 The faculty assigned him to a group that Rick Tuttle was in, an original freedom rider with Martin Luther King, who later became treasurer of the city of L.A. Sheila Kuehl, an L.A. County Commissioner, was also a part of that group.At the end of his junior year at UCLA, Givner entered the Summer Internship Program which placed students in various government offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C.. Givner landed an internship at the Democratic National Committee, not the most coveted position; those who were lucky were given ones with members of Congress.Givner played a role in the FBI's investigation of the Watergate scandal.