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- with the
President over the telephone.
that
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would have later.
It was characteristic of the conversations
He began by asking me whether this was
~vorse
than Watts, and I told him that I thought it was probably going to be at
least as bad as Watts
- many people coming and going and
coming and going.
Did he talk to you about that?
As far as just having a serious conversation of the
whys and the wherefores and the pros and the cons, no, that never
occurred.
That wasn't his manner.
He would
- Relations Service has been available at
times.
helpful.
I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very
And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in
daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and
he offered me
- with my appointment were with the Attorney
Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth
of June and there began a series of conversations between us.
B:
Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time
- knew he was
being considered.
F:
Yes.
S:
And, I think,
in conversations with him, no doubt, that was men-
tioned, but as a matter of fact, the appointment came by phone.
He was notified by phone;
day.
\'Je
were at a meeting at Springfield
- used?
Y:
No, not--well, you know, President Johnson was a very unusual fellow in a conversation.
You'd go in with a specific item for the agenda but, depending on his most recent
encounter or telephone call or something, you'd find yourself sort
- , and also for evidential purposes.
And this has
never been considered illegal by our courts, where a party to the conversation consents to the transmission of the conversation.
B:
Even if the other parties have not?
V:
That's correct.
B:
I know
- , and that \/as included in the speech.
sa"
the draft of the speech.
to rr:e.
I
I
It obviously came as a good deal of surprise
irr:mediately rClr.cmbercd the conversation I had had with John
Connally the:. previc s
tem:K:r ",hen he told me that was a possibility
- the impression,
that growing out of some of the conversations that President Johnson
had, and out of the meetings that we had, and all this seemed to be
a natural kind of evolvement.
B:
~\Tho
were some of the people who met with you at Governor William IS
LBJ
- there were conversations to that effect.
Did you talk
face-to-face with Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson about this?
R:
No, Mr. Randolph did.
group should go.
I did not.
The decision was that a small
Therefore since Mr. Randolph and I represented the
same
-
and things of that kind on equal employment, especially [concerning] my
conversations with some of the major business people here in the
community and getting them to participate in his Equal Employment
Opportunity Program down there.
But that was done more
- as a standard before.
And
I think the biggest thing was getting people to put it into effect on
their own and believing that in some way or another they were connected
with the effort.
For example, the telephone call which interrupted us a few minutes
ago
- anything else
and he eventually took it.
G:
Did he leave you any parting shot, any instructions, recommendations,
words of advice?
H:
Not really.
We had some conversations before he left mostly
about specific problems that were on hand.
As a matter
- of that on television and all that.
But I
did not stay up there the next several days, and I had no further
conversations with him after th.at about it.
B:
When he heard the news did he himself suggest or perhaps ask you to call
Mrs. King or any of the other members
- on national problems in
the department and did not want to take on the position.
I said that
if the President determined that that's what he wanted me to do, I
served in his administration and I would take the assignment.
Stemming from that conversation were