First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States; Frank Wozencraft; a history of the Conference; Williams appointed to head the Administrative Conference; the nature of the Conference; Charles Brannan testifies for the Conference; Robert Graham helps save the Conference budget; problems with Ed Morgan; internal operation of the Council; a dispute between the FAA and the Transportation Department over disciplining pilots; "selective certification;" the John Macy operation compared to the RMN personnel program; Dick van Dusen; Emmette Redford; Waddy Bullion; Jim Langdon; Joe Kilgore; RMN was inaccessible; Richard Poff; Arthur Kirshon; the ABA and mediation of Transportation labor disputes
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Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 4, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-williamsj-19710108-1-78-93