Lyndon B. Johnson - Presidential Recordings
Between 1963 and 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson secretly recorded roughly 800 hours of conversations. The collection primarily consists of telephone recordings that Johnson made during his time in office. In 1968, Johnson began recording meeting conversations. The original Johnson recordings are housed at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin Texas. Archivists there are currently processing the recordings. To date, they have released the telephone recordings from November 23, 1963 through July of 1966.
In 1998, the Miller Center began work on the secret White House recordings produced between 1940 and 1973 through the Presidential Recordings Project (now the Presidential Recordings Program or PRP). The PRP is dedicated to making presidential recordings accessible through accurate transcriptions, helpful annotations and downloadable audio files.
The Johnson Presidential Library hosts a searchable online database that can be used to search the over 6,000 conversations currently available. The database may difficult for first-time users, so we have created a help page with instructions on searching the collection.
If you already know which conversations you would like to listen to, or if you would simply like to browse the collection please use the links below to navigate.
