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Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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B:
Did this involve you in national Democratic politics?
C:
To a limited degree.
I wouldn 1 t
~.;rant
- in national Democratic politics?
A:
Yes, the position as mayor of Atlanta, and really my period as mayor
of Atlanta extends from--although I came into office in 1962, 1961 was
a campaigning year and an election year,and then I was very active
in business
- with the Secretary?
W:
Well, it was an interesting story.
That was the time when the NRA Codes
hearings were being conducted, and a classmate of mine, who had finished
law school, and I established the National Committee on Industrial Recovery.
We got the various
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
- to be
the deputy mayor.
I want a city manager for that job."
Horace Busby then called
Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of
Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers
Association; and Mr
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B:
from
from the NAACP and other national Negro organizations .
in your talks with Mr . McGiffert and Mr . Murphy afterwards, were you
concentrating mainly on the situation in the District of Columbia?
C:
No, we were concentrating nationally
