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Telephone conversation # 12008, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 7/26/1967, 3:15PM (Item)
  • POSSIBLE RIOTING IN CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY; ROBERT GRIFFIN'S CRITICISM OF LBJ; LEGALITY OF SENDING FEDERAL FORCES INTO STATES; GEORGE ROMNEY'S RELUCTANCE TO CERTIFY NEED FOR FEDERAL TROOPS; FBI INVESTIGATIONS INTO RIOTS; FEDERAL RESPONSE TO DETROIT
Telephone conversation # 12912, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 4/6/1968, 5:50PM? (Item)
  • CALL FROM GOV. SHAPIRO ABOUT FEDERAL TROOPS TO CONTROL CHICAGO RIOTS AFTER MLK ASSASSINATION; LEGAL REQUIREMENT FOR REQUEST; DETAILS OF TROOP MOVEMENTS; POSSIBLE CRITICISM BY GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY COMPARING RESPONSE TO DETROIT RIOTS; WASHINGTON, DC
Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • . When someone is kept as a slave, he said, there is a minimum of trouble. As suppressed people begin to rise from prejudice and discrimination there is naturally going to be more problems. George Christian ~ I NOTES OF THE MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT
  • Christian, George E. (George Eastland), 1927-2002