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Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • obvious that Johnson had told him he wanted it approved. But Daley was an exception. Mayor Wagner in New York would sometimes talk to the President, but more often with Vice President Humphrey. Or Paul Screvane would talk to Humphrey. But only Chicago
  • ; outreach to encourage grant submission; congressmen, such as Carl Perkins and Adam Clayton Powell, getting involved in grant applications; mayors' involvement in CAP; problems with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; White House involvement in CAP
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • accessible and other times when he was at work on some new strategy when he was not so accessible. Generally, when I saw him--and I never had to see him with any kind of daily urgency--I would submit a request through George Reedy or through Bill Moyers
  • for ESEA; Morse-Green rivalry; the Quie amendment; Congressman Fino objects to busing; reorganizing HEW; Keppel, Mayor Daley, and the Chicago quarrel with HEW; Henry Loomis and the Voice of America press conference; Wilbur Cohen evaluated; the heart-cancer
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • as well as any--we knew Ed I went to Chicago as Levi at the Universit y of Chicago. H: Who was the contact there? M: I can't recall. I guess Ed Levi had been on various task forces-­ LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -----~---- DEPAR'n1ENT OF EALTH, EDUCATION AiID WELF ARE Was hing ton, D.C. . Inte rvie w of I FRANCIS KEPPEL . I I by John Sing erho ff New York City Jcl.y 18, 1968
Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • is ne1.. mission, the .new emph
  • 1962-1963 was Associate Commission in Bureau of Education Assistance Programs (BEEP); three divisions: 1. State and local elementary and secondary 2. Higher education 3. Manpower training; abrupt increase in staff in 1964 required new emphasis