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- to get unanimous agreement
from the committee on every issue, from both Republicans and Democrats;
and we succeeded in getting that.
As a matter of fact, the Republicans
accepted me as their adviser; I think that is one of the few times that a
Democrat
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
- assistant
secretary of defense for manpower.
McS: Were you in need of any political credentials in this job? Did you necessarily have to
belong to the Democratic Party?
McG: Not that I am aware of. I imagine it didn't hurt, but I am not aware
- with White House staff; meetings with Joe Califano; McGiffert's responsibilities relating to legislative affairs; McNamara's relationship with members of Congress; a preparedness subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding public statements
- , possibly came
through here one time, but not any real campaign.
B:
During the Kennedy years you became governor of Georgia, ran in 1962
and took office in 1963.
Did you get any help from the national
party in campaigning?
S:
None at all.
You mean
- was the general
counsel of the Commerce Department where this bill was being pigeonholed. In
conversations with Califano and myself and with Pertschuk and with Cohen, we worked
out a program for trying to get that bill through the Senate Commerce Committee
