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Telephone conversation # 13809, sound recording, LBJ and WILBUR MILLS, 12/16/1968, 10:00AM (Item)
  • LBJ READS DRAFT LETTER TO LEADERS OF HOUSE AND SENATE CONVEYING TREASURY'S PROPOSED TAX REFORMS, SAYS NEXT ADMINISTRATION SHOULD ENACT REFORMS; REPORT OF PAUL DOUGLAS' COMMISSION; RICHARD NIXON'S CHANGING VIEWS ON SURTAX EXTENSION; 1970 FEDERAL
Telephone conversation # 13834, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 12/31/1968, 3:02PM (Item)
  • LBJ'S HEALTH; LBJ'S MEETING WITH DAVID KENNEDY ON NIXON ADMINISTRATION'S VIEWS ON TAX SURCHARGE, TAX REFORM; DOD RECORD ON HOUSING DISCRIMINATION NEAR MILITARY BASES; RICHARD RUSSELL'S STATEMENT ON USS PUEBLO; PRESS CRITICISM OF NAVY; DOD
Telephone conversation # 13541, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 10/14/1968, 11:15PM (Item)
  • STATUS OF MUSIC CORPORATION OF AMERICA MERGER WITH WESTINGHOUSE; LBJ SAYS NIXON RECOMMENDS LBJ APPOINT THOMAS DEWEY AS SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE; JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS; CLARK'S FUTURE; STROM THURMOND'S PROPOSED DEAL ON BAREFOOT SANDERS' NOMINATION
Telephone conversation # 13543, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/15/1968, 10:32AM (Item)
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Telephone conversation # 13544, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/15/1968, 10:32AM (Item)
  • LBJ CONTINUES READING TRANSCRIPT OF 9/30/68 CONVERSATION WITH NIXON ABOUT US CONDITIONS FOR VIETNAM BOMBING HALT AT PARIS PEACE TALKS; RUSK RECOMMENDS SEPARATE BRIEFINGS FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS
Telephone conversation # 13559, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/17/1968, 4:47PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK'S VIEWS ON PROGRESS AT PARIS PEACE TALKS; PRESS LEAKS; ALLEGED US DIFFERENCES WITH SAIGON; FUNDS FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT WEIZMANN INSTITUTE IN ISRAEL; NIXON'S POSITION ON VIETNAM; ABBA EBAN VISIT; SALE OF PHANTOM JETS TO ISRAEL
Telephone conversation # 13587, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 10/23/1968, 6:02PM (Item)
  • DIRKSEN REPORTS THAT RICHARD NIXON IS CONCERNED THAT LBJ WILL MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT ON VIETNAM; LBJ SAYS HE IS TRYING TO GET PEACE, WILL INITIATE CONSULTATION WITH CANDIDATES WHEN ANYTHING HAPPENS THAT WARRANTS IT, DISCUSSES PROBLEMS CAUSED BY PRESS
Folder, "November 26, 1968 10:21-11:11 Foreign Policy Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • member of the JCS behind this plan now. We will lose two men on the JCS next spring -- Wheeler and McConnell. If we wait for Nixon they will put off those matters they can put off. It could be a year before a Nixon team is ready to do this. If we get
Telephone conversation # 7024, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 3/6/1965, 11:25AM (Item)
  • PROTESTANT OBJECTIONS TO PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AID IN EDUCATION BILL; EDITH GREEN; CHARLES GOODELL; LBJ DISCUSSES HHH'S KEY ROLE AS LIAISON WITH CONGRESS; JOHN NANCE GARNER, HENRY WALLACE, LBJ, NIXON AS VP; IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION, MEDICARE, APPALACHIA
Telephone conversation # 11017, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 11/6/1966, 7:10PM (Item)
  • RUSK'S APPEARANCE TOMORROW ON TODAY SHOW; RESPONSE TO RICHARD NIXON'S CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; ROBERT MCNAMARA'S STATEMENT YESTERDAY; ARTHUR GOLDBERG TRIP TO VIETNAM; UN VOTE ON CHINESE REPRESENTATION; DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH HUNGARY, BULGARIA
Telephone conversation # 13702, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/1/1968, 11:38AM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF LBJ'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF BOMBING HALT, CANDIDATES' REACTIONS; CREIGHTON ABRAMS' STRATEGY; SOUTH VIETNAM'S RELUCTANCE TO JOIN PEACE TALKS FOLLOWING CONTACTS WITH NIXON'S ASSOCIATES; NGUYEN VAN THIEU'S DEMANDS; STATUS OF PRESIDENTIAL
Telephone conversation # 13703, sound recording, LBJ and RALPH YARBOROUGH, 11/1/1968, 1:09PM (Item)
  • YARBOROUGH PRAISES LBJ'S SPEECH ON BOMBING HALT, SAYS COKE STEVENSON, ALLAN SHIVERS WILL ATTEND RICHARD NIXON'S RALLY IN TEXAS, ASKS LBJ TO GET PRICE DANIEL TO ATTEND HHH'S HOUSTON RALLY; LBJ REVIEWS HISTORY OF VIETNAM PEACE TALKS, HIS DECISION
Telephone conversation # 13742, sound recording, LBJ and WILBUR MILLS, 11/16/1968, 12:01PM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, 1970 FEDERAL BUDGET, NIXON'S OPPOSITION TO SURTAX EXTENSION; MILLS' SPEECH ON BUDGET; LBJ SAYS HE FAVORS SURTAX, OUTLINES HOW HE WOULD ALLOCATE FUNDS; CONCERNS ABOUT MANDATED PAY INCREASES; FUNDS FOR SAFE
