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Telephone conversation # 2603, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE FORRESTAL, 3/21/1964, 5:21PM (Item)
  • FORRESTAL REPORTS ON CAMBODIAN ACCOUNT OF RECENT BOMBING, SOUTH VIETNAM'S APOLOGY, PROPOSED US RESPONSE TO INCIDENT, SIHANOUK'S REQUEST FOR US COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES; FORRESTAL SAYS HE HAS SENT ROBERT MCNAMARA'S VIETNAM SPEECH TO LBJ FOR NIGHT
Telephone conversation # 13618, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:05PM (Item)
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Telephone conversation # 7945, sound recording, BROMLEY SMITH and BENJAMIN READ?, 5/20/1965, time unknown (Item)
  • READ? REPORTS THAT GEORGE BALL, THOMAS MANN, AND CARL ROWAN ARE OPPOSED TO SENDING DON WILSON OF USIA TO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  • Read, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Huger), 1925-
  • Telephone conversation # 7945, sound recording, BROMLEY SMITH and BENJAMIN READ?, 5/20/1965, time unknown
  • BENJAMIN READ?
Telephone conversation # 9807, sound recording, LBJ and RUSSELL LONG, 3/1/1966, 2:40PM (Item)
  • SENATE HANDLING OF WAYNE MORSE'S AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT REAFFIRMING HIS AUTHORITY, WANTS STATEMENT MADE PRIOR TO VOTE TO TABLE AMENDMENT, READS JOHN MCCORMACK'S STATEMENT TODAY SUPPORTING VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 7772, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 5/18/1965, 6:54PM (Item)
  • HOOVER READS INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Telephone conversation # 13603, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/26/1968, 12:16PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS HE LOOKED AT BENJAMIN READ'S REPORT ON CYRUS VANCE, AVERELL HARRIMAN AND VIETNAM PEACE TALKS
Telephone conversation # 609, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 12/20/1963, 7:38PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS LANGUAGE OF PROVISION OF FOREIGN AID APPROPRIATIONS BILL CONCERNING EXPORT-IMPORT BANK GUARANTEES OF SALES TO COMMUNIST COUNTRIES; JOHN MCCORMACK'S TALKS WITH OTTO PASSMAN ON ISSUE; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT WORLD SITUATION, MILITARY ASSISTANCE
Telephone conversation # 318, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 12/6/1963, 3:30PM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE CUTS IN FEDERAL EXPENDITURES IN ORDER TO PASS TAX BILL; WIRTZ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT INCREASED UNEMPLOYMENT AT ELECTION TIME; LBJ READS LIST OF VARIOUS PROPOSED FEDERAL EXPENDITURES
Telephone conversation # 184, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/29/1963, 8:55PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; RUSSELL SAYS HE CANNOT SERVE ON IT WITH EARL WARREN; LBJ INSISTS RUSSELL MUST SERVE; MOURSUND ENCOURAGES HIM TO SERVE; RUSSELL RELUCTANTLY ACCEPTS
Telephone conversation # 2441, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 3/9/1964, 9:45PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS PROPOSED PANAMA AGREEMENT, NEGOTIATIONS TO DATE; THOMAS MANN; REMOVING SUBVERSIVES AT GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE, CUBA; QUESTION OF REVISING PANAMA CANAL TREATY; POSSIBLE COUP IN PANAMA; LBJ PROPOSES MEETING ON VIETNAM AFTER ROBERT MCNAMARA
Telephone conversation # 2582, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/21/1964, 12:16PM (Item)
  • RUSK'S MEETING WITH MORMON PRESIDENT MCKAY; RUSK'S MEETING WITH DOBRYNIN ON RELEASE OF US PILOTS SHOT DOWN OVER EAST GERMANY; LBJ READS PROPOSED PRESS STATEMENT ON PANAMA, RUSK SUGGESTS REVISIONS; MOYERS DICTATES STATEMENT TO RUSK'S SECRETARY
