Instead, we observe how he abruptly established a federal commission headed by a very reluctant chief justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren. We eavesdrop on all the conversationsincluding those with leading journaliststhat persuaded Johnson to abandon his initial plan to let Texas authorities investigate the assassination. Kennedy, which flared instantly into animosity the genuine warmth of his dealings with Jacqueline Kennedy his contact with the FBI and CIA directors and the advice he sought from friends and mentors as he wrestled with the painful transition. The transcripts illuminate Johnson's relationship with Robert F. The transcripts begin on the day of the assassination, and reveal the often chaotic activity behind the scenes as a nation in shock struggled to come to terms with the momentous events. But for millions of Americans I was still illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne….The whole thing was almost unbearable." In this book, Max Holland, a leading authority on the assassination and longtime Washington journalist, presents the momentous telephone calls President Johnson made and received as he sought to stabilize the country and keep the government functioning in the wake of November 22, 1963. As Johnson himself said later, "I took the oath, I became president. Kennedy to Johnson was arguably the most wrenching and, ultimately, one of the most bitter in the nation's history. Johnson regarding the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath.
A major work of documentary historythe brilliantly edited and annotated transcripts, most of them never before published, of the presidential conversations of Lyndon B.
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