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Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was get on the telephone and say, Come on out here," and that's how the Dallas News scooped the Times-Herald on that story. F: Did you do a lot of interviewing in this investigation, or did you mainly take the facts that the police and the FBI had
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the authority to make available various supplies such as housing, food, and medical supplies. I recall that my public involvement with the I matter began with a Sunday morning meeting which I chaired here in the Deputy Attorney General's office at which I
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • impression that the White House tried to let the new D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct supervision from the White House? M: From what I could see of the operation of District government, certainly the mayor gave me a very free
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . by no means unique in that attitude . Oral history is really fairly new, and we are just sort of relying on the intelligence of the future scholars to be well aware that that kind of circumstance does develop . And indeed I think perhaps the purpose
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • appointment to the Redevelopment Land Agency? H: I remember that I was driving back from New England and that I stopped in New York to see my wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Ross. We were on the beach in Long Island when I got a call to call the White
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of comparison, New York City has about twenty-eight thousand policemen, so the thing that we have to remember is that law enforcement in this country is a matter of local initiative and local resources. The Safe Streets Act recognizes, however
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did learn, indirectly, that our names had been mentioned earlier. That had totally escaped my mind when the call came from the President--I was in New York at this judges conference--that [Lloyd] Hand had left and would I take his place
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Vietnam? R: Yes, he talked at length about Vietnam. Something had happened that morning, a speech on the Senate floor by Morse and it distracted his attention from the purpose of our meeting. When we got back to the central purpose of the meeting
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . early in the morning. We left It was hot and so I dressed in shorts and short-sleeved shirt. We finally got down towards this one big village at the tip of Ca Mau about dusk, and I'm seeing the village; you could see where some smoke
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • straw, perhaps a crucial straw. S: I wasn't there when he got the news. In meetings when the subject would be brought up, I don't remember him making any particular comment about it. Now, this probably meant to me that if he had had some pretty
Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • new major policy decisions made that affected the department. B: But this is only a natural development. During these years in which there were three Attorney Generals--from Robert Kennedy to Nicholas Katzenbach to Ramsey Clark--did there occur under
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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