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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 1 OF1''1CE Olt lWUU \T.TON 2 J ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • Henry Loomis’ relationship with LBJ; reorganization of the Office of Education; the Bailey Report; flaws in the former administrative management of OE; comparisons of State Departments; efforts to bring OE closer to communities and educators
  • 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
  • Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • House. -came as a special assistant in counsel in 1965. I understand you You came over from the State Department. M: Right. I came on loan fro m t he State Department for about six months. I was still being paid by the State Department
  • in a discouraged man a sense of his own importance, giving a poor community a voice in directing its own affairs and consequently an interest in its future. We had plenty of disappointments -- and God knows we made mistakes, because we were in new territory. We
  • Consumer affairs
  • . The Johnson Administration, in introducing all these~ new programs, has introduced them across the board in the Federal Gove~~ent. You find them in the Office of Econo!l)ic Opportunity, in the Labo::i Department, in aspects of the Model Cities Program related
  • Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • 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
  • discuss the LBJ School of Public Affairs; recorded message for history of the White House is completed; Luci Johnson gives away hamsters