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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • base with their key people anyway. The chairman of that committee was [William C.] Dawson of Illinois. The ranking Republican was Congresswoman [Florence P.] Dwyer of New Jersey. The key Democrat on the committee was Chet Holifield of California
  • of Representatives; Wozencraft's work with the Democrats and Republicans on the Government Operations Committee; the opinion of Treasury and HEW administrators; House subcommittee hearings; Congressman Jack Edwards and Johns Erlenborn's initiation of a floor fight
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as the in-house Democrat. Arthur Fleming was chosen by the President as the out-house Republican and also as chairman of the commission and did a fine job. The first problem that we ran into was that the Speaker and the senators who were on the committee regarded
  • interagency committees; Wozencraft's involvement in the President's Commission of the Observance of Human Rights Year 1968 and related conferences; the difference between government- and non-government-employed commission members; the Panel
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- VIII -- 2 side and the Democrats on the other by delegation
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • role. Moreover, some of our departments, such as the Department of Interior, looking at matters from a national standpoint, are going to come out with different views than the states in that particular river basin may have. And they have to think about
  • government; the Council on Intergovernmental Relations; the need for effective federal executive boards to coordinate federal activities in a given city; involving the private sector in local government and obstacles to that goal; the National Alliance
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it happened that this was mainly Democratic lawyers, but that wasn't entirely true. There were Republican lawyers as well in favor of the President's re-election. B: Was that confined to any particular area or was that a nationwide committee? W: I don't
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with a draft of about seventy-five articles which had been referred to a conference called by the United Nations. And this conference was to be in two sessions, both to be held in Vienna, the first in April and May of 1968 and the second in April and May
  • Wozencraft's work on a study group related to the revision of international treaty laws; the 1968 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of Treaties negotiations over how treaties should be invalidated and terminated; concern that proposed
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the word "nation" could not mean two different things in the same sentence. B: By legislative history, do you mean the record of the debates and the committee hearings? W: Yes. B: An attempt to elucidate exactly how the word was used in formation
  • and agencies; resolving conflict between government departments and agencies; Congressman Paul Findley's amendment to Public Law 480 regarding US aid to nations that had provided aid to North Vietnam; OLC's work to help the attorney general and the White House
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the congressional committee on a proposed bill cannot include a line at the end that the Bureau of the Budget has advised that this is not in conflict with the administration's program, or that this furthers the administration's program, unless the Bureau
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be either legislative or constitutional. For instance, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, which is a constitutional capacity, he can issue executive orders involving national defense. He also issues a lot of orders under his power
  • or departmental regulations rather than by legislation; the impact of government contracting power and unions; penalties for violating the National Labor Relations Act; congressional concern that the executive branch would act beyond its proper authority
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and really "agency" isn't the correct word for them. They go by many other names--sometimes they're called commissions, sometimes panels, sometimes committees, and sometimes task forces. The term "task force" developed, I think, in either the late Kennedy
  • forces and commissions or councils; the Kerner Commission; Wozencraft's involvement in the President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas; the composition of that panel and how insurees were represented; the concerns of the three
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and also all concepts of really what good government called for. The District Committee tried to design the highway system, part of which would have had a throughway running underneath the C & O Canal along the Potomac, which would have been quite