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  • Subject > Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 (remove)
  • Contributor > Symington, James W. (James Wadsworth), 1927- (remove)

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Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , to a good friend of mine, the nephew of ~y godfather, a boy named John Husted; that was before she met Jack Kennedy and cancelled those plans. In 1952 Dad decided to leave government. I think he was going to go back into business, but he was, by a few
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • to food and China; the problem of being under a committee system; East-West trade and U.S. trade policies; Nixon’s proposal to open international trade; the Department of Agriculture; how Symington became assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • domestic programs, and perhaps in the civil rights field, schools, and so on. When I was in Justice under Robert Kennedy, he was the head of a delegation, I think, to discuss a Peace Corps equivilence throughout the Caribbean, down in Puerto Rico
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968