred to deal with issues orally, either in face-to-face discussion or by telephone." One result, wrote Divine, is that the LBJ Library's extensive holdings
  • news that AN abject -- Sputnik I -­ had been put into orbit. It was beyond comprehension, so staggering it invited silence. Our little group left the telephones and the televi sion sets to walk down a country r oad, each wrapped in bis own thoughts
  • daily telephone service to all areas and all continents, not just the moie highly developed major populated areas. Business and scientific computers will be tied together across the ocean by means of satellite data links providing solutions to many types
  • , civil rig hts , the education bill, the arbitrat ion of the railroad strike, the poverty bill. 11 And then - - the telephone interrupted us - - before he could continue . s All of these measure/ affect people directly. In terms of dollars and cents
  • . Hon. Harold Brown 2 May 1968 -3- I have thought of this some more during this week's furore, which includes demands for congressional investigation. · Anticipating such demands I · discussed the situation by telephone Monday with my friend, the Hon
  • Issue Number LXIV December 15, 1996 President Johnson's Telephone Conversations Opened (Pages 2-4) Tapes Stir Scholars' and Media Interest by Regina Greenwell Senior Archivist On October 11, the Johnson Library opened for research approximately
  • Issue Number LXVI August 15, 1997 ofL/31 Library Opens More LBJ Telephone Tapes The library opened for research the fifth increment of President Johnson's White House telephone conversations. This group of 66 tapes covers the period July
  • are available for hie use. Nor is them any yardstick to measure what the typewriters and telephone s of 200 medical reporters have done to bring better health to our Nation. Surely everyone in this room can think of lives that have been touched with real impact
  • in December A few of the topics he covered: Reminiscence of LBJ .. We had in our family for 40 years a remarkable woman by the name of Emily Wilson One day in the mid-60's, I got home from the office and said t Emily, ·'Hold off the telephone calls, Jneed
  • Among Issue umber LXXlll, October, 2000 Three Members of the "Johnson Gang" And the Writer Who Immortalized Them See Page Two White House Telephone Tapes and the "Johnson Gang" The recordings of President Johnson's telephone conversations have
  • despite considerable opposition; LBJ tries to telephone FDR on Tuesday night, but Bill Kittrell tied up the phone line. 7/25 FDR signs “Two Ocean” Navy Bill. August 8/1 FDR selects Edward Flynn as chairman of the Democratic National Committee
  • on what Harry has created. He'll still be a Dutch uncle forus his­ torians, and a wise man for all of Texa. and all of America. ' For the occa. i n, Middleton and the Library ·taff collaborated in creat­ ing a comic takeoff on the telephone tapes. LBJ's
  • , are historians beginn.ing to find their sea legs on Kennedy On the telephone tapes: I live in Washington, and talk to a lot of scholars and journal­ ists. [When the LBJ telephone tapes were releasecll, I cannot tell you the number of times I heard from people
  • . 1 hope you will do the same. I will telephone my friends and ask them to spread tbe word about the choice we face. I bope you will do the same. I will work to get out the vote in rny cornrnunity - - to see tbat every young mother and every shut
  • to be thankful for -- the tax reduction, the education bill, the arbitration of the railroad strike, civil rights, the poverty bill••• " And, as often happens in our conversations, the telephone rang at that moment and be was saved by the bell. Actually
  • happe ns in this election wi l l affect you, your lives , the lives of your children-- and you want to be part of that decision . MORE . .... . .. . . ... .. .._ There are many things you can do-- telephoning friends and neighbors to see
  • the papers presented at the symposium. White House Telephone Tapes Released By Regina Greenwell. Senior Archivist On June 8, 2001, the Johnson Library released the latest batch of recordings and transcripts of President Jolrnson 's telephone conversations
  • by Charles Bogel 6 Latest Release of LBJ Telephone Recordings By Robi,r/ Hicks. Communications Director The LBJ Library released the latest batch of President Johnson's telephone recordings on April 30. It includes rnn­ versations from April through July
