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- 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
- ar.r educa tion peop1!3
cC:.-.:.cat-:. o:i associ? .tions.; ."."'eve n to the point
the
unfr-ie~~liY-1 ~ss
.of
th~
t1ro, blocke d p;?.ssage of
th~t
and
the
this rift, or
n~edcd.
legis lation .
Do 7cu fc;el t.ha.t you brougJ .t these assoc
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McCormack' s office that he didn't realize that the people were being prbse-·
cuted, although it had been a matter of conside rable publici ty in all of
the newspap ers for some weeks, maybe even months at that time; and that he
didn't want them prosecu ted
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Plus newspape rme n.
P:
--and
news p apermen~
t han anybody in Texas.
as many as anybody, and maybe more .
At that time I knew fully
I had been to all kinds of
conventions and through all sorts of election s, and I had made some
dear friends
- !.> and who was my very c1oses t associate-
I had not known him before I went to the White House, but we had
come to be very congenial and friendly during the time I was there,
so being with him accentuated it.
This was really a traumatic
experience
- to the UN relating to Texas; story of Mrs. Hays being robbed; handling church-state relations for LBJ; selected associate director of the Community Relations Service; Governor Faubus; regrets the Southern Manifesto; Faubus helps unseat Hays in the election