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Telephone conversation # 184, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/29/1963, 8:55PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; RUSSELL SAYS HE CANNOT SERVE ON IT WITH EARL WARREN; LBJ INSISTS RUSSELL MUST SERVE; MOURSUND ENCOURAGES HIM TO SERVE; RUSSELL RELUCTANTLY ACCEPTS
Telephone conversation # 4146, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CONNALLY, 7/3/1964, 11:38AM (Item)
  • ESTABLISHMENT OF CONCILIATION SERVICE IN TEXAS TO IMPLEMENT CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, POSSIBLE APPOINTEES: LUTHER HOLCOMB, ROBERT STOREY, SAM BLOOM; LBJ ADVISES CONNALLY TO READ RECENT NEWSWEEK ARTICLE
Telephone conversation # 3835, sound recording, LBJ and BURKE MARSHALL, 6/23/1964, 3:51PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE APPOINTEES TO HEAD COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE, INCLUDING WILLIAM SIMKIN IN LABOR DEPT; LBJ READS PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT HE MADE ABOUT MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER
Telephone conversation # 4288, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KENNEDY, 7/21/1964, 12:25PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF FEDERAL PROTECTION FOR MLK AT UPCOMING SPEECH IN GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI; RELATIONS BETWEEN J. EDGAR HOOVER, RFK, JUSTICE DEPT; NYC RIOTS, NEED FOR FBI INVESTIGATION, COMPARISON WITH SITUATION IN SOUTH; LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT
Telephone conversation # 3885, sound recording, LBJ and ALLEN DULLES, 6/23/1964, 8:53PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS TOM FINNEY WILL ASSIST DULLES AS OBSERVER OF SITUATION IN MISSISSIPPI, READS STATEMENT HE PLANS TO MAKE; RFK IS MEETING WITH LBJ, ARRANGES MEETING WITH DULLES, FINNEY TOMORROW; DULLES ASKS FOR BRIEFING MATERIAL
Telephone conversation # 3900, sound recording, LBJ and LEE WHITE, 6/25/1964, 5:57PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS UPI REPORT 148 ON DEMANDS BY SOME PARENTS FOR FEDERAL PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS; WHITE REPORTS ON MEETING WITH PARENTS YESTERDAY, ASSESSES WILLIAM HIGGS; FBI PRESENCE IN MISSISSIPPI; GOODMAN FAMILY'S REQUEST TO MEET WITH GOV
Telephone conversation # 4954, sound recording, LBJ and HALE BOGGS, 8/15/1964, 2:25PM (Item)
  • "RE SENDING IN FEDERAL TROOPS-LA."; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING; OFFICE CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE REEDY PRECEDES CALL; DURING CALL LBJ READS FROM TRANSCRIPT OF CONVERSATION WITH JOHN MCKEITHEN ON 8/07/64
Telephone conversation # 4820, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 8/8/1964, 9:58AM (Item)
  • LBJ READS HOOVER PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT ON MURDER OF CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI, NEED FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, OBEDIENCE TO LAWS; HOOVER RECOMMENDS STATEMENT OPPOSING RIOTING; LBJ PRAISES FBI WORK IN MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA; GULF OIL
Telephone conversation # 4289, sound recording, LBJ and PAUL SCREVANE, 7/21/1964, 12:35PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS FBI WILL INVESTIGATE VIOLATIONS OF FEDERAL LAW IN NYC DURING RIOTS IN HARLEM JUST AS FBI DID IN SOUTH; LBJ READS HIS PROPOSED STATEMENT
Telephone conversation # 4295, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 7/21/1964, 1:06PM (Item)
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT LBJ'S CONVERSATION WITH RFK; DISCUSSION OF ADVISABILITY OF HOOVER HIMSELF GOING TO NYC TO HANDLE INVESTIGATION OF RIOTS IN HARLEM; LBJ READS PORTIONS OF SEVERAL TELEGRAMS RECEIVED FROM PUBLIC REGARDING RIOTS
Telephone conversation # 5130, sound recording, LBJ and JAMES EASTLAND, 8/22/1964, 6:21PM (Item)
