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  • of such a thing when it first came up. It was sort of a glancing conversation. B: Was this before the convention? K: This was in Los Angeles, but before anything materialized because people were just beginning to mention it, only one or two people because
  • , ultimately was a strong supporter of Mr. Johnson in 1960. F: Did you go to Los Angeles? W: No. Or had you left the paper by then? Because I came to work for the Times in May of 1960. The conven- tions were in July, as I recall. F: Yes. W: And I
  • against civil rights and he was a true representative in voting against every bill. he became a United States Senator, the situation changed. And then when Texas was about half and half at that time on civil rights, so his votes were divided a lot
  • precautions, as I understand them, are almost unbelievable. V: Well, I think we agreed before--you just can't afford another Oswald-Ruby incident. B: Incidentally, has your office been involved in Los Angeles in the aftermath LBJ Presidential Library
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
  • •• the Bureau and the National Archives of your decl•loa concermna the mau.r. I recommend that, for the time 'beblg at leaat, the material not H mau puJ:»llc. In adclltioa, you may wi•h to con■lder the advl■a• 1IUlt'fof reqv.eat1n1 the FBI to make further
  • thesis. That \'1as turned in in April, and that was about it for my senior year, really, except waiting around to take final orals. I had become friendly with Bill. At that time Bill had left the Vice President's staff, Mr. Johnson's staff, and gone
  • for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
  • ticket; LBJ becoming Minority Leader in 1953 and Majority Leader in 1954; time following LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; LBJ vs. Price Daniel on civil rights; Majority Leader LBJ’s attempts to balance his duties to Texas and the nation; LBJ’s talents as Majority
  • a little wiot:her YORK• DETROIT• out here. something. showdown or citize.n all LOS if or might Jmd I t.h-e :main reaso11 that more casua_l atmosphere '',/ta.y. At."'.1.d I hope it's NEW counsel it that we were ganging up on you
  • . 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any
  • in touch with me to do some of the public relations work of his campaign. He was not elected, but we got along well; and after- wards he started coming to see me from time to time and said that he had told Senator Johnson of the work I had done in his
  • - In the 1960 Convention, the late President designated me to handle his campaign in the Convention in Los Angeles and that meant, of course, on the floor of the House with Senator Ribicoff , because of my knowledge of parliamentary law, I assumed, and the many
  • , and being Bobby Baker we were very concerned . M: Some justice, no doubt. O: Yes. M: The events at Los Angel es that year had been reported and over­ reported, and I certainly have no intentfon of havi ng you repeat th i ngs that are public record
  • to be the correct we are working on. name or not remains to bP. seen. MR. ST~RN: Were the optimistic Frijay of catching the assassin things off or did you really predictions Just an attempt then of to cool have someone in mind at that time? ""GENFRAL
  • w a s lo o k in g up a n d s e e i n g M a r y G r i f f i t h l e a n i n g o u t o f a w in do w w a v in g a t m e . M ary f o r m a n y y e a r s h a d b e e n i n c h a r g e o f a l t e r i n g th e c l o t h e s w h ic h I p u rc h a s e d
  • ith the w e lc o m in g s p e e c h r I h a d p la n n e d . She h a d ty p e d a n o p en in g s e n te n c e an d I w r o te o u t in lo n g h a n d ,^ ^ y fe e lin g s on w h at I sh o u ld sa y . A ^ ^ : h e n i t w a s tim e to g e t in th e c
  • ; Lady Bird, staff & friends discuss press visit & riots in Washington; Lady Bird talks on phone with Lynda Robb; Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter work on speeches & talk to John Connally about Hemis Fair visit; the Secret Service change Lady Bird's arrival time
  • here that ,.,as at that time Powell, Rauhut, Maginnis, Reavlcy, and Lochridge. After having been in that law Eirm practicing law for some two-and-a-half years, when January 1963 carne around Governor Connally was looking for what he referred to as new
  • : ~- IV -- 2 I wasn't present to hear it, and all I would have heard would have been how many times--hearsay I don't know--but I know Lynda, and I knew that she could say harsh things. But at any rate, that apparently was the background of the early
  • , as you said, you became an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Justice Department. P: The first time I met Mr. Johnson is partially a further answer to your question. After I came into the Department of Justice, President Kennedy had a tradition
  • -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
  • : Majored in economics, M.A. in 1950, Ph.D. much later, ten years later at the University of f·iaryldlld, gotten part-time while vwrk-ing at the Council of Economic Advisers. M: And your Ph.D. also in economics? S: In economics, risht. I spent rt;ost
