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… electoral victory in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, President Reagan took a congratulatory phone call from Mexican president Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. Both leaders expressed …

Conversation with DEAN RUSK and OFFICE CONVERSATION, November 28, 1966

Meeting with Paul G. Hoffman—March 5, 1955

'Gnawing Away at Your Guts'

… President Jimmy Carter reflected on the underlying feeling of …

Forging Bipartisanship

… elected House minority leader Gerald R. Ford [R-Michigan], President Johnson pledged to consult with Republicans on U.S. …

'You Could Have Said Yes'

… The Reykjavik, Iceland, summit between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev …

'We Regret Very Much the Embarrassment'

… President Reagan explained to British prime minister Margaret …

Meeting with Paul G. Hoffman—March 5, 1955 (part 2)

Meeting with Representative Frances Bolton and James C. Hagerty—January 19, 1955

'Call the Families'

… in an earthen dam outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi, President Johnson directed White House counsel Lee C. White …

'This Means Murder'

… James L. Farmer Jr. for a meeting at the White House, President Johnson vented to counsel Lee C. White about the …

'Love and Prayers'

… Some 30 minutes after leaving Dallas, Texas, the site of President John F. “Jack” Kennedy’s assassination hours earlier, President and Lady Bird Johnson placed a telephone call to …

Meeting with Leonard Hall, Sinclair Weeks and Robert Murray—January 4, 1955

'The Coup in Saigon'

… after learning of the assassinations of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Nhu—and two days … Dương Văn “Big” Minh had personally ordered their murders—President Kennedy dictated a memorandum giving his version of …

'A Pretty Worthwhile Undertaking'

… Robert F. Kennedy, who had communicated previously with President Johnson about the underperformance of U.S. athletes …

'This Is Treason'

… Three days before the 1968 presidential election, President Johnson contacted Senate Minority Leader Everett M. … contacts between Nixon ’ s campaign and South Vietnamese president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu that urged Thiệu to thwart any …

'A Regular Circus'

… President Johnson called FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to … decided on now that Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspect in President John F. “Jack” Kennedy's assassination, had been …

'If It’s Signed Today'

… President Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. “Bobby” …