Global Developments | The LBJ Telephone Tapes

Global Developments

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Tom Mann and President Johnson talk to each other at desk

December 9, 1963

"We've Been Talking Enough"

Lyndon B. Johnson | Thomas C. "Tom" Mann

Latin America

Protestors in Panama

January 10, 1964

“Hot as a Firecracker”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard B. "Dick" Russell Jr.

Latin America, Panama

President Lyndon Johnson talks with Senator Richard Russell outside the White House

January 15, 1964

“It’s Poison”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard B. "Dick" Russell Jr.

China

US Navy's base at Guantánamo

February 6, 1964

“I Think It’s Dynamite”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Robert S. McNamara

Latin America, Cuba

Guantanamo Bay view in 1969

February 7, 1964

“We Don’t Want Your Damn Water”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard B. "Dick" Russell Jr.

Latin America, Cuba

President Lyndon Johnson talks with Katharine M. “Kay” Graham of the Washington Post

February 19, 1964

“Before It Goes to Hell”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Thomas C. "Tom" Mann

Latin America

Belgian troops stepping off a plane in 1964

November 21, 1964

“OK, Go Ahead”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Dean Rusk | Cyrus R. “Cy” Vance

Congo

McGeorge Bundy sitting on couch next to framed photo of Lady Bird Johnson

November 23, 1964

“It’ll Hurt Us”

Lyndon B. Johnson | McGeorge "Mac" Bundy

Congo

Robert McNamara and President Lyndon Johnson talking and sitting outside

November 24, 1964

“Militarily, A Highly Successful Operation”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Robert S. McNamara

Congo

US soldiers next to a jeep in the Dominican Republic

May 5, 1965

“We Weren’t Killing Dominicans”

Lyndon B. Johnson | George H. Mahon

Latin America, Dominican Republic

President Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy

August 27, 1965

“He’s Giving Me Lots of Problems”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Dwight D. Eisenhower

RFK, Latin America, Dominican Republic

Soldiers in Vietnam

January 26, 1966

“Then We’re Really in It All”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Abraham "Abe" Fortas

Rolling Thunder, China

LBJ leaning in to talk to Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman

February 2, 1966

No “One-Way Deal”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Orville L. Freeman

South Asia, India

President Lyndon Johnson talks with former President Dwight Eisenhower

October 3, 1966

“I Didn’t Say I’d Use Atomic Bombs”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nuclear Weapons

Robert McNamara sitting and talking to LBJ standing

October 16, 1966

“A Paragraph on Nonproliferation”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Robert S. McNamara

Arms Control

LBJ and advisors sitting around a table

June 5, 1967

“Reports of Heavy Fighting”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Dean Rusk

Middle East, Six-Day War

LBJ and former President Dwight Eisenhower sitting in chairs

June 25, 1967

“We Made a Little Progress There”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Dwight D. Eisenhower

Soviet Relations, Glassboro Summit

LBJ standing and talking in front of a photo of the USS Pueblo

January 24, 1968

“We Just Have Got to Act Quickly”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Robert S. McNamara

East Asia, Pueblo Incident

Soviet tank in Czechoslavakia

August 20, 1968

“Something [on] the Order of Hungary”

Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard M. Nixon

Czechoslovakia