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to 1969.
Mr. McGiffert, I'd like to begin the interview with briefly recounting your
background and your various government positions. You were a lawyer associated with a
Washington, D.C. firm for the period from 1953 to 1960 and [you were] also
- you have the idea you were
W:
Not at the time, I didn't give it much thought--in that area, an~~ay.
F:
How long did this association continue?
W:
It continued to the present time.
F:
So that any time he was in New York he was likely
- accommodations section of it, I think it is called.
B:
Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it?
S:
No, he didn't.
I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction
that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
- to distribute it to the
members the next day. By working closely with the Senate staff, and with the President
using every chance he had to press for the enactment of that bill, we began to make
progress in the Senate.
Now, one of our drawbacks, serious
