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  • in the South didn't have the financial base in the early days to support it. So I got Reverend Kilgore involved, who was up at the Friendship Baptist Church in New York; Gardiner Taylor in Brooklyn; and others, so that this thing had some financial base
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Durr--l5 That was the heading. The New York Times made that a feature story the day
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • post? S: Primarily what they turned out to be--namely, managing the Bureau of the Census. It's a big organization, some 4500 or 5000 employees. Its primary task is managerial, and the relation of the Bureau to other work in the Department
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • members that would go around purposely . They were cashiers in a bank back home before they came here or they sold insurance, one . We had one from New York that was a cashier in a bank and he'd go by and make it his business to know everybody . Then we
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • saw Thornberry and Thomas, Brooks, I think Gonzalez, but I can't be sure. They were there and we were all talking in hushed tones. I still had not seen the new President, didn't know where he was. We were sitting there some time when suddenly he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and as the scene he would take his leave~ shifted~ not because he was not interested in the North and indeed he went on to New York City and Bedford-Stuyvesant to deal with and learn about urban racial problems, but that his time had come to move. B: We're
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • under James Eastland. S: Right. F: And I forget who you've got in the House, but undoubtedly-- S: Manny Geller from New York. F: You didn't have any problem as far as the committee in the-- S: In the House. F: What do you do to jack it out
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : There again that was a close vote. T: A very close vote. against it. I spoke for it. [Clinton] Anderson of New Mexico led the fight And Lyndon helped to defeat it. G: Do you know how that defeat came? Who the crucial senators were? T: No, I don't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)