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  • known, that nothing was coming out of our office. columnist, a pro~war And I Temember a.ferocious argument with one columnist---Joseph Alsop--who wrote about it and said it was coming from a source close to Robert Kennedy. ~t, and he said it was me
  • - ments to try to delete money for Vietnam. As I recall then, the guy who handled most of the opposing amendments was Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania. He would get maybe a handful of eight or nine, ten, twelve votes that would include Senator
  • up my wife and children and drive them cross-country to bring them back to Washington. When we were going through the city of Rapid City, South Dakota, Thursday, the 24th of August, and we stopped at a signal on St. Joseph Street. M: You must have
  • in this whole area of firing people and whatnot. And Ramsey Clark, as always the case in his greatness - and I really consider him a great man--he stood up behind me every inch of the way and ticked off what he considered to be the pertinent constitutional
  • with my appointment were with the Attorney Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth of June and there began a series of conversations between us. B: Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time
  • Tom Clark invited me to Washington to sit and visit and to get acquainted and discuss a number of the administrative policies of the Department of Justice generally. As we had concluded our business visit, Attorney General Clark invited me to stay
  • ://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 j ~. .~ 26 being mnde. The Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, for exanple
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
  • . That morning the-- F: What went on that morning? P: Ramsey Clark was with us, and . Help me with a name. you this picture, and you tell me who he is. Let me show Ramsey Clark, the Attorney General [and] . . . F: Cyrus Vance. P: Yes, Cyrus Vance
  • of story. What happened was I was called at Kampelman's office because I kept Pollak advised where I was--he told me--and I was supposed to report immediately to Warren Christopher, the Deputy Attorney General under Ramsey Clark. I went down
  • Voting Rights Act 1965; Civil Rights Act; Mansfield; McCormack; Hale Boggs; Russell Long; LBJ’s feelings about open housing; differences between Ramsey Clark and Katzenbach over civil rights; LBJ’s consideration of legal problems raised by open
  • . This, then, called us to the attention of many of the groups that were working in this field, including some that were close to Secretary Ickes, who had set up a racial advisory office under Clark Foreman--a white Georgian but had worked with the Roosevelt-F
  • years, and you know, nature abhors change and people do. But Nick Katzenbach, and after him Ramsey Clark, made their commitment to our interests--interest of the Criminal Division--very clear, as did President Johnson. So, while I think there may have
  • Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me
  • ; Detroit riots; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; cost effectiveness; role of service secretaries