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  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 35 charged were mere outgrowths of the tax case. Katzenbach didn't necessarily want Bittman to prosecute the case. Ramsey Clark, who was Deputy Attorney General, felt he was in no position
  • relationship with Attorney General Clark and Fred Vinson. We had occasion to work with them a good deal during the Poor People's Campaign, and during the demonstrations of one kind or another in many tense situations. Because the attorney general
  • 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
  • with my appointment were with the Attorney Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth of June and there began a series of conversations between us. B: Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time
  • : Well, I got a call from the President actually. I was out of town. And when I got back to town, I learned that the President wanted to speak to me. And the next call I got was either from Nick [Nicholas de B.] Katzenbach or Ramsey Clark--I don't
  • of story. What happened was I was called at Kampelman's office because I kept Pollak advised where I was--he told me--and I was supposed to report immediately to Warren Christopher, the Deputy Attorney General under Ramsey Clark. I went down
  • like Katzenbach or Burke Marshall, obviously Clark, fellows like that. If you get a lot closer to the kind of retainer- type fellow that had always been with Bob, you'd find it in their families and so on; just as I certainly found the reverse if I
  • meeting would consist of Nick Katzenbach, Jim Vorenberg, Joe Califano, Harry McPherson--two gentlemen of the White House staff; often the then Deputy Attorney General, who soon became Attorney General, Mr. Clark, and myself. And that was the nucleus