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Telephone conversation # 13108, sound recording, LBJ and GORDON ALLOTT, 6/5/1968, 8:30AM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS FOR QUICK PASSAGE OF BILL AUTHORIZING SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, FORMER PRESIDENTS AND PERMITTING INTERAGENCY COOPERATION FOR PROTECTION; LBJ SAYS HE ORDERED PROTECTION FOLLOWING SHOOTING OF RFK; EISENHOWER'S
  • Allott, Gordon, 1907-1989
  • Telephone conversation # 13108, sound recording, LBJ and GORDON ALLOTT, 6/5/1968, 8:30AM
  • GORDON ALLOTT
Telephone conversation # 3152, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM SCRANTON, 4/28/1964, 12:58PM (Item)
  • KERMIT GORDON
  • KERMIT GORDON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; SCRANTON IS IN HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
  • FEDERAL EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR APPALACHIA; ESTABLISHMENT OF STRIP-MINING, ACID DRAINAGE STANDARDS; JOHN SWEENEY; LBJ WANTS TO COOPERATE WITH REPUBLICANS
  • Gordon, Kermit, 1916-1976
Telephone conversation # 8683, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 8/31/1965, 6:05PM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES AP STORY ABOUT POSSIBLE TRIP BY HHH WITH ASTRONAUTS GORDON COOPER AND CHARLES CONRAD; HHH SAYS NO ONE IN HIS OFFICE LEAKED STORY; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT PRESS LEAKS, TELLS HHH TO GET RID OF HIS PRESS OFFICER AND STAY OUT OF PRESS
Telephone conversation # 9479, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, 1/10/1966, 10:10PM (Item)
  • "RE PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT HE IS GOING TO SHASTRI FUNERAL"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; COOPER IS VERY DIFFICULT TO HEAR
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT PRESS LEAK FROM COOPER'S OFFICE ABOUT COOPER ATTENDING FUNERAL OF INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI; COOPER APOLOGIZES FOR INADVERTENTLY LEAKING INFORMATION
  • Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-
  • Telephone conversation # 9479, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, 1/10/1966, 10:10PM
  • JOHN SHERMAN COOPER
Telephone conversation # 157, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, 11/29/1963, 5:45PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION, THEN ASKS COOPER TO SERVE ON IT; COOPER ACCEPTS APPOINTMENT
  • Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-
  • Telephone conversation # 157, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, 11/29/1963, 5:45PM
  • JOHN SHERMAN COOPER
Telephone conversation # 8628, sound recording, LBJ and CONRAD COOPER, 8/26/1965, 11:45AM (Item)
  • OFFICE NOISE PRECEDES CALL; COOPER ON HOLD 1:25 AND IS ALMOST INAUDIBLE
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS RESPONSE TO QUESTION AT PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY ABOUT CURRENT STEEL NEGOTIATIONS, SAYS HE HOPES BOTH SIDES CAN REACH RESPONSIBLE SETTLEMENT WHICH WILL BE IN NATIONAL INTEREST; COOPER TELLS LBJ THEY WILL TRY TO DO SO; VIETNAM
  • Cooper, R. Conrad
  • Telephone conversation # 8628, sound recording, LBJ and CONRAD COOPER, 8/26/1965, 11:45AM
  • CONRAD COOPER
Telephone conversation # 4181, sound recording, LBJ and LEE WHITE, 7/8/1964, 1:04PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS PRECEDES CALL; LBJ IS MEETING WITH JOHN SHERMAN COOPER AT TIME OF CALL; COMPOSITE RECORDING OF SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO DUPLICATE DICTABELT DUE TO POOR SOUND QUALITY
  • LBJ INSTRUCTS WHITE TO MEET WITH JOHN SHERMAN COOPER ABOUT COOPER'S CONCERNS, ESPECIALLY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED BY COOPER TO SEND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT EXPERTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO REVIEW US FOREIGN AID PROGRAM
Telephone conversation # 154, sound recording, OFFICE SECRETARY and TELEPHONE OPERATOR, 11/29/1963, time unknown (Item)
  • OFFICE SECRETARY ASKS TELEPHONE OPERATOR TO PLACE URGENT CALLS TO ALLEN DULLES, JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, CHARLES HALLECK
