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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/26/1966 (Saturday) (Item)

Ranch guests include Senators Mike Mansfield & Everett Dirksen and Congressman George Mahon; guests leave; Lady Bird goes to Johnson City to LBJ's Boyhood Home for restoration meeting; lunch; LBJ gives Lady Bird and Luci robes from Korea; Lady Bird

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/17/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

; Entertainment for dinner is Carol Channing in "Hello, Dolly!"; Carol Channing and Everett Dirksen have "same voice;" LBJ and Hubert Humphrey dance with Carol Channing; Lady Bird dances with Douglass Fairbanks, Jr.; Fairbanks speaks of President Franklin

Telephone conversation # 1840, sound recording, LBJ and OLIVER DOMPIERRE, 2/3/1964, 5:50PM (Item)

"SEN. DIRKSEN'S AIDE"
LBJ INQUIRES ABOUT DIRKSEN'S HEALTH; DIRKSEN IS IN THE HOSPITAL

Telephone conversation # 8317, sound recording, MCGEORGE BUNDY and TELEPHONE OPERATOR, 7/8/1965, time unknown (Item)

BUNDY ASKS TELEPHONE OPERATOR TO PLACE CALLS TO SENATORS FULBRIGHT, MANSFIELD, DIRKSEN, KUCHEL, AND HICKENLOOPER AND TELLS HER TO HAVE THEM HOLD FOR HIM

Telephone conversation # 10223, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 6/10/1966, 8:45AM (Item)

LBJ ASKS MANSFIELD TO SPEAK TO DIRKSEN ABOUT POSSIBLE MEETING AT WH ON VIETNAM THIS WEEKEND

Telephone conversation # 4921, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 8/14/1964, 12:02PM (Item)

LEGISLATIVE STRATEGY ON MEDICARE BILL; RIBICOFF AMENDMENT, KING-ANDERSON BILL, POSSIBLE COMPROMISE IN CONFERENCE; RULES COMMITTEE FAILURE TO VOTE ON APPALACHIA BILL; DIRKSEN LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT RIDER TO FOREIGN AID BILL; WILLIAM TUCK

Telephone conversation # 5416, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 9/2/1964, 10:58AM (Item)

MANSFIELD REPORTS ON VOTES FOR MEDICARE AMENDMENT TO SOCIAL SECURITY BILL, ASKS LBJ TO ASK CARL HAYDEN FOR HIS VOTE; LBJ TELLS MANSFIELD TO TALK WITH DIRKSEN ABOUT NEW CHARGES IN BOBBY BAKER CASE, POSSIBLE INVESTIGATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO GOLDWATER

Telephone conversation # 4868, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 8/10/1964, 5:36PM (Item)

O'BRIEN REPORTS ON EFFORT TO SCHEDULE SENATE VOTE ON POVERTY BILL TONIGHT; MANSFIELD'S NEGOTIATIONS WITH DIRKSEN, GOLDWATER; JOHN TOWER'S, JACOB JAVITS' WISH TO SPEAK ON BILL; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT ADVERSE EFFECT OF DELAY, PRESS STORIES ON ADAM

Telephone conversation # 4338, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 7/25/1964, 10:15AM (Item)

LBJ'S RECENT MEETING WITH GOLDWATER; LBJ'S EFFORTS TO GET PEACEFUL COMPLIANCE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS ACT; NYC RIOTS; JUSTICE DEPT, COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE; STATUS OF INVESTIGATIONS IN GEORGIA, MISSISSIPPI; DIRKSEN RESOLUTION ON ETHICS IN FEDERAL GOVT

Telephone conversation # 4345, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 7/27/1964, 12:35PM (Item)

DISCUSSION OF DIRKSEN'S PROPOSED JOINT CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION FOR PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON ETHICS IN FEDERAL GOVT AS OUTGROWTH OF BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION, MANSFIELD'S OPPOSITION TO RESOLUTION; CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN JUDICIARY; RFK'S SCHEDULE

Telephone conversation # 4794, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 8/7/1964, 12:40PM (Item)

DIRKSEN RIDER TO FOREIGN AID BILL POSTPONING COURT-ORDERED REAPPORTIONMENT OF STATE LEGISLATURES; HOUSE VOTE ON TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; GALLUP POLL ON 1964 ELECTION; REPUBLICAN BACKLASH; WHITE BACKLASH, PRESS STORIES ON LBJ'S UNPOPULARITY IN SOUTH

Telephone conversation # 7021, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/4/1965, 2:44PM (Item)

