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Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

appointment to the Redevelopment Land Agency? H: I remember that I was driving back from New England and that I stopped in New York to see my wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Ross. We were on the beach in Long Island when I got a call to call the White
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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-)

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

deal. Of course, the FBI was here, and they We examined various items and questioned where certain things happened and all that sort of thing. I'll get to Warren now. He had a very brilliant lawyer from New York that he was fond of, and he made him
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on that o F: Can you think of anything specific? S: I guess I really can't. There was something about some deal in New York, but I'm dadgummed if I can remember what it was. I remember the President had me talk to Shriver, and then Shriver came back
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of criticism as well as hope, and I gave it to Nick [Katzenbach]. It was just at that time, around March of 1966, that the President called me up in New York, where I was attending a Columbia Law School Board of Visitors seminar, and asked me to serve as chief
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did learn, indirectly, that our names had been mentioned earlier. That had totally escaped my mind when the call came from the President--I was in New York at this judges conference--that [Lloyd] Hand had left and would I take his place
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. by no means unique in that attitude . Oral history is really fairly new, and we are just sort of relying on the intelligence of the future scholars to be well aware that that kind of circumstance does develop . And indeed I think perhaps the purpose

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

believe Paul Ylvisaker was the principal spokesman for the state of New Jersey at which there were also representatives from the city of Newark, I continued to play a coordinating role for the goods and services that were made available by the federal

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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-)

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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