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  • will the Warren Commission and the Commis• sion's Report be completely discredited, but confidence throughout the world in the United States Government will be undermined. They expressed amazement and horror that one prosecutor in one medium-sized city could so
  • : July 11, 1968 O This is an interim report on plans being formulated for the trans portation of James Earl Ray from the time we get custody in England until he is turned over to authorities in Shelby County, Tennessee. This is in the form of an interim
  • airline received a trans-Pacific , air route and that President Nixon rescinded it. lid like to get at is: Now then, the point does the President, can the President, exert any pressure for that sort of grounding, or is this a matter of cold economics
  • ; the transition; the 1964 campaign; Walter Jenkins and the effect of his leaving the staff; LBJ’s staff and JFK’s staff relations; Bill Moyers; staff loyalty to LBJ and how it affected Sinclair’s family life; Lloyd Hand; relationship between airlines and politics
  • would put heat on labor leaders to help end an airline strike--he would go outside the airlines industry to involve labor leaders, involve industrial leaders . He certainly knew how to do that . Ba : The reason I asked was, fairly recently of course
  • all he had with him, was a carpetbag . He apparently went up there in the early 1900's and joined the Army from there . F: He made a place for himself . B: Oh, sure he did . He was an officer in World War I . Now to be black and be an officer
  • --at that point it was considered absolutely annihilation in the political world in the South to testify on behalf of civil rights--but that if it would pass the bill or help in passing it, I would do whatever the President requested. Subsequently, the President
  • it was part the romance, but also the great interest I had in foreign affairs. F: As an undergraduate, had you been interested in political science? D; Marginally. I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. South America and set the world on fire. I wanted
  • came straightaway as fast as I could. I think they knew that I was on a tight schedule, and I think the arrangements were made that they'd wait and get me. G: I see. How did you fly down from Nashville? M: I came down on American Airlines from
  • , and the airline got my bags in to me about five o'clock that night; and I spent one night in a tourist home there near the Capitol. The next day it dawned on Mrs. Johnson or the Senator one that I was in a strange town, Christmas coming up, and they took me out
  • account which had not run up too big. I think $28 is what it cost the Johnson- Humphrey camp to send me, plus the airline tickets, which they were billed directly for, I presume. I came back and I started working in public correspondence, editing