KATZENBACH REPORTS ON CONVERSATIONS WITH DIRKSEN, (JOSEPH?) CLARK, MANSFIELD ON RESPONSE TO CARL CURTIS' SPEECH ABOUT JUSTICE DEPT REPORT ON BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; DISCUSSION OF MAKING FBI REPORTS AVAILABLE TO SENATE RULES COMMITTEE; DON

Telephone conversation # 7047, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/10/1965, 9:00AM (Item)

SELMA, ALABAMA SITUATION; MLK, COURT ORDER TO ALLOW MARCH; GEORGE WALLACE; PICKETS AT JUSTICE DEPT, WH; ALTERNATIVE VOTING RIGHTS BILLS; POSSIBLE WH TALK WITH DIRKSEN, GERALD FORD, WILLIAM MCCULLOCH; LEGALITY OF USING FEDERAL TROOPS; MESSAGE

Telephone conversation # 7112, sound recording, LBJ and EUGENE MCCARTHY, 3/18/1965, 6:14PM (Item)

LBJ TELLS MCCARTHY HE HAS NOMINATED HENRY "JOE" FOWLER AS TREASURY SECRETARY; FOWLER, MCCARTHY DISCUSS POSSIBLE START OF CONFIRMATION HEARINGS TOMORROW; LBJ JOKES ABOUT FRANK IKARD'S SUPPORT OF FOWLER, DIRKSEN'S TESTIMONY IN WILLIAM STRATTON COURT

Telephone conversation # 7410, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 4/30/1965, 11:51AM (Item)

REAPPOINTMENT OF LAVERN DILWEG TO FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION; CRISIS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; CUBAN INFLUENCE; JUAN BOSCH; SANTO DOMINGO POLICE CALL FOR US HELP; OAS; MEXICO, VENEZUELA AS INTERMEDIARIES; PRESS LEAKS BY DIRKSEN, FULBRIGHT

Telephone conversation # 8587, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 8/21/1965, 4:35PM (Item)

, DIRKSEN

Telephone conversation # 9034, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCLELLAN, 10/22/1965, 5:10PM (Item)

MCCLELLAN TELLS LBJ KARL MUNDT HAS WITHDRAWN HIS OBJECTIONS TO UNNAMED BILL; MCCLELLAN IS LEAVING TOWN BUT HAS PUT HENRY "SCOOP" JACKSON IN CHARGE OF PASSING BILL; LBJ TELLS MCCLELLAN TO CALL MANSFIELD, DIRKSEN BEFORE LEAVING TO MAKE SURE BILL

Telephone conversation # 8355, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 7/19/1965, 8:28PM (Item)

LBJ TELLS GOLDBERG OF REACTION HE RECEIVED TO GOLDBERG AS CANDIDATE FOR UN AMBASSADOR; POSSIBLE ARAB REACTION TO JEWISH APPOINTMENT; ABE FORTAS' LETTER DECLINING SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT; GOLDBERG ASKS LBJ TO CALL DIRKSEN BEFORE ANNOUNCING

Telephone conversation # 10222, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 6/10/1966, 8:45AM (Item)

STATUS OF BILLS; WAYNE MORSE, AIRLINE LABOR DISPUTE; DIRKSEN'S CALL FOR BIPARTISAN VIETNAM MEETING; RICHARD HELMS AS REPLACEMENT FOR WILLIAM "RED" RABORN AS CIA DIRECTOR; CIA WATCHDOG COMMITTEE; MANSFIELD'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; BOMBING PROGRAM; PEACE

Telephone conversation # 9665, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 2/22/1966, 6:50PM (Item)

RUSK'S TALK WITH BOURKE HICKENLOOPER ABOUT SENATE EFFORTS TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; LBJ MIMICS FULBRIGHT, ASKS RUSK TO TALK TO DIRKSEN ABOUT FOREIGN AID BILL; POSSIBLE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE VOTE ON RESCINDING TONKIN GULF

Telephone conversation # 10744, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 9/10/1966, 4:42PM (Item)

AP STORY THAT GERALD FORD WILL INVESTIGATE CHARGE LBJ IS SELLING US DISTRICT COURT JUDGESHIP IN KANSAS; FRANK THEIS; LBJ'S VIEWS ON PRESIDENT'S CLUB, PREFERENCE THAT CONTRIBUTIONS BE MADE TO DNC; APPOINTMENT OF REPUBLICANS; DIRKSEN AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Telephone conversation # 10290, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN, 6/30/1966, 9:00AM (Item)

MARTIN'S UPCOMING SURGERY; LBJ'S SURGERY; MARTIN REPORTS ON TALKS WITH DIRKSEN, WILBUR MILLS ON US ECONOMY, TAXES; LBJ EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION WITH CONGRESSIONAL SPENDING, PRESS LEAKS BY MILLS; IMPOUNDING FEDERAL FUNDS; LBJ'S SPENDING CUTS; STOCK

