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  • Reference No. 12907 April 21, 2008 Processing Note Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording. DATE: 4/4/68 TIME: 9:36 PM CALLER: Buford Ellington Pages of Transcript: 1 page Charlaine McCauley Archivist , .... ~ ~ ยท. From
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  • Telephone conversation # 12907, transcript, LBJ and BUFORD ELLINGTON, 4/4/1968, 9:36PM
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  • with the President over the telephone. that ~ve would have later. It was characteristic of the conversations He began by asking me whether this was ~vorse than Watts, and I told him that I thought it was probably going to be at least as bad as Watts
  • many people coming and going and coming and going. Did he talk to you about that? As far as just having a serious conversation of the whys and the wherefores and the pros and the cons, no, that never occurred. That wasn't his manner. He would
  • Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me
  • with my appointment were with the Attorney Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth of June and there began a series of conversations between us. B: Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time
  • knew he was being considered. F: Yes. S: And, I think, in conversations with him, no doubt, that was men- tioned, but as a matter of fact, the appointment came by phone. He was notified by phone; day. \'Je were at a meeting at Springfield
  • used? Y: No, not--well, you know, President Johnson was a very unusual fellow in a conversation. You'd go in with a specific item for the agenda but, depending on his most recent encounter or telephone call or something, you'd find yourself sort
  • , and also for evidential purposes. And this has never been considered illegal by our courts, where a party to the conversation consents to the transmission of the conversation. B: Even if the other parties have not? V: That's correct. B: I know
  • , and that \/as included in the speech. sa" the draft of the speech. to rr:e. I I It obviously came as a good deal of surprise irr:mediately rClr.cmbercd the conversation I had had with John Connally the:. previc s tem:K:r ",hen he told me that was a possibility
  • there were conversations to that effect. Did you talk face-to-face with Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson about this? R: No, Mr. Randolph did. group should go. I did not. The decision was that a small Therefore since Mr. Randolph and I represented the same
  • of that on television and all that. But I did not stay up there the next several days, and I had no further conversations with him after th.at about it. B: When he heard the news did he himself suggest or perhaps ask you to call Mrs. King or any of the other members
  • on national problems in the department and did not want to take on the position. I said that if the President determined that that's what he wanted me to do, I served in his administration and I would take the assignment. Stemming from that conversation were