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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Johnson when I was serving as law clerk for Justice [Hugo] Black on the Supreme Court. My parents were living in Washington at the time; my father was practicing law here. He had been a lifelong friend of Sam Rayburn's. B: Your father had been? W
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • yesterday that there were a good many interagency committees and panels where the members were designated as the secretaries in charge of the cabinet departments. In fact, the time of these cabinet officers would be wholly consumed if they attended even one
  • ; early Committee meetings; resistance to the terms of the commitment, conflicts of interest, and fear that time spent in government work could hinder career development; LBJ signing a work program executive order January 19, 1969, so that the Nixon
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there had to be a Department of Justice, and beginning in 1870, there was. Since that time, the attorney general has, of course, become the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. B: I was going to say, one thinks of the attorney general
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . This brings up another basic concept, which I call the sagging-zone defense. There are times when, if you try to resist an idea that you think is a bad idea or a proposal that you think is a bad proposal, at the threshold, you will be overwhelmed
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • will really vote when the chips are down in the light of what you know about who is going to make floor speeches, how likely he is to be there, and what the pressures on him between then and the time of the vote will be. Many is the congressman who has
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was invited to do so. My time over there was limited to about two weeks. Fortunately, it was the two weeks when the action had really reached the highly interesting level. My work on the study group had given me some familiarity with the rather extensive ways
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and the executive branch. He also represented the government in the Supreme Court, but not elsewhere unless by special arrangement and with added fees. It wasn't even a full-time job to be attorney general in those days. Not until 1870 was the Department of Justice
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was on consumer affairs--really, I was in on it at various times, but basically in connection with the 1968 legislative program. The veterans task force was chaired by a Department of Defense assistant secretary. It included representatives of the Labor Department
  • rather than through one full-time individual; the organization, staffing, and financing of commissions; concern over whether or not commissions were taken seriously; the importance of non-governmental members of commissions; the role of the Bureau
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • people still felt that the treaty was contravened. This was a time when it was 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the bill. If he receives it at a time when the ten days, which does not include Sundays, expire before Congress has adjourned, then a failure to sign constitutes approval of the bill. If the Congress has adjourned sine die, or for any period more than three
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the answer here is coordination within the executive branch to be relayed to the representative on the commission. And this is done very frequently through the Bureau of the Budget [BOB] or independently by the departments involved. At the same time, it must