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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
  • conversation. And before ^the evening was over there was dancing to the piano music of an eighty-one year old German with a curly white mustache and an alpine cap and a vest that was covered with medals. He played a ll the old favorites lik e "Carolina
  • ; Lady Bird works while men talk; lunch; telephone calls about LBJ Library, LBJ Park & office business; drive through Reagan Ranch; LBJ eats dinner at Dale Malechek's; Lady Bird exercises & watches Gunsmoke; to Arthur Krim's for New Year's party
  • 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
  • Clark looking in bouncy good health, one of the most genuinely at-peace men I know. Madame Shoumatoff came in and she was indeed in a way the guest of honor this evening. She wears her considerable years lig h tly and her conversation is bright
  • Brief conference with Abe Fortas; meeting with Henry Middleton about films; meeting of LBJ Library Audiovisual Committee; to theater to view "The President's House;" office work & telephone calls; hair styled; portrait party at the White House; Lady
  • DO 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
  • the chances were of getting it out, and who was against it, and who was for it." (telephone ringing and voices in the background) "Johnson was constantly working the floor, working the cloak room, keeping in touch with the interests, the desires, the weakness
  • use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
  • 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
  • .... I I !1' 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
  • LBJ & Lady Bird review progress on Danz house; LBJ & Lady Bird to Stonewall; wildflowers and crepe myrtles for planting; LBJ & Lady Bird swim with Luci & Lyn Nugent; Lady Bird has hair styled; dinner guests; conversation about oral history project
  • being the life blood of T exas, and dams and irrigation the biggest interest Lyndon during his fir s t four ye a rs in the C on g re ss, so we had our conversation cut out for each other. . / ? And another thing, I had read with great delight aboutDr
  • 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
  • 3 Our lunch was in the Lincoln Sitting Room, the table spread by the window facing the monuments. And we used china from various Administrations, a small pleasant conversation piece for such knowledgeable people as Mr. Hoving
  • 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
  • LBJ and Lady Bird talk about many subjects; LBJ Library; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird entertains family; photographs taken outside the house; Lady Bird takes walk to birthplace home; visit
  • 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
  • ; Lady Bird describes conversation with Luther Hodges about his life; Lady Bird & LBJ to Texas; Lady Bird mentions Eric Goldman's ideas for inauguration; Prime Minister Pearson of Canada to visit LBJ Ranch the next day
  • 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
  • HOUSE WASHINGTON fMonday, June Z:4; ~ 968 And presently Luci came in. Page 6 She had been out to dinner. She curled up on the bed beside me and we had one of those long conversations which make me jokingly tell her that she is a part time
  • meeting; Lady Bird meets with recipient of Jewish Ladies "Lady Bird Johnson" scholarship; Lady Bird is interviewed about bowling by Sports Illustrated reporter; conversations with Dr. Grover about LBJ Library; LBJ & Lady Bird to Mike Monroney's party