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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
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 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