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Telephone conversation # 12816, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 3/14/1968, 5:57PM (Item)
  • of an international,serious thing. We are calling all the bankers in: We have a very bad deal there. Our friend visited with Clifford this morning and I guess he has told you what has happened: D: Yes. P: They demanded a public Presidential statement calling
  • MONETARY CRISIS; CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEETING WITH RFK TODAY; RFK'S DEMAND FOR REAPPRAISAL OF VIETNAM POLICY; DEAN ACHESON'S ADVICE TO LBJ; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT HIS OWN COMMITTEE TO STUDY POLICY; RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
Folder, "October 2, 1967 - 11:50 a.m. President's meeting with Colonel Olds and Col. Cross ," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • . NOTES OF PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH COLONEL ROBIN OLDS. Colonel Olds saluted the President as he was introda.ced to the Commander in Chief by Colonel James U. Cross, Military Aide to the President. The President asked if Colonel Olds was ready for his new
Folder, "October 5, 1967 - 6:55 p.m. McNamara, Rusk, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • demand if we get to negotiate is for the complete demilitarization of the DMZ. Remember, the bombing in Laos would continue. THE PRESIDENT: Rivers came down here this morning and gave me a report in which he said we have got to "give them everything we've
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ranging from six to seven o'clock. could make the very early morning shows here. They used The wire services And even the dailies, the specials, the New York Times or the Washington Post, could make a late edition, you .see. And every other period
Telephone conversation # 13618, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:05PM (Item)
  • stop the bombing and they shell the cities, or abuse the DMZ. r I • r ! !.. -4­ When I got back to Washington from New York, I w.e nt back to the Soviet Union and pointed out that I did not want to deceive anybody and didn 1 t want them
Folder, "January 31, 1968 - 8:40 a.m. Pueblo 13 - Breakfast with Congressional Leaders & Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • : Totalitarian governments are organized with a town leader, a block leader, a precinct leader, and even a house leader. Any new individual ~M&Hl~JG ~lOTl!i COP¥idd ·H5". 0 Publicaliou Require5 Pei mission of Copy• ight Hel.l•F• >Na lhomos Johntoft - 7
Folder, "March 19, 1968 - 1:01 p.m. Tuesday lunch with Foreign Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • . The President: I think they should be called in. Secretary Rusk: Habib is seeing them. The President: I think you and Clark should see them. to seeing them myself. Secretary Rusk: I wouldn't object We need some good news from Vietnam, Buzz. General Wheeler
Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Helms, Rostow, Christian, Wheeler," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • was dramatically under­ scored by the news, which reached me on the heels of your letter, of the sinking of an Israeli destroyer in the eastern Mediterranean by an Egyptian patrol boat equipped with surface-to-surface missiles. This act of war was the most serious
Folder, "[November 4, 1967 - 2:20 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • if the proposal on the U. N. was a new one and what is the major departure from the Administration policy. The President told him "it represents neither a major nor a minor departure of this government's policy. 11 Secretary Rusk said he asked Bill Bundy, in front
Folder, "October 4, 1967 - 7:02 p.m. McNamara, Rusk, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • COPVRIGA I ED Pwi:tlieetioR Req• •iras • Pet mbsaon of COpyright Holder. W. Thomas Jolt11son SECRET EYJJB OrILY We need an imaginative new man out there for the psychological warfare end of it. We need a good _h ard reporter to put out the news. In_any
Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • shot. 11 # # # MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH MR. ST. CLAIR MCKELWAY OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ON FEBRUARY 15, 1968. Mr. McKelway: I have been on the New Yorker since 1933. These days I am a free writer on the staff. A lot of our people have been
Folder, "March 26, 1968 - 10:30 a.m. Meeting with Gen. Wheeler, JCS and Gen. Creighton Abrams," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • WHEELER: In the period from late December to late January, they moved in 30 battalions of North Vietnamese or about 18, 000 new combat troops not including support. The total with support would be about 30, 000 to 35, 000 not including fillers
Folder, "October 18, 1967 - 7:30 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Katzenbach, Rostow, Kissinger, Fortas, Taylor, Clifford," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • should tell them that we have seen nothing new out of this exchange and that we are prepared to terminate the dialogue. If they have a different idea about it, of course they are free to let us know what those ideas may be. We should say that we assume
Folder, "February 18, 1968 - 8 a.m. President's breakfast with boys on the Aircraft Carrier Constellation," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • Carolina, the boy from New York. Our folks came from different parts of the world; we are different ages; we are all equal particularly when we sit around the breakfast table on an aircraft carrier. The good Lord doesn't recognize whether you are Scotch
Folder, "October 23, 1967 - 5:36 p.m. Democratic Leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • from Hanoi is a hard one and this may be because they feel they can get a significant psychological or military victory south of the DMZ at some point. Or they may think that the political structure in the south will come apart under the new
Folder, "September 26, 1967 - 5:46 p.m. Educators from Cambridge, Mass. small colleges and Universities," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • to be informed and I am going to try to do what is right. It's knowing what is right that is important. We have got to find new ways, but I ask you what would you do if you were President tonight? Would you do the following: (1) Would you pull out of Vietnam