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This meeting included the members of the
board of directors of the association 7 and Melville Bell Grosvenor
and two of his colleagues, Franc Shor and Bob Breeden.
Inciden-
tally, I was not then a member of the board of directors.
At
the time, I
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of the full committee .
George and John Kluczynski, Bob Jones [Democrat]
from Alabama, who
- to Senator Kennedy, "Jack, you're awfully
I'm sure you will be President some day, but I think you are too
young to run now and I hope you don't."
President Kennedy said, "Well, Phil, I'm sorry, but I'm running, and
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M:
Did he discuss with you his hopes for the city government?
F:
Oh yes.
He many many times discussed the hopes at the first meeting that I
had on the 24th, discussed them again when we were
- Appointment as Deputy Mayor; LBJ's hopes for city government; work with D.C. Council; relationship with Congress; difficulties from serving unrepresented constituency; high percentage of disadvantaged people in D.C.; budget process; program budget
- Scranton at
some function down here in Washington, and the Governor said to
him,
'~ou
know, we spent a lot of time on Appalachia, and we sure
hope you will give it your attention."
him.
That was all he said to
The next thing I knew, Bill Moyers
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highway engineer and the District Engineer. a Brigadier General.
that if I
coul~get
that freeway design straightened out. and God
knows he had little hope that I could pull it off--ttI'11 give you the
savings in cost between the two freeways, the curved
- directly to do with the
origins of that Act?
W:
Not that I am aware of.
This Act was sponsored primarily by Congressmen
Clifford Hope of Kansas in the House but received very strong support
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- series of new things.
I hope I have a copy of that here.
A friend of mi ne, Florence Mahoney, and
I were great friends with Clark Clifford, who was also a great friend of
Senator Johnson's, as you well know.
Clark Clifford said that he would
. get us
- that this was
going to be a major case before the board, that I appreciated that the
Justice Department had antitrust interests, and I wanted him to know that
the board did too ; that I would hope if his Antitrust Division got into
the case that they had something
- of the Budget?
B :
As I recall, the Bureau of the Budget sat in on this--somebody from the
Bureau, and we felt that there our bigger problem was really what sort of
hope could we get for acceptance from Civil Service Commission, once we
got below
- publicizing did you hope to get
out of the conference?
R:
The president and, I think, Mrs. Johnson had great vision.
were also realists.
action.
They
So they were concerned, as we were, about
They were very people-minded, action-minded, and they
were
- the President or Mrs. Johnson ever communicated any views
to them.
Whether they were hoping to make points because they knew
this was close to the President because of his wifels activities, or
what, I don't know, but they were certainly determined to resist
- and he's no fool.
He knows what is a lasting thing and what blows away with the wind.
this issue will go away someday, I hope.
Now
But if I'm wrong, our own
friends ought to get together and watch for the opportunity to organize
a little support