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President Lyndon Johnson spoke to administration staff and supporters about foreign policies, post-election politics, possible military base closings, and Vietnam. Note: Some language may b…

President Johnson’s 1964 calls on Election Day, November 3 and the next few days, as he talks with Special Assistant Bill Moyers---running mate Hubert Humphrey-Texas Governor John Connally-a…

Walter Cronkite anchored CBS News coverage of day three of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Correspondents reported on dissent within the convention hall by anti-Vietnam W…

President Richard Nixon discussed the war in Vietnam, the 1972 campaign, his State of the Union address and his upcoming television interview with advisors and family. Note: Some language m…

President Richard Nixon talked with advisors about foreign policy issues, including Vietnam, the Middle East and India and Pakistan, as well as conversations about the defense budget and leg…

From1964, President Lyndon Johnson’s calls about the campaign and the Democratic National Convention. LBJ talked about the choice of a running mate, campaign strategy, and racial unrest arou…

This program included highlights of CBS News coverage from the last contested Republican convention. The 1976 Republican National Convention met from August 16 to August 19 in Kansas City, M…

President Richard Nixon’s November 1971 phone calls, some of the earliest available conversations with our 37th President. Topics in these calls include the economy, the education, tax and …

President Lyndon Johnson’s December 1963 calls, in the early days of his presidency. President Lyndon Johnson continued to work with, and sometimes against, Congress on passage of President…

The two-hour CBS News Extra, “November 22nd and The Warren Report,” was aired Sunday, September 27, 1964, a few days after the Warren Commission issued its report to the president, and at th…

A C-SPAN produced program on the subject of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The program included video clips of interviews of personal memories of November 22, 1963, the day…

John Connally, who served as a long-time adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson, spoke with independent producer George Colburn about the relations between President Eisenhower and Senate Majority Lea…

A portion of a telephone conversation between President Nixon and Secretary Connally was aired.

Contemporaries of former United States Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Texas, and United States Secretary of the Treasury John Connally recalled his life and government service in remarks…

Governor John Connally served as a three-term governor of the state of Texas. He discussed his years as a staffer and confidant to President Johnson and the controversial decision to name hi…

This portion of the symposium celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of President Johnson’s inauguration featured an oral history of his presidency.