LBJ durning a phone conversation. Image is courtesy of www.utexas.edu

The final segment of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's telephone conversations -- those recorded May 1968 to January 1969 -- will be released.

Some of the conversations focused on the Vietnam War, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and LBJ's decision not to seek another term as president.

The release of the telephone conversations coincides with a domestic policy symposium and an LBJ Centennial reunion, according to the University of Texas Web site.

The recordings will be released Thursday morning at 9 a.m. at the LBJ Library at University of Texas.

The event coincides with a domestic policy symposium and a centennial reunion. The highlights of President Johnson's conversations will also be made available at this Web site.

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum of San Marcos is celebrating its second anniversary. In honor of it, the museum will hold a public reception Wednesday night along with a tree lighting ceremony.

After more than nine years of renovations and fundraising the museum opened its doors back in 2006.

The museum spotlights the former president's days in San Marcos while he attended what is now Texas State University.

Exhibits also pay tribute to LBJ's days as a public school teacher in Cotulla and Houston.

Wednesday night's second anniversary reception begins at 5 p.m. The museum is located on North Guadalupe in San Marcos's Downtown Square.

The museum is open from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. On Saturdays the hours are from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and admission is free.

	Additional Information
- 1968 was a watershed year in American history, and the final months of President Johnson's administration were filled with turbulence and crises. These events come to life in the recordings of his telephone conversations. - On March 31, 1968, President Johnson had announced to the nation that he would not seek re-election in order to devote his attention to the Vietnam War. His efforts to bring the war to an honorable conclusion dominate his conversations in these final months in office. The Vietnam War takes on even more personal significance for the President when the husbands of both of his daughters go to war. You will hear discussions of the negotiations with the North Vietnamese at the Paris peace talks, the fight within the Democratic Party among the candidates for the presidential nomination, and the decision on October 31, 1968--just days before the presidential election--to end all bombing of North Vietnam. Soon after the bombing halt begins, the Johnson administration discovers efforts by associates of Richard Nixon to influence the South Vietnamese government not to join in the Paris peace talks until after the election. - There are approximately 42 hours of recorded conversations from May 1968 through January 1969: 3 hours for May, 4 for June, 2 for July, 5 for August, 4 for September, 11 for October, 9 for November, 3 for December and 1 for January 1969. In addition, the Library will also release one conversation from June 1967 which had been dated June 1968 in error. In addition, President Johnson's staff prepared notes of 16 telephone conversations that were not recorded. Detailed information about individual conversations and a list of "Highlights" will be available in the Library's Reading Room and on the Library's Web site. (Source: University of Texas Web site)