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- Issue Number LXIV December 15, 1996
President Johnson's Telephone Conversations Opened
(Pages 2-4)
Tapes Stir Scholars' and Media Interest
by Regina Greenwell
Senior Archivist
On October 11, the Johnson Library
opened for research approximately
- coverage.
Library Opens Telephone Conversations
The Library opened the first group of
telephone calls recorded by President
Johnson in the White House. They in
cluded 275 transcripts of conversations
held in the Oval Office during the last
week
- on a
selective basis, at the President's dis
cretion ... A,t Johnson's instructions,
the audio tapes and transcripts were
turned over to the LBJ Library upon
his death in 1973 and closed for 50
years.
Records of LBJ's Telephone
Conversations
During Johnson's
- Issue Number LXVI August 15, 1997
ofL/31
Library Opens More
LBJ Telephone Tapes
The library opened for research
the fifth increment of President
Johnson's White House telephone
conversations. This group of 66
tapes covers the period July
- Among
Issue
umber LXXlll, October, 2000
Three Members of the "Johnson Gang"
And the Writer Who Immortalized Them
See Page Two
White House Telephone Tapes and the "Johnson Gang"
The recordings of President
Johnson's telephone conversations
have
- . There is also a sta
tion where visitors can listen to four
of the White House telephone tapes,
which have aroused so much interest
since the Library has begun opening
them. Listeners will hear LBJ in spir
ited conversation with Martin Luther
King, Jr
- the papers
presented at the symposium.
White House Telephone Tapes Released
By Regina Greenwell. Senior Archivist
On June 8, 2001, the Johnson
Library released the latest batch of
recordings and transcripts of President
Jolrnson 's telephone conversations
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Photos by Charles Bogel
ll
LBJ Library Releases Telephone Conversation Recordings
by Anne Wheeler, Communications Director
Listen a President Lyndon John
son talks about using the "Hot
Line' for the rst time during the
Six Day War, discusses
- by Charles Bogel
6
Latest Release of LBJ Telephone Recordings
By Robi,r/ Hicks. Communications
Director
The LBJ Library released the latest
batch of President Johnson's telephone
recordings on April 30. It includes rnn
versations from April through July
- , "up
the road about half a mile."
In the wake of his smashing victory at the polls in November, 1964, LBJ
could still find a dark lining. Here is an excerpt from a telephone conversation
with George Reedy, November 16:
Their theory. which they've
- Conversations, although some
of the conversations were transcribed
by his staff, probably during prepara
tion of the President's memoirs, The
Vmllaf?e Poinl.
Calls Lothe Dominican Republic
took place over non-secure telephone
lines. Because they were concerned
- in
December A few of the topics he covered:
Reminiscence of LBJ .. We had in our family for 40 years a
remarkable woman by the name of Emily Wilson One day in the
mid-60's, I got home from the office and said t Emily, ·'Hold off
the telephone calls, Jneed
- telephone tapes, as he said in
his opening:
9
tht"
J,1hn-.on
11 ..
J
,an
t1un.
\'
- , and I went in to see him. He was on the phone all by
himself, with a list of telephone numbers, and I heard him
talking to a man who turned out to be the County Chairman
of Kansas City. He was coming up to the third term election
in I 940 and I remember
- as the continu
ing release of the LBJ White House
telephone recordings. ln September,
Lhe Archives made available the
recordings from September-October
1964, or 34 hours of presiclenti"'I
telephone conversations. About 40
per cent of the collection has now
been
- to transcribe
the entire collection of approximately
five thousand Dictabelt recordings of
LBJ's telephone conversations. Rather
than rely on the standard cassette tapes
which are available tluough the
Museum Store, the Center decided to
make their own high
- and public
judgment.
"I want to commend the trained
moderators who conducted 26 public fo
rums on America's role in tlle world over
the past three months. You've not only
provided the means for citizens to en
gage in a deliberative conversation about
- . and
Development or Industry in Central
America."
Deputy Di.rector Tina Houston pre
sented M . Warnock with a signed copy
of LBJ: The White House Years, by for
mer Library Director Harry Middleton,
and a sample CD of President Johnson ·s
telephone tape
-
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I
I
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the real belongings that were part of tne
center of power."
Exhibit de,igners made use of the latest in
audio-visual tecnniques in the effort to make a
tour of the Jonnson Library and Museum as
mucn as possible like a conversation
- of
nearly two thousand.
The
include conversations with Dean
Rusk, William Colby, Thurgo d
Marshall, and Hubert Humphrey.
Al. o available are fifty significant
entries from the President's Daily
Diary, including the week follow
ing the Kennedy assassination
- ians and then
transcribed on pap r) add much needed detail. for
the telephone has eliminated much of the m mo
writing done by former Presidents.
"What is open for investigation'?" is a timely
question. Naturally, materials which have not ye
been
- at Matthewson's Drug Store - or S era's - or
Fry Hodge to have a cherry coke or - for me, at least, a Dela
ware Punch, and catch up with all the latest conversation.
Then there were the movies - shown at "The Grand" where the magic of the motion picture brought
- in the Nixon White House. In
the summer of 1973 he became
the key witness in the Watergate
hearings, revealing the existence
of conversations tape-recorded in
the Oval Office. The next sum
mer he was again a key witness,
this time in Nixon's impeachment
- an evening
of music and reminiscences of days
in the Johnson White House and
travels around the globe in Air
Force One.
6
Historian Michael Beschloss, who
listened to and transcribed all of
President Johnson's taped tele
phone conversations released thus
- conversations. They then came in
and told me the President was dead. So much of it is vague
in my mind. But I did know that it was a time when everyone
had to be clear. And I knew we had to get back to that plane
and back to Wa hington, all of us.
When we got
- to make their point and to argue their point
in the court, particularly public opinion.
Richard Bolling:
The Haws lie not in the document and its potential - the
Haws lie in us and our elective processes. We are going to
have to go beyond conversation
- on the military side
of the budget" should be used "as
investments for rebuilding the infra
structure." Such a conversion of
funds, he submitted, "wouM also be
creating employment opportunities."
So in answer to the argument that a
"cut in military spending would
- . The sociologist Robert
Bellah reminds us that we are only able to
understand ourselves and our future in con
stant conversation with our past. "Memory and
hope," he writes, "belong together."
"This isn't about money,'' ~aid Hackney. "It is
about the soul
- education irrespective of field t\r
degree major The curriculum ),hould ensure that a graduate
with a bachelor's tkgree will be conversant with the best that
has been thought and written abuut the human rnmltllon. We
are not doing that tmlay
- ."
In Vietnam. continuing his asso
ciation with th Marines, Duncan
made his way from the landing
b·aches to the DMZ, accumulating
along th way some of his most
memorable photo .. Musing on how
death could ·trike at ra.ndom, he
recall db ing in conversation