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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