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Accession Record Number ~------A_C_l_7_-~1_3_8__~----------~General topic of interview:
Discusses his role as General Counsel and Special Assistant for Civil
Functions, Department of the Army.
Date
Length
Tape #1
Jan
- in most of that activity.
I was a
I was heavily
Close to Dr. Martin Luther King
--closely associated with all the national civil rights leaders.
B:
What was your opinion of the Justice Department's, and the Kennedy
Administration generally, handling
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Eugene Patterson
Sub .i ect (s) covered
15 - 17
Built-in antagonism between the Justice Department
and the Civil Rights Cormnission; Robert Kennedy
Nicholas Katzenbach; Ramsey Clark; Frankie Freeman
18
'65 report on discrimination in agriculture
- Rights Commission; a discussion with LBJ about the press; LBJ meets with observers of the 1967 elections in Vietnam, a staged affair; Civil Rights Commission-Justice Department relations, especially under RFK; LBJ ignores the Civil Rights Commission