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    "description": "Joseph F. Dolan interviewed by Francis J. Hunt DeRosa on Mr. Dolan's role in securing the release of the prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs operation.",
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    "ocrText": "at the close of the project which I should mention. As I recall, it\nwas on Christmas Eve. I think Mr. Oberdorfer was in Miami.\nThe prisoners had arrived, and Nick Katzenbach and Hurwitch of State\nand myself were in Mr. Oberdorfer's office. Mr. Katzenbach called\nthe Attorney General, who was out at home with his children. He\nsaid, \"Bob, they are all in; it's over. \" Bob said, \"That is fine. \"\n(Bob had just finished talking to Jim Donovan on a three-way\nconversation in which our office was also included. ) Bob said,\n\"Well, all right. Nick said, \"Bob, I don't think I will come in\ntomorrow,\" meaning Christmas day. There was a pause, and Bob\nsaid, \"Why not ?\" Nick said, \"No reason at all Bob; I'm just not\ncoming in. Everybody laughed. The Attorney General then said,\n\"All right you guys, what about Jimmy Hoffa ?\" That was the close.\nI think it was just a very succinct indication of the kind of executive\nthat the Attorney General is - always on to the next hill, on to the\nnext hill, on to the next hill. Then maybe sometime if you are\nsitting by a swimming pool or if you are sitting some place where\nyou don't have anything to do, then you might reminisce a little bit -\na very little bit.\nMr. Dolan: I think the project couldn't possibly have been\ne\na success if you hadn't had a number of people who were quite\ndedicated and had a lot of energy and who were willing to do anything.\n6"
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