P315 4-Tel 315 Tue 21 Jan C4 18:54:46 Preview SECRET HISTORY Hello, Mr President 21.00-22.00 Tonight Charles Whjelet presents this revealing trawl through 200 hours of recently declassified tapes of President Johnson's telephone conversations. Key Johnson aides, such as his personal secretary, Marie Fjhmjr, add their recollections to the programmj. Having ordered the White House to tape his calls within days of his becoming president in 1963, Johnson conducted a huge amount of business on the phone. Films on 4 today 306 1/3 Next preview C4Tomorrow Subtitles A-ZP315 4]Tel 315 Tue 21 Jan C4 18:51:29 Preview *' x SECRET HISTORY Hello, Mr President 21.00-22.00 Tonight Secret History hears from insiders of the resentment felt bz the JFK staff towards Johnson's entourage. The new President's phone conversations reveal a man who was keen to escape from the shadow of his predecessor, and set out his own priorities for America. Thjsj conversations become especially revealing during the period when Bobby Kennedy was preparing to run for the presidency, with Johnson accusing Kennedy of trying to re-write history. Films On 4: see 306 and 307 2/3 Next preview C4Tomorrow Subtitles A-ZP315 4-Tel 315 Tue 21 Jan C4 18:54:17 Preview *' x SECRET HISTORY Hello, Mr President 21.00-22.00 Tonight Johnson's phone conversations reveal that hj originally wanted the FBI's J Edgar Hoover to conduct the inquiry into the Kennjdz assassination. The President also boasts of having reduced Chief Justice Warren to tears, to persuade him to chair the inquiry. As well as recording Johnson's attempts to pjtsuade or bully Congressmen into supporting his Civil Rights Bill, the tapes reveal the Administration's amazing ignorance of the Vietnam War. Subtitles 888 3/3 Next preview C4Tomorrow Subtitles A-Z