Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz

Title:

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz

Number of Pages:

27

Description:

Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO Advisory Council; LBJ’s interest in OEO Council and also National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children; initiation of Upward Bound program; John Gardner and the Gardner task force; White House Conference on Education, 1965; HEW; Wilbur Cohen and Elliot Richardson as managers of HEW; proliferation of educational legislation and funding under LBJ and consolidation of same under Nixon.

Contributor:

Marland, Sidney Percy.

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Sidney P. Marland

Subject:

Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details