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  • in Ramsey Clark's office a good number of times before we negotiated the permit. We had a delegate from the Army, a young Negro major named Ken Cook, who is now Walter Washington's military aide--a very effective guy with a tremendous entrĂ©e
  • an investigation. out safely is doubtful. the train station. But I have to tell But you must try. Whether you're going to get If you are successful, go to Some of our people will aid you at that point." They showed us a picture of where the railroad station
  • . That Neighborhood Youth Corps was headed by Jack Howard, a very fine young man with great experience up on the Hill and the Congress, a former newspaper man, a former newspaper guild newspaper official, and he was greatly aided and assisted by a new group of people
  • . M: It was all the Kennedy aides regularly downgrading him? s: Not all of them, but many of them did. And ridiculed him, you know. Of course, he was an easy target for it with his accent and his peculiarities. There was no question
  • --speaking nationally and internationally on American foreign policy; and so from my point of view this was the crusade to try to stand for international questions. Of course, aiding and abetting this was the fact that I had crisscrossed the state, every
  • very little conception of the time of day or the work week . It was not uncommon to get a call from one of the White House aides saying, "The boss would like a piece of paper for breakfast tomorrow, laying out the following," This might come in at 6 p
  • , and aid would be granted if possible. And having all that information I put it in a weekly letter, and I said, "I urge every boy and girl who is qualified to innnediate ly get in touch with your office," and I had the offices listed in our district
  • color which aided him substantially. It was to his credit that he was able to use what was thought to be a political weakness as a political strength, which it certainly was. People were voting guilty consciences right and left. M: In such a campaign
  • done in a political context. live noticed that there are people at OEO who have worked either on Senate committees or have been personal aides to senators, such as yourself. Does this help in the way of promoting better understanding between
  • your literature? What professions were they? M: Usually, they were the aides of white politicians who handled the black vote for them. They were not necessarily elected anything but they were sort of precinct-type ward leaders, or something like
  • private sector joint effort to compensate, at least in part, for loss of time over a long period. We were reaching out wherever we could to find any help to aid us in resolving our problems. Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 G: [Were] these contracts successful, would
  • cafeteria, which doubled as an auditorium, and classrooms. They had all the modern teaching aids like tape recording equipment and films and all manner of things like that. They weren't lacking in the amenities that modern schools have, but they were
  • arrival at Metropolitan Airport, which is sort of equidistant between downtown Detroit and downtown Ann Arbor. So all that week there was considerable planning that went into the President's visit. His aides and associates all indicated that he really
  • it, would aid the process for integration. there with both groups opposed to my idea. So I was caught But nevertheless, I felt the idea had very substantial merit to meet the needs of the country at that time [and] that this is the way we could best go
  • the way it has to be."? That old argument, "When you've got people ready, we'll ta ke them." A: I think you got that some places. places. You got help and aid in strange For example, I had many disagreements with Marvin Watson, but not a single one
  • ; the Senior Interdepartmental Group; the AID program; national security advisers; crisis management; Vietnam policy-making; the "nongroup;" Walt Rostow as a second secretary of state; peace feelers; Marigold; the Ashmore-Baggs trip; anatomy of leaks; the March