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  • he became vice president, in the senatorial years? A: Only an occasional opportunity to see him very briefly. I would not say that it was a real friendship or was in anyway an intimate association. B: Had you, in those days, classified him
  • in the military who would accept appointment as police officers. The first emphasis was put on Washington, although some other cities benefited from the program too. B: I've been confused by stories in the newspapers recently. Was the police department up
  • beginning to take the view that as long as they're white there's no difference. B: That bloomed a little later. It's associated publicly with the Meredith March in '66. was really asking was how early first signs of it began. R: Oh, there were signs
  • to write a speech about this, and I agreed to do it . I heard that he wanted to give it at the Associated Press dinner in April, I think, '66 or '67, but I got through with it too late and missed my chance . It could have been a good speech though
  • . forgotten a coupl e of others that were therec I have I think Arthur Schl es inger \'Ias in there and a coupl e of others. B: It was generally assumed at the time in the newspapers that you '.'Jere there as kind of a representative of the New South. S
  • members, supervi~ion in ·this any made, said are herewith Commissioners,, . their .Court assistants, and employees Co~nty Medical Criminal . . Officials case, investigators and control, .. Police of the Court as follows: associates
  • ? C: That's right. B: Had you not served prior to this on the McCone [John A. McCone, former head of CIA] Commission investiga the Hatts riots? C: Yes. B: I know Mr. Clark also made a trip out to Watts after the riots. become associated \vi th
  • publicity because it had drawn the support and attention of Dr. Martin Luther King and his associate, Dr. [Ralph] Abernathy. It had ceased to be strictly a labor dispute, but emerged as a matter of the dignity of minority people in Memphis. i~volved
  • should point out here for the record that since 1960 you had been with the Washington Planning and Housing Association, a private group, on the board and for a term the president of the group. P: That's correct. S: I assume that that is a private
  • . the National Association of Broadc3sters. I believe it was Ilm not clear in my mind about that-F: He amplified a little bit from the March 31 speech; he enlarged a little on what was said there. T: Correct. He decided that he would go out there. I think
  • : No, I stayed on in Chicago for two or three days and then was relieved by Associate Deputy Attorney General John McDonough who had been there from the beginning, and I returned to the Department . B: Then the next one was in the summer of '68, in both
  • to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr