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  • Date > 1980-10-22 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; the Model Cities program; the development of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Robert Weaver's involvement; legislation involving Demonstration Cities; how Robert Weaver was named secretary of HUD and the first African-American
  • field during the fifties. And in 1961 the late Senator [Robert] Kennedy mentioned to some of us that the largest single domestic success in the domestic legislative field was the Housing Act of 1961. Because Kennedy had trouble getting his domestic