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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and the role of the cities became considerably different. Today we have, for instance, in the New York metropolitan area, as the most clear-cut example, situations where New York and Connecticut and New Jersey simply cannot act independently of each other
  • of Businessmen (NAB) and compensation of its members; how OLC helped NAB and a housing commission avoid a conflict-of-interest pay problem; subsidizing new businesses in low-income areas or offering tax incentives to business owners to involve the poor
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Gordon [?], Ralph McGill, Maurice Templesman, and Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey--former Governor Robert Meyner of New Jersey. He also puts on ex officio the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Secretary
  • of Congress and the executive branch in developing new legislation; Congress' ability to draft legislation; statutory commission funding; Wozencraft's involvement on the tripartite Commission on Political Activity of Government Personnel; the Commission's
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was practicing law, simply on some sort of business or other, and my mother and father were invited to the home of the Johnsons for a quite large party which they gave for three new congressmen from Texas. B: That would have been to the Ranch? W
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . This is an interesting situation because it brings to bear almost every part, every major branch, of our federal government. Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the airlines were in considerable need of financial assistance to pay for the heavy new load of equipment
  • to permit supplemental carriers to charter planes to travel agents for domestic travel; the president's required approval of foreign charter permits; the airlines' appeal to the Second Circuit in New York of the District of Columbia court's decision
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it was 1964, in order to get more scientific exploration of the new hallucinogens, such as LSD. It also had a policing role, however, which in many respects was similar to what Bureau of Narcotics traditionally had performed in Treasury as to the narcotic
  • for the plan; the Office of Legal Counsel's role in approving the plan of reorganization and drafting the executive order; constitutional arguments for and against the Plan of Reorganization Act; the new joint organization director's pay grade; the Civil
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the creation of new laws. Too many people think that laws come only from Congress. It's true that statutes come only from Congress, and then with presidential signature, or at least approval. But there is a very substantial body of what can properly be called
  • assassination; the occasional need to make sure the president understands the situation about which he is making a decision; the president's authority in lawmaking; interagency action; the 1967 New Town in Town program at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the problems would deserve. Many things where we did not yet know exactly how he would view them. It wouldn't have been nearly as bad later on, and as it was, it was easier than if Mr. Clark had come in new. The fact that he had been there and that we'd worked
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the program. We scored a touchdown on this particular program on the last day of the Johnson Administration, by getting an executive order issued, which did create the commission, but which left the appointment of its members to the new president, so
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of operation. There's nothing structured about it. The whole idea is to get from within government the ferment, the yeast, the new ideas that produce something with which the President can go to the Congress saying, "This is what I am going to do
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 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