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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1968-11-14 (remove)

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  • surprise he opened up the initial interview with a suggestion that the Mine Workers International Union and he needed a new general counsel, and would I consider it? It was a long far cry from anything, that I'd ever anticipated up to that time. F: You
  • Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA
  • . Senate as a staff director for the Labor subcommittee. Is that correct? S: Right. M: And you worked there from 1961 to 1963. From that point as an assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce and also apparently at the same time a director
  • , Maryland, visiting my parents for the weekend. I got a phone call. My boss at that time was a guy named Frederick Stalfort, and he called me up and he said, "Coffey, where in the hell are you?" And I said, "I'm home." "Vlell," he said, "You're going
  • a political subject as between the Democratic and the Republican parites. I can't recall a time when either one of them had a plank to discredit reclamation or even to single it out that they were going to give it special attention because everybody takes