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- be visible in the staff positions, the appointive positions, and reflected in the kind of humor that they use on both.
sides.
The President has his people, and of course Humphrey had
his little set of people, and Bob had his, inherited and some new
ones.
I
- to me--
I'd known him a long time--and said, "Bob, where can we eat privately?"
My wife and son had died not long before, and at that time I had an
apartment in a high-rise apartment.
cook.
So I said, "That's easy.
I have a
It's a small apartment
- .
It was intended to be a healing meeting--a meeting that sought to
reassure through this group the Negroes and other minorities of the
country that this should not be a cause for violence or a loss of hope .
B:
It did include representatives from beyond just
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temporary thing, or did you assume you were signing on for a permanent
job?
M:
No.
I was hoping I was signing on for a more permanent job but
realized the hazards.
August 1st.
Mr
- . Katzenbach first approached you about serving in this position,
did he outline what the administration hoped the office would do?
E:
Only in very general terms.
I had been involved with the Organized Crime
Section of the Criminal Division
- some element of hope in it that it would be an
i'ndtcati'on to my father that he wanted to restore their earl ier
friends-tHp.
Actually,
r think most of the restoration had been done
after the sadness of the assassination and Johnson's ascendence
- Washington and myself went over there and presented
bronze plaques and keys to the city especially designed for Mrs. Johnson
and himself.
I believe they are very handsome plaques, and I hope
they'll be in the Library because they were especially designed
wi
- after the Detroit situation, the Attorney General wrote each of
the fifty governors indicating the bases for the request for federal
troops and the procedure that would be used in requesting them.
that this has had some educational value.
We hope
- responsibility for law enforcement.
There's
so much you can do in the area of consolidation of local law enforcement,
however, that I hope the states in their plans will aim in that direction.
You have 40 thousand difference police agencies in this country.
B
- a mistake, the idea--at least the idea that some of
us hoped would come about--would be that the Civil Guard would become
that territorial force.
They never did.
So it left a security vacuum
out in the countryside, too.
So you had two things that happened