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  • in person, they said, "Yes, sir," over the phone, and that was that. This would not have happened in an older administration, even under Kennedy. Nobody yet had confidence in whom they could trust, but it was an example of a truncated decision-making process
  • : No, that was up here in the residence of the Vice President, at that time in Washington. It was then about 1961 or 1962--I believe it was 1961. The congressmen were Ray Roberts, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • , and really "agency" isn't the correct word for them. They go by many other names--sometimes they're called commissions, sometimes panels, sometimes committees, and sometimes task forces. The term "task force" developed, I think, in either the late Kennedy
  • standpoint was when I came here, I was new and Mr. Katzenbach actually held my job in 1961 and 1962 under [Attorney General] Bob Kennedy and [Deputy Attorney General] Byron White, before he succeeded Byron White as Deputy. So that he knew perfectly well what
  • , as the ranking Republican on this committee interested in drugs and these problems; we talked with [Abraham A.] Ribicoff, who had no problem at all. We sent word to Bob Kennedy's office as to the problems and volunteered to meet with him if he had time and if he