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  • in Washington now--somewhat dates back to the emphasis that was put in this meeting. It was also an effort to get the media of communications involved. If you could visualize a meeting nationally of the Community Relations Committee, as President Johnson would
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees
  • to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr
  • , B: from from the NAACP and other national Negro organizations . in your talks with Mr . McGiffert and Mr . Murphy afterwards, were you concentrating mainly on the situation in the District of Columbia? C: No, we were concentrating nationally
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Helms -- II -- 2 H: So I had been with OSSa Then I was with SSU. Then when SSU was folded i'nto CIA under the National Security Act of 1947, I became a member the first day. G: Would you describe
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
  • in a lot of these difficulties we receive the assist~~ce pria~ions of the ?olice. This is in that testimony of one of the appro- hearings by one of the secretaries of the Dillon Committee, in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • is on the President's mind that day or that week, as to \vhether to take it for the President. If there is doubt in his mind as to whether or not to go directly to the President, and if for example this happens to be a week of a grave national security crisis
  • basis in 1954. M: How did you know Arthur Burns? P: Through professional contact. My thesis was published as a paper in one of the volumes that the National Bureau had published four or five years earlier. I had met him at meetings and so
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
  • for what he had done for the nation and for him, et cetera, over there . Did the President ever talk to you about the possibility of dropping Vice President Johnson? 0: No, never . wouldn't it? Sometimes that would be in the papers or something, I don't
  • not an Arkansan on that sort of thing, he's a national politician on that? A: He's a national politician. He brings along a lot of unsophisticated elements in his approach to these problems. But he's pretty savvy and obviously works very hard, and knows
  • Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's
  • in the Kennedy-Johnson years to conduct an intelligent debate about fiscal policy from a national standpoint. I mean, there \A!as a lot of educational work done and less of a tendency to consider a deficit, per se, bad. [There was] more seemed to me
  • ; they gave us a free hand. Now I've ~nstructed in numerous police schools throughout the nation. I \vas also chairman of the planninCl committee for the Law Enforcement Institute of the Southwest legal Foundation,which is conducted at SMU, and I've taught
  • in the Hous e when he was on the N: ~\ayy He never gave up. Watchdog Committee:? Well, he ?:.::: me to work on it. I was supposed to be a go-between between r.ci:::: and the investigators. for awhile. We worked down in the Navy It was understood
  • became staunch friends; Navy Watchdog Committee; LBJ never expressed a preference for a candidate before a primary.
  • that the Vice President was chairing on the other hand? S: I don't remember any overlapping on that. F: When President Kennedy was killed, you were named to a state committee to look into the assassination. S: Yes. What happened was that as soon
  • committee composed of the province chief, the AID representative, and the military advisory group representative. They would be given a budget, including some contingency funds, for a variety of activities, which included everything ranging from hamlet
  • knew him, and I imagine that Diem very likely mentioned his name occasionally to me. I remember one time a year or so later when some Americans were going to come out, a committee was going to come out to Vietnam and the Vietnamese were in conference
  • participate on the committee ." happened . It didn't work out . Well, I don't know what So the Venezuelans abstained and opposed . Then later, one of my predecessors, Ted Moskoso, arrived rather suddenly . He had been asked by the White House--I think