Telephone conversation # 11639, sound recording, LBJ and RUSSELL LONG, 3/14/1967, 4:55PM (Item)

LBJ ASKS ABOUT BILL RESTORING INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT IN SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, DISCUSSES DIRKSEN'S VIEWS ON HEARINGS, ECONOMIC NEED FOR FAST ACTION OF BILL; WILBUR MILLS' REQUEST THAT SENATE HEARINGS WAIT UNTIL AFTER HOUSE PASSAGE; DEBT LIMIT BILL

Telephone conversation # 11519, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD FORD, 2/7/1967, 4:00PM (Item)

"RE: SAME SUBJECT AS ABOVE W/SEN. DIRKSEN"; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING; POOR SOUND QUALITY AT END OF RECORDING

Telephone conversation # 10818, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 9/21/1966, 12:40PM (Item)

LBJ SUGGESTS "ROSENTHAL" TALK ABOUT KATZENBACH'S FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE TO SHOW HIS QUALIFICATIONS TO BE UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE; LBJ SUGGESTS KATZENBACH MEET WITH DIRKSEN, SENATE LEADERS ABOUT RAMSEY CLARK'S APPOINTMENT AS ATTORNEY GENERAL

Telephone conversation # 7054, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/10/1965, 9:32PM? (Item)

CONDITION OF JAMES REEB; STATUS OF COURT ACTION IN SELMA, ALABAMA; MLK DECISION TO DEDICATE MARCH TO REEB; WH MEETING WITH RELIGIOUS LEADERS; HHH MEMO; POSSIBLE FEDERAL ACTION, ARREST OF AL LINGO, JIM CLARK; MANSFIELD, DIRKSEN AND VOTING RIGHTS BILL

Telephone conversation # 9683, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 2/28/1966, 8:53AM (Item)

SENATE CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; RFK'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; O'BRIEN'S COMPARISON OF RFK, JFK; POSITIVE REACTION TO O'BRIEN'S VIETNAM SPEECH; LBJ TELLS O'BRIEN TO TALK TO DIRKSEN, MANSFIELD ON PASSING VIETNAM BILLS, HANDLING WAYNE MORSE AMENDMENT

Telephone conversation # 11520, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD FORD, 2/7/1967, 4:00PM (Item)

"RE: SAME SUBJECT AS ABOVE W/SEN. DIRKSEN"; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER

Folder, "March 20, 1968 - 2:52 p.m. Meeting on fiscal policy - Fowler, Bundy, Martin, Okun, Freid, Zwick, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

of the monetary policy, the economy can take it. MEETlt~&NOTES copyRl..GHTED Ptthlicatio" ReCfuires 1'erm1ss1on of Copyright Holder~ W. Thoma1 Johnson THE PRESIDENT: We need to find out two or three things. got to have a tax bill. We've ( 1) See if Dirksen

Folder, "July 2, 1968 1:20-2:35 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

of you see as many of these Senators as you can. We do not want to cut out any of our muscle. We will cut out the fat. Senator Dirksen is very pro-German. He does not want to open another front by drawing down his forces in Europe. Secretary Clifford

Folder, "March 5, 1968 - 1:14 p.m. Tuesday luncheon meeting - Rusk, Clifford, Wheeler, Helms, Taylor, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

: That depends on the President's attitude toward the recommendations. THE PRESIDENT: I am ready to sign on except for how we handle the announcement- - -what we say and the timing of it. 0 I would be guided by Senator Russell, Mansfield, Rivers and Dirksen

Folder, "November 26, 1968 10:21-11:11 Foreign Policy Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

also check on Hickenlooper. He has been very lukewarm. If Nixon and Dirksen won't oppose it, you are in good shape. Would you feel out Aiken and Hickenlooper. The President: What about talks with Soviets? Senator Fulbright: It would

Folder, "January 30, 1968 - 1 p.m. Pueblo 11 - Foreign Affairs Luncheon Rusk, McNamara, Clifford, Helms, etc.," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

this morning? The President: I thought we did very little good, very little harm. General Brown was not a good briefer. He does not speak with authority. We need to take the toughest questions we get and answer them with authority with Senator Dirksen

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/5/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)

Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles; LBJ discusses gun control with Senator Mike Mansfield; LBJ calls Senators Dirksen & Aiken about agriculture; Lady Bird cancels appointments; Lady Bird works on telegrams for Rose & Ethel Kennedy; LBJ makes