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Telephone conversation # 121, sound recording, LBJ and HALE BOGGS, 11/29/1963, 11:30AM (Item)

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LBJ DISCUSSES APPOINTING PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION; BOGGS SAYS HE HAS DRAFTED RESOLUTION ON THIS MATTER, PRAISES LBJ'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS FOLLOWING JFK ASSASSINATION; LBJ SAYS LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILL ASK FOR LINDY BOGGS

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of political courage to do that-- to make a speech like that in Louisiana. Did you know beforehand that it was going to be that kind of speech? Bo: I had no idea what the President was going to talk about. I had been in charge of the Lady Bird train--we met

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: No. As a matter of fact, Johnson had a train that year like we had four years later when we had the Lady Bird Special--that was in the '64 campaign--and he whistle-stopped all the way down to New Orleans. 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org