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...other aides, four maps of Tuscaloosa, a TV set and a radio. An open telephone line and a radio-telephone hookup linked him with the Administration's field force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty, sat in helicopters, ready to spin away to Tuscaloosa if they were needed...
There were two separate confrontations between Wallace and the federal officials. In midmorning, Katzenbach rode up in a border patrol car and strode purposefully to the doorway. There Wallace stood waiting. He had a lectern in front of him, a microphone draped from his neck and a swarm of state troopers near by. As Katzenbach reached the spot, Wallace snapped out a crisp command: "Stop...
...Katzenbach called upon Wallace to give "unequivocal assurance that you will not bar entry to these students." Wallace broke in: "We don't want to hear any speeches." Then, while Katzenbach fidgeted under the broiling Alabama sun, Wallace read off a ponderous, five-page proclamation. Concluded he: "I denounce and forbid this illegal and unwarranted action by the Central Government...
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...