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  • 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
  • came aboard? s: Only the most general kind of instructions. At that time Henry Wilson had been in charge of the House side of Congressional relations for the President-well, he'd come in from the Kennedy days, he'd been there since '61
  • discussion last time, Dr . Baker, one aspect of our two prior meetings has occurred to me that I thought I might make a matter of record . I have not undertaken any preparation for our discussions . I have not known in advance the subject matter that you
  • Building, Washington, D.C., and my name is David McComb. First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. I know that you've been in Washington for a long time. You've been president of a prominent lumber and hardware concern in this town
  • Macy; possibility of Home Rule; time spent with Congressmen; D.C. Committee; involvement in architectural changes; 1969 budget; working groups of Council; DC’s peculiar problems; commuter tax; Congressman Broyhill; Jack Nevius; Congressman Archer Nelsen
  • government. In this picture, we were always walking a difficult line of wanting to assist the cities in their relief and rehabilitation, but at the same time not wishing to have the occasion of a riot made the reason for a city to get preferential treatment
  • , and as a consequence, he was hospitalized and \.;1as in a recuperation situation until the spring of that year. And I don't believe that he returned to v]
  • 17,1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES SYMINGTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Symington's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Jim, when we talked last time, we got through the election of 1960 and your memories of that, and so I thought
  • of the Department of Justice at the time, and I met a Mr. Pollak, who at the time was on the White House staff in District of Columbia affairs. He had for a year, approximately, been working on the legislation for reorganization of District government. The mayor
  • is required. F: \~e'll grant that you have the necessary social attributes and that you knew the l~ashington scene fairly well, by background, but at the same time your own professional background had not been in this direction. You had worked on much
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MARCH 27, 1969 This is the interview with Courtney Evans. Sir, would you just summarize briefly your career up to the time you joined the Office of Enforcement Assistance? E: After my graduation from law
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat
  • for émigrés from [the communist] bloc, who were then to be sent back in the bloc. If you remember that time, this was during the Korean War and there was an expectation, or if not an expectation, at least some anxiety that the Russians might do something
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 26, 1968 B: This is the second interview with Mr. Vinson in the Criminal Division. We talked last time generally about the functions of the division. To get a little
  • counsel of the inaugural. B: Do you recall any particular difficulties, problems, incidents, in connection with that? V: I can remember it seemed like one mass of problems because you have a very short period of time to really establish and run