Presidential Recordings Program

White House Operator: He'll be with you in just a moment, sir. 

Hubert Humphrey: OK.

Telephone operators heard speaking indistinctly in the background.

President Johnson: Hello?

Humphrey: Hello, Mr. President.

Five days before the midterm election, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and President Lyndon Johnson briefly compared notes.

Recording starts after conversation has begun.

Hubert Humphrey: That was a great press conference.

President Johnson: Well, I don't know.

Senator Edward Kennedy calls Vice President Hubert Humphrey to discuss a possible compromise on his Poll Tax amendmant to the Voting Rights Bill.

Edward Kennedy: Hello? Mr. Vice-President?

Vice-President Humphrey: Yes, Ted?

Editorial Note: The State Department Office of the Historian transcribed this conversation and published the transcript in: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968: Vietnam, September 1968-January 1973.