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Original hotline message, Kosygin to LBJ, 6/5/67, 7.47 AM (Item)
  • for the press. ) At 7:57 AM, LBJ, who has now been awake for nearly 4 hours, gets a call from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that the Soviet Premier, Alexi Kosygin, wants to speak to him on the hotline. LBJ tells McNamara that he and his advisors
Original hotline message, Kosygin to LBJ, 6/5/67, 7.47 AM (Item)
  • few hours LBJ speaks to his advisors to find out as much as he can about what happened, and to review a statement for the press.  At 7:57 AM, LBJ, who has now been awake for nearly 4 hours, gets a call from Secretary of Defense Robert