Webkatzenbach, who helped shape the political history of the 1960s, facing down segregationists, riding herd on historic civil rights legislation and helping to map.

He was appointed attorney general by president johnson in february 1965.

Webkatzenbach served in senior justice department positions between 1961 and 1965.

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Webattorney general eric holder on wednesday led justice department tributes to former presidential adviser and attorney general nicholas katzenbach, who died at 90.

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Webwhen jfk was assassinated, it was katzenbach who helped lyndon johnson with the presidential oath, and then sought the independent investigation that would come to be the warren commission.

Webkatzenbach, who held influential posts in the kennedy and johnson administrations and played a prominent, televised role in federal desegregation efforts in the south, has died.

Kennedy's main man at the justice department, who bounded up the steps of foster auditorium at the.

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