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Telephone conversation # 6750, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and RAMSEY CLARK?, 1/28/1965, time unknown (Item)
  • CLARK? ASKS ROBERTS IF HIS MEMO WAS INCLUDED IN LBJ'S NIGHT READING; ROBERTS TELLS HIM A MEMO ON APPOINTMENTS OF JUDGESHIPS WAS INCLUDED BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN RETURNED
Telephone conversation # 11110, sound recording, MARIE FEHMER and JUANITA ROBERTS, 12/3/1966, time unknown (Item)
  • "ON THE LIBRARY - MF READING"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • FEHMER READS MEMORANDA, DRAFT LETTERS FROM CLARK CLIFFORD, LAWSON KNOTT, OTHERS CONCERNING AGREEMENT WITH UT ON THE LBJ LIBRARY; ROBERTS ASKS ABOUT POSSIBLE DRAFTS BY HORACE BUSBY, ASKS FEHMER TO MAKE COPIES OF DOCUMENTS FOR THE FILES
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
Telephone conversation # 289, sound recording, LBJ and ALBERT THOMAS, 12/5/1963, 11:11AM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES APPOINTMENT OF DONALD HORNIG TO SUCCEED JEROME WIESNER AS PRESIDENT'S SCIENCE ADVISOR, READS MEMO RECOMMENDING HORNIG; THOMAS SAYS HE SUPPORTS APPOINTMENT; DISCUSSION OF NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION BUDGET
Telephone conversation # 170, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH ALSOP, 11/29/1963, 7:00PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; ALSOP EXPRESSES APPROVAL OF LBJ'S DECISION
Telephone conversation # 171, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES EASTLAND, 11/29/1963, 7:03PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION, DISCUSSES MEMBERSHIP OF COMMISSION; EASTLAND SAYS HE THINKS LBJ SHOULD APPOINT JOHN HARLAN INSTEAD OF EARL WARREN
Telephone conversation # 184, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/29/1963, 8:55PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; RUSSELL SAYS HE CANNOT SERVE ON IT WITH EARL WARREN; LBJ INSISTS RUSSELL MUST SERVE; MOURSUND ENCOURAGES HIM TO SERVE; RUSSELL RELUCTANTLY ACCEPTS
Telephone conversation # 1809, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 2/1/1964, time unknown (Item)
  • MOYERS READS STATEMENT LBJ WILL MAKE TO PRESS ANNOUNCING SHRIVER WILL HEAD POVERTY PROGRAM; TIMING OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND OPPOSITION TO THE APPOINTMENT; ADAM YARMOLINSKY; ROBERT MCNAMARA; ILLINOIS POLITICS
Telephone conversation # 1418, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CLARK, 1/18/1964, 11:55AM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ON BILL COLEMAN; LBJ READS CLARK MEMO ON CANDIDATES FOR PENNSYLVANIA FEDERAL CIRCUIT JUDGESHIP DISCUSSING CLARK'S AND WILLIAM GREEN'S CANDIDATES; APPOINTMENT OF BILL COLEMAN; LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT LACK OF COMMUNICATION
Telephone conversation # 1815, sound recording, LBJ and SARGENT SHRIVER, 2/1/1964, 6:28PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS PRESS COMMENTS ON HIS PRESS CONFERENCE; ORGANIZING WAR ON POVERTY; PEACE CORPS; JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH; EVALUATIONS OF JACK VAUGHN, BILL MOYERS, ROBERT MCNAMARA; PANAMA; VIETNAM; DIEM COUP; FRANCE; VP SELECTION; LBJ COMMENTS ON RUNNING
Telephone conversation # 1853, sound recording, LBJ and CLINTON ANDERSON, 2/3/1964, 7:05PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON RICHARD L. DOAN AND ASKS CLINTON ABOUT APPOINTING DOAN TO THE AEC; SENATE TAX BILL AND ALBERT GORE AMENDMENT; GORE'S PROPOSAL TO INVESTIGATE SENATORS AND THEIR STAFFS
