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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 # 7567, sound recording, LBJ and KARL MUNDT, 5/4/1965, 11:59AM (Item)
  • MUNDT MAKES SUGGESTIONS FOR HANDLING LBJ'S REQUEST FOR SUPPLEMENTAL MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS, SENATE OPPOSITION TO VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ READS MESSAGES FROM BILLY GRAHAM, TOM WATSON PRAISING HIS SPEECH LAST NIGHT ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/2/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • , at la s t , h e w as tir ed . So it w as an e a r ly night and I read N ich olas and A lexan d ra u n til I w as s le e p y . # # # # # ## c
  • ; Johnsons fly to Puerto Rico; LBJ talks with press on plane; Johnsons stay at Porterfield House on Ramey AFB; LBJ talks with General McConnell while Lady Bird, Luci & Lyn tour base; dinner; LBJ plays dominoes; Lady Bird reads "Nicholas and Alexandra"
Telephone conversation # 13618, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:05PM (Item)
  • and General ·. .h •' ' . f Jf : Wheeler and Mr. Helms of the CIA, and Mr. Ros tow. I'm t t Ir I ------~--~~~~~~~~~~------~~~~--~--------~---~~--~~~~~i .. '' .· ; . i I· • I i -2­ " reading from -- I want to i·ead a brief background
Telephone conversation # 240, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCLELLAN, 12/2/1963, 3:47PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS MCCLELLAN TO INVESTIGATE WASTE IN GOVT CONTRACTS, READS LETTER TO CONTRACTORS ABOUT REDUCING DEFENSE SPENDING; MCCLELLAN SAYS HE WILL EMPHASIZE FRUGALITY IN SPEECHES, WILL CUT PROGRAMS IN HIS STATE IF NEEDED, ASKS TO MEET WITH LBJ
Telephone conversation # 4442, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER LIPPMANN, 7/30/1964, 6:50PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS HIS STATEMENT EXCLUDING CABINET MEMBERS, THOSE WHO MEET REGULARLY WITH CABINET, FROM VP NOMINATION; AP POLL OF DELEGATES ON CHOICE FOR VP; RFK; LBJ'S PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT TODAY ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF TEST BAN TREATY
Telephone conversation # 4892, sound recording, LBJ and HORACE BUSBY, 8/11/1964, 6:01PM (Item)
  • BUSBY CALLS LBJ BACK TO READ HIM MCNAMARA'S BUDGET FIGURES CITED IN DRAFT OF SPEECH FOR COUNTY OFFICIALS; LBJ DISCUSSES SOME CHANGES TO SPEECH, ASKS ABOUT OMISSION OF LANGUAGE ON RANGER VII, ADMINISTRATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Telephone conversation # 4715, sound recording, LBJ and BARRY GOLDWATER, 8/4/1964, 10:06PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS GOLDWATER HIS PROPOSED STATEMENT ON US RESPONSE TO TONKIN GULF ATTACKS, DISCUSSES TIMING OF STATEMENT TO AVOID ENDANGERING US FORCES; GOLDWATER EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR LBJ'S ACTIONS
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 # 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 # 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 # 8621, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 8/23/1965, 4:07PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS RIVERS' ADVICE ON NEW POLICY ON DRAFTING MARRIED MEN, READS PRESS STORY ON ISSUE; LANGUAGE OF NEW MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION BILL PROVISION REQUIRING CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF BASE CLOSINGS; MILITARY PAY BILL
Telephone conversation # 9656, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 2/22/1966, 9:04AM (Item)
  • ARTHUR GOLDBERG; LBJ'S VIEWS ON UN; WH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING; WAYNE MORSE'S VIETNAM RESOLUTION; LBJ READS FROM MEMO ON FULBRIGHT'S VIEWS; EDWIN REISCHAUER; RAY CLINE; WILLIAM "RED" RABORN; MANSFIELD REPORT; J. EDGAR HOOVER'S REPORTS ON VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 10419, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANATOS, 7/22/1966, 4:10PM (Item)
  • MANATOS SAYS MANSFIELD IS DEFENDING LBJ IN SENATE AGAINST FULBRIGHT'S CRITICISM OF FOREIGN AID, VIETNAM POLICY; LBJ READS LIST OF LEGISLATION, TREATIES AUTHORIZING US ACTION IN ASIA WHICH FULBRIGHT SUPPORTED; LBJ'S RECENT SPEECH TO AMERICAN ALUMNI
Telephone conversation # 13135, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES EASTLAND, 6/23/1968, 9:09AM (Item)
  • JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT FOR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE; APPOINTMENT OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT; FORTAS' RECENT SPEECH ON CIVIL DISSENT; LBJ READS LIST OF CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED FORTAS, SUGGESTS REAPPOINTING TOM CLARK AND DISMISSING RAMSEY
