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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
Folder, "October 30, 1968 - 10:10 a.m. Foreign Policy Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • : Let's go to Korea and advise them. M!ETU~G NOTES COPYRIGHTED PwbliGatioA R1~ras ..PeHAiuioR gf
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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/3/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • - c / Sunday, O ctober 3, 01965 \ p V^' u Lyndon and I had a la te b rea k fa st and then got read y to go to the N ation al C ity C h ristia n Church. -^ ' f When w e w alked in I cam e fa ce to fa ce w ith Judge an d M r s. F e r g u so n fro m
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/1/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • e e d s for the fu tu re, and w e hoped it w ould be p o ss ib le to f ill in sta ff, w h e r e e v e r the gaps m ade fo lk s lik e Bob Knudsen. w ork a ll day and a ll night. And then, c lo s e to 2:30, I w ent in and w orked with B e s s , the o
Folder, "October 15, 1968 - 1:20 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • -contributing countries. Ros tow called the situation room to arrange secure phone call from Rusk to Bunker (1 :40 p. m. EDT). The President read letter to Kosygin on bombing halt. (Attachment A) The following are remarks of the President m.cide previously
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/14/1969 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird spent night at Pierre; Lady Bird reads about last night's party; invitations to State of the Union speech; Lady Bird back to White House; LBJ practices speech & rests; separate cars to Capitol; Lyn Nugent
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/14/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • on night reading
Telephone conversation # 2190, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 2/25/1964, 11:40AM (Item)
  • LBJ READS REVISIONS OF SECTIONS OF RUSK'S SPEECH ON VIETNAM, CUBA; PRESS STORIES ON PANAMA, WESTERN EUROPE; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT PRESS LEAKS BY STATE DEPT, NEED FOR WH TO RECEIVE INFORMATION FIRST
Telephone conversation # 3889, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 6/23/1964, 10:20PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK IF HE TALKED TO GEORGE AIKEN ABOUT PRESS STORY ON AIKEN'S STATEMENT ABOUT HENRY CABOT LODGE; LBJ READS PRESS STATEMENT BY HENRY CABOT LODGE RESIGNING AS AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM TO ASSIST WILLIAM SCRANTON'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
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 # 7329, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR "TEX" GOLDSCHMIDT, 4/8/1965, 10:27AM (Item)
  • JOHNS HOPKINS SPEECH ON ASIAN DEVELOPMENT; SOUTH VIETNAMESE NEGATIVE REACTION; LBJ READS CRITICAL CABLES ON SPEECH; LBJ'S REPORT ON 1961 VIETNAM TRIP; MEKONG DELTA; EUGENE BLACK AND UN TASK FORCE; LBJ ASKS ELIZABETH GOLDSCHMIDT TO DRAFT MEDICARE
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 # 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 # 9482, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 1/10/1966, 10:29PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS HHH TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI; ARRANGEMENTS FOR TRIP; LBJ READS FROM MOYERS' MEMO ADVISING LBJ TO GO TO FUNERAL BUT LBJ SAYS HE CANNOT GO, STRESSES NEED FOR HHH TO AVOID PRESS LEAKS
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 # 13814, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY "JOE" FOWLER, 12/17/1968, 4:00PM (Item)
  • FOWLER REPORTS FRB HAS RAISED DISCOUNT RATE, READS PROPOSED STATEMENT SAYING THERE WILL BE SMALL SURPLUS IN 1969 FEDERAL BUDGET; PRESS STORIES ABOUT FEDERAL BUDGET, INFLATION; ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE IN STATEMENT ABOUT LBJ'S PAST BALANCED BUDGETS
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 # 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 # 5641, sound recording, LBJ and EUGENE PULLIAM, 9/23/1964, 12:06PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT WOOL IMPORTS; PULLIAM READS REMARKS FOR LBJ'S UPCOMING INDIANAPOLIS TRIP, SUGGESTS LBJ NOT DISCUSS CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM; ROY ELSON'S SENATE CAMPAIGN; DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS IN ARIZONA, INDIANA; CONNALLY'S UPCOMING ARIZONA
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
Folder, "October 25, 1968 - 12:38 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • . If they use artillery, he attacks sites. A commander is always responsible for security of his troops. instructions, reprisals are permitted. General Taylor: for us. In Hanoi will see this as a victory for them, not as a victory The President: Read
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/14/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • read y for But m y en e r g y , m y sh e e r stren g th , sim p ly d o es not MEMORANDUM T u esd a y , M ay 14, 1968 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHXNOTOH m a tch a ll the th in g s to be d o n e. Page 2 So on the th ree h ours back to W ashington, I la
  • ; Lady Bird swims; Mr. Per shampoos & sets Lady Bird's hair; Lynda Robb reads aloud letter from Chuck; Lady Bird names guests at dinner; LBJ & Mrs. Marcos exchange toasts
Folder, "October 22, 1968 - 1:15 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • for the way they have handled the last few days. The President: (Read proposed cable to Bunker and Abrams). Insert A. I want to know what the military view is of this -- the military effects and morale. I want to know if Abrams thinks we should stop
Folder, "October 29, 1968 - 2:30 a.m. Meeting with the President's Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • , you asked Arn.bassador Harriman to return to Washington for consultation prior to Saturday meeting? The President: It is difficult to have a visit from them without problems, but I'll consider that. (Secretary Rusk read message that NLF
Folder, "[March 20, 1968 - 5:08 p.m. VP, Rusk, Clifford, Fortas, Bundy, Bundy, Jorden, Rostow, Christian, McPherson, Goldberg]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • by rejections by Hanoi. (Rukk read statement he proposed that the President use.) Unless we are prepared to do something on bombing, there is -no real proposal for us to make. We pat two ideas to Bunkers 1) San Antonio formula without any indic. from
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/11/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ecid ed the s im p le s t thing to do w ould be to p ile in c a r s and ju st take the rou te. On the w ay I saw r e a lly v e r y litt le ev id en ce of the burning and looting w e had read so m u ch about, although w e w e r e going through a p
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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/22/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • LBJ has meeting with Walter Washington; Lady Bird meets with Nathaniel Owings about Las Trampas & Pennsylvania Avenue plan; office work; lunch; Lady Bird reads about Iran & has her hair styled; arrival ceremony on South lawn for Shah of Iran; LBJ