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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Califano, to get me to accept the city council chairmanship, from Ramsey Clark. I counseled with him and with Barefoot Sanders and said, "Look, I've done my duty here. think it's the right move." I'm a lawyer. I just don't I particularly thought
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the conversations of the task force and the bill drafting were not including any domestic peace corps. I was also aware that my friend, Norbert Schlei, the legal counsel, and his staff--Sol Lindenbaum, who later became Ramsey Clark's executive assistant, and John
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : The Civil Rights Division through October of 1967 was focused most primarily on the South and the border states. In 1967, at the urging of Ramsey Clark, the division was reorganized, and the largest percentage of its resources was thereafter committed
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , along with others who then came to assist me. I recall that Ramsey Clark, assistant attorney general, Lands Division, joined me in maintaining the communications. We had an open line with Lou Oberdorfer, assistant attorney general in charge at the Tax