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Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-JTC-03
In this interview Conway discusses getting Martin Luther King out of jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963; Robert F. Kennedy’s [RFK] view of King and his actions; the March on Washington; working with RFK and the Justice Department on civil rights legislation; Walter Reuther; Conway’s decision to leave John F. Kennedy’s Administration and working on legislation from the outside; the Community Action Program; working with Senator RFK during the Johnson Administration; Senator RFK’s involvement in the labor movement; Jesse M. Unruh, RFK, and the 1968 California presidential primary; Department of Urban Affairs legislation; getting accelerated public works legislation through Congress; Housing and Home Finance Agency staff members; and the attempt to pick up congressional seats in 1962 and 1964, among other issues.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-050-004
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. The folder includes a draft of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as well as a presidential statement released to the press by White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger announcing the establishment of the Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. Also of note is an agenda for the 8 January 1962 Bipartisan Leadership Meeting, which contains handwritten notes by the President. This folder was originally titled "January 1962, Federal pay systems, trade, reclamation, Columbia basin, executive reorganization, HUD, sugar, Humphrey, Ellender."