Telephone conversation # 5600, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 9/18/1964, 6:26PM

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Title:

Telephone conversation # 5600, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 9/18/1964, 6:26PM

Duration: (min: sec):

6:06

Reference No.:

5600

Description:

UPDATE ON LATEST ALLEGED ATTACK IN TONKIN GULF; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT INTERFERENCE ON TELEPHONE LINES, EXPRESSES SKEPTICISM ABOUT ATTACK; MELVIN LAIRD'S CHARGE THAT FEDERAL WORKERS ARE USED FOR POLITICAL TASKS; TOM GATES' CRITICISM OF MCNAMARA'S STATEMENT

Contributor:

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; McNamara, Robert Strange, 1916-2009

Collection:

Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

White House Telephone Recordings and Transcripts

Speaker 1:

LBJ

Who Placed the Call?:

Speaker 2

Speaker 2:

ROBERT MCNAMARA

Location of Speaker 1:

Oval Office or unknown location

Subject:

Congressional relations; Defense; Elections; National politics; Press relations; Vietnam; Vietnam criticism; White House administration

Archivist's General Note:

"? MCGEO. BUNDY" WRITTEN ON SLIP AND "6:26 F SECY. ROBT. MCNAMARA" CROSSED OUT, BUT CONVERSATION IS WITH MCNAMARA, NOT BUNDY; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted, see copyright note in Collection Description

Restriction:

A (National Security)-SANITIZED

Specific Item Type:

Telephone conversation

Type:

Audio

Format:

Dictation belt

Identifier:

tel-05600

Date:

1964-09-18

Time Period:

Presidential (Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 20, 1969)

Citation

Telephone conversation # 5600, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 9/18/1964, 6:26PM, Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed May 05, 2024, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/tel-05600