  • telephone tapes of Johnson. Yarrington sa the tapes show the ·'real LBJ," as the president "I ived on the telephone.'' Popular exhibits that will remain at the library include the nearly lifesize version of the Oval Office as it looked during John ·on 's
  • Bobbitt: Failures in the field of intelligence often lead to later suc­ cesses, but the reverse is also true. Success can lead to com­ placency. LBJ's Telephone Tapes to Be Transcribed The Miller Center at the University of Virginia has undertaken
  • objects selected from the West Wmg rooms - uch as th . Augustus Saint-Gaudens bronze portrait of Lincoln, the President's Cabinet Chair, and the telephone from the Little ounge - add realism t the exhibit. The photograph hove hows Library vi itor studying
  • , while pulling one supporting clipping and memo after another out of his pocket."' It was, Humphrey said, ·'an almost hypnotic experience. l came out of that session covered with blood, sweat, tears, spit, and spurs." White House Telephone Tape Mystery
  • , and I went in to see him. He was on the phone all by himself, with a list of telephone numbers, and I heard him talking to a man who turned out to be the County Chairman of Kansas City. He was coming up to the third term election in I 940 and I remember
  • called to confer with the Joint Chiefs and the NSC. In addition to group meetings, Johnson frequently hud­ dled with individual advisers, and, as one aide put it, he "had those damned telephones of his going all the lime:· These consultations included
  • as the continu­ ing release of the LBJ White House telephone recordings. ln September, Lhe Archives made available the recordings from September-October 1964, or 34 hours of presiclenti"'I telephone conversations. About 40 per cent of the collection has now been
  • a dinner at the Carlton Hotel in honor of Miss Lou. February 2/1 Truman telephones LBJ concerning the wildcat railroad strike. Eisenhower addresses an informal joint session of Congress in the Library of Congress and emphasizes the need for U.S
  • allocation of rural telephone loan funds in Texas-$25,000 to the Navasota Telephone Company, made in the presence of Senators Connally and Johnson, and Congressmen Poage, Pickett, Thornberry and Teague. 5/11 Black tie dinner for Senator and Mrs. Tom
  • L. Lewis charges Krug with responsibility for Centralia disaster and demands Krug resign. 4/4 Mrs. Rebekah Johnson still in hospital, in wheelchair, but hopes to be walking soon. 4/7 300,000 telephone workers in 39 states go on strike. Long
  • . Delegates from 46 nations attend. President Truman gives short address by telephone from White House. 4/28 LBJ letter to Stanley Marcus re: death of FDR: “I am enclosing . . . an interview I gave the night of his death which appeared in the New York Times
  • in a telephone conversation with Anderson, LBJ recommends that Anderson meet with the House and Senate committees in executive session as soon as possible about the legislation because there will be considerable opposition to the measures. He cites his recent
  • In his column, Drew Pearson criticizes “one-man rule” method used by LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) to make committee assignments. Pearson maintains that LBJ never calls a meeting of the Steering Committee, but instead has Democratic Whip Earle Clements telephone
  • . and Development or Industry in Central America." Deputy Di.rector Tina Houston pre­ sented M . Warnock with a signed copy of LBJ: The White House Years, by for­ mer Library Director Harry Middleton, and a sample CD of President Johnson ·s telephone tape
  • game is ov r.'' W said, "Oh, no, r. President. We can still g t it." But he knew precisely when the tide had turned, though h . hadn't been on Capitol Hill. He just knew it in tinctively. Hugh SidneJ LBJ'· lov of the telephone was legendary. lt was rum
  • in Washington. We also invited Ernest Goldstein and his wife, Peggy, friends of the Johnsons. Ernie later would leave the UT faculty and become a special assistant to the President in Washington. It was the telephone call from Horace Busby at the LBJ Ranch after
  • telephone tapes, as he said in his opening: 9 tht" J,1hn-.on 11 .. J ,an t1un. \'
  • to be complete or definitive. discoverlbj.org Later that evening, LBJ telephones Dean Acheson for his advice on tomorrow’s meeting. Acheson is highly critical of the administration’s position. Eisenhower, Dulles, U.N. Ambassador Lodge and 26 congressional