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  • several years in the U.S. Attorne y's office, and I must say it was a thorough ly enjoyab le experie nce--the work there. But my boss there, who was David Acheson , United States Attorne y, was appointe d to a new position in the Treasury departm ent which
  • visitors down there, including Scotty Reston of the New York Times, and John Connally and Willy West. G: Wesley West? W: Wesley West from Houston. And we went out and hunted deer. G: You hunted deer? W: Yes. And Pierre Salinger was down there. G
  • of the administrative and programming problems, planning problems, that a new organization would obviously face--particularly one where these young people would not have had this kind of experience before. B: Did you have any kind of continuing contact with individuals
  • ; started out in the newspaper business as a reporter for the Temple paper and Macon paper; '48 to '56 with the United Press in South Carolina and New York and London; ,..th~n -. in '56 joined the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, first as Vice President
  • down. "The Rotunda, he said, "is right past the tunnel, rightpa st the underpass. back of the Capitol you turn right." and tried to ff nd it, and I went 11 In I did go down New Jersey and ~trai - ght ahead and went and went. finally walked al
  • bring you the greetin gs of the PresĀ·; dent of the United States . He knows where I am. He knows I'm in the Securi ty Council in New York City. 11 But I don't know whether Mr. Johnson ever heard the story that I got the bigges t mileage out of, involving