  • , but-T: By recollection is about three ,veeks. It could have been four, but roughly three '-lecks. F: So there's a lot of time to whittle and hone. T: That's right. And you'll recall that, at least the aftermath accounts indicate they uere r
  • . Midway through what thing? A. Through the beginning of the harassment until that time when I -- for the want of a better description -- was seduced by the Page -3. Congressman Peter W. Rodino Justice Department, you know, if I could be seduced
  • "FRIDAY"; "#5"; "TRANSCRIBED"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; MARIE FEHMER IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993
  • Telephone conversation # 156, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 11/29/1963, time unknown
  • "8/29 MJDR/PRES/MRS. J" AND "MJDR/FORTAS" WRITTEN ON ORIGINAL DICTABELT; WH OPS LOGS LISTS CALL FROM ROBERTS TO FORTAS AT 10:46A EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME; THIS BELT WAS RECORDED AT WH; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • Telephone conversation # 10653, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, time unknown
  • MOYERS ASKS ABOUT TRANSITION RECORDS SO HE CAN PREPARE FOR QUESTIONS RAISED BY WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK; DAILY DIARY; TELEPHONE RECORDINGS; STAFF RECOLLECTIONS; WARREN COMMISSION DEPOSITIONS; ROBERTS DISCUSSES DIFFICULTY OF FINDING TIME TO RECORD
  • Telephone conversation # 10665, sound recording, JUANITA ROBERTS and BILL MOYERS, 8/29/1966, time unknown
  • Reference No. 13115 August 13, 2008 Processing Note Transcript only ofthis conversation; there is no recording. DATE: 617/68 TIME: 9:35 PM CALLER: Nelson Rockefeller Pages ofTranscript: 2 pages Barbara Cline Archivist ·13115
  • ROCKEFELLER ASKS TO MEET WITH LBJ; LBJ SAYS HE CAN MEET WITH ROCKEFELLER AT ANY TIME, TELLS HIM TO CONTACT JIM JONES TO ARRANGE MEETING
  • "(TRANSCRIBED)"; BOGGS ON HOLD 5:15; OFFICE SECRETARY APOLOGIZES TO BOGGS SEVERAL TIMES; INAUDIBLE OFFICE CONVERSATION AT TIMES WHILE BOGGS ON HOLD; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993
  • PREVIOUSLY OPENED ON TAPE K64.01, PNO 11; SLIP LISTS TIME AS 9:00P; DAILY DIARY LISTS TIME AS 8:45P
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH C. P. SULZBERGER AT TIME OF CALL
  • BUNDY REPORTS THAT THE CHIEF JUSTICE IS ON VACATION, ASKS ABOUT MEMO ON "TIMING" (OF WARREN COMMISSION REPORT?); LBJ TELLS BUNDY THAT JACK VALENTI SHOULD HAVE RETURNED IT TO HIM THIS MORNING
  • "LBJ RANCH"; DAILY DIARY INDICATES THAT LBJ IS AT FRANK ERWIN HOME IN AUSTIN AT TIME OF CALL; POOR SOUND QUALITY; VALENTI IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL, SPEAKS BRIEFLY WITH COOK
  • "ALL SUMMARIZED YB"; "TIME ?"; TIME FROM WH OPS LOGS; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
  • Telephone conversation # 29, sound recording, BILL MOYERS and EUGENE ROSTOW, 11/24/1963, time unknown
  • CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING; OFFICE CONVERSATION PRECEDES CALL; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH GEORGE SMATHERS AT TIME OF CALL; JOHN MCCORMACK IS MEETING WITH CARL ALBERT
  • HOUSE ADJOURNMENT WITHOUT VETERANS BILL APPROVAL; LBJ TELLS ALBERT HE APPROVED OKLAHOMA WATER POLLUTION LAB; NBC POLL ON REPUBLICAN STRENGTH IN OKLAHOMA; TIME-LIFE ENDORSEMENT; PROTECTION OF LBJ; APPALACHIAN REGIONAL COMMISSION; LBJ'S ROBERT E. LEE
  • "8/29 MJDR/PRES/MRS. J" AND "MJDR/FORTAS" WRITTEN ON ORIGINAL DICTABELT; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AND JUANITA ROBERTS IS MEETING WITH DOROTHY TERRITO AT WH AT TIME OF CALL; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; THIS BELT RECORDED AT WH; POOR SOUND
  • SLIP INCORRECTLY LISTS DATE, TIME AS 2/18/1967, 10:39A; DATE, TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K67.02, PNO 2; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; LBJ IS MEETING WITH MARVIN WATSON DURING CALL; CONTINUES ON NEXT 2
  • "WASHINGTON"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; POOR SOUND; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; FORTAS IS MEETING WITH "BILL" (MOYERS?) AT TIME OF CALL AND SPEAKS WITH HIM AT TIMES; CONTINUES ON NEXT 2 RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED ON TAPE
  • "WASHINGTON"; POOR SOUND QUALITY; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; FORTAS IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH "BILL" (MOYERS?) AT TIME OF CALL; CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 6
  • JACQUELINE KENNEDY'S LAWSUIT CONCERNING WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BOOK ON JFK ASSASSINATION; EFFECT OF BOOK ON PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF LBJ; SYMPATHETIC PORTRAYAL OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY, RFK IN BOOK; LBJ'S RECOLLECTIONS OF TIMING OF HIS SWEARING-IN IN DALLAS
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 24, 1969 F: Let me make a brief introductory statement. This is an interview with Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, in the Sheraton-Crest Inn in Austin, Texas, on November 25, 1969
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 President Kennedy answered, "I just do not think this is the time; I do not see anything in this coming session of Congress." It, needless to say, was an occasion of disappointment to Mr. Wilkins