Telephone conversation # 273, sound recording, LBJ and LLOYD HAND, 12/4/1963, 10:01AM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS HE HAS ASKED ROY WILKINS TO TALK WITH HAND ABOUT ENCOURAGING COOPERATION BETWEEN NEGROES AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS IN LOS ANGELES, DISCUSSES APPOINTMENT OF HISPANIC AS WH AIDE, ASKS HAND TO CHECK OUT DAN LUEVANO AS POSSIBLE APPOINTEE
Telephone conversation # 243, sound recording, LBJ and ADLAI STEVENSON, 12/2/1963, 5:40PM (Item)
  • LBJ THANKS STEVENSON FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO LBJ'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS, CONGRATULATES STEVENSON ON HIS SPEECH [ABOUT COOPERATION WITH USSR IN SPACE], ASKS TO MEET WITH HIM SOON AND THANKS HIM FOR AGREEING TO WRITE INTRODUCTION TO BOOK LBJ IS ISSUING
Telephone conversation # 554, sound recording, LBJ and A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, 12/18/1963, 6:50PM (Item)
  • LBJ CONGRATULATES RANDOLPH ON SLEEPING CAR PORTERS UNION SETTLEMENT; RANDOLPH SAYS HE RECEIVED GREAT COOPERATION FROM LABOR DEPT, PRAISES LBJ'S SPEECH AT THE UN
Telephone conversation # 4135, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 7/2/1964, 2:26PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS FOR NAMES OF NEGRO LEADERS INVITED TO CIVIL RIGHTS BILL SIGNING CEREMONY IN ORDER TO INVITE THEM TO OFF-THE-RECORD MEETING AFTERWARDS TO DISCUSS COOPERATION IN IMPLEMENTING NEW LAW
Telephone conversation # 4150, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL JOHNSON, 7/3/1964, 3:17PM (Item)
  • TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI WEATHER, RANCHING CONDITIONS; STATUS OF INVESTIGATION OF THREE MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS, EFFECTS OF TRIP BY ALLEN DULLES; LBJ PRAISES JOHNSON FOR COOPERATION; JOHNSON COMPLAINS OF PRESS COVERAGE; IMPLEMENTATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS
Telephone conversation # 3811, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and RALPH MCGILL, 6/22/1964, time unknown (Item)
  • MCGILL DICTATES LETTER TO LBJ ADVISING HIM TO MAKE NATIONAL TV ADDRESS UPON SIGNING CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, DIRECT ADDRESS TOWARDS GOVS. AND LOCAL OFFICIALS, STRESS LOCAL COOPERATION; ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, BUSINESSMEN'S PLEDGE; HAROLD WALKER
Telephone conversation # 3855, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/23/1964, 5:44PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA IF DOD IS ASSISTING FBI IN INVESTIGATION OF 3 MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI; MCNAMARA DESCRIBES EXTENT OF DOD COOPERATION
Telephone conversation # 3878, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL JOHNSON, 6/23/1964, 8:21PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS HE WILL SEND ALLEN DULLES AS OBSERVER IN SEARCH FOR JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER; JOHNSON DESCRIBES MISSISSIPPI AUTHORITIES' COOPERATION WITH FBI IN SEARCH OF SWAMP, HIS PRESS STATEMENT, MISSISSIPPI'S DILEMMA, TENSION THERE
Telephone conversation # 3879, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL JOHNSON, 6/23/1964, 8:21PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS HE WILL SEND ALLEN DULLES AS OBSERVER IN SEARCH FOR JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER; JOHNSON DESCRIBES MISSISSIPPI AUTHORITIES' COOPERATION WITH FBI IN SEARCH OF SWAMP, HIS PRESS STATEMENT, MISSISSIPPI'S DILEMMA, TENSION THERE
Telephone conversation # 4966, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCKEITHEN, 8/15/1964, 3:15PM (Item)
  • SOUTHERN GOVERNORS MEETING; CIVIL RIGHTS SITUATION IN SOUTH; LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S SOUTHERN BACKGROUND; NEED FOR MODERATION, NOT RIOTS; LBJ'S EFFORTS TO COOPERATE WITH GOVERNORS OF MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA, NEW JERSEY; IMPLEMENTING SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Telephone conversation # 4968, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCKEITHEN, 8/15/1964, 3:15PM (Item)
