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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