This collection, the Post-Presidential Central Files, served as the main collection for non-security classified materials created or collected by President Lyndon B. Johnson and his staff after he left the White House and returned to Austin, Texas at the end of his term on January 20, 1969. Although the bulk of the collection consists of correspondence answered by the former president and his staff, it also includes inter-office memorandums and a variety of other materials. This collection includes personal correspondence with Johnson's friends and associates and former members of the Johnson administration as well as correspondence with the general public.

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This collection consists primarily of weekly intelligence briefings on worldwide events prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and forwarded to former President Lyndon B. Johnson by the National Security Council. It also contains cables and reports from the Department of State and the Department of Defense concerning Vietnam.

For complete collection description, visit the National Archives Catalog. [NAID 7348620]

Mostly transcripts and background material for a series of interviews with Lyndon B. Johnson conducted by Walter Cronkite. The interviews concern Johnson's decision not to run for president in 1968, the bombing halt, the John F. Kennedy assassination and the presidential transition, civil rights, politics, space, and Harry Truman.