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Telephone conversation # 2180, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM CROCKETT, 2/25/1964, 10:58AM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS CROCKETT TO PLACE UNIDENTIFIED ASSOCIATE OF HHH IN LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE POST
Telephone conversation # 3932, sound recording, LBJ and AL FRIENDLY, 6/26/1964, 6:30PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS FRIENDLY'S SUPPORT FOR NOMINATION OF LEROY COLLINS TO HEAD COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE; NEED TO GET APPROVAL OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS BOARD TO RELEASE COLLINS
Telephone conversation # 549, sound recording, LBJ and EDWIN WEISL, SR., 12/18/1963, 5:06PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS TED SORENSEN HAS ASKED TO RESIGN IN ORDER TO WRITE BOOK ABOUT JFK; LBJ PRAISES SORENSEN, ASKS WEISL TO GET JOB FOR SORENSEN WITH MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION SO SORENSEN CAN CONTINUE TO WORK FOR LBJ AS SPEECHWRITER; LEHMAN PRAISES LBJ
Telephone conversation # 2182, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 2/25/1964, 11:00AM (Item)
  • LBJ REPORTS ON CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM CROCKETT ABOUT LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE POST FOR HHH'S ASSOCIATE; LBJ ADVISES HHH ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, FARM BILL, TAX BILL; LBJ EMPHASIZES NEED FOR TV APPEARANCES TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION
Telephone conversation # 3501, sound recording, LBJ and JACK VALENTI, 5/25/1964, 9:50PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF NEED TO APPOINT ASSOCIATE PRESS SECRETARY WHO COULD SUBSTITUTE FOR GEORGE REEDY AS NEEDED, POSSIBLE CANDIDATES, INCLUDING RON NESSON; LBJ TEASES MRS. VALENTI ABOUT NOT RETURNING HIS CALLS, JOKES ABOUT JACK VALENTI'S GOLF GAME WITH LBJ
Telephone conversation # 10740, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KLEBERG, JR., 9/10/1966, 3:27PM (Item)
  • KLEBERG SUGGESTS EARL RUDDER BE APPOINTED US AMBASSADOR TO ARGENTINA; LBJ EXTENDS GREETINGS TO KLEBERG'S FAMILY; LBJ DISCUSSES HIS LONG ASSOCIATION WITH EARL RUDDER, GREETS MCCANN?
Telephone conversation # 12924, sound recording, LBJ and EUGENE BLACK, 4/24/1968, 11:35AM (Item)
  • BLACK DESCRIBES HIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, ASKS WHOM HE SHOULD CONSULT ABOUT HIS POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT AS US AMBASSADOR TO UN; LBJ DISCUSSES RESPONSIBILITES OF JOB, SUGGESTS BLACK TALK WITH CLARK CLIFFORD
Telephone conversation # 13140, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 6/25/1968, 4:53PM (Item)
  • DIRKSEN DISCUSSES MEETING ON SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS, PRECEDENTS ON RECESS APPOINTMENTS OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES; LBJ SAYS HE WILL NAME ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE, HOMER THORNBERRY AS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE; DIRKSEN REPORTS ON MEETING WITH "JOHN
Telephone conversation # 13141, sound recording, LBJ and RALPH YARBOROUGH, 6/25/1968, 5:35PM (Item)
  • APPOINTMENT OF HOMER THORNBERRY AS SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE; THORNBERRY'S BACKGROUND, EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE; CHARGE OF CRONYISM; YARBOROUGH ENDORSES THORNBERRY; YARBOROUGH DISCUSSES APPOINTMENT FOR HARRY WEAR?; JAMES ALLRED'S SUPPORT FOR LBJ
Telephone conversation # 13143, sound recording, LBJ and LEON JAWORSKI, 6/25/1968, 5:56PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS HE WILL APPOINT ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE AND HOMER THORNBERRY AS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT, DISCUSSES THORNBERRY'S JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE, ASKS JAWORSKI TO SUPPORT THORNBERRY'S APPOINTMENT; JAWORSKI SAYS HE WILL DO SO
