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Telephone conversation # 5530, sound recording, LBJ and THOMAS DEWEY, 9/8/1964, 5:05PM (Item)
  • DEWEY REPORTS ON MEETING WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER, OFFERS TO EDIT HOOVER'S REPORT ON RIOTS AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FEDERAL ACTION; FBI; DEWEY'S EXPERIENCE WITH HARLEM RIOTS, WISH TO KEEP HIS WORK ON REPORT SECRET; WALTER JENKINS AS WH LIAISON
  • Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971
  • Telephone conversation # 5530, sound recording, LBJ and THOMAS DEWEY, 9/8/1964, 5:05PM
  • THOMAS DEWEY
Telephone conversation # 7618, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 5/10/1965, 7:25PM (Item)
  • KATZENBACH ON HOLD 0:33; KATZENBACH DICTATES CABLE FOR THOMAS DEWEY TO YOLANDA BOOZER FOLLOWING CONVERSATION WITH LBJ; KATZENBACH'S SECRETARY GIVES BOOZER DEWEY'S ADDRESS
  • HEAD COUNT ON EDWARD KENNEDY'S POLL TAX AMENDMENT TO VOTING RIGHTS BILL; KATZENBACH'S TALKS WITH KENNEDY, PHIL HART ABOUT WITHDRAWING AMENDMENT; APPOINTMENT OF THOMAS DEWEY AS CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, ADMINISTRATION
Telephone conversation # 7842, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 5/27/1965, 7:35PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS HOOVER TO TRY TO PERSUADE THOMAS DEWEY TO ACCEPT APPOINTMENT AS CO-CHAIR OF CRIME COMMISSION (PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE); DEWEY'S CONCERNS ABOUT EFFECT ON HIS LAW PRACTICE; HOOVER AGREES TO TALK
Telephone conversation # 5555, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 9/9/1964, 5:25PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS HOOVER FOR COMPILATION OF FBI REPORTS ON URBAN RIOTS FOR REPORT TO BE EDITED BY THOMAS DEWEY; HOOVER REPORTS HIS POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS FROM TRIPS TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, NYC, INCLUDING SHIFT OF JEWISH SUPPORT FROM GOLDWATER TO LBJ
Telephone conversation # 8382, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 7/23/1965, 4:25PM (Item)
  • CANDIDATES FOR SUPREME COURT VACANCY; AGE FACTOR; REGIONAL CONSIDERATIONS; JOHN PASTORE; WALTER SCHAEFER; OTTO KERNER; ED LEVI; THOMAS DEWEY; ROBERT ANDERSON; LEE RANKIN; HERBERT WECHSLER; SAM ERVIN; HARRY BLACKMUN; ABE FORTAS; ABA REVIEW
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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/18/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • to the A stro n au ts. B u t not fo r m e - - I w a s s le e p in g soundly. But a t 8:00 I w a s e a g e r l y aw a k e b e c a u s e I w a n te d to s e e an d h e a r G o v e r n o r Dewey. He h a d c o m e dow n to t a l k to L yndon the d ay b e f o r e
  • Governor Tom Dewey, LBJ and Lady Bird have breakfast and talk about crime; Lucius Clay; ABC film on beautification; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson; Luci Johnson receives Stingray car for graduation/birthday gift; Johnsons to Camp David
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/17/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • on Johnson City boyhood home; astronauts and wives to Paris Air Show; to State Department reception; astronaut wives borrow clothing from Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson; dinner with Governor Tom Dewey