Katzenbach, who helped Johnson pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act, was the Kennedy administration's point man when James Meredith became the first black to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962.

The photograph on the cover of Nicholas Katzenbach's splendid memoir shows the author, then 41 years old, wearily wiping his brow with a handkerchief. Tall, balding, correctly attired in a ...

Former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach '43 — who served under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in several roles and was an advocate for civil rights during the 1960s — said he had been ...

Writing to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Chief Judge David Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington sharply questioned the effect on the “poor Negro citizen” of such draft ...

Nicholas Katzenbach was born in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 17th January, 1922. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy he joined the United States Army Air Force (USAAF). During the ...

At the outset of hearings before the committee, Ervin took on Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach for a full seven hours. The Far-Flung Net.

“Today, we mourn the loss of Nicholas Katzenbach, one of our Nation’s great champions of civil rights and equal justice. Throughout a life that spanned 90 years, he served our country in many ways – ...

At a National Security Council meeting in 1967, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach spoke against Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to resume the bombing of North Vietnam. The president asked if ...

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who helped shape the political history of the 1960s, facing down segregationists, riding herd on historic civil rights legislation and helping to map Vietnam War strategy ...

He was 90. At […] AP Photo- In this Tuesday, July 22, 2003 file photo, Nicholas Katzenbach speaks at hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington.