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Listening to the Presidency

Candid, unscripted glimpses of American presidents

JFK on November 22, 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Lady Bird Johnson | Idanell B. 'Nellie' Connally
President Lyndon Johnson sits facing three civil rights workers on a couch, from left to right, Walter Fauntroy, Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Martin Luther King
President Johnson with J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | J. Edgar Hoover
Members of the Warren Commission hand LBJ the report
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Gerald R. 'Jerry' Ford Jr.
Richard Russell and LBJ talking close to each other
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard B. 'Dick' Russell Jr.
LBJ greets Jackie Kennedy at the funeral of President John Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Jacqueline B. 'Jackie' Kennedy
Tom Mann and President Johnson talk to each other at desk
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Thomas C. 'Tom' Mann
LBJ sitting and talking to Walter Heller
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Walter W. Heller
Group sitting around the LBJ Ranch living room
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Lady Bird Johnson | Albert W. 'Judge' Moursund III | Richard B. 'Dick' Russell Jr.
LBJ talks to advisers in the White House pool
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Walker Stone
Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, and Geraldine Whittington talk together at White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Whitney M. Young Jr.
Barry Goldwater and LBJ in the Oval Office looking at a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Thomas G. 'Tommy the Cork' Corcoran
Protestors in Panama
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard B. 'Dick' Russell Jr.
President Lyndon Johnson talks with Senator Richard Russell outside the White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Richard B. 'Dick' Russell Jr.
Roy Wilkins and President Lyndon Johnson lean toward each other talking
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Roy O. Wilkins
US troops in Santo Domingo, April 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson | Herman E. Talmadge