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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • perfectly free to raise any kind of question that I thought would be for the benefit of the veteran. B: Beyond specific-- W: Beyond specific legal problems. I didn't feel in that capacity that I was limited to the legal role because we were shaping policy
  • were asked to pay; conflict between the panel and HUD; flood insurance versus civil disorder insurance; a December 1966 conference on the legal rights of tenants and the release of the conference report during Detroit rioting in 1967; the American Bar
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- IV -- 15 men;, they said, "Here is a chance to pay off a political favor." And we had pressed upon us one thoroughly unqualified former English teacher in a high
  • decisions regarding Hatch Act amendments; debate over whether a federal employee should be allowed to be a precinct chairman; the Commission's draft report being leaked to the press; legislation resulting from the Commission's work; John Macy's involvement
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , the pressures really went on. The Republican Policy Committee did not take a position on it. Ordinarily, this leaves Republicans free to vote for us. But the Republican Crime Committee came out opposed to the plan. The main Republican strategy was to defeat
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 2 (II), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and that they were the only two people to whom I had that obligation. That was very correct, I think, and the importance of that "only two people" is that you have to be free to hoe your own row. You can't worry too much about people all over the government maybe
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the coin of the sagging-zone defense is that sometimes you must grab the ball and run with it. An example of this is the personnel interchange program, where unless our office had taken the initiative in pressing the program, it simply would have been
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The President was at the Ranch by that time. A group of us came over to the Cabinet Room to hear a closed-wire press conference held at the Ranch with Mr. Califano and others 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • could get him to reconsider this decision, and the proclamation was just being signed and ready to be released. He was in the Cabinet Room with his key civil rights advisers--that's probably where McPherson was--and the members of the press