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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 # 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 # 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 # 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 # 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 # 12822, transcript, MARVIN WATSON and RICHARD DALEY, 3/18/1968, 5:15PM (Item)
  • been reading about this coznmission from Kennedy. about it. We've started reading DALEY: Oh, yes. WATSON: I want to tell you what we know about it. Mel Elfrin, of Newsweek magazine, tells us he got his original tip from a freind of Ted