Working for three Kennedy brothers; housing finance management his expertise; Dick Goodwin set up eleven task forces for LBJ; contacted Haar; task to get ideas to beautify cities and states, to clean rivers, zoning, save the environment; LBJ would worry about politics while the task force should stick to the beauty of the environment; $50,000 budget all on White House per diem; became N.A.H.R.O. Urban Renewal; Haar left government for office at Cambridge , Harvard University
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-haarc-19710614-1-80-1