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  • have committed the National Guard to Los Angeles upon request of the Mayor. B: This was at the time of Watts? C: At the time of the Watts riots and as you may remember Governor Brown was then out of the state and Lt. Governor Anderson
  • , I fel t that it might be useful if I got back to Los Angeles and did. as the riots came ~4der As soon control, we began talking about the need for S.J2e sort of a high level cor:unission on the character of the Royal Commission to look
  • in specific events? For example, I have an idea that there was some federal assistance to the police forces in Los Angeles and Memphis in regard to the prison jail circumstances of Sirhan and James Earl Ray. E: This must have come along-- Did you get
  • 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
  • precautions, as I understand them, are almost unbelievable. V: Well, I think we agreed before--you just can't afford another Oswald-Ruby incident. B: Incidentally, has your office been involved in Los Angeles in the aftermath LBJ Presidential Library
  • 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
  • ://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
  • 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
  • a number of times in Washington while he was a congressman. F: You were on the Civil Rights Commission. Of course that started under Eisenhower and continued under Kennedy, but Johnson as vice president had some concern with that. Did you work with him
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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