White House Tapes: LBJ

Of all the challenges Lyndon Johnson faced when he became president in 1963, none would hound him more than the question of what to do in Vietnam. LBJ was an expert politician, and he had a vision for a new, New Deal America. But he could not figure out how to win the war in Vietnam, or pull the United States out. If there were one single tool of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, it was the telephone. "As president, Lyndon Johnson used the telephone like an assault weapon," writes historian William Doyle. "He didn't just pick up the telephone, he grabbed the telephone," a witness to Johnson's phone style said. Former aides recall Johnson practically crawling through the wire to bully, cajole, and persuade people.

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Transcript: LBJ Takes Office

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LBJ: Jackie Kennedy Conversations

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

01-09
02:54

Speech: LBJ Addresses Congress after Assassination

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Executive Decision to Appoint Russell to Warren Commisson

01-09
17:48

LBJ Orders Slacks

01-09
04:39

LBJ Addresses Congress Days After Assassination

01-09
24:23

J. Edgar Hoover Suggests 'Bulletproof Car'

01-09
01:42

LBJ Calls Jackie Kennedy on Dec. 2, 1963

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

01-09
02:03

LBJ Solicits Loyalty from Kennedy Aide

01-09
00:49

Supreme Court Justice and LBJ Talk the Night of JFK's Assassination

01-09
02:20

Transcript: LBJ Civil Rights Conversations with Governors Ellington & Wallace

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Transcript: LBJ Addresses Congress

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Transcript: "Our God Is Marching On!" Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech

01-09
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Selma Speech "Our God Is Marching On!"

Selma Highway 80 Montgomery Alabama State Troopers white segregationists murder segregationist

01-09
03:40

Hoover Informant

Selma Highway 80 Montgomery Alabama State Troopers white segregationists murder segregationist

01-09
01:42

LBJ and Buford Ellington Discuss Selma March with George Wallace

Selma Highway 80 Montgomery Alabama State Troopers white segregationists murder segregationist

01-09
22:14

Martin Luther King, Jr. Selma Speech "Our God Is Marching On!"

Selma Highway 80 Montgomery Alabama State Troopers white segregationists murder segregationist

01-09
03:40

LBJ and former TN Gov. Buford Ellington discuss Wallace double-cross

Selma Highway 80 Montgomery Alabama State Troopers white segregationists murder segregationist

01-09
03:40

LBJ Address Congress and Nation Opposing Segregation

Selma Highway 80 Montgomery Alabama State Troopers white segregationists murder segregationist

01-09
45:09

LBJ: Road from Selma

Selma Highway 80 Montgomery Alabama State Troopers white segregationists murder segregationist

01-09
42:04
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