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- series of these with
your taking over the job as Assistant Secretary of State for
Educational and Cultural Affairs, and you had briefly
described what that job involved.A couple of questions
arise. One of them--you've already established that Senator
- Fulbright and Rooney’s interest in position of Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Meeting at Airlie House meeting; White House position as Special Counsel; speech writing; Georgetown circle; JFK’s staff/women; RFK
- 19,1968
INTERVIEWEE:
W. MARVIN WATSON
INTERVIEWER:
Dorothy Pierce
PLACE:
Postmaster General Watson's office, Post Office Department, Washington,
D.C.
Tape 1 of 1
P:.
Continuing with our interview of November 22, when we left offwe had concluded
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or whatever--negotiations; from the Federal Reserve Board it was either [William
McChesney] Bill Martin or Dewey Dane; and two or three other people--Ed Fried,
myself, and Fred [Frederick L.] Deming [Under Secretary of Treasury for Monetary
Affairs] and Winn
- the
faces of these Indian farmers, totally illiterate, living in this weird back
water of the world where they were conducting their affairs in about the same
way that their remote ancestors had conducted their affairs--their faces lit
up; they actually
- .
As a lawyer, I can
just thank God for the legal profession in this country that he didn't become
a lawyer, because he would have taken it all over; he has got a very incisive
mind.
B:
Do you find his knowledge extends beyond politics and public affairs?
G
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Just whatever's on his mind?
M:
Whatever's on his mind.
He'll talk to me, he won't talk about state
affairs to me, but he has conducted a little business in here with
his staff members.
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