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- on the program was on the day that
Kennedy was assassinated. So that it began in 1963. I was with the program from the time
that it was enacted and funded, and left in September 1966.
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You were there through an awful lot of certainly the formative period
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was during his term that I was named deputy ccmrnissio ner,. with the
understan ding that the post would be in the career service-- a post I :
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held through Mr. Kennedy's Administ ration and well into Mr. Johnson'~.
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back to the time ' -; hc'n President Kennedy submitted to the
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Congress his Higher Education facilities proposal, directed
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- . In retrospect I would say that John F.
Kennedy did. On occasion he was good at this, but there were times too when he lost his
audience. I remember when he gave his "Older American" speech in Madison Square
Garden. It was judged a real calamity in terms
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_to whom I referred earlier as a r...e!Tlber of President Kennedy's panel.
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especially since I had to sit up ver-;1 iate one night
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in the early
yo~rs
of the Kennedy Adminiatration which re
sulted in t he first cffo~ts to introduce what is now the
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