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  • out in a police car to view the riot scene on Seventh Street and Fourteenth Street . We soon found the traffic was very bad and one of the first things I did was to ask that the car be stopped so that I could telephone the White House and give them
  • in a case like this? What are the mechanics of How does Mr. Vance talk to the President? c: When we arrived at Detroit police headquarters, we were assigned t~070 rooms there and the rooms had in them two or three telephones each. Mr. Vance simply
  • 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
  • was get on the telephone and say, Come on out here," and that's how the Dallas News scooped the Times-Herald on that story. F: Did you do a lot of interviewing in this investigation, or did you mainly take the facts that the police and the FBI had
  • and ,.,;rorking overtime on the telephone in '65 and '66, and I must say all the specifics I ever heard of that were most unjustified, but I believe he was sensitive to this because I got the idea pretty fast not to ask the President to do much calling. really
  • at the department actually worked day and night for about three days getting together the various affidavits; and then they were called by telephone and dictated over the phone to U.S. Attorneys' offices all over the country who were then given the responsibility
  • with that problem--traffic congestion, an awful lot of confusion, and every difficulty in finding workable public telephones to call up the troops. Of course, I should point out that although the formal recommendation had come a little later, the military