...state registration process. The third, and least desirable, proposal in the memo called for legislation granting to an agency of the federal government the...potential Negro registrants actually registered is low. This approach would quickly provide political power to Negroes in proportion to their actual numbers...

...for federal elections. At the bottom of his list was a recommendation authorizing a federal agency to "assume direct control of registration for voting...potential Negro registrants actually registered is low." (iH Timing was of great importance to the administration. Lee White liked the substance of Katzenbach's...

...Ramsey Clark, Feb. 5, 1965, Hu 2, box 3, ibid. 38. Katzenbach to Johnson, nd, box 3, Lee White Files, ibid. The attorney general also suggested the possibility...5ff. For an account of the mass arrests, see New York Tunes, Feb. 4, 1965. 40. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1...