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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [Department of Justice]. Let me outline here just very briefly your background, subject to additions and corrections. You were born in Chicago in 1928, bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, naval service in the early fifties, in 1956 a law degree from Yale
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Rights Act was sent to the Congress before I came over to the department from OEO. I did not play a part in the initial drafting of the bill, which I believe occurred in the Civil Rights Division and probably reflected major input of Harold Greene, who
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I
  • AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not join any task force operations at that I continued in the Solicitor General's Office, did that draft- ing task, and continued to stay out of their affairs. Or, another way of putting it, I continued not to be invited in their affairs. I LBJ
  • Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department