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  • came. whether it was the press, Secret Service, security. I don't know It could have been anyone of them. G: Did he reminisce about King during this period? Did he talk about [him]? R: No. He and Mr. King were not--I didn't get a sense
  • accommodations section of it, I think it is called. B: Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it? S: No, he didn't. I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country
  • that this was a situation where I was sort of in between the two men. There had been some tension between the two men at some of the meetings of the committee. I frequently felt that Robert Kennedy was unduly pressing on the Vice President, demanding results out
  • jurisdiction. This was a little upsetting. I never heard any- thing about this and if the press had seen it I think they would have played it up. But we stayed outside and talked and wondered and so on. And then finally I believe Thornberry and Brooks
  • /loh/oh 10 people concerned, was that the Secret Service people who had supervision over the White House police tried several times to get people from the Metropolitan Police Department assigned into the White House. Of course we were pressed
  • . There were some people who came on occasion that could not resist a tendency to go out and talk to the press, mouth off about what It did not necessarily help them. they thought was going to happen . Sometimes people knew who those folks were, sometimes
  • in this society as they ought to to read the black press when the Kerner Commission Report came out. It was said that the President ignored the Kerner Commission, didn't like it, didn't like what it was dOing. What he didn't like was certain ways
  • with a But they're human beings too so those frictions sometimes came up. F: Did you press for cease-and-desist power? A: Oh, yes. years. And so did Johnson. And we didn't get it. It just didn't come through. A couple of Then as I left-- F: Was this a kind
  • of the Department of Justice. I And that's all I wanted to do--go back to my job--and in fact I did. F: You didn't know who they were going to move your life around, did you? T: No, I didn't, but they certainly did. to press me on the matter. My father
  • coordinator do? J: We had something in Vietnam called the mission council. In other countries, it's known as the country team. It consists of the ambassador, people at the embassy--the political counselor, the press counselor, the economic counselor