  • Clark 9/22/67 C / ~ f' '\ J Ct, /f:,--92... -r- fl FILE LOCATION Personal Papers of Ramsey Clark Box 33C "JFK ASSASINATION - PRESERVING DOCUMENTS" RESTRICTION CODES {Al Closed by Executive Order 12356·governing access to national
  • - national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my
  • as he was before the congressional committees during his tenure, I think that the enemies of the intelligence community would have managed to wreck it even further than it was wrecked at that time. Of course, Colby was roundly criticized by many people
  • DISCUSSION OF MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE ON CIA AND FUNDING OF PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS; QUESTION OF LBJ ASKING RICHARD RUSSELL TO SERVE ON COMMITTEE; LBJ REFERS TO RUSSELL'S SERVICE ON WARREN COMMISSION; WORDING OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT
  • LBJ ASKS EASTLAND WHAT ACTIONS SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IS TAKING ON INVESTIGATION OF ASSASSINATION OF JFK; EASTLAND SAYS THEY PLAN TO HOLD HEARINGS; LBJ DISCUSSES APPOINTING PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE ASSASSINATION, ITS POSSIBLE
  • LBJ ASKS MCDONALD'S HELP IN GETTING VOTES FOR DISCHARGE PETITION TO RELEASE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL FROM HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE, SAYS BILL IS ENTITLED TO HEARING IN HOUSE JUST AS LEE HARVEY OSWALD SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED HEARING; NEED TO PASS TAX BILL
  • LBJ DISCUSSES MEMBERSHIP OF PROPOSED PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION, SAYS HE WILL MAKE RICHARD RUSSELL AND OTHERS ACCEPT APPOINTMENT; DIRKSEN SUGGESTS APPOINTING JOHN MCCONE TO COMMITTEE
  • RUSSELL COMPLAINS ABOUT SERVING ON WARREN COMMISSION; DISCUSSION OF MOVING MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FROM SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO ARMED SERVICES; RUSSELL'S OPPOSITION TO POLICY ON VIETNAM, LAOS; LBJ INVITES RUSSELL TO WH TO DISCUSS
  • LBJ SAYS THAT HE IS ABOUT TO ANNOUNCE APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION, MENTIONS HIS DECISION TO APPOINT DODD TO SENATE COMMITTEE WHEN LBJ WAS SENATE MAJORITY LEADER
  • LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT HANDLING OF COFFEE AGREEMENT IN SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE, CABINET MEMBERS' PROPOSED TRIP TO JAPAN; LBJ'S CONCERNS THAT CIVIL RIGHTS BILL WILL DELAY PASSAGE OF TAX BILL; JFK'S CANCELLATION OF CABINET MEMBERS' TRIP TO LBJ RANCH
  • APPOINTMENT OF CABINET COMMITTEE TO STUDY RECOMMENDATIONS OF WARREN COMMISSION REPORT ON JFK ASSASSINATION TO IMPROVE PROTECTION OF PRESIDENT; CRITICISM OF SECRET SERVICE; POSSIBLE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION, PROTECTION FOR GOLDWATER; CLARK CLIFFORD
  • LBJ TELLS BUNDY HE WANTS DOUGLAS DILLON, NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, BUNDY APPOINTED TO COMMITTEE TO STUDY RECOMMENDATIONS OF WARREN COMMISSION REPORT ON JFK ASSASSINATION; QUESTION OF PRESIDENT'S DOCTOR BEING STATIONED NEAR HIM
  • UK, US MONETARY SITUATION; EUROPEAN LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN UK MONETARY SITUATION DUE TO LABOUR PARTY REMARKS IN PARLIAMENT; TREASURY APPOINTMENTS; LBJ'S CONFIDENCE IN SECRET SERVICE; DILLON COMMITTEE ON IMPROVING PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTION; INTEREST
  • LEGAL BASIS FOR COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSPORTATION, MEDICAL, SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION, OTHER FEDERAL SERVICES FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS; CLIFFORD'S CONCERNS ABOUT GETTING LEGISLATION ON THE MATTER; ABE FORTAS' ADVICE; DILLON COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
  • CLARK'S TALKS WITH J. EDGAR HOOVER, CARTHA "DEKE" DELOACH ON CONVEYING FBI VIEWS ON CONSULAR CONVENTION TO SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE; REVIEW OF JFK AUTOPSY PHOTOS; BOBBY BAKER TRIAL; CLARK'S EVALUATION OF GOVT CASE; EDWARD BENNETT WILLIAMS
  • CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF STATUS OF TAX BILL IN SENATE; ABRAHAM RIBICOFF'S POSITION ON BILL; LBJ ASKS ABOUT FINANCE COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON BILL, CONGRESSIONAL RECESS FOR UPCOMING HOLIDAYS, AND HIS POSSIBLE ADDRESS TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS