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www.whitehousetapes.org

WhiteHouseTapes.org is the website administered by the Presidential Recordings Program of the Miller Center of Public Affairs. It contains all of the LBJ recordings in 3 different digital formats, a short history of the LBJ tapes, an LBJ research page, and a number of other features. I encourage you to use it.

Key Published Collections:

• Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary.
• Michael L. Gillette, ed., Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History.
• Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography.
• Public Papers of the Presidents. [see also http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/site/docs/index_pppus.php]
• Kenneth W. Thompson, ed. The Johnson Presidency: Twenty Intimate Perspectives of Lyndon B. Johnson. 1986. (please be aware that this .pdf is 12.5 MB. It may download very slowly depending on your connection speed)
• Kenneth W. Thompson, ed. The Kennedy Presidency: Seventeen Intimate Perspectives of John F. Kennedy. 1985. (14 MB .pdf)

Other Key Collections:

• Daily Diary Series, Lyndon B. Johnson Library. [copies at Miller Center]
• White House versions of Transcripts of Telephone Conversations, White House Series. [copies also at Miller Center]
• Congressional Quarterly Almanac, Narrative of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [warning: over 6MB]
• Congressional Quarterly Almanac, Narrative of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [warning: over 4 MB]
• Finding Aid for War on Poverty microfilm collection of LBJ Library documents.

Miller Center Resources:

• Audio Files of LBJ Tapes. [after page appears, click on telephone conversations link]
• Time Codes for LBJ conversations, through August 1965 (.pdf)
• Time Codes for LBJ conversations, through August 1965 (MS Word document).[almost 7MB]
• Time Codes for LBJ conversations, through August 1965 (MS Excel).
• Civil Rights--LBJ Library Conversation Descriptions, November 1963-July 2, 1964 [requires password if not registered in the class]
• Civil Rights--LBJ Library Conversation Descriptions, July 3, 1964-March 1966 [requires password if not registered in the class]
• Poverty--LBJ Library Conversation Descriptions. [requires password if not registered in the class]

Web Links »

• LBJ Library [Website: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/]
• LBJ Library Research Page
• Oral Histories Page
• Telephone conversation search engine, http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/search/dictabelt/dicta_search.html
• Transcripts of Telephone Conversations, White House Series. [TBA, whitehousetapes.org]
  - UVA has some microfilm of some manuscript material from the LBJ Library. See applicable collections in the list below.
• CSPAN website of LBJ recordings.
• CSPAN search engine. A good place to sample conversations. Includes short descriptions. The site is not comprehensive. whitehousetapes.org has a comprehensive database of the LBJ recordings.
• The Virtual Vietnam Archive, project of Texas Tech University.
• Network News Archive, Vanderbilt University. after August 1968.
• The Living Room Candidate. Presidential Campaign Television Advertisements, American Museum of Moving Images.
  
  
• John F. Kennedy Library
• John F. Kennedy Library's online exhibit on Ole Miss crisis
• FBI FOIA Electronic Reading Room » useful for Civil Rights topics. Search for individual names, organizations, or episodes.
• Justice Department Synopsis of Voting Rights Act. http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.htm
• National Security Archive » useful mainly for foreign policy topics and Space Program. Access to the massive document collections is available through UVa Library's VIRGO catalog (use "national security archive" as a keyword search and then use the "internet" entries).
• CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence » several document collections available online.
• National Security Archive
• History and Politics Out Loud--Great for Speeches.
• Census Data--Metropolitan Racial and Ethnic Change, Lewis Mumford Center
• Congressional Biographies

• Reporting Civil Rights Project, collections of news reports on CR. Miller Center Library has copies of the volumes.
• Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women's Work
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
• Academic Information: African-American History
• African-American History Links
• Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi--U. of Southern Miss.
• CRM Oral History--U. of Southern Miss
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans Site
• Radical Information Project--Black Radicalism
• Civil Rights Act--Synopses and Some full documents

General Tools, Bibliographic Tools [require proxy server if not on grounds]:

• Proquest Historical Database, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post from 1857 to present.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
• Info-trac.
• Dissertation Abstracts
• Digital Dissertations

Alderman primary resources:

The Virginia Newspaper Project

Newspapers: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/permic/newspapers.html

African-American studies http://www.lib.virginia.edu/permic/afamstudies.html

U.S. history: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/permic/history_us.html

Microfilm page for International Relations. CIA reports, LBJ National Security files, various State Department files, National Security Council histories of Vietnam.

-American Public Opinion Data Library has: 1983-1990, 556 fiche Micfich S-286
-Americans for Democratic Action. Papers, 1932-1965. 142 reels Micfilm 1180
-Columbia University Oral History Collection Library has: parts 1-6, 1221 fiche Micfich 353
-Dulles, John Foster. Minutes of Telephone Conversations of John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter (1953-1961) 11 reels Micfilm 1840
-Dulles, John Foster. The J. F. Dulles oral history 13 reels Micfilm 5855
-Dulles, John Foster. Papers, Selected Correspondence and Related Material, 1891-1959 67 reels Micfilm 5856
-Dulles, John Foster. Papers of John Foster Dulles and of Christian A. Herter, 1953-1961: Chronological Correspondence Series 24 reels Micfilm 1837
-Dulles, John Foster. Papers of John Foster Dulles and of Christian A. Herter, 1953-1961: White House Correspondence and Memoranda Series 9 reels Micfilm 1838
-Eisenhower, Dwight D. Diaries, 1953-1961 28 reels Micfilm 1839
-Memos of the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs: McGeorge Bundy to President Johnson, 1963-1966. 4 reels Micfilm 2136
-Oral Histories of the Johnson Administration, 1963-1969 39 reels Micfilm 5908

- The files of Walter W. Heller during his term as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-1964

-Papers of the Federal Reserve System: Part 2: Minutes of Meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, 1923-1975. 32 reels Micfilm 1485
-Papers of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy 24 reels Micfilm 1618
-Political Activities of the Johnson White House, 1963-1969 67 reels Micfilm 5910

-President John F. Kennedy's Office Files, 1961-1963
see publisher description
103 reels Micfilm 5899

-Public Statements by the Secretaries of Defense. Parts 1-5 (1947-1981) 71 reels Micfilm 1637
-Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Meetings of the JCS 8 reels Micfilm 1752
-Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Strategic Issues, Section 1 12 reels Micfilm 1750
-Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Strategic Issues, Section 2 14 reels Micfilm 1751
-Students for a Democratic Society Papers, 1958-1970. 41 reels Micfilm 980
-U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam, 1954-1975. 21 reels Micfilm 2132
-Vietnam, the Media and Public Support for the War 11 reels Micfilm 1968
-War on Poverty, 1964-1968: Selections from... the Lyndon Johnson Library. 41 reels Micfilm 5909

Audio Software »

For general playing of audio files, any of the players below should suffice. For detailed transcribing or summarizing, one of the wave editors like Cool Edit 200 (or others at CNET's Download.com) is recommended since it will give you greater control over playback along with a visual representation of the sound file.

• WinAmp (free)
• Windows Media Player (free)
• Cool Edit 2000 (trial version available)
• Wave editors at CNET's Download.com (licenses vary)
• FreeAmp (free)
• Real One Player (free version available)
• Apple QuickTime (free version available)