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Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- it," or, "It wasn't worth it." We have to depend in many ways on other agencies for help in developing our data. The Veterans Administration and the Department of Labor both are involved in this follow-up procedure for us. It's going to be awhile before we can say
- Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
- August Z3, 1965 [7 of 7] CT OFFICIAL USE ONLY U .S . DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE WASHINGTON , D .C . 20230 August 23, 1965 ::""·.r ~f'1 'TtVE ;..Ao, ~ "-~·· '' .,_, ';r.~ If!/ z./r r5 '- G/ ,$; ~.J.>.. =!-6 / S-j-:. IR
- -·e_c_t~--~--~---~--U_.__T._O_ra_l__ Accession Record Number ~------A_C_l_7_-~1_3_8__~----------~General topic of interview: Discusses his role as General Counsel and Special Assistant for Civil Functions, Department of the Army. Date Length Tape #1 Jan
- Department in organizing recruitment, training, and in developing supervisory capacities. ~is team wuld act as liaison between Watts community resources and health resources of official and private organizations; and would aid in developing program leadership
- details were requisite for him to callout the tha,c became a necess2.ry step, as it did. militar:;' area tvitil ,chich I ment of .Tus t~ familiar, but I 1,':'1S F: They morc the book' ::, \'laS not Depart- ::e
- that the President, as it were, got to know me and knew who Ed Re was. Then when the question arose as to who should go to the State department as Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, I received a calIon one occasion by Mr
- Biographical information; early contact with LBJ; Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs; East-West Center; Washington riots; Foreign policy implications of education and cultural exchange; Mutual Education
- department and so on. And I think particularly within the last year we've developed a pretty good system of operation. The inaugural affair this year, I think was the proof that we were able to take care of a very dangerous situation. M: You mean
- rela tionship. The controversy \vhich seems to have been mOlIDting emotion- ally for many, many months now generally directed against the Department of Justice--if that doesn't sort of hamper your activities in Congressional affairs? C: There's
- and evaluating intelligence with respect to that matter. B: Is that unit cooperative within the Justice Department here--that is, it involved the activities of more than one division? V: Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, over a year ago it was set up on inter
- 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
- : I hope my Department will not be required to enter this situation. We will not unless called upon. We will see to it that law and order will be maintained. I knew Dr. King. I had deep respect for him. White leaders respected Dr. King
- Urban affairs
- an estimated 20 per cent duplication) Neighborhood Youth Corps employees (this is in addition to 175, 000 regular year-round corpsmen) additional summer hiring of disadvantaged youngsters by federal departments and agencies Total summer hiring This year
- Urban affairs
- and accomplishments would answer it. The Department of Urban Affairs, and the creation of additional facilities in transportation, and development of HEWand all of these were basically a need to meet the problems of the cities. HUD came about entirely during
- by the Department of Justice of riot control training programs, inter jurisdictional police coordination techniques, and military liaison systems for metropolitan police departments. Stimulation of the develop ment and production of riot control equipment
- - In the Department of State, we realized that, after a few days, we had expended our ambassador. His resources in diplomatic capital had alr"eady been blown; we needed a big gun. Andat this point Luke Battle and John Walsh, who was the executive secretary
- is that it is 6n its way to becoming [9 of 26] - 6 - a paper of major national influence. Certainly, its new crew, headed by the young Chandler, is genuinely con cerned about exercising ' leadership to straighten out the sorry state of affairs politically
- of Housing and Home Finance. In any event, the President in January after his election, January of 1965, had a $pecial address to the nation on-urban and domestic affairs [and] recommended the creation of the department and some things like that, if I'm
- and to know what is being considered and the extent to which Federal programs are involved. The Federal Government programs are centered in several depart ments and I would propose that someone sit in on these meetings independent of the operating Departments
- the South Carolina delegation to go jump in the lake on the Yarmolinsky affair. G: I'm not sure whether the rules of evidence are to be strictly followed in a tape such as this--that is, if you don't have any specific or personal part of the incident
- For a number of reasons, after a couple of years I left that newspaper situation. I stayed in middle Georgia for a brief period of time and then accepted a job with Southern Natural Gas Company in their public affairs department and worked with Southern
- with looters. · The reasons for the permissiveness of the police are not entirely·clear, but a number of factors seem to have been involved. . The department was undermanned at the time,_ and an i solate~ officer would have taken~ great r i sk in trying
- were host to him and to President López Mateos of Mexico in the early part of '64. Did you take part in any of the arrangements to bring the two men together here? Y: Our city of course cooperated. Through the police department we provided security
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- of currentevents and world affairs. F: Now you became very active in the Business and Professional Women's Clubs and rose to be national president. P: Yes. F: Other than widening your acquaintance, did that have any sort of a political impact? P: That's
- involved in the city affairs. Yet, let me say this, it's my feeling that--you know, Charles Horsky was appointed by President Kennedy to be the District liaison man in the White House; and HOrsky, a personal friend of mine, did a wonderful job. the city
- Urban affairs
- Urban affairs
- Urban affairs
- Urban affairs
- that episode later? By that time, you were already, through you activities in foreign affairs, one of the well-known critics of the policy in Vietnam. Regarding your foreign affairs service and work on that committee, was there some specific episode in regard