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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
  • was made coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, I uas approached to see if I would be interested in joining that staff to work on food problems identified with our war effort in South and Central America where we were trying to get out critically needed
  • in Appalachia? Well, it's as old as the New Deal. The first study of Appalachia was done in 1936, by, interestingly enough, the United States Navy Surgeon, who somehow had been appalled by this degrading poverty he had seen and launched a study. It really
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 and age when we have to communicate with the whole population, an ambassador today, in my opinion, an ambassador of the United States shouldn't just
  • being moved out of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and he simply would not permit it. There followed nine weeks in which the question of what I was going 1 to do next w'as caught up bet'tveen the President of the United States and the C h
  • statistical operations. So the bulk of the staff actually worked for me, while we had those units who were doing recruiting. an organizer. I was here as I was here as the man to pull the staff together and get all this information resources organized. I