Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson

Title:

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson

Number of Pages:

23

Description:

Drafting messages; road trips; campus visits; J. Califano; Ed Levi; consulting the academic community; University of Illinois; Northwestern University; Harvard-MIT "syndrome;" remedial programs; Kingman Brewster and Yale; Vietnam's impact on remedial programs; Moynihan's critique of Community Action; White House conference, "To Fulfill These Rights;" Martin Bronfenbrenner; Head Start experiments; function and selection of advisory councils and task forces; urban land-grant colleges; Federal City College; Robert Wood; John Gardner; Ben Heineman; education as a panacea; LBJ and the hostility of academics and intellectuals; speeches

Contributor:

McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of Oral Histories Given to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library

See Also:

See all online interviews with Harry C. McPherson

Subject:

Welfare and War on Poverty; Education; Meetings

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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