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  • Contributor > White, Lee Calvin, 1923-2013 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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