Telephone conversation # 1429, sound recording, LBJ and EDWARD R. MURROW, 1/20/1964, 5:05PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS MURROW HIS LETTER ACCEPTING MURROW'S RESIGNATION FROM USIA; LBJ ASKS MURROW'S OPINION OF APPOINTING CARL ROWAN TO REPLACE MURROW; OTHER POSSIBLE CANDIDATES: BOB KINTNER, FRANK STANTON; QUESTION OF APPOINTING A NEGRO
Telephone conversation # 1989, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 2/9/1964, 9:16PM (Item)
  • JOHN CONNALLY; JOE KILGORE; JOHNSON FAMILY BUSINESS; DON YARBOROUGH, LEVERETT EDWARDS APPOINTMENT; JENKINS READS DOM BONAFEDE NY HERALD-TRIBUNE STORY, BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; LLOYD HAND; JOHN GRONOUSKI, RALPH YARBOROUGH, TEXAS POST OFFICE
Telephone conversation # 2391, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER HELLER, 3/7/1964, 1:07PM (Item)
  • REAPPOINTMENT OF J. L. ROBERTSON TO FRB; LBJ READS FROM NYT ARTICLE BY RICHARD MCGOWAN ON LABOR CRITICISM OF LBJ BECAUSE OF OVERTIME LEGISLATION; POSSIBLE PRESS LEAK FROM CEA
Telephone conversation # 2205, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 2/26/1964, 12:10PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS BUNDY'S MEMO ON PANAMA CANAL TREATY, COSTA RICAN PROPOSAL, ASKS RUSSELL'S ADVICE ON PANAMA, FIDEL CASTRO, CUBA, GUANTANAMO SITUATION; APPOINTMENT OF W.TAPLEY BENNETT AS AMBASSADOR TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GENERAL SITUATION IN LATIN AMERICA
Telephone conversation # 2320, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 3/2/1964, 8:50PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS ADVICE ON APPOINTING WILL MITCHELL TO CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION; RICHARD RUSSELL'S TV APPEARANCE; LBJ'S PRESS CONFERENCE; PANAMA; CYPRUS; US ECONOMY; LBJ'S MEETING WITH HAROLD WILSON OF UK; LBJ READS VIETNAM STATEMENT PREPARED BY ROBERT
Telephone conversation # 4146, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CONNALLY, 7/3/1964, 11:38AM (Item)
  • ESTABLISHMENT OF CONCILIATION SERVICE IN TEXAS TO IMPLEMENT CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, POSSIBLE APPOINTEES: LUTHER HOLCOMB, ROBERT STOREY, SAM BLOOM; LBJ ADVISES CONNALLY TO READ RECENT NEWSWEEK ARTICLE
Telephone conversation # 3791, sound recording, LBJ and ROY WILKINS, 6/19/1964, 5:20PM (Item)
  • CIVIL RIGHTS BILL SENATE VOTE; WILKINS READS NAACP? STATEMENT ON CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATIONS DURING LBJ'S TRIP; HHH; POSSIBLE APPOINTEES TO COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE: GEORGE TAYLOR, HAROLD WALKER, IVAN ALLEN; ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA; GREAT SOCIETY
Telephone conversation # 3835, sound recording, LBJ and BURKE MARSHALL, 6/23/1964, 3:51PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE APPOINTEES TO HEAD COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE, INCLUDING WILLIAM SIMKIN IN LABOR DEPT; LBJ READS PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT HE MADE ABOUT MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER
Telephone conversation # 3885, sound recording, LBJ and ALLEN DULLES, 6/23/1964, 8:53PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS TOM FINNEY WILL ASSIST DULLES AS OBSERVER OF SITUATION IN MISSISSIPPI, READS STATEMENT HE PLANS TO MAKE; RFK IS MEETING WITH LBJ, ARRANGES MEETING WITH DULLES, FINNEY TOMORROW; DULLES ASKS FOR BRIEFING MATERIAL
Telephone conversation # 4821, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 8/8/1964, 10:52AM (Item)
  • JENKINS GIVES RUNDOWN OF POVERTY BILL VOTE YESTERDAY; VOTE ON FRELINGHUYSEN MOTION TO RECOMMIT IS IN PROGRESS DURING CALL; LIFE MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON LBJ; ROBERT HOLLINGSWORTH AS AEC GENERAL MANAGER; LBJ'S MAIL; JENKINS READS FINAL RECOMMITTAL MOTION