Telephone conversation # 13743, sound recording, LBJ and WILBUR MILLS, 11/16/1968, 12:01PM (Item)
  • 1970 FEDERAL BUDGET; NIXON'S OPPOSITION TO SURTAX EXTENSION; LBJ SAYS HE WILL NOT PROPOSE TAX REFORM, SAYS AGENCIES MUST RESTRICT SPENDING, ABSORB MANDATED INCREASES; POSSIBLE DROP IN VIETNAM SPENDING; ENEMY LOSSES SINCE TET OFFENSIVE; PARIS PEACE
Telephone conversation # 13745, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE MAHON, 11/16/1968, 12:30PM (Item)
  • 1970 FEDERAL BUDGET, DEFICIT; NIXON'S OPPOSITION TO SURTAX EXTENSION; LBJ SAYS HE WANTS TO SUBMIT BUDGET AT 1969 SPENDING LEVELS AND ASK CONGRESS TO SPREAD OUT MANDATED INCREASES; EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS; FUNDING FOR SAFE STREETS, FORMER
Telephone conversation # 13770, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 11/24/1968, 9:36AM (Item)
  • LBJ JOKES ABOUT COST OF SENDING FLOWERS, WIRE TO DIRKSEN, DISCUSSES NEED FOR SENATE VOTE ON NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY; EFFECT OF US RATIFICATION ON GERMANY, ITALY, INDIA, ISRAEL; DIRKSEN'S ROLE AS LIAISON WITH RICHARD NIXON ON VIETNAM; EUROPEAN
Telephone conversation # 13833, sound recording, LBJ and WILBUR MILLS, 12/31/1968, 7:46AM (Item)
  • FEDERAL BUDGET; PROJECTED SAVINGS IN VIETNAM; CHALLENGES TO HOUSE, SENATE LEADERSHIP; LBJ READS LETTER TO CONGRESS SUBMITTING TREASURY DEPT STUDY OF TAX REFORMS BUT SAYS HE IS NOT RECOMMENDING CHANGES BECAUSE THEY SHOULD BE LEFT TO NIXON
Telephone conversation # 12810, sound recording and transcript, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 3/13/1968, 5:00PM (Item)
  • with Rockefeller, and Nixon. and McCarthy, and Kennedy and Reagan if you wanted him, but put enough of your fellows on it to control it••• a committee made up of political leaders throughout the country to advise me and analyze and review the entire Asian situation
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • Nixon turned loose on them? · President Nixon did more damage to the North Vietnamese than we would have LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • the Vietnam War changed under Richard Nixon's leadership; fear of Chinese and Soviet involvement in Vietnam; comparing LBJ's and Bill Clinton's sources of information; the relationships between presidents and former presidents; LBJ's great capacity for taking
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/31/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • . He's a solid, gray-haired man, important looking, and affable enough, almost exactly like he ought to somehow for the Nixon cabinet. As we drove back to the house he said to me, "You know, my wife always speaks mighty highly of you. were a good f ir
Folder, "March 5, 1968 - 1:14 p.m. Tuesday luncheon meeting - Rusk, Clifford, Wheeler, Helms, Taylor, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • Hainoi and Haiphong about six months of last year. He (Senator Fulbright) doesn't seem to give us credit for that. THE PRESIDENT: Well, Nixon has taken note of it. He has accused us of gradualism and stated that we would have ended the war sooner had
Telephone conversation # 12816, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 3/14/1968, 5:57PM (Item)
  • thing in 1936 and on the farm question, even in the middle of the campaign; He sent for the people • : . P: Oh, we do that all the time.' · I went to Eisenhower the other day across the country. We will be fully briefing Nixon and the others from
Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • had recommended Rusk and McNamara to Kennedy. McKelway said he asked Lovett who he voted for and Lovett replied "I voted for Nixon, but it was to keep Schlesinger out of Washington. 11 McKelway also told the President that the last time he
Folder, "September 17, 1968 - Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors ," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • IDA? Secretary Rusk: We will get that tomorrow. Hickenlooper is sour on Nixon telling them what to do. would get credit for the NPT if we got it signed. Humphrey PARIS TALKS Secretary Rusk: Averell and I have talked. Attacks on cities, willingness
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/14/1969 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • to speech; Lady Bird receives standing ovation; Lyn becomes rambunctious; Diplomatic Corps, Supreme Court & Cabinet arrive; LBJ receives standing ovation; in speech, LBJ asks Congress to help Richard Nixon; to Speaker's office; watch reviews & buffet
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/20/1969 (Monday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird takes last stroll through rooms; Ashton Gonella's office & Luci Nugent's room are disaster; LBJ is giving Medals of Freedom to Mary Lasker, Laurance Rockefeller, et al; Johnsons greet Nixons and they ride down Pennsylvania Avenue