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Telephone conversation # 2583, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/21/1964, 12:16PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MOYERS CONTINUES DICTATING PANAMA STATEMENT; LBJ ASKS RUSK FOR INFORMATION FOR PRESS CONFERENCE: CYPRUS, CAMBODIAN BORDER INCIDENT, VIETNAM BILATERAL TALKS; LBJ ASKS FOR HELP FOR REEDY FROM STATE PRESS SECRETARY; PRESS STORY ON RUSK'S RESIGNATION
Telephone conversation # 11525, sound recording, GEORGE CHRISTIAN and DEAN RUSK, 2/9/1967, time unknown (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK DICTATES WORDING FOR CHRISTIAN'S STATEMENT TO PRESS ON ALEXSEI KOSYGIN'S RECENT PRESS CONFERENCE ON VIETNAM; RUSK'S UPCOMING PRESS CONFERENCE
Telephone conversation # 4775, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 8/6/1964, 1:29PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT SUPPORT FOR LBJ IN SOUTH; BUNDY REPORTS THAT HHH TOLD MARTIN AGRONSKY THIS MORNING ABOUT US COMMUNICATIONS WITH USSR ON VIETNAM; POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF PRESS LEAK; HHH'S STATEMENT TO PRESS ABOUT TONKIN GULF ATTACKS
Telephone conversation # 9454, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 1/7/1966, 11:04AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT OF DATE, TIME OF STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH; GEORGE AIKEN'S STATEMENT ON RESUMPTION OF BOMBING IN VIETNAM; PRESS STORY ON DURATION OF PAUSE; LBJ EMPHASIZES DURATION IS INDEFINITE; LBJ'S MEETING WITH MANSFIELD
Telephone conversation # 11515, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 2/6/1967, 3:30PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES RFK'S REQUEST FOR A MEETING WITH LBJ ABOUT VIETNAM PRESS FEELER RFK RECEIVED DURING HIS TRIP TO FRANCE; RFK'S LEAKS TO PRESS; RUSK GIVES LBJ EVALUATION OF PEACE FEELER, ADVISES LBJ TO MEET WITH RFK
Telephone conversation # 3793, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 6/19/1964, 7:03PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • REEDY READS UPI STORY ON US POLICY OF RISKING WAR WITH RED CHINA BY FIGHTING SPREAD OF COMMUNISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA; COMPARISON TO BERLIN CRISIS; BROMLEY SMITH TOLD REEDY THAT STORY IS BASED ON OFF-THE-RECORD BRIEFING BY DEAN RUSK AT OVERSEAS PRESS
Telephone conversation # 3521, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 5/27/1964, 10:55AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSSELL'S VIEWS ON VIETNAM; ROBERT MCNAMARA; USSR, CHINA SPLIT; PRESS STORIES; EFFECTIVENESS OF BOMBING; COMPARISON WITH KOREA; QUESTION OF US WITHDRAWAL; DISCUSSION OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE LEADERSHIP; LBJ'S PERSONAL ANGUISH OVER VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 4777, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES ROWE, 8/6/1964, 1:35PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT PRESS LEAKS BY HHH ON TONKIN GULF ATTACKS, STATEMENT INFERRING US MIGHT HAVE PROVOKED ATTACKS, US-USSR COMMUNICATIONS ON VIETNAM; HENRY FORD II'S VIEWS ON HHH AS POSSIBLE VP NOMINEE; RFK'S NOTE TO OTHER CABINET MEMBERS ON VP
Telephone conversation # 6868, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 2/22/1965, 8:48AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TIMING OF POSSIBLE AIRSTRIKE IN VIETNAM IN LIGHT OF UK-USSR PROPOSAL; PRESS REPORTS OF MOVEMENT OF USSR ANTI-AIRCRAFT; MCNAMARA'S UPCOMING CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY; LBJ DISCUSSES TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION AS STATEMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF US
Telephone conversation # 6882, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 2/25/1965, 9:28AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK'S TALK WITH U THANT ABOUT HIS CRITICAL REMARKS TO PRESS ON VIETNAM, PROPOSAL THAT US HAVE BILATERAL TALKS WITH HANOI, ALLEGATION THAT US PEOPLE NOT FULLY INFORMED; US FOREIGN AID TO BURMA; DRAFT US ANSWER; ADLAI STEVENSON; TONKIN GULF