Telephone conversation # 6601, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT WAGNER, 12/2/1964, 7:20PM (Item)
  • WAGNER READS LBJ PRESS STORY ON FIGHT OVER LEADERSHIP OF NEW YORK STATE SENATE BETWEEN WAGNER AND RFK FORCES; ALLEGED SUPPORT FOR STANLEY STEINGUT BY EDWIN WEISL, SR.; LBJ TELLS WAGNER HE WILL CONTINUE TO CONSULT WITH HIM ON NYC PATRONAGE; WILLIAM
Telephone conversation # 5475, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 9/3/1964, 7:12PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS FORTAS' OPINION OF PUBLIC REACTION TO NOMINATION OF RAUL CASTRO AS AMBASSADOR TO EL SALVADOR, READS FORTAS NEW GALLUP POLL ON INCREASE IN REPUBLICAN FRONTLASH SUPPORT FOR LBJ AND DECREASE IN BACKLASH DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT FOR GOLDWATER
Telephone conversation # 7329, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR "TEX" GOLDSCHMIDT, 4/8/1965, 10:27AM (Item)
  • JOHNS HOPKINS SPEECH ON ASIAN DEVELOPMENT; SOUTH VIETNAMESE NEGATIVE REACTION; LBJ READS CRITICAL CABLES ON SPEECH; LBJ'S REPORT ON 1961 VIETNAM TRIP; MEKONG DELTA; EUGENE BLACK AND UN TASK FORCE; LBJ ASKS ELIZABETH GOLDSCHMIDT TO DRAFT MEDICARE
Telephone conversation # 7505, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/1/1965, 11:39AM (Item)
  • BUNDY APOLOGIZES FOR DELAY IN RELAYING CABLES TO LBJ, REPORTS ON CHESTER BOWLES' VACATION REQUEST; DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT FOR JOHN LEDDY; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF SAM GILSTRAP AS REPLACEMENT FOR BENJAMIN READ; LBJ INSTRUCTS BUNDY ON PRESS CONTACTS
Telephone conversation # 8817, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 9/2/1965, time unknown (Item)
  • LBJ READS LIST OF CONGRESSMEN WHO HAVE NOT YET SIGNED WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE DISCHARGE PETITION, DISCUSSES POTENTIAL SIGNERS; LBJ TEASES O'BRIEN ABOUT HIS APPEARANCE AT CONFIRMATION HEARING FOR HIS APPOINTMENT AS POSTMASTER GENERAL
Telephone conversation # 8890, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 9/19/1965, 11:08PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS JOSEPH KRAFT COLUMN CRITICIZING GOLDBERG, UN ROLE IN INDIA-PAKISTAN KASHMIR CRISIS, JAMES ROOSEVELT'S APPOINTMENT TO UN DELEGATION, ARTICLE 19 SETTLEMENT; LBJ PRAISES PRESS COVERAGE GOLDBERG HAS RECEIVED
Telephone conversation # 9656, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 2/22/1966, 9:04AM (Item)
  • ARTHUR GOLDBERG; LBJ'S VIEWS ON UN; WH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING; WAYNE MORSE'S VIETNAM RESOLUTION; LBJ READS FROM MEMO ON FULBRIGHT'S VIEWS; EDWIN REISCHAUER; RAY CLINE; WILLIAM "RED" RABORN; MANSFIELD REPORT; J. EDGAR HOOVER'S REPORTS ON VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 9677, sound recording, VICKI MCCAMMON and ROBERT WEAVER, 2/26/1966, 1:25PM (Item)
  • 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 # 10705, sound recording, LBJ and THOMAS KUCHEL, 9/1/1966, 12:32PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS KUCHEL'S EVALUATION OF POSSIBLE REPUBLICAN APPOINTEES TO EEOC; LBJ READS EVALUATIONS, RESUMES FOR RICARDO CALLEJO AND ARTHUR ALARCON
Telephone conversation # 9430, sound recording, LBJ and ROY WILKINS, 1/5/1966, 4:55PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS MEMO EVALUATING ROBERT WEAVER AS POSSIBLE HUD SECRETARY; LBJ'S PERSONAL FEELINGS ABOUT WEAVER, WILKINS, OTHER CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS; ADAM CLAYTON POWELL'S, MIKE MANSFIELD'S OPPOSITION TO WEAVER, ALBERT THOMAS' SUPPORT FOR HIM; ROGER WILKINS