Telephone conversation # 4826, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 8/8/1964, 12:18PM (Item)
  • BUNDY UPDATES LBJ ON CYPRUS AND CONGO; DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO END CYPRUS CRISIS; GREECE; TURKEY; REQUEST FROM US AMBASSADOR TO CONGO FOR ASSISTANCE; BUNDY READS PROPOSED LETTER TO JORDAN'S KING HUSSEIN; PLANS FOR TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION SIGNING
Telephone conversation # 6895, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 2/27/1965, 11:12PM (Item)
  • RUSK ASKS LBJ TO READ CABLES FROM AVERELL HARRIMAN ON HIS MEETING WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER LEVI ESHKOL ABOUT US ARMS SALES TO JORDAN; HARRIMAN NEEDS RESPONSE BEFORE NEXT MEETING; WEST GERMAN TANK SALES TO ISRAEL; ISRAELI REQUEST FOR B-66
Telephone conversation # 7028, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 3/6/1965, 2:32PM (Item)
  • DECISION TO SEND MARINES TO DANANG; LBJ READS PART OF MCGEORGE BUNDY MEMO ON POSSIBLE PEACE TALKS, UK VIEWS ON VIETNAM; NYT STORY ON POSSIBLE NEGOTIATIONS BASED ON RUSK'S PRESS BRIEFING; PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF SENDING MARINES; MIKE MANSFIELD
Telephone conversation # 7140, sound recording, LBJ and DREW PEARSON, 3/23/1965, 11:35AM (Item)
  • LBJ'S RECENT MEETING WITH GEORGE WALLACE ON SELMA, ALABAMA SITUATION; LBJ READS HIS RECENT PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT ON US POLICY ON VIETNAM; LBJ'S COMMITMENT TO PEACE, HIS HEAVY SCHEDULE; LBJ ASKS FOR PEARSON'S REACTION TO VOTING RIGHTS SPEECH
Telephone conversation # 6848, sound recording, LBJ and HARRY TRUMAN, 2/16/1965, 12:35PM (Item)
  • TRUMAN READS PORTION OF STATEMENT HE HAS WRITTEN SUPPORTING LBJ'S VIETNAM POLICY; TRUMAN OFFERS TO MEET WITH LBJ IF NEEDED BUT HIS DOCTOR PREFERS HE NOT TRAVEL; LBJ THANKS HIM FOR SUPPORT, OFFERS TO COME TO MISSOURI OR CALL HIM FOR ADVICE
Telephone conversation # 7624, sound recording, LBJ and THOMAS MANN, 5/11/1965, 11:24AM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT OAS INACTION; MANN READS MEMO ON US POSITION ON POSSIBLE TALKS ABOUT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WITH JUAN BOSCH'S REPRESENTATIVE; MANN RECOMMENDS HARRY SHLAUDEMAN ASSIST WITH TALKS; LBJ TELLS MANN TO HAVE ABE FORTAS ARRANGE TALKS
Telephone conversation # 7683, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/14/1965, 8:26PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT VIETNAM; REEDY READS LBJ PROPOSED STATEMENT ON DEATH OF FRANCES PERKINS; LBJ TELLS REEDY TO HAVE CALLS DIRECTED TO HORACE BUSBY INSTEAD OF JOE LAITIN TOMORROW WHEN REEDY IS OUT OF THE OFFICE, TELLS REEDY TO AVOID CALLS
Telephone conversation # 7703, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 5/16/1965, 12:30PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS EMBASSY CABLE FROM SANTO DOMINGO ON SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, DETERIORATING ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, ACTIONS OF UN AND OAS COMMISSION MEMBERS, VIOLATIONS OF CEASEFIRE; POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES TO PROPOSED SETTLEMENT
Telephone conversation # 7565, sound recording, LBJ and WH SITUATION ROOM, 5/4/1965, 8:16AM (Item)
  • DUTY OFFICER READS REPORTS ON SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; OAS COMMISSION; US FORCES, CASUALTIES IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EVACUATION STATISTICS; HUMANITARIAN AID; UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION; OAS FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING; VIETNAM AIR MISSIONS
Telephone conversation # 7406, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 4/30/1965, 11:30AM (Item)
