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Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • 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