  • SOUTHERN GOVERNORS MEETING; CIVIL RIGHTS SITUATION IN SOUTH; LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S SOUTHERN BACKGROUND; NEED FOR MODERATION, NOT RIOTS; LBJ'S EFFORTS TO COOPERATE WITH GOVERNORS OF MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA, NEW JERSEY; IMPLEMENTING SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
Telephone conversation # 5012, sound recording, PRESS CONFERENCE (with LBJ), 8/18/1964, 11:40AM (Item)
  • LBJ MAKES STATEMENT ON US ECONOMY, EFFORTS TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT, FEDERAL-STATE COOPERATION, HIS MEETINGS WITH GOVERNORS, MAYORS; TAKES QUESTIONS ON HIS MEETING WITH HHH TODAY, HIS SCHEDULE, UAW NEGOTIATIONS, POLITICAL SITUATION, VP NOMINATION
Telephone conversation # 4840, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER REUTHER, 8/9/1964, 8:51AM (Item)
  • PROBLEM SEATING MFDP, IMPACT ON SOUTHERN STATES; SOUTHERN GOVERNORS' COOPERATION ON LOUISIANA SCHOOL DESEGREGATION, INVESTIGATION OF MURDERS IN MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA; NEED FOR FAVORABLE PRESS ON CONGRESS' RECORD; RFK; GEORGE MEANY; DETROIT LABOR DAY
Telephone conversation # 4711, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL JOHNSON, 8/4/1964, 9:35PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF DISCOVERY OF BODIES OF THREE MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI; LBJ DISCUSSES TONKIN GULF ATTACKS, HIS BUSY DAY, THANKS JOHNSON FOR HIS COOPERATION; JOHNSON ASKS LBJ ABOUT HIS HEALTH; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS SCHEDULE, UPCOMING
Telephone conversation # 4388, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 7/29/1964, 11:35AM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF PRESS STATEMENT ON CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC POWER SETTLEMENT; LBJ EMPHASIZES SIGNIFICANCE OF SETTLEMENT AS ILLUSTRATION OF COOPERATION BETWEEN PUBLIC, PRIVATE POWER; JOHN CAULEY; APPOINTMENT OF JAMES GREENFIELD (AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY
Telephone conversation # 5122, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES EASTLAND, 8/22/1964, 12:02PM (Item)
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF SEATING OF MISSISSIPPI DELEGATION, MFDP AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; GOV. PAUL JOHNSON'S COOPERATION WITH INVESTIGATION OF MURDER OF CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS; RICHARD DALEY'S VIEW THAT DELEGATES SHOULD PLEDGE TO SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC
Telephone conversation # 5666, sound recording, LBJ and OFFICE CONVERSATION, 9/24/1964, 1:10PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF RACIAL SITUATION IN MISSISSIPPI, BOMBING OF HOMES OF THREE WOMEN, LACK OF LOCAL POLICE COOPERATION IN INVESTIGATION, NEED FOR INCREASED JUSTICE DEPT, FBI INVOLVEMENT
Telephone conversation # 5816, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/2/1964, 4:10PM (Item)
  • RUSK CONGRATULATES LBJ ON HIS SPEECH TODAY ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION YEAR; LBJ GIVES HUMOROUS RESPONSE, ASKS RUSK TO COME TO WH FOR MEETING THIS AFTERNOON AND ASKS HIM ABOUT HIS SCHEDULE FOR NEXT TWO WEEKS
Telephone conversation # 5818, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 10/2/1964, 4:55PM (Item)
  • FREEMAN CONGRATULATES LBJ ON HIS SPEECH PROCLAIMING 1965 AS INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION YEAR, OFFERS IDEAS FOR SPEECHES IN AGRICULTURAL AREAS IN NORTH CAROLINA, IOWA, EMPHASIZING NEGATIVE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF GOLDWATER'S FARM PROGRAM
Telephone conversation # 5622, sound recording, LBJ and EDWARD WELSH, 9/21/1964, 11:50AM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT COOPERATION OF LABOR, BUSINESS AND GOVT; APPOINTMENTS TO COMSAT BOARD; LBJ ASKS WELSH FOR MEMO ON PLANNED INCREASED FEDERAL SPENDING ON DEFENSE AND SPACE IN NEXT 4 YEARS, COMPARED TO LAST YEAR OF EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION
Telephone conversation # 8870, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 9/15/1965, 9:40AM (Item)
  • DALEY ASKS IF JOHN KLUCZYNSKI IS COOPERATING ON HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION BILL, COMPLAINS THAT ROBERT WEAVER HAS HELD UP HOUSING PROJECTS IN CHICAGO BECAUSE OF ALLEGED CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS WITHOUT NOTIFYING DALEY, ASKS LBJ TO HAVE SOMEONE CALL
