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  • and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here
  • 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
  • , 1969 INTERVI EWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: Were you involved in the prosecution of the Liuzzo case and the case of the Philadelphia, Mississippi, murders
  • 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
  • little they were paid. But you were given freedom to go into town and take part i.n things. So, I was such an enthusiastic New Dealer and such an admirer of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • 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
  • , that may have gone up from 5,000 people at the time of the census to 50,000 people five years later, if they can get a capitation arrangement on rebate of money from the state with a new figure, of course they want to take it. I think it's fair to say
  • : 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