Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings. 11/22/1963 - 1/3/1969. White House Telephone Recordings and Transcripts. 11/22/1963 - 1/3/1969. Recording of Telephone Conversation from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to President Lyndon B. Johnson at 9:15 p.m.

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Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings. 11/22/1963 - 1/3/1969. White House Telephone Recordings and Transcripts. 11/22/1963 - 1/3/1969. Recording of Telephone Conversation from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to President Lyndon B. Johnson at 9:15 p.m.

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This recording contains a conversation between President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara regarding U.S. retaliation after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. In this conversation, McNamara called LBJ to report on the delay in launching U.S. aircraft in retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam following alleged attacks against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin earlier that day. Because of the delay, McNamara recommended that LBJ delete references concerning the targets of the strikes from the statement to the American people that LBJ would soon be making. LBJ and McNamara also discussed LBJ's efforts to contact Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater to inform him of U.S. retaliatory actions and the wording in LBJ's statement about his consultations with Goldwater. LBJ asked McNamara if U.S. forces would be endangered if he delivered his statement at that time.

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