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  • Date > 1986-09-10 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Development. O: Well, that all followed the pattern that had been established back at the time of Kennedy when the word was that [Robert] Weaver would be the first black member of the President's cabinet. That surrounded the enactment. As this dragged
  • of new towns; the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development with Secretary Robert Weaver as the first African-American cabinet member; how the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was affected by the creation of HUD; a constitutional