The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
TLeyer 7/30/70 0553 FARMER TO 1L U IT?
PTEYER: LIVE
SLIDE: FARiME i
MEYER: LIVE
Rumors about the impending resignation of Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare---James Farmer---continue to be denied. Farmer says he has no plans for leaving--- But H-E-W sources say he has decided to leave this year, and is delaying his departure to avoid embarrassment for the new H-E-W Secretary---Elliot Richardson. Farmer has been publicly critical of President Nixon's civil rights policies.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Resignation rumers denied],
script,
July 30, 1970, 6:30 a.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1324753/m1/1/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.