Telephone conversation # 13702, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/1/1968, 11:38AM

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Title:

Telephone conversation # 13702, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 11/1/1968, 11:38AM

Duration: (min: sec):

16:01

Reference No.:

13702

Description:

DISCUSSION OF LBJ'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF BOMBING HALT, CANDIDATES' REACTIONS; CREIGHTON ABRAMS' STRATEGY; SOUTH VIETNAM'S RELUCTANCE TO JOIN PEACE TALKS FOLLOWING CONTACTS WITH NIXON'S ASSOCIATES; NGUYEN VAN THIEU'S DEMANDS; STATUS OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Contributor:

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971

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 1

Speaker 2:

RICHARD RUSSELL

Location of Speaker 1:

Mansion, White House, Washington, DC

Subject:

Communist bloc; Congressional relations; Defense; Diplomacy; East Asia and the Pacific; Elections; Investigations; National politics; Southeast Asia; LBJ speeches and statements; USSR and Eastern Europe; Vietnam; Vietnam criticism

Archivist's General Note:

"LD"; "IN WINDER, GEORGIA"; "SUMMARIZED" WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE CONTAINING DICTABELT; "NOV. 1, 1968 1ST PART OF SEN. RUSSELL" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER; SELECTED AS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION COLLECTION

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted, see copyright note in Collection Description

Specific Item Type:

Telephone conversation

Type:

Audio

Format:

Dictation belt

Identifier:

tel-13702

Date:

1968-11-01

Location(s):

Washington, DC

Time Period:

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

Transcript:

Transcribed by LBJ's staff. Transcript not yet digitized.