  • EASTLAND READS E. K. COLLINS' STATEMENT TO CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE ON POSITION OF REGULAR MISSISSIPPI DELEGATION; MFDP; JOE RAUH; LBJ SUGGESTS WORDING FOR STATEMENT; CANDIDATES FOR VP NOMINATION: MIKE MANSFIELD, HHH, EUGENE MCCARTHY; CATHOLIC AS VP
Telephone conversation # 7129, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/18/1965, 10:00PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS GEORGE WALLACE'S TELEGRAM REQUESTING FEDERAL CIVILIAN PROTECTION OF SELMA MARCH; LBJ AND KATZENBACH DISCUSS POSSIBLE RESPONSE, DICTATE STATEMENT TO FEHMER IN RESPONSE TO TELEGRAM; QUESTION OF WALLACE'S CALLING OUT ALABAMA NATIONAL GUARD
Telephone conversation # 7131, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 3/18/1965, 10:00PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS GEORGE WALLACE'S TELEGRAM REQUESTING FEDERAL CIVILIAN PROTECTION OF SELMA MARCH; LBJ AND KATZENBACH DISCUSS POSSIBLE RESPONSE, DICTATE STATEMENT TO FEHMER IN RESPONSE TO TELEGRAM; QUESTION OF WALLACE'S CALLING OUT ALABAMA NATIONAL GUARD
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 # 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 # 12009, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN LINDSAY, 7/27/1967, 5:02PM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS LINDSAY TO BE VICE CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION TO STUDY CIVIL DISORDERS IN WAKE OF DETROIT RIOTS, READS FROM HIS STATEMENT ON FORMING COMMISSION, DISCUSSES APPOINTING OTTO KERNER TO CHAIR COMMISSION AND POSSIBLE OTHER MEMBERS
Telephone conversation # 11409, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 1/25/1967, 8:22PM (Item)
  • LBJ SAYS BOBBY BAKER CASE WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED; LBJ READS NEW HARRIS POLL SHOWING DROP IN RFK'S POPULARITY FOLLOWING WILLIAM MANCHESTER BOOK CONTROVERSY; LBJ'S STANDINGS IN POLL; RFK'S UPCOMING TRIP TO EUROPE
Telephone conversation # 3831, sound recording, JACK VALENTI and ROBERT KENNEDY, 6/23/1964, 3:11PM (Item)
  • RFK RECOMMENDS THAT LBJ PUBLICLY EXPRESS PERSONAL CONCERN ABOUT MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS, JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER, POSSIBLY MEET WITH THEIR FAMILIES, TALK WITH GOV. PAUL JOHNSON; VALENTI READS LBJ'S PRESS CONFERENCE
Telephone conversation # 3832, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 6/23/1964, 3:35PM (Item)
  • STATUS OF SEARCH FOR JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN, MICHAEL SCHWERNER; KATZENBACH'S ADVICE ON WHETHER LBJ OR LEE WHITE SHOULD MEET WITH THEIR PARENTS; WILLIAM RYAN, OGDEN REID; LBJ READS PRESS CONFERENCE STATEMENT; RFK'S, KATZENBACH'S MEETING
Telephone conversation # 4292, sound recording, LBJ and J. EDGAR HOOVER, 7/21/1964, 12:40PM (Item)
  • LBJ READS HIS PROPOSED STATEMENT ON NYC RIOTS, ASKS HOOVER TO CONTACT NYC OFFICIALS ABOUT NEED FOR FBI TO INVESTIGATE THERE AS IN SOUTH; HOOVER OFFERS TO GO TO NYC; NEED TO PROVIDE FEDERAL PROTECTION FOR MLK AT UPCOMING SPEECH IN GREENWOOD
Telephone conversation # 10011, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 4/3/1966, 9:22AM (Item)
  • WIRTZ READS PROPOSED WH STATEMENT AND CABLE FROM LBJ ON ENDING BLFE UNION RAILROAD STRIKE, REVIEWS COURT ACTION; LBJ QUESTIONS NEED FOR PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTION; COMPARISON WITH NYC TRANSIT STRIKE; EFFECT OF STRIKE ON VIETNAM; JOHN MCCORMACK'S
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/1/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Visit by Mayor Robert Wagner and sons; LBJ & Lady Bird to memorial service for Senator Clair Engle; lunch; Lady Bird reads "When the Cheering Stopped"; dinner with Anthony Celebrezze, Willard Wirtz, Dick Goodwin and their wives; Robert Wagner