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- station will feature a
video of Kirk Douglas and Helen
Hayes, reading from letters which
rs. Johnson and LBJ exchanged
White House
Telephone Tapes
Project Continues
The latest release of tape record
ings of White House telephone con
versations during
- of Staff interviews with
the flag duty officers, and phone and
meeting logs at the White House as
well as tapes of telephone conversa
tions. What struck me as I recounted
the situation on August 4 was LBJ's
skeptical mood and attitude.
At that time more
- to writing," (histo
rian) Robert A. Divine noted in a
1985 article on the LBJ Library.
"Johnson preferred to deal with
issues orally, either in face-to-face
discussion or by telephone." One
result, wrote Divine, is that the LBJ
Library's extensive holdings
- Issue Number LXIV December 15, 1996
President Johnson's Telephone Conversations Opened
(Pages 2-4)
Tapes Stir Scholars' and Media Interest
by Regina Greenwell
Senior Archivist
On October 11, the Johnson Library
opened for research approximately
- Issue Number LXVI August 15, 1997
ofL/31
Library Opens More
LBJ Telephone Tapes
The library opened for research
the fifth increment of President
Johnson's White House telephone
conversations. This group of 66
tapes covers the period July
- in
December A few of the topics he covered:
Reminiscence of LBJ .. We had in our family for 40 years a
remarkable woman by the name of Emily Wilson One day in the
mid-60's, I got home from the office and said t Emily, ·'Hold off
the telephone calls, Jneed
- Among
Issue
umber LXXlll, October, 2000
Three Members of the "Johnson Gang"
And the Writer Who Immortalized Them
See Page Two
White House Telephone Tapes and the "Johnson Gang"
The recordings of President
Johnson's telephone conversations
have
- on what Harry has created.
He'll still be a Dutch uncle forus his
torians, and a wise man for all of
Texa. and all of America. '
For the occa. i n, Middleton and
the Library ·taff collaborated in creat
ing a comic takeoff on the telephone
tapes. LBJ's
- , are historians beginn.ing
to find their sea legs on Kennedy
On the telephone tapes:
I live in Washington, and talk
to a lot of scholars and journal
ists. [When the LBJ telephone
tapes were releasecll, I cannot
tell you the number of times I
heard from people
- the papers
presented at the symposium.
White House Telephone Tapes Released
By Regina Greenwell. Senior Archivist
On June 8, 2001, the Johnson
Library released the latest batch of
recordings and transcripts of President
Jolrnson 's telephone conversations
- by Charles Bogel
6
Latest Release of LBJ Telephone Recordings
By Robi,r/ Hicks. Communications
Director
The LBJ Library released the latest
batch of President Johnson's telephone
recordings on April 30. It includes rnn
versations from April through July
-
telephone
tapes
of
Johnson.
Yarrington sa
the tapes show the
·'real LBJ," as the president "I ived on
the telephone.''
Popular
exhibits
that will
remain at the library include the
nearly lifesize version of the Oval
Office as it looked during John ·on 's
-
Bobbitt:
Failures in
the field of
intelligence
often lead to
later suc
cesses, but
the reverse
is also true.
Success can
lead to com
placency.
LBJ's Telephone Tapes to Be Transcribed
The Miller Center at the University
of Virginia has undertaken
- objects selected from the West Wmg
rooms - uch as th . Augustus Saint-Gaudens bronze
portrait of Lincoln, the President's Cabinet Chair, and
the telephone from the Little ounge - add realism
t the exhibit.
The photograph hove hows Library vi itor studying
- ,
while pulling one supporting clipping
and memo after another out of his
pocket."' It was, Humphrey said, ·'an
almost hypnotic experience. l came
out of that session covered with
blood, sweat, tears, spit, and spurs."
White House Telephone Tape Mystery
- , and I went in to see him. He was on the phone all by
himself, with a list of telephone numbers, and I heard him
talking to a man who turned out to be the County Chairman
of Kansas City. He was coming up to the third term election
in I 940 and I remember
- called to confer with the Joint
Chiefs and the NSC.
In addition to group meetings, Johnson frequently hud
dled with individual advisers, and, as one aide put it, he
"had those damned telephones of his going all the lime:·
These consultations included
- as the continu
ing release of the LBJ White House
telephone recordings. ln September,
Lhe Archives made available the
recordings from September-October
1964, or 34 hours of presiclenti"'I
telephone conversations. About 40
per cent of the collection has now
been
- . and
Development or Industry in Central
America."
