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Lyndon Johnson: “I said you had a little trouble talking Ed back in from his walk the other day, do you think you might be able to…”

On the recordJune 6, 1965
I said you had a little trouble talking Ed back in from his walk the other day, do you think you might be able to persuade him to come up to see me this week if I can get down to Texas?
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Telephone Conversation Between the President and Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White

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