Symington’s limited contact with LBJ after 1960; relationship between LBJ and RFK; 1964 campaign; the Poverty Program; Dave Hackett; how Symington became the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and his work to get the Committee into order; how Labor, Justice and HEW’s programs related to the Committee’s work; disseminating information about juvenile delinquency; becoming chief of protocol; reports from the Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, the Kerner Commission and the Juvenile Delinquency Committee; options for helping juvenile delinquents and the connected costs; the demise of the Juvenile Delinquency committee; executive orders that are no longer being carried out.
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Citation
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 1, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-symingtonj-19690917-2-79-15