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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
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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,
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- , 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