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Telephone conversation # 12004, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 7/24/1967, time unknown (Item)
  • "RE DETROIT RIOTS & ROMNEY"; "(PLEASE RECHECK THIS ONE TO VERIFY--)"; SLIP INCORRECTLY LISTS CALLER AS WARREN CHRISTOPHER, 7/25/1967, 7:15A; CALLER IS RAMSEY CLARK; DATE, TIME UNCERTAIN; DAILY DIARY LISTS SEVERAL CALLS WITH CLARK ON 7/24/1967
  • CLARK DISCUSSES HIS TALKS WITH UNNAMED PEOPLE ABOUT DETROIT RIOTS; LBJ ADVISES CLARK TO KEEP A RECORD OF HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH GEORGE ROMNEY TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDINGS; CLARK SAYS HE WILL TALK TO ROMNEY IN ABOUT AN HOUR
Telephone conversation # 12008, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 7/26/1967, 3:15PM (Item)
  • POSSIBLE RIOTING IN CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY; ROBERT GRIFFIN'S CRITICISM OF LBJ; LEGALITY OF SENDING FEDERAL FORCES INTO STATES; GEORGE ROMNEY'S RELUCTANCE TO CERTIFY NEED FOR FEDERAL TROOPS; FBI INVESTIGATIONS INTO RIOTS; FEDERAL RESPONSE TO DETROIT
Telephone conversation # 12912, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 4/6/1968, 5:50PM? (Item)
  • CALL FROM GOV. SHAPIRO ABOUT FEDERAL TROOPS TO CONTROL CHICAGO RIOTS AFTER MLK ASSASSINATION; LEGAL REQUIREMENT FOR REQUEST; DETAILS OF TROOP MOVEMENTS; POSSIBLE CRITICISM BY GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY COMPARING RESPONSE TO DETROIT RIOTS; WASHINGTON, DC
Folder, "City of Detroit - Presentation," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 77 (Item)
  • ~, .. l Ol)fftre nt tqr AttorneyC6rnentl Dlaal}tngt.ott, I. Cit. ) ( • ,,.a.,ti August 5, 1967 ~~J---- Honorable George Romney· Governor of Michigan Lansing, Michigan Dear • Governor: At the President's request, I am writing you
Folder, "Final Profiles - Working Copy," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/28/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Bird meets with Business & Professional Women group & receives crime kit; tea for National Council of Jewish Women; Lady Bird works on captions for Good Housekeeping article; George Romney ends candidacy; Johnsons have dinner with Governor Branigan
Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [1 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
Folder, "History I. A Short Narrative History," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
  • . Negroes. Psychologically they had marched with the marchers, suffered with the injured, and become more and more -embittered at the authorities. - 3 - In the November, 1965, issue of the Michigan Law Review George Edwards, ·Judge of the United States
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Oct. - Dec. 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • by a source· who has furnished reliable information in the past. During August, 1967, James Gardner Spady, a Phila­ delphia Negro, had in his possession letters addressed to Revolutionary Action Movement leaders Maxwell Stanford, Helen. Neal, George Anderson
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [1964 - 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of that meeting the issue of whether or not to cormnit troops? Or, perhaps I should phrase that, I realize the request would have to come from Governor Romney. Was the question of whether or not Romney was going to ask for troops the point of contention