 Telephone conversation between President Johnson and Senator James Eastland on November 29, 1963, at 7.03 p.m. Here's what I'm going to announce in a few minutes, and I want to... The president announced the appointing special commission study of all facts and circumstances relating to the assassination of the late president and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with assassination. The president stated the majority of minority leaders of the Senate and House representatives have been consulted to respect the proposed special commission. The members of the special commission are Chief Justice Warren, Senator Richard Russell, Senator John Cooper, Representative Hale Boggs, Representative Gerald Ford, Hon. Alan Dulles, Hon. John J. McClaw. Now we had to have a justice, and then I wanted to have the head of the CIA committee in the Senate that controlled all the money and that they report to. I thought I'd get to Cooper because he'd had the international experience because there's Russian things getting in it. I got Boggs. He's been talking over there and Ford handles the money on appropriations, and then Dulles' ex-CIA and John McClaw help it from an international standpoint a little bit. It gives us... It's true that if you put Harlem on that, it's better wine. Well... See, wine made up political. Kennedy was political. Yeah, but I've got to get the top one, and he's the chief. Well, that's true. That's true, and he... None of them ought to do it, but I've got to do it, and you've got to protect my flank over in the Senate now. I'll do that. Thank you, Jim.