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  • : This is extensive background, and I'm very sorry I must out of time--your time--limit some of my questions more to the 1961 area of your service in Defense. Would you briefly define for me the responsibilities of deputy secretary of defense? N: When Mr. [Robert
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Curtis -- I -- 22 when Jack Kennedy was shot. witness. He got the word, but he
  • circumstances, to various kinds of proposals. M: Then how long did you stay with the AEC? I: I stayed with the AEC in the changeover of Administration, and I was White House liaison under both the Republicans and Democrats. I came to know President Kennedy
  • of the specific problems as possible to the agencies, but many of them bring up matters of principle . I'll give you an example of the type of thing that can happen . Dr . Robert Holley who I guess yesterday or day before yesterday received the Nobel Prize
  • which would prove to our ultimate disadvantage. Now my position was public, was well known. When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see that having me
  • with Lyndon Johnson. A: I first became acquainted with him only after the Kennedy assassination. I had seen him around the White House occasionally, and I guess we nodded, though I doubt that he was sure who I was. F: But you never had any real
  • guess you might say, the principal witness for the military pay raise--no, that was during President Kennedy's--the first one at least. It's really awfully hard for me to remember the names of committees most often they didn't have a name
  • for which there is no satisfactory answer. can do about it. There is really nothing intelligent that you In the first place, you can't prevent that sort of thing happening any more than you can prevent episodes such as the assassination of Bob Kennedy