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Telephone conversation # 13432, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 9/30/1968, 6:45PM (Item)
  • WALT ROSTOW
  • "6:45-7:10PM"; "(TRANSCRIBED)"; NIXON ON HOLD 1:25; JIM JONES ASKS NIXON TO HOLD BECAUSE LBJ IS IN A MEETING; WALT ROSTOW IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; POOR SOUND QUALITY; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • 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
  • Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/14/1969 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • I ask ed C lay M cPherson, whose husband H arry had been la b o r in g on th e sp e e c h , George C h r i s t i a n ' s w if e , Jo Anne, and d e a r E ls p e th Rostow, whose husband h a s worked h a rd e r and endured more o f th e o r d e a ls co