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- Seminar.
The
date is February 24; the time is 4:15 in the afternoon; and my name is
David McComb.
First of all, Dr. Halperin, I'd like to know something about your
background--where you were born and when?
H:
I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois
- need to to
talk to Congressmen and their new school people that are coming up, at
any time, at their convenience, in the Congressman's office, a hotel,
wherever it was.
We try to be accommodating.
And I think in the
last year of the Johnson
- of the Civil Rights Bill; regulations; Southern Congressmen; influence of Congressmen; busing controversy; problem of selective enforcement; court decisions; Chicago case; Whitten rider; school desegregation; resignation; John Gardner; Wilbur Cohen
- school people, some of the welfare
agencies and other groups from each of the towns--there was Detroit,
New Haven, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.
We had them in here and we sat
down for several days with each one, a couple days at least with
each one, and we
- 1968 when you were defeated for
reelection.
I'd like to begin the interview and just ask you what made you decide
to enter public life and politics back in 19391
M:
I had been a political writer on the old Oklahoma News, had covered a number
- following the cocktail party.
It was at the first of these evening sessions that I attended that we made a motion
to defer for a day or two the crucial vote on Article 50, an article which would have
embodied the quite new and quite controversial doctrine
- , but that they wouldn't get anything out of us that they'd like any
better, and they'd better just go with State and with Navy.
The reason we did this was because we wanted to keep our powder dry in the
event of a new kind of question in a different context where we might