Telephone conversation # 11606, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/2/1967, 3:15PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS FROM RFK'S SENATE SPEECH PROPOSING BOMBING HALT TO BRING ABOUT VIETNAM PEACE NEGOTIATIONS; RECENT 6-DAY BOMBING PAUSE; LBJ ASKS RUSK TO PREPARE ANALYSIS OF SPEECH FOR FRIENDLY SENATORS TO USE TO REBUT RFK
Telephone conversation # 13318, sound recording, JIM JONES and DEAN RUSK'S SECRETARY, 8/26/1968, 10:25AM? (Item)
  • JONES ASKS DEAN RUSK'S SECRETARY TO READ RUSK'S CHANGES TO DRAFT SPEECH THAT LBJ MAY DELIVER TO DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION; SECRETARY DICTATES CHANGES TO JONES
Telephone conversation # 13321, sound recording, LBJ and MARVIN WATSON, 8/26/1968, 10:39AM (Item)
  • LBJ READS PART OF SPEECH ON VIETNAM BOMBING HE WILL MAKE AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION; PLANS FOR LBJ, LADY BIRD JOHNSON TO ATTEND CONVENTION; POSSIBLE NEED FOR FEDERAL TROOPS TO CONTROL DEMONSTRATORS; EFFORTS TO DRAFT LBJ OR EDWARD KENNEDY
Telephone conversation # 13324, sound recording, JIM JONES? and HORACE BUSBY, 8/27/1968, time unknown (Item)
  • BUSBY READS DRAFT SPEECH FOR LBJ TO DELIVER AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, RECOMMENDS LBJ DELIVER THE SPEECH TONIGHT
Telephone conversation # 13433, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 9/30/1968, 6:45PM (Item)
  • NIXON STATES HIS POSITION ON VIETNAM BOMBING HALT; LBJ READS LATEST CABLE FROM CREIGHTON ABRAMS ON BOMBING EFFECTIVENESS, POSSIBLE ADVERSE AFFECTS OF HALT; LBJ SAYS HE IS TRYING TO RUN THE WAR, NOT THE CAMPAIGN, DISCUSSES CONDITIONS NECESSARY
Telephone conversation # 11902, sound recording, LBJ and WALT ROSTOW, 6/5/1967, 6:15AM (Item)
  • ROSTOW READS DEAN RUSK'S DRAFT PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON FIGHTING IN MIDDLE EAST; EVIDENCE OF WHO INITIATED HOSTILITIES BETWEEN ISRAEL, UAR; STATE DEPT MEETING WITH ABBA EBAN; CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING; LBJ SUGGESTS MEETING OF UNOFFICIAL ADVISERS
Telephone conversation # 13315, sound recording, LBJ and CHARLES MURPHY, 8/26/1968, 8:04AM (Item)
  • LBJ'S POSITION ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM PLANK ON HALTING ALL BOMBING IN VIETNAM; EFFECT OF BOMBING HALT ON INFILTRATION; INCREASED DANGER TO US TROOPS; LBJ READS DRAFT OF SPEECH HE MAY DELIVER TO CONVENTION; HHH'S VIEWS ON PLANK
Telephone conversation # 13432, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 9/30/1968, 6:45PM (Item)
  • NIXON ASKS ABOUT HHH'S SALT LAKE CITY SPEECH ON HALTING BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM, ASKS IF US POSITION HAS CHANGED; LBJ READS FROM CREIGHTON ABRAMS' CABLE ON POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF BOMBING HALT; PEACE NEGOTIATIONS; ROSTOW SUMMARIZES ABRAMS' MORE RECENT
Telephone conversation # 13547, sound recording, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/16/1968, 11:41AM (Item)
  • LBJ BRIEFS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON US POSITION ON VIETNAM BOMBING HALT, ASKS THEM NOT TO MAKE SPEECHES THAT WILL IMPAIR NEGOTIATIONS, SAYS HE WILL ADVISE ALL OF THEM OF ANY BREAKTHROUGH, READS WH PRESS RELEASE ON PEACE NEGOTIATIONS; AL SMITH
Telephone conversation # 13551, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 10/16/1968, 4:40PM (Item)
  • CLIFFORD SAYS EDMUND MUSKIE WANTS BRIEFING ON SOUTHEAST ASIA; LBJ'S BRIEFING OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON STATUS OF VIETNAM PEACE TALKS; HHH'S RESPONSE; LBJ'S CONCERNS ABOUT MUSKIE; LBJ READS DRAFT SPEECH FOR AL SMITH DINNER, ASKS CLIFFORD'S
Telephone conversation # 13552, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 10/16/1968, 4:40PM (Item)
  • LBJ CONTINUES READING SPEECH FOR AL SMITH DINNER; CLIFFORD PRAISES SPEECH, URGES LBJ TO ATTEND DINNER; RUSSELL LONG'S INTEREST IN MAKING FORT POLK, LOUISIANA, PERMANENT ARMY TRAINING BASE; NEW GALLUP POLL FAVORABLE TO HHH; LBJ'S RESERVATIONS ABOUT
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/1/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • had dinner and then to bed. The second most important news of the day was that Lynda heard from Chuck -- her first letter in two weeks -- a short one. from a mission to find a big stack of mail. He said he had returned He had only time to read two