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  • the system of public welfare in America. The welfare system, as I stated to the Congress last year, pleases no one. 'J:'.he cost of administering welfare is far too high -­ because workers mu'•t spend 900/o 0£ their time investigating recipients · to make
  • Delinquency under Dave Hackett in the development of the community action program. The typical program funded under the PCJD involved funds from Ford, sometimes from the National Institute of Mental Health, often from a unit of the Labor Department
  • material from various statements and edited the book My Hope for America, which Random House published. I took on that job too. I also went to the convention and served as a kind of speech editor at the convention to make sure that all the speeches were
  • ; John Kenneth Galbraith recommends people to LBJ; "skinny dipping" in the White House pool; producing My Hope for America; the 1964 campaign; genesis of the task forces; Oscar Cox, Walter Lippman, and LBJ's interest in education; ESEA and the church
  • . th~ I .&' • • . .I. _·> ~-.!.fic\1.l ties encoun1..ercd b:.." t!lc Office. Wj_ th regard to th~ qu2 stio!l th~ t you :J.~kc:d as to uhether .. : ·th~ Office of Education (or, if not the Office of F.ducatiq:n, so!:'le : ;unit in th~ Goverr
  • them an awful lot of vocational or quasi-vocational training, things that would be useful to them as farmers and as entrepreneurs in rural America . . He said he didri't see why we didn't start some urban land grant colleges which would produ ce
  • the youngst e: ·.s - in th e low-~expendi ture State s ara citizens of the United States just as the children from the more a.fflu ent States are. One of the general princip les that the Johnson Admini stration has pushed into the Nation' s thinking has been
  • Lady Bird meets with Sargent Shriver and Eric Goldman about Operation Head Start and VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America); Lady Bird must decide which program to focus on; Lady Bird assesses Shriver; farewell party for Luther and Martha Hodges
  • photos; Lady Bird meets leaders of Future Homemakers of America; Lady Bird & Luci Nugent to dinner at General William Westmoreland's; LBJ arrives late; Luci talks about Pat Nugent; possible White House intruder; LBJ is sick; Liz Carpenter has emergency
  • needs of educa tion us of 1965. ar c h~ic approa ch to the We were used to much more rigorous management, in 5 j the ba ckgrounds of the USA 6 the Voice of America than the 6 7 8 Il 1 g !I 10 11 Office of Educa tion ho.8 e'\"er seen, or h