Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz

March 31 speech, the process of drafting it, and speech-writer Harry McPherson; radios in the White House cars; calling people to forewarn them of the speech’s contents; White House activity following the speech; LBJ’ hopes that the speech could help bring an end to the war in Vietnam; LBJ’s interest in reactions; Governor Rockefeller; MLK assassination and the subsequent Washington riots; the process by which a President can get the help of federal troops; D.C. Mayor Water Washington; LBJ’s impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler; Eisenhower/LBJ relationship.