LBJ and James Eastland, 6/23/64, 3:59P.

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Telephone Conversation between President Johnson and James Eastland.
Citation No.: 3836
June 23, 1964
Time: 3:59P
Speakers: President Johnson and James Eastland
General Topics Agriculture; Appointments & Nominations; Civil Rights; Congressional Relations; Crime & Law Enforcement; Elections; Investigations; National Politics; Prepresidential
Topics Mississippi, Texas Drought; Search For James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner; Eastland's View Of Situation As Publicity Stunt; LBJ Asks Eastland's Advice About Calling Gov. Johnson; Candidates To Head Community Relations Service; Leroy Collins
More info on the LBJ telephone conversations: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...
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@frederickrapp5396 3 жыл бұрын

Jim Eastlund said “there was nothing to it.” Boy, was he wrong.

@stevenhall9009 3 жыл бұрын

They say hindsight is 20/20. Today we know that everyone who said back then, it was a publicity stunt, the kids weren't really missing, they were hiding. We now know that those people were complicit in their murders. This includes the senator speaking on the line.

@Dreadandcircuses 5 жыл бұрын

The Klan was clearly active in that part of Mississippi (and there was nothing preventing them from coming in from another part of the state or another state altogether even if the they weren't, which they were) and Eastland was one of the top leaders of the White Citizens' Council, a fact I assume he would've publicized pretty widely.

@edhunt1215 3 жыл бұрын

Love listening to these old phone calls as history was being made. He a god damn lied just love that

@bradleyholt9805 4 жыл бұрын

Who would harm 'em? Eastlund's friend, Edgar Ray Killen.

@nadiazahroon6573 3 жыл бұрын

I love these recordings. Why is the color of the skin so damn threatening. We all deserve a happy life.

@ephemeralesoteric 3 жыл бұрын

The idea that race is just the color of the skin is the biggest lie ever told.

@davidholler1 3 жыл бұрын

Johnson: That depends on the kind of men.

@samsum3738 2 жыл бұрын

Just 2 good ol ' boys , yackin' away the day .

@mortensenegbert6619 11 жыл бұрын

Two bull-headed old Southerners circling and testing each other, with colorful pleasantries ("When you get through using that rain in Mississsippi, send some over to Texas") thrown in to keep it cordial. One of the great ironies of American history that a Southern Democrat like LBJ was responsible for the two great legislative milestones securing legal rights for Black Americans. And he did it by amiably crossing segregationsts like Eastland. And they probably remained friends.

@marypirrello8541 6 жыл бұрын

he was saying no Klan in Mississippi. didn't hear him say Philly except to say they were in jail there originally doesn't know what happened after that referring to his state. bit ambiguous.

@wesleywalker1594 6 жыл бұрын

LBJ was definitely not a racist. He was far from it. If he were there wouldn't have been a civil rights act or voting rights act. Eastland is another story

@stephenbrand5661 5 жыл бұрын

Mary Pirello Philadelphia, MS not PA

@ljones436 5 жыл бұрын

Most Southerners don't consider Texas to be Southern. Geographically it's in the south of course. Culturally, it's quite different. Texas is Texas. When we Southerners refer to the South we mean generally mean the Southeast as well as Arkansas and Louisiana. Texas is more western than Southern.

@robertfishman3742 5 жыл бұрын

Wesley Walker LBJ was a Southerner when it was in his political interests to be a Southerner and a Westerner when it was in his political interest to be a Westerner. Robert Caro does a great job of explaining this in his series on LBJ.

@MetatronsRevenge613 2 жыл бұрын

0:25 my cotton is burnt up. Karam is a b word

@docmalthus 4 жыл бұрын

This shows that it takes a Texan to handle a Southerner

@billygiles3276 4 жыл бұрын

Lbj was a corrupt murderer and by the way Texas IS in the south.

@davidpierce8942 4 жыл бұрын

Texas is just as southern as any other state in Dixie they just have more of a western type of style. If you watch the footage when Jfk arrived in Dallas he was greeted to several confederate flags and very few American flags.

@yellyman5483 3 жыл бұрын

@@billygiles3276 Maybe LBJ was a corrupt murderer, but he was the corrupt murderer who secured civil rights to the USA. It couldn`t have been done by any other president than him. LBJ was a political genius.

@stephdrake2521 2 жыл бұрын

What’s funny about murder … again, this is why nothing was done. Everybody just good ole friends…… sad place to live and grow especially if you are black.