Telephone conversation # 7002, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 3/1/1965, 10:46AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCNAMARA REPORTS ON POSSIBLE VIETNAM AIR STRIKE TONIGHT; POSSIBLE REACTION OF CHINA, USSR; LBJ EXPRESSES DISMAY ABOUT PRESS LEAKS ON VIETNAM; TODAY'S NYT STORY; 12/64 VIETNAM DECISIONS; SOURCE OF LEAKS; JAMES "SCOTTY" RESTON; TAD SZULC
Telephone conversation # 7016, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/4/1965, 10:41AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • DEMONSTRATIONS AT US EMBASSY IN MOSCOW; LBJ TELLS RUSK TO CONFER WITH FULBRIGHT, REEDY ON RESPONSE, SUGGESTS RUSK AND OTHER US OFFICIALS GIVE REGULAR REPORTS TO PRESS, DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON VIETNAM POLICY; BUDDHIST PROTESTS; RESPONSE TO CRITICISM
Telephone conversation # 7140, sound recording, LBJ and DREW PEARSON, 3/23/1965, 11:35AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • 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 # 7655, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 5/13/1965, 7:45PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ATTACK ON REBEL RADIO STATION BY LOYALISTS; EISENHOWER'S RESPONSE TO BRIEFING ON BOMBING PAUSE IN VIETNAM; PRESS QUESTIONS ON PAUSE; COMMUNICATION FROM USSR ON PAUSE; TAD SZULC'S COMMUNICATIONS WITH CAAMANO
Telephone conversation # 7697, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 5/15/1965, 10:32AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • BALL REPORTS USSR HAS RECONSIDERED VIETNAM PEACE FEELER SENT THROUGH PIERRE SALINGER; GUIDANCE FOR RUSK'S TALK WITH GROMYKO; ECONOMIC AID FOR DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; INADEQUACY OF US PRESS BRIEFINGS; QUAYLE POLL; DEAN ACHESON'S PAPER ON VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 8412, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 7/28/1965, 7:20PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • GOLDBERG CONGRATULATES LBJ ON PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT ON VIETNAM, ABE FORTAS' APPOINTMENT TO SUPREME COURT; UN RESPONSE TO STATEMENT; GOLDBERG'S TALK WITH U THANT ON PEACE EFFORTS; AVERELL HARRIMAN'S RECENT REPORT; HOUSE REPEAL OF SECTION 14-B
Telephone conversation # 9163, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 11/12/1965, 11:22AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ'S RECOVERY FROM GALL BLADDER SURGERY; MANSFIELD'S UPCOMING TRIP TO VIETNAM; PRESS LEAKS BY SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE STAFF ABOUT ALLOCATION OF WH PLANE FOR MANSFIELD'S TRIP BUT NOT FOR FULBRIGHT'S OR WAYNE MORSE'S TRIPS; EAST-WEST TRADE
Telephone conversation # 9317, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 12/11/1965, 12:58PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM BENNETT AS AMBASSADOR TO PORTUGAL; GEORGE ANDERSON; CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS' VIEWS ON POSSIBLE NEW VIETNAM CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION, BOMBING PAUSE; LBJ'S OPPOSITION TO PAUSE; PRESS LEAKS; SCHEDULE FOR UPCOMING HAROLD WILSON
Telephone conversation # 8184, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 6/23/1965, 10:58AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK'S SPEECH; LBJ'S UN ANNIVERSARY SPEECH; AGENDA FOR MEETING ON VIETNAM, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ITEMS FOR PRESS; ARRANGEMENTS FOR REGULAR TUESDAY LUNCH MEETING; RFK'S SPEECH, LEAK OF GILPATRIC REPORT ON NON-PROLIFERATION; JOSEPH ALSOP COLUMN ON B-52
Telephone conversation # 8187, sound recording, LBJ and MCGEORGE BUNDY, 6/24/1965, 10:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE LANGUAGE IN UN ANNIVERSARY SPEECH ABOUT VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS; PRESS LEAKS FROM STATE DEPT; EAST GERMAN HELICOPTER FLIGHTS OVER WEST BERLIN; POSSIBLE MEETING OF PANEL OF CONSULTANTS ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Telephone conversation # 8103, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 6/5/1965, 4:50PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MILITARY PAY BILL; VIEWS OF DAVID BRUCE, CHARLES BOHLEN, LYMAN LEMNITZER ON PROPOSAL TO BOMB IL-28S; USSR, UK REACTION; PRESS COVERAGE OF NATO MEETING; WH MEETING TO REVIEW VIETNAM; MAXWELL TAYLOR; INCREASED CASUALTIES, VIET CONG ATTACKS; US FORCES
