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- with him and I knew him.
D:
What were your general impressions of him, as a man, as a politician?
M:
My impressions of him really in a sense are epitomized by his interest in and actions on the
Civil Rights law, because I saw there a facet of his life
- to past events in which I participated. Moreover, I find it very difficult,
with the best of intentions, to separate my personal feelings and judgments from a
professional appraisal of the merit of the action. Then too, I have limited access to
documents
- hangers-on. Two guys here in
the [race for] governor, one spent thirteen million dollars and reported it and the other one,
ten and one-half million, that's--this PAC [political action committee?], in my book, by
God, is legalized bribery. Legalized
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I also didn't think he wanted
givi~g
him.
And President Johnson
I don't know how much he had, for instance, with
For a time he had ·made Chancellor, he had . appointed Chancellor
somethi~g
tn US!A, Voice of America.
circle
- ago the person who said
that Johnson grabbed lapels was Hubert Humphrey. And the first time I saw President
Johnson in action was actually in the Senate in 1956 when I was working for another
Senator. And I loved to go down on the floor. And I watched
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B:
Sounds like a quite rich full life?
D:
Yes, I don't regret a day or a facet of. One of my friends said not long ago, he believed
that I was the most contented man in America. And I wouldn't deny that status. The
world has been good to me
- , because there were lots of questions raised
about where the Republicans were getting money for that [Wendell] Willkie campaign,
and where the Democrats got money--and you know better than I do on that. But the
campaign laws on this campaign financing
- . And then the government collectively has to run to catch up with itself:
What are you doing about the OAS [Organization of American States]? What are you
doing about some form of peace making down there? And in effect, the action has gotten
ahead of all the necessary
- , even t~io~tgh Nixon had alr1~r1.
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axis.
I remember that Pat began to tell me in I guess it was 1966,
maybe early 1967, that the Community Action Program would destroy
Johnson.
This was perhaps typical Irish hyperbole, but he was very
- 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
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to move under the twenty-one day rule until September 13, when presumably Frank
Thompson will be back in action. I doubt Smith will grant a rule." To what does that refer?
B:
That refers to this particular evening when the--and Smith did not grant
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needs of educa tion us of 1965.
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approa ch to the
We were used to much more rigorous management, in
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tiv action are ne e ded so that efforts in teacher training , fo r inste..nce,
are r el a ted to the efforts of local schc ol districts in educating ;,d is
adv]nt a.ged children and so that curricular refor m a.nd other me a sl!.res
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I refer to the need for long-t erm
legisl ative action on the part of Congr ess.
I also refer to the policy
ess,
provid ing advance fundin g throug h the appro priatio n proces s by Congr
agenc ies,
for one of the most critic al problems
- , the nonpublic schools
would have to close for lack of teachers.
In effect, the Cardinal said,
the Federal Government's action would change the qua ntitative mix of
public and nonpublic enrollments.
I had been prompted by the pupil-benefit theory myself
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