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  • of your spring--"rhat s07C.e of them aren It. crises, al \'le But tell De ,.]hatever you could call -k.t10\.J about s and the d2cisio'l not to run again. T: Well, I recall, Joe, that after the President made the decision that he television
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
  • the matter of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. As is now beginning to appear in the newspapers, presumably there were wiretaps or other kind of surveillance on Dr. King during this whole period. R: I think
  • they might have been good intelligence gatherers, but because it would really blow the project. You did have terribly suspicious political leaders in the foreign countries j if suddenly a hundr~d, two hundred, road surveyors [arrived] like on the Ghana
  • suppose this is subjective rather than factual--that J. Edgar Hoover did poison the well there? A: Yes, absolutely, there's no question about it. And it was sinful that he did. F: On purpose? A: I don't know. For whatever reason, he
  • president, the former president and now a statesman . F: Our former friend . J-9 : No, he's not a former friend because he's still my friend . He and his wife have been my friends for a long time and I've been their friend . In fact, Lady Bird has
  • , I give you pernlission to fill his nanle in. And I called up the FBI and got hold of J. Edgar Hoover, I think it was, or the man next to him. So I talked them out of protection. Of course, they told nle they had to protect me under the law. Well, I
  • . tough j ob. He said, " It's a tough, It means you have to work full -time, you have to be on the floor full-time, and you have to go around and do the little housekeeping chores that nobody e l se would do them." •~as prepared to do . And he
  • his assistant, more or less. He handled a lot of things for the Chief Justice while the Chief was directing it. This general counsel [J. Lee Rankin], who was a member of the commission, phoned me one Saturday afternoon saying that "our friend wants
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org I~TERVIE\.JEE ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] : JAMES J. ROWLEY I~TERVIEWER: PAIGE E. DATE: January 22, 1969 M: More on LBJ Library oral
  • See all online interviews with James J. Rowley
  • Rowley, James J. (James Joseph), 1908-1992
  • Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • James J. Rowley
  • pretty common knowledge that Mr. Hoover and the FBI can on occasions be jealous of their independence and their prerogatives. Has the FBI worked well in cooperation with the other agencies? V: They work very well now. That was not always the case
  • : By misuse, sir, specifically, do you mean by previous Secretaries? H: Oh, I mean that nobody had taken the department seriously, almost since Hoover's time, certainly during the Roosevelt time. B: When Hoover was Secretary of Commerce, or when he
  • did you work with, J. P. Boyd? $: Boyd and a fellow by the name of Gartland. They called him Judge Gartland. marily. He was on his staff also. But I worked with both pri- Boyd, of course, was in Washington. Gartland actually went out
  • Corporation. You take, for instance, I was on the floor of the House when Herbert Hoover sent up a message mimeographed, saying, "We must have a Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the banks, railroads, and insurance companies." LaGuardia of New York
  • this idea of program budget come from? Did you bring this with you? F: Well, no, the whole concept of program budgeting goes back many years. the Hoover Commission started it back in the late '40s. agencies picked it up. Actually A number of the federal