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Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • work did you do at the Department of Interior? W: Well, I started out as Adviser in Negro Affairs and also became a consultant to the Housing Division of PWA, which was the first part of government to get into low-rent public housing. In 1937 when
  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • entertained Adenauer. very colorful affair. It was a There were, I guess, about a hundred guests. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , a part of the Secret Service. Narcotics is, or was at that time, a bureau of the It was one of the sister agencies of the Secret Treasury Department. Service--one of the Treasury law enforcement agencies. M: To clear up a public point in definition
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or something like that. Or maybe they'd have somebody from the execu- tive department to explain a particular project in which Texas was interested. It.was the closed door sessions of the Texas group where the decisions [were madeJ--where they really got