Telephone conversation # 12009, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN LINDSAY, 7/27/1967, 5:02PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS LINDSAY TO BE VICE CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION TO STUDY CIVIL DISORDERS IN WAKE OF DETROIT RIOTS, READS FROM HIS STATEMENT ON FORMING COMMISSION, DISCUSSES APPOINTING OTTO KERNER TO CHAIR COMMISSION AND POSSIBLE OTHER MEMBERS
Telephone conversation # 12503, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 12/9/1967, 10:12AM (Item)
  • LBJ READS ARTHUR GOLDBERG'S CABLE ON MOVE TO INSCRIBE VIETNAM ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL AGENDA; POSSIBLE RESOLUTION ON BOMBING CESSATION; NEED TO ANSWER FULBRIGHT, MANSFIELD; POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF GALE MCGEE OR LEONARD MARKS AS UN AMBASSADOR; EDWARD
Telephone conversation # 12842, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/24/1968, 11:55AM (Item)
  • LBJ TELLS RUSK TO READ NYT ARTICLE BY JOE KRAFT THAT IS COMPLIMENTARY TO RUSK; RUSK REPORTS THAT G. MENNEN "SOAPY" WILLIAMS DOES NOT WANT OVERSEAS APPOINTMENT; LBJ SAYS HE WILL HAVE TO LOOK FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO APPOINT AS AMBASSADOR TO PHILIPPINES
Telephone conversation # 13124, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCONNELL, 6/20/1968, 4:44PM (Item)
  • LBJ CONTINUES READING LETTER FROM PAT NUGENT REQUESTING TRANSFER TO NEW DUTIES IN VIETNAM; LBJ ASKS MCCONNELL'S VIEWS ON REQUEST, DISCUSSES NUGENT'S BROTHER'S, CHARLES ROBB'S COMBAT SERVICE IN VIETNAM; MCCONNELL'S CONTINUATION AS AIR FORCE CHIEF
Telephone conversation # 13130, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 6/21/1968, 3:48PM (Item)
  • LBJ IS APPARENTLY READING PRESS STORY ON SUPREME COURT; HOMER THORNBERRY AND CHARGES OF CRONYISM IF HE IS APPOINTED TO COURT; RELEASE OF EARL WARREN'S RESIGNATION LETTER; HUGO BLACK'S REACTION TO WARREN'S RESIGNATION; OTHER POSSIBLE APPOINTEES
Telephone conversation # 13135, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES EASTLAND, 6/23/1968, 9:09AM (Item)
  • JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT FOR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE; APPOINTMENT OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT; FORTAS' RECENT SPEECH ON CIVIL DISSENT; LBJ READS LIST OF CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED FORTAS, SUGGESTS REAPPOINTING TOM CLARK AND DISMISSING RAMSEY
Telephone conversation # 11601, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 3/1/1967, 9:53AM (Item)
  • MANSFIELD READS PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL DECLARATION OF SUPPORT OF VIETNAM POLICY TO BE ATTACHED TO VIETNAM SUPPLEMENTAL BILL; LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE CHANGES IN US MISSION TO VIETNAM INCLUDING APPOINTING ELLSWORTH BUNKER AS AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE
Telephone conversation # 11233, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CONNALLY, 12/30/1966, 2:00PM (Item)
  • PLANS FOR LBJ STATE PARK; JOHN BEN SHEPPERD'S APPOINTMENT; NEED TO COORDINATE CONNALLY'S PROPOSED STATEMENT ON LBJ STATE PARK CONTROVERSY WITH WILL ODOM, PREPARE ODOM FOR PRESS INQUIRIES; LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT; LBJ'S PLAN TO MEET WITH JAMES
Telephone conversation # 10848, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 9/28/1966, 5:16PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS PRIVATE NOTE FROM TOM CLARK REGARDING ABA, OTHER SUPPORT FOR CLARK REMAINING ON SUPREME COURT IF RAMSEY CLARK IS APPOINTED ATTORNEY GENERAL; DISCUSSION OF PERCEPTION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST IF TOM CLARK REMAINS ON COURT; VIEWS OF OTHER