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  • that? Where are you? I remember when Secretary [Charles] Wilson impounded the extra funds. G: When he did what? J: Impounded the extra funds> that triggered a memory. G: Okay. That's an awfully close vote> a one-vote margin. Do you recall how he
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • . 1985 http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/personal PERSONAL PAPERS OF WALTER JENKINS For list of folder titles, see page 3 Creator: Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985 Donor: Bromberg, Elizabeth Jenkins Biographical sketch: Walter Wilson
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • couldn't be. I No one had ever been since the Civil War except Woodrow Wilson, and he just happened to be born in Virginia, grew up in the South. G: You don't think then that he was preoccupied with publicity? J: He wanted publicity because he felt
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • the appropriations, get approvals, things of that nature? J: Yes, I can1t remember. with PWA, WPA, Interior. There was a man named--he was always meeting I don't remember exactly what [Harold] Ickes had to do with it, but Ickes had something big to do
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • that no southerner had since the Civil War, other than Wilson, who wasn't really from the South. He had been born in the South, but-­ F: Did Mr. Sam somewhat buttress that opinion? J: Yes, I think so. F: So that you were just geographically blocked. J: I
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • was known much better in Washington than perhaps he was in Texas because of his friendship with Roosevelt and with the leading members of Roosevelt's Administration--Harold Ickes, Tom Corcoran, and so on. F: When did you begin to think that you just might
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985