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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for the executive branch because blocking action is necessary by the Senate or the House rather than affirmative action being necessary, and that is a good deal simpler problem from the standpoint of the administration. All they have to do is stave off the adverse
  • of Representatives; Wozencraft's work with the Democrats and Republicans on the Government Operations Committee; the opinion of Treasury and HEW administrators; House subcommittee hearings; Congressman Jack Edwards and Johns Erlenborn's initiation of a floor fight
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Sometimes tension can arise when the public members want to call for action; want to throw down the gauntlet to the Senate, other things that would make very nice sense if they would work, but which the government members know will not work. Then you have
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Houston. B: Were you politically active in those days; did you participate in political campaigns in 1960 or 1964? W: I really never participated; I made relatively small contributions to the Democratic Party on both occasions, and I was one
  • The importance of maintaining a high moral standard; proposed revision of the Administrative Procedure Act; Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) strategies to delay or expedite action to accomplish their intended goals; how to get a viewpoint heard
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • program. After all, a Republican administration in one state and a Democratic administration in another state may approach them completely differently; also, the states themselves may have different interests, one rural and one urban. As a result, we came
  • , such as with the Hatch Act and the Office of Economic Opportunity's (OEO) community action agency; accountability in the spending of federal funds; OEO problems; the Neighborhood Legal Services program; Head Start; overlap and confusion between county, city and state
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- VIII -- 2 side and the Democrats on the other by delegation
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • do not themselves have the force of law, but under many statutes they are prerequisite to certain other actions that he may take, such as the issuance of an executive order. To be precise about one example, before the president can order federal
  • assassination; the occasional need to make sure the president understands the situation about which he is making a decision; the president's authority in lawmaking; interagency action; the 1967 New Town in Town program at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • some way to jar you into action, so that your delay must be constructive and using the time to get into the forefront issues that you feel need to be there, postponing to another day the ultimate decision which you would have a sharp conflict. 2 LBJ
  • The importance of maintaining a high moral standard; proposed revision of the Administrative Procedure Act; Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) strategies to delay or expedite action to accomplish their intended goals; how to get a viewpoint heard
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for civil rights. So we all had a reason for being there to help the veteran. And what came out of the task force as a whole, I think, was a fairly good package of predominantly administrative actions rather than legislation, although there was a substantial
  • to them; Justice Department support for the centers; Wozencraft's role on the task force; disagreements over the Federal Trade Commission's and Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC) authority to take legal action independently from the Justice Department
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was invited to do so. My time over there was limited to about two weeks. Fortunately, it was the two weeks when the action had really reached the highly interesting level. My work on the study group had given me some familiarity with the rather extensive ways