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Telephone conversation # 13510, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 10/2/1968, 10:46AM (Item)
  • "LOCAL CALL TO SENATOR EVERETT DIRKSEN RE PENDING APPOINTMENT-BUSH BROOK"; "FIRST PART OF B"; "TRANSCRIBED-YB"
  • LBJ READS MEMO CRITICIZING APPOINTMENT OF ALBERT BUSHONG BROOKE TO FPC, SUGGESTS WAYS TO GET HIM CONFIRMED; RALPH YARBOROUGH'S OPPOSITION TO UNESCO APPOINTMENT FOR HEW UNDERSECRETARY JAMES MCCROCKLIN; CRITICISM OF MCCROCKLIN'S DISSERTATIONS AND HIS
Telephone conversation # 8819, sound recording, LBJ and MARVIN WATSON, 9/2/1965, 5:40PM (Item)
  • WATSON REPORTS ON STATUS OF WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE DISCHARGE PETITION; DISCUSSION OF EFFORTS TO GET JACK BROOKS, MARTHA GRIFFITHS, HALE BOGGS, LINDLEY BECKWORTH, LEONOR SULLIVAN, JOHN DINGELL TO SIGN PETITION
Telephone conversation # 13118, transcript, LBJ and RALPH YARBOROUGH, 6/18/1968, 3:59PM (Item)
  • thinks the Senior Judge can appoint him. Jack Brooks said he never agreed to it. A - I don't want to get any fight started. They told me there is a fellow they are considering -- somebody who is head of the clerks who is a good man -- a Yarborough man
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/16/1966 (Sunday) (Item)
  • LBJ and Lady Bird go to National City Christian Church; both watch Hubert Humphrey on TV; LBJ and Jack Brooks discuss redistricting; Lady Bird interviews for chef position; Lady Bird bowls with Liz Carpenter; Johnsons have dinner with several