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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-03-13 (remove)
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  • one of the first things that I did, and I felt was able to do on the merits, was to appoint the first Negro inspector in the police department. I made him my aide. It was Inspector Huff, and he happened to be one of only two college graduates among
  • platform. I recall matters pertaining to Rule 22, the filibuster rule, and getting civil rights legislation going over there. I got quite impatient. I recall sending some rather abrasive letters to the gentleman, and I had Some of his aides call up
  • , had advised him over the years. I remember going to dinner in which either Jim Rowe, or Tommy Corcoran, or Abe Fortas were the guests. Or quite often it was the staff--Walter Jenkins, or whoever were the secretaries at the time. dinner. He just