Skip to main content
-
Series >
Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories
(remove)
-
Date >
1969-02-19
(remove)
Limit your search
Tag
Contributor
Date
Subject
Type
Collection
Series
Specific Item Type
Time Period
4 results
- , 1969
INTERVIEWEE:
JOE.W. FLEMING, II
INTERVIEWER:
STEPHEN GOODELL
PLACE:
Mr. Fleming's office, 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Washington~ D.C.
Tape 1 of 1
G:
This is an interview with Mr. Joe W. Fleming, the federal co-chairman
of the Appalachian
- See all online interviews with Joe W. Fleming II
- Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
- Joe W. Fleming II
- , by the way, administered a program
of war claims, involving roughly 23,800 claims.
We did that in a four-year
period.
M:
This would be from World War II?
R:
These were World War II claims.
The law was passed on October 22, 1962.
LBJ Presidential
- and
having seen your resume, he has asked to talk with you. II
I went to see Jack Connor and had never met him before, nor had I met
Macy.
But about forty-five minutes after I had walked in, I walked out,
saying, "Mr. Secretary, the only thing I do know
- with it?"
I do; there's only one hope:
I said, "Well, unfortunately
Muchmore says that superhuman action on
your part and the organization could probably change it.
take that. II
So he said,
'~ell,
you've told me enough.
people don't want me, I don't
