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Telephone conversation # 9911, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 3/24/1966, 3:04PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • GOLDBERG PRAISES LBJ'S NATO SPEECH; PRESS COVERAGE OF SPEECH AND GOLDBERG'S MEETING WITH SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE; DOD POLICY ON SPOUSES' TRAVEL IN GOVT PLANES; LBJ'S TRIP TO MRS. EMMANUEL CELLER'S FUNERAL; GOLDBERG'S VIETNAM SPEECH; UK
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 # 9660, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE MEANY, 2/22/1966, 2:50PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MEANY ASKS LBJ TO MEET WITH AFL-CIO LEADERS ON MINIMUM WAGE BILL; LBJ SUGGESTS LABOR LEADERS MEET FORMALLY WITH WIRTZ, THEN INFORMALLY WITH LBJ, DISCUSSES CONCERNS ABOUT NEGATIVE PRESS STORIES ON LABOR CRITICISM OF ADMINISTRATION; CONGRESSIONAL
Telephone conversation # 9677, sound recording, VICKI MCCAMMON and ROBERT WEAVER, 2/26/1966, 1:25PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCCAMMON TELLS WEAVER THAT LBJ CANNOT TAKE WEAVER'S CALL NOW BUT WILL CALL HIM LATER, READS LBJ'S ANNOUNCEMENT AT TODAY'S PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT APPOINTMENT OF ANDREW BRIMMER TO FRB, AND RELAYS LBJ'S REQUEST THAT WEAVER CALL BRIMMER
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
Telephone conversation # 9832, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/4/1966, 1:40PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO WILLIAM FULBRIGHT'S REMARKS ABOUT VIETNAM POLICY AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT POSSIBLE ACTION ON SENSE-OF-CONGRESS RESOLUTION IN SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Telephone conversation # 9852, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 3/8/1966, 10:58AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • PRESS STORY ON ABBA SCHWARTZ' RESIGNATION AS HEAD OF BUREAU OF SECURITY, CONSULAR AFFAIRS DUE TO STATE DEPT REORGANIZATION; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF SCHWARTZ AS ASSISTANT ON REFUGEES; QUESTION OF RELEASING LETTER ACCEPTING RESIGNATION AT WH OR STATE
Telephone conversation # 9520, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 1/19/1966, 8:06PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • KATZENBACH GIVES LBJ BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE OF CONVICTED LABOR OFFICIAL LAWRENCE CALLANAN, SUGGESTS RESPONSE TO PRESS ABOUT ALLEGATIONS BY JOHN WILLIAMS THAT CALLANAN HAS SINCE MADE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEMOCRATIC
Telephone conversation # 9522, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 1/21/1966, 11:01AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK READS STATEMENT HE WILL MAKE AT HIS UPCOMING PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT CURRENT AND PAST VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS, BOMBING HALT, LACK OF RESPONSE FROM HANOI; LBJ SUGGESTS STRONGER LANGUAGE ON HANOI'S DECISION TO CONTINUE AGGRESSION, NEED TO RESUME
Telephone conversation # 9602, sound recording, LBJ and EUGENE MCCARTHY, 2/1/1966, 9:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • EFFECT OF CONGRESSIONAL, PRESS CRITICISM ON NORTH VIETNAM; CONSULTATION WITH JAMES GAVIN; LBJ'S EFFORTS TO SEEK PEACE, OPPOSITION TO OVERTHROW OF DIEM; IMPROVEMENT IN STABILITY OF SOUTH VIETNAM GOVT, POSSIBLE ELECTIONS; INFLUENCE OF NYT; STATE DEPT
Telephone conversation # 9625, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 2/5/1966, 10:15AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • CONGRESSIONAL CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ TELLS HHH TO KEEP WH INFORMED OF HIS WHEREABOUTS IN CASE LBJ WANTS HIM TO JOIN HONOLULU MEETING; HHH'S TRAVEL PLANS; PRESS REPORTS THAT LBJ, HHH ARE BOTH TRAVELING AT SAME TIME