Telephone conversation # 10047, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE BALL, 4/22/1966, 7:15PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ DISCUSSES PAULINE FREDERICK STORY ON USSR PROPOSAL FOR PEACE TALKS IF US STOPS VIETNAM BOMBING, SUGGESTS STATE DEPT SPOKESMAN BRIEF PRESS ON NEED FOR ENEMY TO CEASE INFILTRATION ALSO; RUSK REPORTS BRIEFLY ON TRIP TO TURKEY FOR CENTO MEETING
Telephone conversation # 9893, sound recording, LBJ and HERMAN TALMADGE, 3/17/1966, 8:35AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • TRANSFER OF W. TAPLEY BENNETT FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO PORTUGAL; PRESS CRITICISM OF BENNETT; COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN US; VIETNAM BOMBING CAMPAIGN; WILLIAM FULBRIGHT; QUESTION OF CARL SANDERS RUNNING AGAINST RICHARD RUSSELL IN GEORGIA SENATE RACE
Telephone conversation # 10271, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 6/28/1966, 5:21PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • GOLDBERG'S TRIP TO GENEVA FOR ECOSOC MEETING AND MEETING WITH USSR ON OUTER SPACE TREATY; GOLDBERG'S SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE BRIEFING; GOLDBERG'S RECENT MEMO TO LBJ; LBJ SAYS HE PREFERS TO DISCUSS MATTERS VERBALLY; GOLDBERG DENIES PRESS
Telephone conversation # 9446, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 1/6/1966, 5:02PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK TELLS LBJ HE HAS NO WORD YET ON GARCIA GODOY, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; CBS STORY ON THAILAND, VIETNAM; PRESS STORIES ON BOMBING PAUSE; GOVT OPPOSITION TO PAUSE; BACKGROUND OF LBJ'S DECISION; LODGE, TIME MAGAZINE; STATE OF THE UNION; PEACE
Telephone conversation # 9478, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 1/10/1966, 9:56PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • COMPOSITION OF US DELEGATION TO FUNERAL OF INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER SHASTRI; LBJ'S RELUCTANCE TO SEND HHH; POTENTIAL REACTION OF INDIAN PEOPLE, PRESS TO HHH NOT GOING; JOHN SHERMAN COOPER; JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH; PROPOSED TRIP BY RUSK TO VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 13002, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 5/2/1968, 10:47AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • SITE FOR VIETNAM PEACE TALKS; PROBLEMS WITH WARSAW AS SITE; COMMUNISTS' MISINTERPRETATION OF PRESS STORIES; US CONTACTS WITH NORTH VIETNAMESE IN LAOS, INDONESIA; INEFFECTIVENESS OF HARRY ASHMORE; LBJ READS LETTER FROM CHARLES ROBB TO LYNDA JOHNSON
Telephone conversation # 13004, sound recording, LBJ and WALT ROSTOW, 5/3/1968, 1:00AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • ROSTOW SAYS HANOI HAS PROPOSED PARIS AS SITE FOR VIETNAM PEACE TALKS; LBJ SAYS HE PREFERS ALMOST ANY PLACE TO PARIS; QUESTION OF RESUMPTION OF BOMBING; SAN ANTONIO FORMULA; MILITARY PROGRESS IN HUE; ADVANTAGES OF PARIS OVER WARSAW AS SITE; PRESS
Telephone conversation # 13005, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR GOLDBERG, 5/3/1968, 8:43AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • GOLDBERG DISCUSSES RESPONSE TO MESSAGE FROM HANOI PROPOSING PARIS AS SITE FOR VIETNAM PEACE TALKS, SUGGESTS US ACCEPT PARIS; LBJ SAYS HE IS PREPARING FOR PRESS CONFERENCE, ASKS GOLDBERG TO READ CABLE FROM HANOI AND GIVE HIS REACTION TO TOM JOHNSON
Telephone conversation # 13006, sound recording, LBJ and CLARK CLIFFORD, 5/4/1968, 10:13AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ'S MEETING WITH BESS AND HARRY TRUMAN YESTERDAY; CLIFFORD'S HEALTH; CLIFFORD REFUTES STATEMENT ATTRIBUTED TO HIM IN NYT EDITORIAL ON VIETNAM; INCREASED ENEMY INFILTRATION IN VIETNAM BEFORE AND SINCE MARCH 31ST SPEECH; PRESS LEAKS
