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- Director [Phillip] Sam Hughes. It's
hard to remember exactly who was at what meeting. But the point is, here were about
five different departments represented at the general counsel and undersecretary or deputy
director level, pretty much.
B:
And a White
- . The chairman of the panel was Governor [Richard] Hughes of New Jersey; the
vice-chairman of the panel was former Governor [William] Scranton of Pennsylvania;
there were three insurance company presidents; Walter Washington, who was then in
charge of the Housing
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of the riots in 1968, Governor [Richard J.] Hughes told me that the city itself was very
close to bankruptcy; they simply did not have the money from their tax revenues to
undertake the projects that the situation following the riots required.
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