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  • being considered for the Cabinet post? H: No, not at all. discussed. No, it never had been discussed. Nothing had been We did all we thought we could for the party. When I went to South America with a bunch of governors--twenty-five or thirty
  • experience in India, here, and in Africa and in nonviolent tactics might be useful to him. Well, as an indication of how little Dr. King had really thought out, I went down and I took with me Bill Worthy, who was a writer and did some things for the Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 1958, when I was asked to come back to the Budget Bureau. B: As deputy director? S: Initially as assistant director, then three months later as deputy director. But the deputy post was planned in my coming back. I stayed on in this job after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • when he was up in the Majority Leadership post, for they were attacking him quite frequently in Texas in the press and in resolutions at labor meetings . Some of the boys from the Communications Workers had aligned themselves with the DOT's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to develop programs. Now they had not a black commissioner; they had not a black in all of their supergrades--GS 18s, 17s, 16s. And this was the agency in charge. So if I were sitting in the Post Office, for an example, and somebody came to me, and I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • -thirty and he started that pattern out in Detroit. I remember his calling me one night out there when the Washington Post had severely criticized his decision to have a personal inspection made by Mr. Vance before committing troops as being
  • of these? Yes, I was involved in the post-King assassination disorders . Here at the Department we learned about Dr . King's shooting at a staff meeting . I turned to the Attorney General, and I remember it was our immediate common thought that we were
  • teaching post, which was at Williams College, early in 1963. In the late fall of 1962, the directorship of the Agency for International Development became vacant. President Kennedy, after surveying the problems, decided that the right man to put
  • match his pre-election ideology with his post-election performance, if you had any sort of computer arrangement, you would get very little correlation. well enough. F: I don't have to tell you that, Joe. You know that And I really believe that. Yes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of pieces he didn't like, and he expressed himself about it. to the effect, if not directly, "~Jhat He said words you're doing is you're up here, you read The New York Times and The Washington Post, and all of a sudden you think that's the fad. yourself
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • So we sold our business of '53. B: You've mentioned your partner several times. M: Gerald Cullinan. Who was he, sir? I believe hers assistant to the President of the National Letter Carriers Association here now. He was in the Post Office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /loh/oh Connell -- I -- 8 In the period post-war, 1946-47, the Farmer-Labor Party became perhaps dominated by the communists. Its leadership was essentially taken over by the communists, and in the great Progressive Party effort of 1948 when Henry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post