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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-11-19 (remove)

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  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh November 19, 1968 B: This is the interview with Dr. W.D. Maclay, Director of the Research Program Development and Evaluation staff of the Department of Agriculture. Dr. Maclay, let me start by outlining what I knew of your career
  • Biographical information; political involvement of career men; branches of Department of Agriculture; National Science Foundation; foundations; coordination among departments of government; financing of research activity; effect of President
  • work did you do at the Department of Interior? W: Well, I started out as Adviser in Negro Affairs and also became a consultant to the Housing Division of PWA, which was the first part of government to get into low-rent public housing. In 1937 when
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department