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- out in a police car to view the riot scene on Seventh
Street and Fourteenth Street .
We soon found the traffic was very bad and
one of the first things I did was to ask that the car be stopped so that
I could telephone the White House and give them
- in a case like this?
What are the mechanics of
How does Mr. Vance talk to the
President?
c:
When we arrived at Detroit police headquarters, we were assigned
t~070
rooms there and the rooms had in them two or three telephones each.
Mr.
Vance simply
- as chairman?
Really, I don't know.
M:
Not why so much, for the technique of selection.
Did Mr. Johnson talk
to you personally, for example, about it?
K:
Oh, yes.
I had received a telephone call previously out of the White
House that the President
- with my appointment were with the Attorney
Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth
of June and there began a series of conversations between us.
B:
Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time
- .
I recall about ten or eleven o'clock at night after getting some
additional reports on this matter, getting quite concerned about the
hesitancy of the White House.
this belief.
I got a telephone call which reinforced
I called the White House
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a little pressure off [I don't know], because any time somebody wanted
something out of the administration they felt like that all they had to
do was go see Senator Russell and he could pick up the telephone and
call
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How did you communicate with President Johnson--by letter, telephone,
in person?
Y:
By letter, but the only really meaningful communications were in person.
What I
- Relations Service has been available at
times.
helpful.
I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very
And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in
daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and
he offered me
- decision.
get an equivalent outpouring of
As ~ matter of fact,
telephone call: he got.
and
le~tcrs
telegra~s
then?
the President was unable to answer all of the
He got many, many cal~s from many people, not
[He received] calls from people
all lir