Telephone conversation # 9632, sound recording, LBJ and U. ALEXIS JOHNSON, 2/11/1966, 9:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • CABLES TO OTHER NATIONS INFORMING THEM OF RESULTS OF HONOLULU CONFERENCE ON VIETNAM; RESPONSE TO FULBRIGHT'S CRITICISM OF HONOLULU DECLARATION, REPORTS BY JAMES GAVIN, GEORGE KENNAN; DORIS FLEESON'S COLUMN ON HONOLULU CONFERENCE; KY'S PRESS
Telephone conversation # 9636, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT JONES, 2/14/1966, 3:30PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • JONES SAYS HE IS MEETING WITH ALAN BOYD ON HIGHWAY SAFETY BILL, DECISION TO SEND BILL TO HOUSE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE; JONES SUGGESTS LBJ CALL GEORGE FALLON ABOUT BILL; LBJ DISCUSSES PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN MAKING SUCH CALLS, PRESS LEAK FROM FALLON
Telephone conversation # 9639, sound recording, LBJ and ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, 2/14/1966, 4:25PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES VIETNAM PEACE INITIATIVES AND BOMBING PAUSE, SUGGESTS LANGUAGE FOR RIBICOFF TO USE WHEN BRIEFING PRESS ON LBJ'S REACTION TO RIBICOFF'S PROPOSAL TO RECONVENE GENEVA CONFERENCE; QUESTION OF EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS OF WAR
Telephone conversation # 9641, sound recording, LBJ and LIZ CARPENTER, 2/15/1966, 7:42AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF INACCURATE PRESS STORY BY UNNAMED REPORTER (HELEN THOMAS?) ABOUT PLANS FOR LUCI JOHNSON'S WEDDING; EFFORTS OF WOMEN REPORTERS COVERING WH; AVAILABLE SEATING IN SHRINE OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND PLANS FOR SIZE OF WEDDING
Telephone conversation # 10604, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/10/1966, 3:55PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA'S ADVICE ON UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE CANDIDATES; CYRUS VANCE'S CONCERNS ABOUT HIS FUTURE; ROSWELL GILPATRIC; JOHN DICKEY; J. IRWIN MILLER; FRANK MURPHY; PRESS LEAK ABOUT US TROOP INCREASE; RICHARD NIXON'S VIETNAM STATEMENT; JOHN
Telephone conversation # 10612, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/12/1966, 12:30PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCNAMARA'S VACATION PLANS; CYRUS VANCE; LBJ'S DESIRE TO GET NEW IDEAS IN GOVT, FOREIGN POLICY, STATE DEPT; PROPOSED SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH COMMUNIST CHINA; TOMMY CORCORAN'S PLANTING NEW DEAL MEN IN DEPTS; PRESS REPORT ON CAMBODIA
Telephone conversation # 10637, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 8/24/1966, 10:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ REPORTS SARGENT SHRIVER DECLINED STATE DEPT JOB; LBJ'S PRESS CONFERENCE; BERTRAND RUSSELL TRIAL; CYRUS VANCE OR NICHOLAS KATZENBACH AS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE; OTHER STATE DEPT JOBS; LUCIUS BATTLE; FOY KOHLER; ROBERT ANDERSON; TWO CHINA POLICY
Telephone conversation # 10650, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/28/1966, 6:06PM? (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA'S ADVICE ON RESPONSE TO PRESS REPORT THAT VIETNAM TROOP STRENGTH SHOULD BE INCREASED TO 600,000; SOURCE OF REPORT; WILLIAM WESTMORELAND'S CURRENT TROOP REQUEST TO JCS; MCNAMARA RECOMMENDS LBJ SAY HE HAS RECEIVED NO SUCH REQUEST
Telephone conversation # 10653, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, time unknown (Item)
  • Press relations
  • ROBERTS DISCUSSES PRESS STORY ABOUT REPORT IN WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S UPCOMING BOOK THAT LBJ TOOK OATH OF OFFICE ON KENNEDY FAMILY BIBLE FOLLOWING JFK ASSASSINATION AND BIBLE DISAPPEARED; ROBERTS RELAYS LBJ'S REQUEST THAT FORTAS EXAMINE MISSAL
Telephone conversation # 10666, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and SARAH HUGHES, 8/29/1966, 1:30PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • FORTAS REVIEWS QUESTION OF BOOK USED BY LBJ IN TAKING OATH OF OFFICE AS RAISED IN WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK, LARRY O'BRIEN'S RECOLLECTIONS; HUGHES DESCRIBES "CATHOLIC BIBLE"; FORTAS SAYS BOOK IS IN WH CUSTODY, IS NOT KENNEDY FAMILY BIBLE; PRESS
