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Telephone conversation # 11409, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 1/25/1967, 8:22PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS BOBBY BAKER CASE WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED; LBJ READS NEW HARRIS POLL SHOWING DROP IN RFK'S POPULARITY FOLLOWING WILLIAM MANCHESTER BOOK CONTROVERSY; LBJ'S STANDINGS IN POLL; RFK'S UPCOMING TRIP TO EUROPE
Telephone conversation # 11023, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 11/9/1966, 1:01PM (Item)
  • MINNESOTA ELECTION; LBJ'S VIEWS ON DISAPPOINTING ELECTION RESULTS; PUBLIC RESPONSE TO ACTIONS OF LIBERALS, LABOR, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS; WYOMING, IDAHO, MAINE ELECTIONS; KARL ROLVAAG; LBJ READS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR ARTICLE; PROGRESSIVE
Telephone conversation # 13324, sound recording, JIM JONES? and HORACE BUSBY, 8/27/1968, time unknown (Item)
  • BUSBY READS DRAFT SPEECH FOR LBJ TO DELIVER AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, RECOMMENDS LBJ DELIVER THE SPEECH TONIGHT
Reading copy of statement about meeting with George Wallace, 3/13/65 (Item)
  • Reading copy of statement about meeting with George Wallace, 3/13/65
Telephone conversation # 61, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 11/26/1963, 1:11PM (Item)
  • LBJ IS APPARENTLY READING DRAFT OF HIS SPEECH TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, DISCUSSES NEED TO PASS TAX AND CIVIL RIGHTS BILLS; LBJ'S UPCOMING MEETING WITH LATIN AMERICAN LEADERS; WALTER REUTHER'S AND HHH'S MEETING WITH SCANDINAVIAN LEADERS
Telephone conversation # 381, sound recording, LBJ and ALLEN ELLENDER, 12/10/1963, 12:45PM (Item)
  • ELLENDER SAYS SENATE WILL NOT PASS COOLEY COTTON BILL; LBJ READS B.O.B. MEMO SUPPORTING TALMADGE BILL; ELLENDER DISCUSSES OPPOSITION TO TALMADGE BILL, SAYS SENATE WILL NOT PASS COTTON BILL BEFORE CIVIL RIGHTS, TAX BILLS; NEED TO PASS FOREIGN AID
Telephone conversation # 3831, sound recording, JACK VALENTI and ROBERT KENNEDY, 6/23/1964, 3:11PM (Item)
  • RFK RECOMMENDS THAT LBJ PUBLICLY EXPRESS PERSONAL CONCERN ABOUT MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS, JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER, POSSIBLY MEET WITH THEIR FAMILIES, TALK WITH GOV. PAUL JOHNSON; VALENTI READS LBJ'S PRESS CONFERENCE
Telephone conversation # 3832, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 6/23/1964, 3:35PM (Item)
  • STATUS OF SEARCH FOR JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER; KATZENBACH'S ADVICE ON WHETHER LBJ OR LEE WHITE SHOULD MEET WITH THEIR PARENTS; WILLIAM RYAN, OGDEN REID; LBJ READS PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT; RFK'S, KATZENBACH'S MEETING
Telephone conversation # 4292, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 7/21/1964, 12:40PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS HIS PROPOSED STATEMENT ON NYC RIOTS, ASKS HOOVER TO CONTACT NYC OFFICIALS ABOUT NEED FOR FBI TO INVESTIGATE THERE AS IN SOUTH; HOOVER OFFERS TO GO TO NYC; NEED TO PROVIDE FEDERAL PROTECTION FOR MLK AT UPCOMING SPEECH IN GREENWOOD
Telephone conversation # 5641, sound recording, LBJ and EUGENE PULLIAM, 9/23/1964, 12:06PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT WOOL IMPORTS; PULLIAM READS REMARKS FOR LBJ'S UPCOMING INDIANAPOLIS TRIP, SUGGESTS LBJ NOT DISCUSS CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM; ROY ELSON'S SENATE CAMPAIGN; DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS IN ARIZONA, INDIANA; CONNALLY'S UPCOMING ARIZONA
Telephone conversation # 10011, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 4/3/1966, 9:22AM (Item)
  • WIRTZ READS PROPOSED WH STATEMENT AND CABLE FROM LBJ ON ENDING BLFE UNION RAILROAD STRIKE, REVIEWS COURT ACTION; LBJ QUESTIONS NEED FOR PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTION; COMPARISON WITH NYC TRANSIT STRIKE; EFFECT OF STRIKE ON VIETNAM; JOHN MCCORMACK'S
Telephone conversation # 12819, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY "JOE" FOWLER, 3/17/1968, 3:40PM (Item)
  • FOWLER READS COMMUNIQUE ON GOLD CRISIS FROM GOVS. OF EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANKS; MARTIN REPORTS ON UK ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, CLOSURE OF LONDON GOLD MARKET; LBJ ASKS MARTIN ABOUT UK BUDGET; FOWLER, LBJ DISCUSS CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON UNNAMED MATTER (TAX BILL?)
Memo, White to the President, 11/29/63 (Item)
  • Reading Room.