Deputy Di.rector Tina Houston pre
sented M . Warnock with a signed copy
of LBJ: The White House Years, by for
mer Library Director Harry Middleton,
and a sample CD of President Johnson ·s
telephone tape
- game is ov r.'' W
said, "Oh, no, r. President. We can
still g t it." But he knew precisely
when the tide had turned, though h .
hadn't been on Capitol Hill. He just
knew it in tinctively.
Hugh SidneJ LBJ'· lov of the
telephone
was legendary. lt was
rum
-
in
Washington. We also invited Ernest
Goldstein and his wife, Peggy,
friends of the Johnsons. Ernie later
would leave the UT faculty and
become a special assistant to the
President in Washington.
It was the telephone call from
Horace Busby at the LBJ Ranch
after
- telephone tapes, as he said in
his opening:
9
tht"
J,1hn-.on
11 ..
J
,an
t1un.
\'
- cherished goal: to com
plete the reforms begun 111 ranklin
Roosevelt's
ew Deal.
Califano confirmed the famous
story that LBJ ordered a telephone in
stalled in alifano's office bathroom, so
he would never to be out of touch with
the Oval Office.
The darkest
- in the Johnson Administration
in every capacity, as cabinet officers,
White House assistants, telephone
operators, secretaries and Secret Ser
vice agents, plumbers and calligra
phers-l ,000 in all-gathered at the
Mayflower Hotel in Washington on
April 6
- House telephone tapes, great LBJ
memorabilia, and campaign buttons from past elections.
Texas Electric Cooperatives released
their new cookbook, 60 Years of
Home Cooking, when the exhibit
opened. Not only does it contain
great recipes
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DO
Photos by Charles Bogel
ll
LBJ Library Releases Telephone Conversation Recordings
by Anne Wheeler, Communications Director
Listen a President Lyndon John
son talks about using the "Hot
Line' for the rst time during the
Six Day War, discusses
- and with a
broad-minded manner, so as c say in Russia, I don't know how
y u say m Texas, was as broad as Texas ... He gave me his pri
vate telephone,-to his bedroom ... he said 'Look here ... peo
ple go through the1-.cold connections . . . they' re bureaucrats
- was to read some of his poetry At fiN. Lowell accepted
this invitation. but on May 30. 1965. he sent President Johnson
a letter which he had also released to the Ne\\' l'!,rf..7imt•~- In his
letter. Lowell saiu
"When I was telephoned last wed.. and askcd 10
- with a
telephone as you probably know. He
began to talk to me about the Vietnam
war ... He just spent an hour and a ha!f
preaching to the converted because
while 1disagreed in some ways [about
how] the war was being conducted, I
did feel that basically it had
- .'ifom,lo
P~lf Border
9
re,rt~"· past and planned
ai'li\11ties.
,tbrarJ
Library Opens More LBJ Tapes
The Library opcn1.:d anntb ·r
incrcmcnl of lapc:-; of Pn.:sidi:01
John. on':. telephone convc.:r:salions
oovering 1hc tno111hsof April, May
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The Archives- Researc
The Johnson presidential papers include
interagency and staff memoranda and reports,
cabinet studies, notes on telephone calls and
meetings task force repom, daily diaries, and
correspondence
- puzzle.
Scraps of information from an appointment book, guarded
phrases in brief memos to aides, and records of telephone calls
became precious clues in the search for information. The oral
histori~ of cabinet members on file in the LBJ Librar were
- in
which he reveals his personal views or explains why he acted as
he did on key issues. Johnson preferred to deal with is ues orally,
either in face-to-face discussion or by telephone. White House
logs itemize the phone calls on a daily basis
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October 7
An Evening With Charlie Wilson. 6:00 p.m .. A Friends event
- ians and then
transcribed on pap r) add much needed detail. for
the telephone has eliminated much of the m mo
writing done by former Presidents.
"What is open for investigation'?" is a timely
question. Naturally, materials which have not ye
been
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dern ca e of communication by telephone and personal conver
sation.
A econd prize may be awarded for the definitive study of
the American role in Vietnam. The National Security Files,
which were kept in the Situation Room at the White House,
fulfilled
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things t learn is not to be an en
abler. In other words, not ov r up,
not make the excuses, not make the
telephone alls as to why so-and-so
won't be in to school or in to work
because of a cold or a toothache or
some other reason, but let the honest