Telephone conversation # 10737, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 9/10/1966, 12:33PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • POSSIBLE NYC SIGNING CEREMONY FOR MINIMUM WAGE BILL; INFLATIONARY ASPECTS OF BILL; COMPLICATIONS DUE TO NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL RACE; LIBERAL PARTY AND FDR, JR.; CANDIDATES FOR US DELEGATION TO UN; PRESS STORY ON LBJ'S MEETING WITH JEWISH WAR
Telephone conversation # 10769, sound recording, LBJ and ORVILLE FREEMAN, 9/14/1966, 9:55AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • FARMERS' ATTITUDE TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC PARTY; LBJ DISCUSSES ADMINISTRATION'S PROGRESS IN ECONOMIC AREAS, USING PRESS TO PUBLICIZE ITS RECORD IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS; LBJ'S RELUCTANCE TO SIGN INTERMEDIATE CREDIT BANK BILL; NEED TO RESTRICT FEDERAL
Telephone conversation # 10770, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 9/14/1966, 10:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES AP STORY QUOTING HIGH-RANKING MILITARY OFFICER ON WASTE IN VIETNAM CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS; MCNAMARA SAYS HE CAUTIONED OFFICIALS ABOUT PRESS LEAKS FOLLOWING SIMILAR NYT STORY; POSSIBLE CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY BY ESCAPED POW DIETER
Telephone conversation # 10782, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 9/16/1966, 11:45AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ TELLS WIRTZ THAT ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS NEED TO COMBAT NEGATIVE PRESS AND SPREAD POSITIVE NEWS ABOUT US ECONOMY, INCREASED EMPLOYMENT AND PERSONAL INCOME; COMPARISON WITH ECONOMY DURING EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION WHEN NATION WAS NOT AT WAR
Telephone conversation # 10792, sound recording, LBJ and WALT ROSTOW, 9/17/1966, 5:39PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING WITH EUGENE ROSTOW ABOUT APPOINTMENT TO STATE DEPT POSITION; APPOINTMENT OF NICHOLAS KATZENBACH AS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE; KATZENBACH'S ABILITIES TO WORK WITH CONGRESS; LBJ CAUTIONS ROSTOW ABOUT PRESS LEAKS; JAMES MOYERS
Telephone conversation # 10449, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 7/29/1966, 3:40PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF NEGOTIATIONS IN AIRLINE STRIKE BY INTERNATIONAL ASSN OF MACHINISTS; LBJ READS PRESS REPORT OF EVERETT DIRKSEN'S STATEMENT, ASKS MANSFIELD TO DISCUSS FAVORABLE ECONOMIC TERMS OF PROPOSED SETTLEMENT WITH SENATE
Telephone conversation # 10538, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 8/2/1966, 6:43PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT PRESS STORIES QUOTING DIRKSEN AS SAYING ADMINISTRATION WANTS LEGISLATION TO RESOLVE AIRLINE STRIKE; LBJ SAYS HE IS NOT RECOMMENDING BILL BUT IF ONE IS TO BE PASSED IT SHOULD INCLUDE CONGRESSIONAL FINDING OF EMERGENCY
Telephone conversation # 10543, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/3/1966, 11:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • NICHOLAS KATZENBACH'S MEETING WITH EVERETT DIRKSEN, JACOB JAVITS ON CHANGES TO AIRLINE STRIKE BILL, THEIR REQUEST THAT KATZENBACH DRAFT BILL; CONTACTING STEEL COMPANIES ON PRICE INCREASE; NEGATIVE PRESS; FAVORABLE ACCOUNT BY WALTER CRONKITE
Telephone conversation # 10544, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/3/1966, 11:20AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • NEED TO GENERATE BETTER PRESS STORIES ON ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION ON AIRLINE STRIKE; NON-EMERGENCY NATURE OF STRIKE
