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  • on Poverty legislation? T: Mainly the same kinds of concepts were involved here. things that were interesting: A couple of One is, we espoused in 1963 in our national conference in Los Angeles, when Whitney Young first came out with this idea
  • his region. Many people considered him conservative and backward by national standards. I considered him a very bold and audacious Southern politician. So I went to Los Angeles sympathetic to his candidacy. of course, he had no chance of winning
  • that this wasn't as bad a bill as it had been painted in the press. I wrote out a couple of amendments finally that I wante d to offer. Along abou t Fr iday when all the time had run out and I had been . attempti ng to be r ecogniz ed, I couldn't get the floor
  • on right after the Bay of Pigs? No, I was in the State Department before that time.. I can't" quite pinpoint it . That was in November, wasn't it? F: Did that have anything to do with your moving over? H: No, not at all, but I was transferred December
  • . 6, 1969 Place #2 Tape 1969 10, Jan. & Jan 6, 1969 --'--------------=-------~ Tape #3 Jan 10, ]969 ----~----------------~ 42 pages ____________ ______ 40 pages _..._._ 5 pages Tape index: Subiect(s) covered Page or estimated time on tape Tape Ill
  • , did you work more directly for President Johnson? W: Yes. G: Tell me about that. W: I worked for a short time for Jack Valenti, and I worked for Bill Moyers. Walter Jenkins and Mildred Stegall were--I sat at the same desk as I did when I