Folder, "April 5, 1968 - 11:10 a.m. President's meeting with Negro leaders after death of Martin Luther King," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)
  • for your support as responsible Negro leaders. (The President read Associated Press item on Stokely Carmichal.) UNDER SECRETARY KATZENBACH: The loss of this leader is so tragic. We must see what we can do to further Dr. King's objective. SECRETARY CLIFFORD
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/16/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • to know, as a fem a le p a rticip a n t in a p ictu re s to r y w as what to w e a r . I d ecid ed on m y h ea v y w alking sh o e s from the Grand Tetons and p o ss ib ly som e h ea v y u n d erw ea r. And m y b eig e pants s u it . He sp read out m aps
Folder, "February 18, 1968 - 8 a.m. President's breakfast with boys on the Aircraft Carrier Constellation," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • it and as you go along the harder it gets to climb the hill; you will have the neurotics who will drop out. You read about it every day in our country because we have a free press. They have them too. The young have to defend the country for us. It was left
Folder, "Black Liberation Front - FBI Reports, March 22, 1966," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 13 (Item)
  • a magazine of persons carrying a banner which pj_cture read 11Black Liberation Front 11 and later heard it mentioned 11 11 that it was a 1ark and that the organization actually did. not exist. FREEMAN·mentioned. that she is the wife of MAX STANFORD
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/20/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • e s and L iz had a r r iv e d . B e s s and the c h ild r e n and S im o n e. E verybod y w as read y, And so I w en t b a c k to the R a n ch , b o a r d e d the c o n v a ir fu ll of film c r e w s , s te w a r d s , a n d our lit t le g ro u p
  • .; Lady Bird reads headlines, "50,000 March in Support of the Poor"
Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1963," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • of them referred to SBA to
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/14/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Johnsons to church with the Hubert Humphreys; party for Bill White; Lady Bird reads "The Ordways;" LBJ meets with House and Senate leaders about Selma and voting rights; dinner with the Valentis and Harry McPherson
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/1/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Visit by Mayor Robert Wagner and sons; LBJ & Lady Bird to memorial service for Senator Clair Engle; lunch; Lady Bird reads "When the Cheering Stopped"; dinner with Anthony Celebrezze, Willard Wirtz, Dick Goodwin and their wives; Robert Wagner
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/20/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Senator Edward Kennedy's plane crash; Lady Bird calls Rose Kennedy, Birch Bayhs and Mrs. Edward Kennedy; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson about security problem on her flight; office work; Lady Bird reads; walk around White House
Folder, "Civil Rights – Alabama," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • ON OR BEFORE D THE PREPARE REPLY FOR SIGNATURE OF D READ AND DESTROY D RECOMMENDATION D SEE ME D SIGNATURE D YOUR COMMENT D YOUR INFORMATION D REMARKS Here is the brief report on the Birmingham situation which you requested . It was gathered f rom two of our
Folder, "Civil Rights – Miscellaneous 1966," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • APPROVAL D AS REQUESTED D CONCURRENCE D CORRECTION D FILING D FULL REPORT OR ACKNOWLD ANSWER EDGE ON OR BEFORE D D READ AND DESTROY D RECOMMENDATION D SEE ME D SIGNATURE D YOUR COMMENT D YOUR INFORMATION D D HANDLE DIRECT D IMMEDIATE ACTION D INITIAlS D
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/21/1969 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • LBJ & Lady Bird have coffee; Lady Bird reads while LBJ telephones & watches television; Johnsons go for walk; tourists on Ranch Road 1; group of African-American children from St. Paul's School, 500 miles away, wait to sing for the Johnsons; LBJ
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/11/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ecid ed the s im p le s t thing to do w ould be to p ile in c a r s and ju st take the rou te. On the w ay I saw r e a lly v e r y litt le ev id en ce of the burning and looting w e had read so m u ch about, although w e w e r e going through a p
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/13/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird flies back to D.C. & she is driven to the USS Sequoia; LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers & have breakfast; Johnsons watch Clark Clifford & Maxwell Taylor on tv; Johnsons watch Martin Luther King on tv; lunch; Luci Nugent meets boat
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/12/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • ; late lunch; LBJ & Lady Bird take naps and read newspapers; LBJ goes for walk with Yuki and greets people outside the fence; Johnsons play bridge; helicopter back to the White House
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/15/1965 (Monday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird discusses rugs for White House; Voting Rights Message; seating arrangements at Capitol for speech; LBJ's experiences at Cotulla; Lady Bird reads Cotulla part of speech; response from Democrats vs. Republicans; back to White House to visit
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/16/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • ; Lady Bird mentions many people at the fundraiser for the JFK Library; program of Frederick March reading JFK's favorite poetry; LBJ & Bobby Kennedy discuss Civil Rights Bill; Lynda Johnson is in Hawaii
Folder, "Communism and the Negro Movement – A Current Analysis," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Box 63a (Item)
  • the publication of an article which would carry King as the author. Rustin told a group of associates that the article was, in fact, written by Jones, and King did not even read the article before giving the "Post" permission to go ahead with its publication
Oral history transcript, W. Stanley Kruger, interview S-I, 8/13/1968 (Item)