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  • and served in that capacity with some leaves of absence for brief service periods in government up until 1962. Well, I took a year's leave of absence and went up to Wesleyan University as a Fellow. After that I became national affairs editor of The Reporter
  • that. G: Let me ask you about Ted Berry. H: Yes. G: Why do you think he was selected to head Community Action? H: Oh, I think Ted had great credentials. He was black, he had been a national officer of the NAACP, been on the national committee, knew
  • had the impression that while many of the task forces were quite important in terms of policy-generating suggestions, that the committees, formal ยท advisory committees made up of professionals in the vartous areas, adjuncts to the Office of Education