Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bobby assigned two top aides, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Assistant Attorney General (for taxation) Louis F. Oberdorfer, to work full-time for three weeks on the project. Under them were some 25 other Government employees and a host of private citizens, mostly lawyers, who had volunteered their services...
...then, with the full ransom in hand or pledged, and with fast transportation assured, the whole effort almost fell apart. For Castro insisted on ironclad guarantees that he could collect cash for any goods not delivered, once the prisoners were set free. This meant a $53 million performance bond. Katzenbach flew to Montreal to seek such a bond from the Royal Bank of Canada, which has a representative in Cuba. "It was zero-zero," recalls Katzenbach, "zero outside, and even colder inside the bank." The Royal Bank insisted it must have letters of credit from U.S. banks...
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach flew to Oxford to plead with university administrators to get tough with unruly students. On Halloween, after a soldier had been hurt by a cherry bomb that exploded near his face, faculty members for the first time helped break up milling students, although their pleas did not increase respect for the troops. Shouted Student Housing Director Binford Nash: "They are trigger happy, and they will shoot. So for the sake of your mothers, go back to your rooms." University officials and M.P.s searched student rooms, turned up a startling array of weapons...