Telephone conversation # 7852, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/31/1965, 12:45PM (Item)
  • W. TAPLEY BENNETT'S POSSIBLE RETURN FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FOR TALKS; LBJ SUGGESTS JOSEPH ALSOP DISCUSS VIETNAM WITH FULBRIGHT; WILLIAM BUNDY'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; CHESTER COOPER MEMO; SPEECH DRAFT; CRITICISM OF US POLICY; LBJ'S VIEWS ON US ROLE
Telephone conversation # 7854, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/31/1965, 12:45PM (Item)
  • W. TAPLEY BENNETT'S POSSIBLE RETURN FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FOR TALKS; LBJ SUGGESTS JOSEPH ALSOP DISCUSS VIETNAM WITH FULBRIGHT; WILLIAM BUNDY'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; CHESTER COOPER MEMO; SPEECH DRAFT; CRITICISM OF US POLICY; LBJ'S VIEWS ON US ROLE
Telephone conversation # 9898, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 3/18/1966, 10:40AM (Item)
  • FREEMAN REPORTS ON TALKS WITH TOBACCO, BEER INDUSTRIES ON NOT RAISING PRICES, TELLS LBJ REYNOLDS TOBACCO WILL RESCIND PRICE INCREASES TO HELP COMBAT INFLATION; LBJ TELLS FREEMAN TO PUBLICIZE INDUSTRY COOPERATION, SAYS HE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT INDIA
Telephone conversation # 9463, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CONNOR, 1/7/1966, 6:30PM (Item)
  • RECENT US STEEL PRICE INCREASE; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT RECENT BUSINESS PRESS RELEASES AND INDUSTRY ATTITUDE ABOUT INFLATION, DISCUSSES EXAMPLES OF LABOR COOPERATION ON WAGE-PRICE GUIDELINES
Telephone conversation # 9478, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 1/10/1966, 9:56PM (Item)
  • COMPOSITION OF US DELEGATION TO FUNERAL OF INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI; LBJ'S RELUCTANCE TO SEND HHH; POTENTIAL REACTION OF INDIAN PEOPLE, PRESS TO HHH NOT GOING; JOHN SHERMAN COOPER; JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH; PROPOSED TRIP BY RUSK TO VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 9481, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 1/10/1966, 10:29PM (Item)
  • COMPOSITION OF US DELEGATION TO FUNERAL OF INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI; LBJ SAYS JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, DEAN RUSK WILL GO, ASKS HHH TO ATTEND; LBJ SAYS HE CANNOT ATTEND, CITES UPCOMING STATE OF UNION MESSAGE, CONVENING
Telephone conversation # 9485, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 1/10/1966, 10:40PM (Item)
  • LBJ TELLS HHH THAT US DELEGATION TO INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI'S FUNERAL WILL INCLUDE HHH, DEAN RUSK, JOHN SHERMAN COOPER AND JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, CAUTIONS HHH TO AVOID PRESS CONTACTS UNTIL WH ANNOUNCES PLANS, DISCUSSES TRAVEL PLANS
Telephone conversation # 13710, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/3/1968, 1:54PM (Item)
  • 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 # 13421, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES ROCHE, 9/26/1968, 4:40PM (Item)
  • "B.2"; "THANKING J.M ROACH, GENERAL MOTORS, FOR COOPERATION FROM HIM, HIS ASSOCIATES AND BOARD MEMBERS IN MATTER OF HOLDING DOWN PRICES ON NEW AUTOMOBILES"; "J.M. ROACH 9/26/68 4:40P" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS
Telephone conversation # 13423, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY FORD II, 9/26/1968, 4:50PM (Item)
  • "B.4"; "THANKING HIM FOR COOPERATION FROM HIM, HIS ASSOCIATES AND BOARD MEMBERS IN MATTER OF HOLDING DOWN PRICES ON NEW AUTOMOBILES"; "HENRY FORD 9/26/68 4:50PM" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT
Telephone conversation # 16, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE SMATHERS, 11/23/1963, 2:10PM (Item)
  • STATUS OF TAX BILL IN SENATE; EFFORTS TO ENLIST COOPERATION OF HARRY BYRD, SR.; BYRD'S CONCERNS ABOUT FEDERAL BUDGET; LBJ SAYS HE CANNOT ABANDON JFK'S PROGRAM IN ORDER TO PASS TAX BILL; SMATHERS' CONVERSATION WITH HHH ABOUT HHH AS POSSIBLE VP