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  • to full strength when you left to take the new post? M: Yes. As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions approximately. Congress approved that so we have brought it up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with the Daily News editorial staff to tell them his aspirations for the City Council. And the News--nobody had this story about his being withdrawn but the Post, and until the Post said it, of course everybody I guess was trying to investigate it. So he told
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • this--in order to get to MAAG, we had to go by this big Binh Xuyen post that's right in back of what was then MAAG headquarters, which was down in the middle of Cholon. Xuyen were, manning the ramparts there. Here all the Binh We went in and we started
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of forty lawyers committed to that--the planning and then the post-arrest process. In the urban disorders several years ago--I guess three years ago--we created a special unit in the Criminal Division. We called it our "Summer Project." To gather
  • -thirty and he started that pattern out in Detroit. I remember his calling me one night out there when the Washington Post had severely criticized his decision to have a personal inspection made by Mr. Vance before committing troops as being
  • of these? Yes, I was involved in the post-King assassination disorders . Here at the Department we learned about Dr . King's shooting at a staff meeting . I turned to the Attorney General, and I remember it was our immediate common thought that we were
  • that in the book. F: I bought the [Washington] Post the next morning to see if my picture LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • opportunities to learn sort of a post-graduate degree. In 1958 I came into government and was quite a-political. In 1961, when I became Assistant to the Commissioner, I became privy to many of the policy and political problems of the day. I wasn't