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  • , is that correct? S: Yes, that's correct. I finished in 1941 and even during the time that I was a student at The University of Texas I was very interested in public affairs and in politics, and I had been a county attorney, an assistant district attorney
  • us very briefly about who you are and how you came to be here. W: I'm presently Assistant Attorney General of the United States in charge of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. My relationship with bhis government, I suppose, starts
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George
  • officials in the Interior Department, in the Agriculture Department-F: How did you happen to get HUh the Inter-American Affairs Bureau? D: Well, I came into Washington with the Department of Agriculture and worked as a field agent in the Western States
  • --? My academic background is in business administration, but I've always had a great love affair with the out-of-doors, having been born and raised in Arizona. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • : Was the Puerto Rican situation part of your concern? A: Yes. F: Now, did the President show any particular interest in that? A: Not especially as far as I was concerned. As I recollect, at this time he was listening more to the State Department
  • Impressions of LBJ's early Senate years; Alaskan Statehood Bill; Kennedy-Johnson campaign; Wilderness Bill; Redwood National Park; Department of the Interior land control; University of Colorado honorary degree; LBJ's reaction to upscale black
  • this Hubbard ~1edal in the Armory on April 9 1962, and there were some ten thousand people in that hall. 5 We nad it packed. Every seat that the fire department would allow was taken. F: Was this an invitation sort of affair, or did anyone come who