 Telephone conversation between President Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on November 25, 1963, at 10.30 a.m. Mr. Hoover on 2383. Mr. Hoover, 2383. Two things. Apparently some lawyer injustice is lobbing the post because that's where the suggestion came from for this presidential commission, which we think would be very bad. We can't be checking up on every shooting straight in the country, but they've gone to the post now to get them an editorial, and the post is calling up saying they're going to run an editorial if we don't do things. Now we're going to do two things, and I want you to know about one. We believe that the way to handle this is, as we said yesterday, your suggestion that you put every facility at your command and make a full report to Attorney General, and then they make it available to the country in whatever form is seen, may seem desirable. Second, the state, it's a state matter too, and the state attorney general is young, and able, and prudent, and very cooperative with you. He's going to run a court of inquiry which is provided for by state law, and he's going to have to associate with him the most outstanding jury in the country, but he's a good conservative fellow. We don't start invading local jurisdictions that way, and he understands what you're doing, and he's for it, and I want you to understand what he was doing, and he's very strong for it. He's going to announce it today. Now if you get too many cooks messing with the boss, it messes it up, and I think that these two are trained organizations, and the attorney general of the state holds courts of inquiry as every time a law is violated, and the FBI makes these investigations. So I want you to know that, and you'll tell your press man that that's what's happening, and they can expect Wagner Carr, the attorney general of Texas to make an announcement this morning. They have a state inquiry, and you can offer them your full cooperation, and vice versa, he'll do it with you. We'll work together. And any influence you got with the post to have them point out to him that you don't want too many things, and just picking out a Tom J. Lawyer from New York and sending him down on the new facts, this commission thing, Mr. Herbert Hoover tried to add, and sometimes a commission that's not trained hurts more than helps. It's a regular circus then. That's right, because it'll be covered by TV and everything. Just like an investigative committee. Exactly. I don't have much influence with the post because I frankly don't read it. I know that. I knew it like a daily word. You told me that months before. I just want you people to know the facts, and hear people can say that, and that kind of negates it. Thank you. We'll take care of that. Thank you, Mr. President.