  • LBJ REPORTS THAT MRS. JUAN BOSCH IS GOING TO GIVE A PRESS CONFERENCE; COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO VIETNAM; COMMUNIST REACTION TO LBJ'S JOHNS HOPKINS SPEECH; LBJ READS INTELLIGENCE REPORT ON LATIN AMERICA
Telephone conversation # 7419, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 4/30/1965, 1:45PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS PROPOSED LETTER TO OAS SECRETARY GEN. JOSE MORA ABOUT CRISIS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, COMMUNIST ROLE IN REVOLT; BUNDY SUGGESTS LBJ CALL MORA INSTEAD, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT EFFECT OF LANGUAGE IN LETTER ABOUT COMMUNIST ROLE IN REVOLT
Telephone conversation # 7424, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 4/30/1965, 5:00PM (Item)
  • BUNDY READS AP 176 REPORT ON US CASUALTIES IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, TELLS LBJ THEY HAVE NO CONFIRMATION OF REPORT; LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT PRESS, PUBLIC REACTION TO SITUATION, REQUESTS PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON QUESTION OF COMMUNIST INVOLVEMENT
Telephone conversation # 7425, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 4/30/1965, 5:05PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS DRAFT PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON DOMINICAN CRISIS; MCNAMARA SUGGESTS ADDING LANGUAGE ON SAFE EVACUATION ALREADY COMPLETED, ON US SUPPORT FOR CEASEFIRE, SUGGESTS STATEMENT ON CUBAN ROLE IN REVOLT BE MADE BY OTHER OFFICIALS, NOT PRESIDENT
Telephone conversation # 7436, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 4/30/1965, 6:30PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF WHETHER OR NOT LBJ SHOULD MAKE STATEMENT ON CRISIS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; RUSK ADVISES LBJ NOT TO EMPHASIZE COMMUNIST INVOLVEMENT IN CRISIS; LBJ READS CURRENT DRAFT STATEMENT; RUSK AGREES TO REVISED LANGUAGE
Telephone conversation # 7753, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/18/1965, 11:55AM (Item)
  • BUNDY READS GUZMAN'S MESSAGE SUSPENDING TALKS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PROTESTING ALLEGED US AID TO SAN ISIDRO, IMBERT FORCES; INCREASED REBEL ACTIVITY; DOUBTS OF GUZMAN'S ABILITY TO CONTROL GOVT; ABE FORTAS CHANNEL TO JUAN BOSCH; PROPOSED US TROOP
Telephone conversation # 7780, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 5/19/1965, 12:00PM (Item)
  • HOOVER READS INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; LBJ CRITICIZES STATE DEPT, DISCUSSES ABE FORTAS' ROLE IN NEGOTIATIONS AND LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT COMMUNISTS IN NEW DOMINICAN GOVT
Telephone conversation # 7792, sound recording, LBJ and WH SITUATION ROOM, 5/20/1965, 6:31AM (Item)
  • WH SITUATION ROOM DUTY OFFICER REPORTS ON RESULTS OF AIR MISSION IN VIETNAM, DEATH OF COLONEL RAFAEL FERNANDEZ DOMINGUEZ IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AND READS LATEST CABLE (SANTO DOMINGO 1830) FROM MCGEORGE BUNDY ON SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Telephone conversation # 7804, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 5/22/1965, 4:01PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS MOYERS TO BRING GEORGE BALL, THOMAS MANN IN FOR MEETING, ASKS MOYERS TO READ PRIVATE MESSAGE FROM MCGEORGE BUNDY THAT HE HAS JUST RECEIVED ON NEGOTIATIONS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Telephone conversation # 7809, sound recording, ROBERT MCNAMARA and GEORGE BALL, 5/23/1965, 1:40PM (Item)
  • BALL READS DRAFT CABLE 1208 ON NEGOTIATIONS WITH GUZMAN, IMBERT, IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; OAS ROLE IN TALKS; MCNAMARA DISCUSSES CHANGES CONCERNING CONTROL OF COMMUNISTS, REPORTS ON HIS TALK WITH MCGEORGE BUNDY, CYRUS VANCE; TIMING OF TALKS WITH IMBERT
