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- 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