Telephone conversation # 13149, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 6/28/1968, 8:53AM (Item)
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF OPPOSITION TO SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS OF ABE FORTAS, HOMER THORNBERRY AND LBJ'S MEETING WITH TIME MAGAZINE REPORTER LAST NIGHT; LBJ'S PERSONAL ASSOCIATION WITH FORTAS; PRESS STORIES ON CHARGES OF CRONYISM IN NOMINATIONS
Telephone conversation # 11637, sound recording, LBJ and EDMUND MUSKIE, 3/13/1967, 6:48PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF APPOINTMENT FOR JOHN REED; CANDIDATES FOR APPOINTMENT OF REPUBLICAN AS ASSISTANT TO FARRIS BRYANT; PRESS STORY ON SENATE DEMOCRATS' CONCERNS ABOUT ASSOCIATION WITH LBJ; MAINE POLITICS; LBJ REMINISCES ABOUT 1957 CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
Telephone conversation # 13148, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 6/28/1968, 8:53AM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF OPPOSITION TO SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS OF ABE FORTAS, HOMER THORNBERRY; NEED FOR SENATE LEADERSHIP ON NOMINATIONS; SENATE COMMITTEE VOTE YESTERDAY ON GUN CONTROL BILL; HEAD COUNT ON NOMINATIONS; LBJ'S PAST ASSOCIATION WITH FORTAS
Telephone conversation # 13723, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 11/8/1968, 9:23PM (Item)
  • NIXON SAYS HE TALKED WITH HHH TODAY, THANKS LBJ FOR CONGRATULATIONS; LBJ DISCUSSES REPORTS THAT NIXON'S ASSOCIATES ARE URGING SOUTH VIETNAM NOT TO JOIN PEACE TALKS UNTIL AFTER NIXON TAKES OFFICE, ASKS NIXON TO CONTACT BUI DIEM; LBJ PRAISES RICHARD
Telephone conversation # 13138, transcript, LBJ and EDWIN WEISL, SR., 6/25/1968, 1:05PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF UNNAMED PERSON'S VIEWS ON CHANCES OF SENATE APPROVAL OF HOMER THORNBERRY, CYRUS VANCE OR HENRY "JOE" FOWLER AS SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE; LBJ TELLS WEISL HE IS MEETING WITH AVERELL HARRIMAN ABOUT PARIS PEACE TALKS
Telephone conversation # 13146, transcript, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 6/26/1968, 11:10AM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS ABA HAS FOUND ABE FORTAS, HOMER THORNBERRY HIGHLY ACCEPTABLE APPOINTEES AS SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, ASKS DIRKSEN TO TALK WITH ROMAN HRUSKA ABOUT APPOINTMENTS; VIEWS OF RICHARD RUSSELL, JAMES EASTLAND ON FORTAS
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/22/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • Office work; Lady Bird asks for letters of association that set up other presidential libraries; Lady Bird, LBJ, et al discuss appointments; Lady Bird to doctor; Lady Bird & Lynda Johnson preview "The White House Story" documentary; Lady Bird
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/1/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • LBJ gives speech to National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago; LBJ Library meeting; responses to LBJ's March 31 speech; Lady Bird visits with her daughters; second LBJ Library meeting; office work; swearing-in ceremony of Angie Biddle Duke
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/17/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • and our little doings h e r e below. R a th e r detach ed and d i s - associated. I can n o t m e a s u r e the s u ffe rin g he h as gone th ro u g h , but fo r m e i t ' s b e e n o n e of t h e t w o o r t h r e e m o s t p a i n f u l t h i n g s
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/26/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird to Portland, Oregon, for last trip & speech; LBJ nominates Abe Fortas as Chief Justice & Homer Thornberry for Associate Justice of Supreme Court; Lady Bird gives speech to American Institute of Architects; Orville Freeman is in panel