The President: August 1967. MP887.
Channel: TheLBJLibrary
Date: 2013-01-09

President Lyndon B. Johnson in August 1967. MP 887. Public domain. 

This film is from the LBJ Library moving picture collection created by the White House Naval Photographic Unit, aka the Navy Films. The films consist of monthly reports on the activities of President and Mrs. Johnson from 1963-1969.

Below is an edited scene list for this film, from the LBJ Library audiovisual archives. We included useful shot descriptions where possible, although most have been cut for length. For more information please contact johnson.library@nara.gov. 

Cyrus Vance, Lt. Gen. John L. Throckmorton visit to the White House to discuss the rioting in Detroit, 8/3/1967

Footage of riot-torn Detroit, Michigan

Press conference after discussion between LBJ, Cyrus Vance, Gen. Throckmorton, White House Fish Room

LBJ in the White House Oval Office

Meeting on the status of Congressional legislation
Sec. Udall listening

Press conference on the Tax Message, White House Fish Room, 8/3/1967

Color still photographs of LBJ talking

Delegates to Girls Nation visit, White House Rose Garden, 8/4/1967

Swearing-in of Clifford L. Alexander as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, White House East Room, 8/4/1967

LBJ meeting with Sec. John Gardner and Mary Switzer, White House Oval Office

Lady Bird Johnson Trailblazer Project Trip, Anacostia, Maryland, 8/17/1967

LBJ conversing in the Oval Office

Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger (West Germany) visit to the White House, 8/15-16/1967

Arrival ceremony on the South Lawn

LBJ speaking, zoom out, pan left to Chancellor Kiesinger, Germany, listening, zoom out as LBJ finishes, Kiesinger takes the podium, zoom in, zoom out, White House South Lawn, 8/15/1967

Discussions in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room

Press conference following discussions, White House Rose Garden

Film of bombing in Vietnam War

LBJ and Sec. Robert McNamara meet, White House Oval Office

Press conference, White House East Room, 8/18/1967

LBJ, Amb. Henry Cabot Lodge, V.P. Hubert Humphrey meeting to assemble observers of the South Vietnam Elections
Montage of LBJ activities

Dissolve to a close-up of ? boy, tilt up to LBJ's face
Close-up of LBJ's hands holding a small badge which reads: "UAA"
LBJ, boy in the White House Oval Office
LBJ enter a room amid applause
LBJ standing at a podium; zoom in
Audience listening
LBJ speaking, zoom out as he leaves the podium
Pan across a crowd
Sec. Dean Rusk in the White House Oval Office
LBJ talking in the White House Oval Office
LBJ, Sec. Dean Rusk, ? talking in the White House Oval Office
LBJ, Sec. Dean Rusk talking
? pointing something out on a map to LBJ, zoom in
LBJ listening, zoom in
Gen ? talking to LBJ, zoom in to Gen.
Gen. ? pointing out something on a map to LBJ, zoom in


Medal of Honor presentation to Gunnery Sgt. Jimmie E. Howard, USMC, White House East Room, 8/21/1967

Meeting with the President's Committee on Mental Retardation to receive the Committee's first report, White House Rose Garden, 8/30/1967

Montage of LBJ Activities