Telephone conversation # 10563, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 8/5/1966, 9:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DAVID BRUCE'S REFUSAL OF UNNAMED POST (UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE?); OTHER CANDIDATES: EUGENE BLACK, DOUGLAS DILLON; PRESS CRITICISM OF LBJ'S FAILURE TO FILL STATE DEPT POSTS; DON PRICE; CONCERNS ABOUT AGE OF CANDIDATES; ELLSWORTH BUNKER; ROBERT
Telephone conversation # 10572, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/5/1966, 1:00PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • NEED TO COUNTERACT RFK'S INFLUENCE WITH PRESS, EMPHASIZE SENATE INACTION ON VARIOUS ADMINISTRATION BILLS FOR CITIES; MCNAMARA'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNNAMED POST: DOUGLAS DILLON, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, ARJAY MILLER; LBJ'S ACTIONS ON AIRLINE STRIKE
Telephone conversation # 10256, sound recording, LBJ and CYRUS VANCE, 6/24/1966, 5:25PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DISCUSSION OF PRESS STORY BY PHILIP GEYELIN ABOUT BOMBING OF POL TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM, LEAKS FROM STATE DEPT; LBJ ASKS VANCE TO CONSULT WITH JCS ABOUT TIMING, RANGE OF UPCOMING BOMBING MISSIONS, POSSIBLY DELAYING STRIKES ON HANOI, HAIPHONG
Telephone conversation # 10257, sound recording, LBJ and CYRUS VANCE, 6/24/1966, 6:20PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • VANCE RELAYS MILITARY JUDGMENT THAT BOMBING OF POL TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM SHOULD NOT BE DELAYED; INQUIRY BY DICK RESTON OF LA TIMES ABOUT BOMBING; VANCE EXPRESSES OUTRAGE ABOUT PRESS LEAKS; JCS CONCERNS ABOUT GIVING ALLIES ADVANCE NOTICE
Telephone conversation # 10260, sound recording, LBJ and CYRUS VANCE, 6/24/1966, 7:55PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • VANCE TELLS LBJ THAT BOMBING MISSION OF POL TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM WILL PROBABLY NOT TAKE PLACE BECAUSE OF POOR WEATHER; LBJ ASKS IF VANCE AND MCNAMARA HAVE ANY IDEAS ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT PRESS LEAKS THAT ENDANGER US FORCES
Telephone conversation # 10262, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 6/25/1966, 11:50AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ SAYS HE HAS ASKED ATTORNEY GENERAL TO STUDY PRESS LEAKS OF VIETNAM OPERATIONAL PLANS, ASKS BALL AND MCNAMARA TO ASSEMBLE LOG OF MEDIA CONTACTS AT STATE, DOD; BALL DISCUSSES CALL HE RECEIVED FROM PHILIP GEYELIN ABOUT BOMBING, GEYELIN'S SUBSEQUENT
Telephone conversation # 10270, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/28/1966, 2:40PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • BOMBING OF POL TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM; LBJ SAYS HE WANTS IT MADE CLEAR THAT JCS HAVE CHOSEN TIME, MILITARY ASPECTS OF MISSION IN LIGHT OF PREVIOUS PRESS LEAKS; WASHINGTON STAR'S DEFERRAL OF RICHARD FRYKLUND STORY ON BOMBING; SOURCE OF LEAKS
Telephone conversation # 10271, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 6/28/1966, 5:21PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • GOLDBERG'S TRIP TO GENEVA FOR ECOSOC MEETING AND MEETING WITH USSR ON OUTER SPACE TREATY; GOLDBERG'S SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE BRIEFING; GOLDBERG'S RECENT MEMO TO LBJ; LBJ SAYS HE PREFERS TO DISCUSS MATTERS VERBALLY; GOLDBERG DENIES PRESS
Telephone conversation # 10273, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/28/1966, 5:33PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • GOLDBERG'S DENIAL OF PRESS LEAK; TIMING OF BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM POL TARGETS; MILITARY FRUSTRATION ABOUT TARGET LIMITS; NORTH VIETNAMESE COMMENTS ON US OPPOSITION TO WAR; NEED FOR SUFFICIENT MILITARY FORCES; POSSIBLE EMERGENCY MEASURES IF WAR
Telephone conversation # 10285, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 6/29/1966, 10:24AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • HOOVER REPORTS ON FBI'S INVESTIGATION INTO PRESS LEAK ON BOMBING OF POL TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM WHICH INDICATES GEORGE BALL IS SOURCE OF LEAK