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  • Date > 1968-10-25 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • appointed to a presidential appointment post in the administration. I believe they could see some very real advantage in a younger man who would be able to have the benefit of my services as deputy, presumably, and to get experience to be ready
  • First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Manpower. I served in that post for two years, so that it wasn't until 1963 that I moved to OSD and took up the civil rights job which had not hitherto existed. That was one of the by-products of the Gesell