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Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
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- as a secretary to Ralph Dungan. He was a special assistant to President Kennedy. His main job was to--he was a talent scout for President Kennedy with the ambassadors and cabinet officers. Latin America was on his wing [?] and we were pretty busy. And President
- How Whittington came to work for LBJ following President Kennedy's assassination; Whittington's duties; LBJ's secretaries' rotating schedules; traveling with LBJ to the Ranch and Austin; Whittington as the first African American to integrate
- could be more establishment than a federal agency. So the kind of people who were put together in that Civil Rights Division was really remarkable. B: You mean people like Robert Kennedy himself and John Doar and Burke Marshall? T: Yes. B
- Eugene Patterson Sub .i ect (s) covered 15 - 17 Built-in antagonism between the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Cormnission; Robert Kennedy Nicholas Katzenbach; Ramsey Clark; Frankie Freeman 18 '65 report on discrimination in agriculture
- Civil Rights Bill of 1964; LBJ calls Pickle to commend him on his vote; Pickle votes against open housing; Pickle as "President Johnson's Congressman;" Robert Poage and Williamson County; regrets voting against open housing; LBJ, Yarborough
- you can see how they would have that added feeling of poignant grief, that their own state had to be embarrassed about it. So this is something that those of us in the Kennedy and the Johnson officia l family would like to seal off. Did you come
- on to the essentials it, they that to be done. Lady B~rd typified ·, in from the it by the act ' oj coming I• ,. 0 funeral simple of President Kennedy( certainly his death I ¢, . was. one of the greatest 0 she.walked ' in her -house, to go