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- for the President I think to go into one of these tantrums you read about, but I
never found it. I've always been very careful talking in public about this ever since Jack
Valenti's famous speech in Boston where he "sleeps a little better at night," but I've always
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INTERVIEWER:
T. H. BAKER
February 5, 1969
B.
This is the interview with J.
Lindsay Almond, Jr.
Sir, let me read an
outline of your career subject to corrections and additions.
You were
born in 1898 in Charlottesville, served in World War II
- which was to revamp the Office of Education in sixty days.
When they called me from the White House that night, I had not heard
the Announcement--I knew nothing about the sixty days, I agreed to
do the job.
The next morning I saw in the papers that I