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and looking around, Robert Weaver, I think, almost had a trauma over
the length of time that Johnson took to name him as the head of HUD.
Do you have any idea why Johnson took so long, other than the fact
that he is sometimes slow and careful?
W:
I know
- The appointment of Robert Weaver to HUD; acting as gift adviser to CTJ and Clark Clifford, drawing up guidelines for wedding gifts; CTJ responds to the Jenkins incident; LBJ's insistence that staff be on call; LBJ's blocks the transfer of Perry
- started in the Johnson
Administration, and you had agreed to remain as an assistant special
counsel :for the new president.
We've talked about the problems
of getting a Kennedy staff reoriented into a Johnson staff and meshed
with
2.
Johnson staff
- briefly how much contact
you had with Lyndon Johnsony or how much opportunity you had to
observe him during the years that you were a legislative assistant
to Senator Kennedy and an administrative assistant to Senator Cooper.
W:
I certainly had plenty
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under President Kennedy, at least none that I recall.
The first day that we were sworn in we all got herded into Sherman
Adams' old office and took the oath together, and that was the
last tL--:e, I think, we ever got in the same room.
P=esident Johnson