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- BENNETT
Interviewer : Joe B . Frantz
Washington, D . C .
F:
November 13, 1968
This is an interview with Mr . Robert Bennett, who is the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs for the Department of the Interior in his office in
Washington, D . C . , on November
- Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; LBJ's message on Indian Affairs; Bennet's selection; Indian claims; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction Act; Civil Rights Act; Pueblos; equal employment for Indians; legislation for Indians; health
- ; then they read the letters over. And some letters, of
course, are generally critical, some are generally favorable letters--these go to a certain
department. There are letters that deal with foreign affairs that are handled by another
man and his staff
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November 13, 1968
M:
Just as a general way of description now, you started with the Agriculture
Department in the 1930's, and except for the period 1951 to 1961, you've
been connected with it pretty continuously ever since
- Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; operation of the Agriculture Department; Southern Policy Commission; National Farmers Union; National Commission on Food and Fiber; Agriculture Act of 1964 (E.O. 11307); Outreach Program; Rural Community
- a career minister that I wouldn't
have had the same freedom and the sane independence, you might say, to do
what I thought was right, lacking clear-cut instructions from the Department.
I wasn't afraid, or I wasn't worried, about my future.
I can always go
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ambassador to Canada, and I had understood that this was a good probability.
But apparently someone in the--I don't know who it was--in the State
Department. perhaps. who had other