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- August 1968x
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- Pre-Presidentialx
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- DIRKSEN WISHES LBJ HAPPY BIRTHDAY; DIRKSEN'S OPPONENT; LBJ'S HEALTH; DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; PARIS PEACE TALKS; CANCELLATION OF POPE PAUL'S VIETNAM TRIP; ADVERSE EFFECT OF BOMBING HALT; APPOINTMENTS OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE,…
- BUSBY READS DRAFT SPEECH FOR LBJ TO DELIVER AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, RECOMMENDS LBJ DELIVER THE SPEECH TONIGHT
- DISCUSSION OF VP NOMINEES; LBJ SUGGESTS HHH CONSIDER JOSEPH ALIOTO IN ORDER TO CARRY CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, CITIES, ITALIAN VOTE; DALEY RECOMMENDS SARGENT SHRIVER; SELECTION OF NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN TO REPLACE JOHN BAILEY
- LBJ PRAISES MURIEL HUMPHREY; HHH ASKS ADVICE ON VP NOMINATION; LBJ PRAISES HHH AS VP, EMPHASIZES NEED FOR LOYALTY AND HIS REGRET ABOUT NOT APPOINTING HIS OWN MEN; POSSIBLE NOMINEES: EDMUND MUSKIE, HALE BOGGS, DANIEL INOUYE, TERRY SANFORD, FRED HARRIS
- HHH SAYS HE HAS CHOSEN EDMUND MUSKIE AS VP NOMINEE; LBJ SAYS HE WILL NOT COME TO CONVENTION TONIGHT BECAUSE IT WILL NOT HELP HHH, BUT HE WILL DO ANYTHING HE CAN TO ASSIST HHH'S CAMPAIGN
- CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE COMMUNIST INVOLVEMENT IN RIOTS AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHICAGO AND IN RIOTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; NIXON ASKS FOR MEETING WITH LLEWELLYN THOMPSON ABOUT CZECHOSLOVAKIA CRISIS
- LBJ'S MEETING WITH ANATOLY DOBRYNIN ON SOVIET INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA; US NEGOTIATIONS WITH USSR ON ARMS CONTROL ISSUES; THREAT OF SOVIET INVASION TO US INTERESTS; CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY BY DEMOCRATS; NIXON'S CONCERN ABOUT COMMENTS…