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  • not read that. I mean to. Y: Well, you'll find it very clearly laid out in there. At any rate, the task force that President Kennedy had set up, which was in effect Walter Heller and Kermit Gordon and their staff, the Council of Economic Advisers' staff
  • realize at that moment that what he meant was, IIThis is the statement I am going to read when I get off the plane at Andrews Air Force Base." He talked to us two or three times on the way back and was extremely cooperative, told us anything we wanted
  • of cooperation both between the senators and on the staff level. G: Of the Republican members of the committee, who took the lead on health legislation? P: My recollection was Javits, but I'm not sure. G: Did Pell have a particular specialization? P
  • to ask for his advice, seeing that he had seniority? F: I probably did a few times, but if so, it was very rarely, and if at all, I assume it related to REA matters. It happened that the old Pedernales Electric Cooperative--which was close to his
  • term? S: Well, I wouldn't say F: You've got a lot of mutual problems. $: Yes, with the different departments. Of course, we had a lot of relations. I would say that I had fine, fine cooperation from the . . . F: Did you get the feeling that he
  • these liberal bills, at least to get them to the floor for a vote. We were able to do that on some bills the first year after DSG was organized. G: Was there a feeling that the leadership had been cooperating too closely with the administration? P: Well
  • . The details and specifics were not known to me at the outset. My initial concern and opposition to the nomination sprang from the fact that it had all the earmarks of a political maneuver; it looked as though the then-Chief Justice Earl Warren was cooperating
  • . There was a good cooperative venture between Republicans and Democrats, the Congress and the administration, and a far superior bill was passed than was sent up by the Administration, than was recommended by Democratic members of Congress, than was recommended
  • : You interv iew the outgoing man? C: Yes, we always try to. always try to. Who do you think in That kind qf thing. Sometimes they don't cooperate with us, but we So then we move into our search-and-evaluation phase, which gets almost cookbook