Discover Our Collections


  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Contributor > Wozencraft, Frank M. (remove)

11 results

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Justice Black is not a chief justice; he's one of the associate justices. It's just as fascinating. I've been rather interested in the recent controversy on Justice [Abe] Fortas' appointment. So few people have realized that an associate justice has
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with the creation of new laws. Too many people think that laws come only from Congress. It's true that statutes come only from Congress, and then with presidential signature, or at least approval. But there is a very substantial body of what can properly be called
  • ; comparing executive agreements, treaties, and executive orders; the influence of OLC's and the attorney general's issued opinions; the attorney's general's rules for issuing opinions; opinions involving Federal National Mortgage Association obligations
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that they have for public service, to serve their country during this period, and they therefore plunge in with great enthusiasm. The government people are not unenthusiastic; they're all in favor, for instance, of human rights, but they know that the business
  • on Interchange of Executive Personnel; commission funding and the Russell Rider, which limited funds available to executive branch-created commissions; the Kaiser Commission; the Douglas Commission; the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service and its
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because, in essence, we concluded that the State Department was right, that the nation of registry was obviously a country and not people in the country, and therefore, it has to be the government, the nation itself, sending the supplies. Now, we did
  • 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 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 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of control. The Bureau of Drug Abuse Control in HEW, when it was created, took over a good many of the narcotics people; and there was a quite sharp rivalry between the two bureaus. Yet one drug peddler could be handling--and, in fact, usually did handle
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be the product of a task force which included representatives of various executive branch agencies or departments, and sometimes people from outside the government, intended to bring a cross-fertilization of ideas to bear on the problem. An example of the behind
  • 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 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • legal services to the ghetto dweller who otherwise would not be able to receive them. The real thrust for this has come from the American Bar Association and the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, both of which have done a valiant service, I
  • 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 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : In discussing the Plan of Reorganization Number One and the floor fight in the House, I think it's important to know how you figure out where you are, going into a vote. You have to know pretty well in advance who is with you and who is against you, or you're
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Washington Redskins used this there has all too often been a score, so I prefer to use the sagging-zone defense. This is not just plain delay, however. That doesn't work. If you're just delaying, people will catch on soon enough, and they will usually find
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- VI -- 4 departments think and regardless of this legislation, which has not been all that instrumental in what other nations