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Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Cabinet Room. This was a meeting on the morning after Dr. [Martin Luther] King's assassination, to which the President had invited maybe ten or fifteen Negro leaders. The purpose of the meeting, I think, was to discuss with them what they saw as the likely
  • McGiffert's career from 1953 to 1965; how McGiffert got into government work and promotion opportunities under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; meetings with LBJ, including one after the assassination of Martin Luther King; McGiffert's contact