Telephone conversation # 11613, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 3/6/1967, 4:03PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK REPORTS ON DEFECTION OF STALIN'S DAUGHTER SVETLANA, CONCERNS ABOUT HER SAFETY; RUSK'S MEETING WITH PATRICK DEAN ON VISIT TO UK BY US OFFICIAL; PRESS LEAKS; RUSK'S SCHEDULE; SPACE TREATY; U THANT'S VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS; CONGRESSIONAL PEACE
Telephone conversation # 11524, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 2/9/1967, 9:07AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK'S VIEWS ON ALEXSEI KOSYGIN'S CALL FOR CESSATION OF US BOMBING OF VIETNAM IN SPEECH DURING VISIT TO LONDON; RUSK DISCUSSES BRITISH PEACE PROPOSAL; QUESTION OF NEED FOR BOTH SIDES TO STOP AUGMENTATION OF FORCES; WH RESPONSE TO PRESS
Telephone conversation # 11526, sound recording, LBJ and WALT ROSTOW, 2/11/1967, 9:15AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • ROSTOW READS PROPOSED INSTRUCTIONS FROM ROBERT MCNAMARA ABOUT RESUMPTION OF BOMBING IN VIETNAM AFTER CONCLUSION OF ALEXSEI KOSYGIN'S UK VISIT; LBJ ASKS ROSTOW FOR HIS ANALYSIS OF KOSYGIN-HAROLD WILSON PEACE INITIATIVE, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT PRESS
Telephone conversation # 11536, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 2/13/1967, 11:55AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCNAMARA ASKS IF WALT ROSTOW CAN DRAFT CONTINGENCY PRESS RELEASE ON VIETNAM PEACE INITIATIVE TO RESPOND TO QUESTIONS THAT WILL ARISE FOLLOWING HAROLD WILSON'S STATEMENT ABOUT HIS MEETINGS WITH ALEXSEI KOSYGIN; RESUMPTION OF BOMBING, NAVAL GUNFIRE
Telephone conversation # 11537, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 2/13/1967, 12:28PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCNAMARA REPORTS ON RESUMPTION OF BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM, READS DRAFT PRESS RELEASE; LBJ ASKS MCNAMARA TO HOLD ANNOUNCEMENT FOR A SHORT TIME BECAUSE LBJ HAS TOLD WALT ROSTOW TO CONTACT THE BRITISH
Telephone conversation # 11117, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 12/8/1966, 10:26AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • WILLIAM DOUGLAS' CALL ABOUT HARRY ASHMORE'S, WILLIAM BAGGS' PLANS TO MEET WITH HO CHI MINH IN HANOI; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT PRESS STORIES ON INDIAN FOOD SHORTAGES, DISCUSSES NEED FOR MULTILATERAL FOOD AID, INDIAN SELF-HELP; CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS ON AID
Telephone conversation # 11031, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 11/11/1966, 9:44AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • MCNAMARA REPORTS THAT HE, DEAN RUSK, WALT ROSTOW, EARLE WHEELER RECOMMEND DEFERMENT OF BOMBING OF CERTAIN TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM BECAUSE OF DIPLOMATIC CONCERNS; PROBABILITY OF FUTURE DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS; REACTION TO LBJ'S PRESS CONFERENCE
Telephone conversation # 13607, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/28/1968, 10:45AM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • RUSK SUGGESTS LBJ REMIND RICHARD NIXON OF EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION'S ROLE IN VIETNAM POLICY, SUGGESTS SEPARATE BRIEFINGS FOR CANDIDATES, CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS; USE OF "UNCONDITIONAL" IN AGREEMENT WITH NORTH VIETNAM; NEED FOR BACKGROUND PRESS
Telephone conversation # 13704, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES ROWE, 11/1/1968, 1:57PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS THAT HHH NOT MENTION VIETNAM UNTIL AFTER ELECTION DUE TO PRECARIOUS STATE OF PEACE TALKS; NEGATIVE EFFECT OF HHH'S STATEMENTS, ANNA CHENNAULT'S CONTACTS WITH SOUTH VIETNAMESE; PRESS QUESTIONS ON POLITICAL EFFECT OF BOMBING HALT; LBJ'S
Telephone conversation # 13559, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 10/17/1968, 4:47PM (Item)
  • Press relations
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK'S VIEWS ON PROGRESS AT PARIS PEACE TALKS; PRESS LEAKS; ALLEGED US DIFFERENCES WITH SAIGON; FUNDS FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT WEIZMANN INSTITUTE IN ISRAEL; NIXON'S POSITION ON VIETNAM; ABBA EBAN VISIT; SALE OF PHANTOM JETS TO ISRAEL