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Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Department of Justice at the time, and I met a Mr. Pollak, who at the time was on the White House staff in District of Columbia affairs. He had for a year, approximately, been working on the legislation for reorganization of District government. The mayor
  • Biographical information; Mayor of Washington, DC Council and DC police force; recruitment; conflicting jurisdictions; coordination with government departments; intelligence unit; MLK assassination; Poor People's March and Resurrection City; 1968
Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --after the assassination of President Kennedy--and after the immediate period of transition, that Mr. Johnson tended to view the Justice Department as more of a Kennedy department than a Johnson department. Did you see any evidence of this kind of thing
  • Discusses the Justice Department; the formation of the Office of Law Enforcement Assistance and its programs; 1968 Omnibus Crime Bill
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the President to see the anguish on Featherston's face as well as mine. Shortly after that, he made the appointment. B: Incidentally, is this unusual, this spotting you at a social gathering and remembering your position and to discuss this kind of affair
  • Biographical information; meeting with LBJ; IRS budget; contacts with LBJ; LBJ’s appointment to Tax Court; Justice Department personnel; differences in administrations; Vietnam policy effect on tax policies; prosecution of tax cases; Bobby Baker
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 22, 1968 B: This is the interview with Fred M. Vinson, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, Department of Justice. Mr. Vinson, if we may begin with something not directly related to your present
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • be done in extradition matters to get from them some idea of the quantum of proof necessary to maintain an extradition order. B: Engaging a local counsel in that case surely was not a hit-or-miss affair. Does the Department of Justice have standard
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • over a period of time myself. I'd talked to Henry Wilson a little bit before he left, and had worked with Henry because I was in the Congressional end of things at the Justice Department, so I knew generally what the operation was. As best I could
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • affairs like the Alliance for Progress. F: He took no part in that himself? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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