Telephone conversation # 7810, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 5/23/1965, 2:02PM (Item)
  • BALL READS REVISED CABLE 1208 ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC NEGOTIATIONS AND LBJ EDITS IT; LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT CONGRESSIONAL QUESTIONING OF AGREEMENT; CONTROL OF COMMUNISTS IN ACCORD WITH SAN JUAN AGREEMENT; LBJ TELLS BALL TO ASSURE IMBERT ABOUT
Telephone conversation # 7816, sound recording, LBJ and BILL MOYERS, 5/23/1965, 6:15PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MOYERS AND WH SITUATION ROOM DUTY OFFICER "BILL" JOY? ABOUT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; JOY? READS CABLE 1208 ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO LBJ
Telephone conversation # 7818, sound recording, LBJ and WH SITUATION ROOM, 5/23/1965, 7:50PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS WH SITUATION ROOM DUTY OFFICER TO READ SECTION OF CABLE 1208 CONCERNING PROPOSED HANDLING OF COMMUNISTS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Telephone conversation # 8529, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 8/11/1965, 8:15AM (Item)
  • LBJ CONGRATULATES FULBRIGHT ON SUCCESS OF HIS TRIP TO BRAZIL, READS JACK VALENTI'S REPORT ON TRIP; FULBRIGHT'S TRIP TO SEARCY, ARKANSAS, FOLLOWING FIRE IN TITAN MISSILE SILO; LBJ REPORTS ON WH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS ON VIETNAM, US PEACE EFFORTS
Telephone conversation # 9190, sound recording, LBJ and PHIL CARTER, 11/26/1965, 9:11PM (Item)
  • "(NEWSWEEK)"; NOTE FROM JAKE JACOBSEN TO LBJ ATTACHED TO DICTABELT REMINDS LBJ HE AGREED TO TALK TO CARTER FOR NEWSWEEK ARTICLE ON ROBERT MCNAMARA; SHORTHAND NOTATION READS "HE WILL TALK TO HIM TONIGHT"; CARTER ON HOLD 0:40; MUSIC AUDIBLE
Telephone conversation # 8144, sound recording, LBJ and CYRUS VANCE, 6/15/1965, 8:15PM (Item)
  • VANCE REPORTS HE CONTACTED BRUCE PALMER IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ABOUT NEED FOR MORE EFFECTIVE PUBLICITY ON REBEL ACTIVITIES IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; LBJ READS REPORT BY INTERAMERICAN FORCE COMMANDER HUGO ALVIM ON REBEL CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS
Telephone conversation # 8155, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD FORD, 6/17/1965, 7:50PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS GOODPASTER'S REPORT OF HIS BRIEFING OF EISENHOWER ON VIETNAM, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FORD EXPRESSES SUPPORT OF B-52 RAID, SPEAKS BRIEFLY TO THOMAS DEWEY; LBJ JOKES WITH FORD ABOUT TRADING MELVIN LAIRD FOR WAYNE MORSE
Telephone conversation # 7953, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/20/1965, 11:15AM? (Item)
  • BUNDY READS UNSIGNED MEMO FROM GUZMAN BREAKING OFF NEGOTIATIONS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BECAUSE OF DEATH OF COL. RAFAEL FERNANDEZ DOMINGUEZ, ALLEGING ACTION BY US TROOPS SUPPORTING IMBERT; POSSIBLE US RESPONSE TO MEMO, PRESS STORIES
Telephone conversation # 7966, sound recording, GEORGE REEDY and JAMES GREENFIELD, 5/20/1965, 11:55AM? (Item)
  • REEDY READS WH STATEMENT FOR PRESS ABOUT ALLEGED ACTIONS BY US TROOPS IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GREENFIELD REPORTS THAT HE HAS SPOKEN WITH CYRUS VANCE, SENT HIM US PRESS STORIES, AND HAS TOLD HIM TO MAKE SURE HIS REMARKS ARE ACCURATE
Telephone conversation # 7989, sound recording, BILL MOYERS and THOMAS MANN, 5/20/1965, time unknown (Item)
  • MOYERS ASKS MANN'S VIEWS ON MCGEORGE BUNDY GIVING PRESS BRIEFING IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ON POLITICAL ASPECTS OF SITUATION; MANN DISCUSSES PRESS COVERAGE; MOYERS READS BUNDY'S MEMO ABOUT BRIEFING; MANN UPDATES MOYERS ON OAS CONCERNS ABOUT BUNDY