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Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • The role of Civil Service Comission in loyalty and security program; his work as president of Wesleyan College; becoming Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in the Kennedy administration, 1961; working with Vice-President Johnson on equal
  • justification whatsoever. I detected this shortly after I came onboard in 1961 and called the attention of the Roosevelt commission to this and was asked by Mrs. Roosevelt to go to the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, and see what we could do about reviewing
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and appointment of Robert Weaver as first Secretary; review and appointment of various other persons.
  • of, to illustrate his policies, Betty Furness as an illustration of a woman brought in; Robert Weaver as a Negro [was] brought in; and I mentioned to you once before John Hechinger. Hechinger himself was interested in how he was selected and said to be sure
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • adjustments. The Congress had been very jealous and zealous in main- taining control over the rates of pay of a large portion of the federal employees. Starting in the Kennedy Administration there was an effort to achieve a higher degree of rationality
Folder, "Ex FG 618 Federal Executive Board," WHCF FG, Box 372 (Item)
  • for their establishment is a Memorandum to Heads of Departments and Agencies of November 10, 1961, signed by President Kennedy. My decision to do this was reinforced the other day in a conversation with Price Daniel who reported that you had indicated to him