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  • with the President over the telephone. that ~ve would have later. It was characteristic of the conversations He began by asking me whether this was ~vorse than Watts, and I told him that I thought it was probably going to be at least as bad as Watts
  • of things including the political situation in 1966, which was an off-year congressional election. was no presidential race. There That's been almost ten years ago, and I can't really recall with too much specificity too much of those conversations. I
  • Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me
  • or a mission LBJ Presidential Library http://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 4 during this conversation? R
  • with my appointment were with the Attorney Genera 1 \vho telephoned ne perhaps as much as a month before the fifteenth of June and there began a series of conversations between us. B: Sir, the Attorney General called--this was Ramsey Clark at this time
  • as chairman? Really, I don't know. M: Not why so much, for the technique of selection. Did Mr. Johnson talk to you personally, for example, about it? K: Oh, yes. I had received a telephone call previously out of the White House that the President
  • , and that \/as included in the speech. sa" the draft of the speech. to rr:e. I I It obviously came as a good deal of surprise irr:mediately rClr.cmbercd the conversation I had had with John Connally the:. previc s tem:K:r ",hen he told me that was a possibility
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh How did you communicate with President Johnson--by letter, telephone, in person? Y: By letter, but the only really meaningful communications were in person. What I
  • and things of that kind on equal employment, especially [concerning] my conversations with some of the major business people here in the community and getting them to participate in his Equal Employment Opportunity Program down there. But that was done more
  • at the White House. So he was living right at the White House during this period.. I must say I can't recount any conversation--I had no conversation with him during this period, but there was a constant flow and interchange of information between the White
  • , without the his tory of his relationship with Johnson; and as to what conversations and how many went on I just don't know. F: MOving ahead to '68 when you see this from a different vantage point, how did that develop in your own experience? S: Well
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 that the appointment to the World Bank had been made without his knowledge. That was Reston's story. And so the conversation with Reston which, when the call
  • of lectures and conversations with them as to what to expect and what our reaction should be. B: Has there been any thinking in the Justice Department toward establishing sort of a permanent but floating force of federal agents of some kind to handle
  • right after she finished that conversation, the first person to tell Mother about it was our family doctor; Dr. Norman Shepherd had heard it and called. But I didn't know until after the banquet was over and saw the eleven o'clock news re-run, who
  • you get any Congressional pressure on converting the Army over completely to the M-16, or, I should say, to the use of it in Vietnam and the ultimate conversion of the Army? R: No. What the issue in Congress was was when units were issued the M-16