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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
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Sargent Shriver would head the OEO? H: I think so. G: It was more or less assumed by all of you that [he would]? H: I think so. G: Do you recall any input by the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? H: Not that I was aware of. I'm not certain about